KWCB Saturday Schedule

	KWCB Saturday Schedule

This is a listing of the scheduled activities for Saturday, September 11th.

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This is the current version of the schedule. There are a few classes and concerts that are not yet in here.
We hope to have everything locked down by Labor Day (Sep 6).

09:00 AM	1 hours	Class	Anglo Norman food in Ireland Have recently studying the Anglo Norman, their invasion into Ireland and their influence in Ireland. So for this class will give you a little story of Ireland, the influence of Anglo Normans had on food in Ireland. Will also give you a few recommendations for visiting Ireland , and places to visit. So a class on mostly food and a little storytelling thrown into the mix for good measure
09:00 AM	1.5 hours	Class	Medieval Fan Fiction Ever wonder how the Trojan War became the most successful franchise in history? Come find out in Medieval Fan Fiction! We'll discuss what fan fiction is, and isn't, and how what we now call fan fiction (or participatory fiction if you want to be scholarly) was used, re-used, and abused in the Middle Ages.
09:00 AM	1.5 hours	Class	The New Bard's Road Map A how-to primer for new or aspiring bards. Developing a repertoire, finding performance opportunities, seeking mentors and patrons, gaining visibility, becoming part of the bardic community.
10:00 AM	1 hours	Class	Flirts & Fools: an Intro to Commedia dell'Arte Harlequins, braggarts, slapstick, bawdry, disguises, laughter! Learn about the masked semi- improvisational farcical Italian Renaissance theatre that is commedia dell'arte!
10:00 AM	1 hours	Class	Bowed Strings & Friends Show and Tell You've heard that Amelie has a lot of instruments? Now you can see them! Starring: violin, vielle, rebec, lute, gamba, erhu, saz, gadulka, dilruba, setar
10:30 AM	1 hours	Class	Turning Our SCA History into Bardic Pieces Every SCA event is full of noteworthy moments: a new person volunteering in the kitchen, a beautiful moment in court, an epic struggle on the field of battle. These moments make up the 56 years (so far) of The Dream, and it's us bards that pass them on to the next generation. Join Lady Marian of Heatherdale, OL, for tips on how to turn your local SCA history into your next inspiring bardic work. Marian will also share lots of examples from across the Known World.
11:00 AM	1 hours	Class	Sanshin: The Heart of Ryukyuan Music Of all the traditional musical instruments of the Ryukyu Kingdom (modern-day Okinawa), the sanshin holds pride of place as the quintessential Okinawan instrument. Its long history and strong association with both high culture and folk art place it at the center of the Ryukyuan musical tradition.
11:00 AM	1 hours	Class	An Apple a Day - the history of cider A walk through the history of cider and some information for the modern maker in the Midwest.
11:00 AM	2 hours	Class	How to determine the amount of spice in a medieval recipe - the flavor matrix revealed! Come learn about new emerging research about the flavor matrix and how it can be applied to medieval spices. We will then compare two stew recipes (beef and chicken) to modern ones and use flavor matrix pairing concepts to help us with initial trial flavoring starting points. The hand out will have the list of spices that would be useful and also a pestle and mortar if you are going to hand grind them. If you don't have them in your cupboard, we will still describe them!
11:30 AM	1 hours	Class	Kokoro: Japanese Poetry and Poetics Poetry played a major political role in premodern Japan. A historical and cultural tour of Japanese poetry and its evolution from chōka in the Manyōshu to proto-haiku. Learn about the topics, structure, and vocabulary of various Japanese poetic forms.
12:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Camp cooking without a cooler Sharing my experiences with staying well-fed at events without bringing a modern cooler. How long are certain foods OK without refrigeration? Are there other SCA-period methods of keeping things cool?
12:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Recipes and menus in sixth-century Gaul: Anthimus in context The Byzantine physician Anthimus wrote a letter to the Frankish king Theuderic about diet and health. We'll discuss what literature, archaeology, and Anthimus himself can tell us about food in sixth-century Gaul, analyze some recipes, and explore potential meals.
12:00 PM	1.5 hours	Class	Physics of Aerophones Have you ever wondered about how a flute makes sound, or what a clarinet's reed is for? Join us in exploring the physics and mathematic principles underlying the creation of sound and music. You should have a basic background in algebra to get the most out of this class, but all skill levels are welcome.
12:30 PM	1.5 hours	Class	Anglo-Saxon Alliterative Verse and Riddles Description: Not all poetry rhymes! In fact, the earliest known English poetry did not rely upon rhyme at all! It relied on alliteration and counted stresses instead. This form was used for poems short and long, and carried through to riddles as well. Come learn how this form of poetry is structured and learn how to write your own!
01:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Norse Soapstone Pots Soapstone was a common material for Norse cookware. Soapstone was readily accessible, relatively easy to work with, cheap, durable, and it retained the heat well. Norse soapstone pots varied greatly in size and shape. By understanding the advantages and disadvantages of the various styles of soapstone pots, contextual insights can be made into the technological choices made by the Norse and possibly lead to better understanding of Norse cooking techniques. This is an expanded version of a paper presented at EXARC: EAC12 Experimental Archaeology World Tour Conference in April.
01:00 PM	1.5 hours	Class	Dining with the Sultan: A Look at 15th & 16th Century Ottoman Cuisine From Central Asia to the Mediterranean, from nomads to palaces. The development of Ottoman cuisine, from the steppes of Central Asia to Kostantiniyye (Constantinople). Focus is on the palaces, what was served to the Sultans and their pages, to European diplomats at palace feasts, and at circumcision festivals for the Sultans' sons. Street food, market regulations, and Ottoman table manners will also be included.
01:00 PM	2 hours	Stage	Summer's End Tavern Should you find yourself needing an afternoon decompress, pull up a drink, snack, and/or craft while listening to performances at the Summer's End event in the Canton of Beau Fleuve (Æthelmearc). Depending on amount of in-person participation, we may welcome performances from the virtual audience as well.
02:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Introduction to 5th Century BCE Athenian Theater An amateur's take on 5th Century BCE Greek theater
02:00 PM	1 hours	Class	History of Celtic food What early Celts ate, ingredients and how it was prepared.
02:00 PM	1 hours	Class	From Page to Pan: A step by step approach to accurate recipe redaction You’re a good cook. You’ve even worked with some medieval recipes from modern cook books - but now you want to work directly from medieval manuscripts. The only catch is, how do you follow a recipe that has no quantities, no cooking time or temperature, and several ingredients you don’t recognize? In this class we’ll talk about taking a systematic approach to turning vague medieval cook’s notes into a consistent, reproducible modern recipe. We’ll talk about translation, measurements, techniques and more, with recipe examples from English, French, German and Italian sources.
02:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Youth & Family Inclusion in SCA Bardic - Round Table Discussion An opportunity to share what is being done in your local group and brainstorm on more ways to include youth and families into our bardic circles and tourneys. What has worked for your group? What advice to you have for others?
02:00 PM	2 hours	Class	Intro to the Plucked Psaltery The plucked psaltery (or lap harp) is a simple musical instrument that was popular in the Middle Ages. This is a practical class on how to start playing this simple, affordable, and versatile instrument. Prior musical knowledge is not required.
03:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Ballads What is a ballad? To what extent are ballads period, when almost all words and music were not written down until post period? After an introduction I will sing and discuss half a dozen ballads, English language ballads plus one French language ballad. Or I could spend the entire hour discussing in greater detail the possible history of the ballad in Europe from 573 C.E. on.
03:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Composing Norse music It's hard to be a Norse skald with no songs to sing. This class will examine examples of Norse music (or as close as we come), text sources, and accompanying instruments, and attempt to set out suggestions for creating original music that is as Norse as possible.
03:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Feast Planning and Logistics: A Case Study Careful planning can help mitigate even the worst of conditions. Find out how we hosted a well-reviewed Roman feast for 80 guests in the middle of an ice storm. Topics will include how we prepared, how we adapted, and what lessons were learned as part of the process.
03:00 PM	1.5 hours	Class	Fish Culinary Changes in England Our local cuisines evolve because of new cultural influences, shortages or expansion of food sources, new religious practices, and technological changes (transport, preservation, and refrigeration). Using a scientific method of carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis (which we will talk about) along with artifact information, we can get general food trends of a local area. We can also glean insight based on subsets of the local population either by their social-economic status, occupation, age and even gender. For now, we will focus on marine proteins in England to see how things changed and if religious traditions of feast and fast days affected its use.
04:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Knotwork Music A class on the history of Celtic music being transcribed into knotwork and how to transcribe your own music into knots.
04:00 PM	1 hours	Class	The Citole and You (and How to Fake One Too) Do you like early medieval music and wish you could play a musical instrument, but are uncertain about your own skills and are as hopeless with recorders as I am? Do you already play guitar and want to try a medieval stringed instrument but the price of even the basic models makes your eyes water? Fear not! There is a solution! This class is an introduction to the citole, the ubiquitous 4-string instrument popular from the 11th to 15th centuries in Europe and one of the ancestors of the guitar. We'll talk about the music that can be played on it, why it's an easy instrument to get into, and most importantly, how you can invest in a citole-substitute for learning the instrument for about $80 (more or less) and at the same time, have something that won't look too out of place at a medieval event.
04:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Cordial 101 Making cordials is easy, fun, and the best project you ever forgot you started! Come learn how to make cordials with simple ingredients you have around the kitchen.
04:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Introduction to Mensural Notation Have you ever worked with a piece and wondered "did they REALLY mean that note?" and wish you could look at the original notation and see? This class will give you a starting point for doing just that. Learn the basics of reading the music as it was written originally.
04:00 PM	1.5 hours	Class	Pre colonial foods of the Naeawak (cree) people What did people eat and how did they make it before Colonial involvement
05:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Writing Humorous Songs Discussion of the elements of comedy and how to use them in writing humorous songs.
05:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Potatoes in Europe in Period What's special / unusual about the potato? Eating the potato in Europe -- earliest proven date, earliest probable date, and other possible dates. What were the early recipes? When did the potato plant first come to Europe?
05:00 PM	1 hours	Class	The Three Sorrows of Storytelling In Ireland, there are three tales which are considered the most tragic ever told. Come learn about these tales and weep with me as we explore the dark side of Irish mythology.
05:00 PM	1 hours	Bardic Circle	The Enchanted Ground Bardic Circle: Creating the Illusion How to run a bardic circle to create the illusion of a group of period people sitting around a fire entertaining each other at some indefinite time and place in SCA period. The class is based on the bardic circle I have run in my encampment at Pennsic for the past thirty years or so. The class will begin with discussion, shift into a bardic run on that pattern.
05:00 PM	2 hours	Class	Rob Peter to Feed Paul: twice the feast for half the cost A good feast is better if it doesn't waste the food or break the bank. Here's how.
06:00 PM	1 hours	Stage	Mistress Morgan Wolfsinger A concert by Mistress Morgan Wolfsinger of Atlantia.
07:00 PM	1 hours	Stage	Marian of Heatherdale - A Kingdom of Ealdormere Celebration! Mistress Marian of Heatherdale and friends present a concert to celebrate the Kingdom of Ealdormere's re-opening at the start of September. Also appearing will be: THL Emer nic Aidan THL Dietrich von Sachsen Dame TSivia bas Tamara Sponsered by Their Lupine Majesties Amelius Claudius Rattanicus and Isabel Rex and Regina Ealdormere
08:00 PM	1 hours	Stage	Gwendolyn the Graceful: AEthelmearc and other topics Gwendolyn the Graceful, Brehyres (OL) sings a little. Old faves, little-known gems, and something new...
09:00 PM	1.5 hours	Stage	Journeyman Concert Performances by up and coming journeyman bards.
10:30 PM	3.5 hours	Bardic Circle	Saturday Night Bardic Circle The circle will run from approximately 10:30PM (or whenever the Journeyman concert ends) until oh dark thirty.

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