Lady Kateryn Draper
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10:34 pm
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Gwyntarian Winter Revel
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Current Music: Folk music
Tags: event, sca
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10:36 pm
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Storytelling and Ohio Valley Filk Festival
I was sorry to miss the Comfort Zone Bardic event, but had a great time last weekend.
Storytelling went very well. I told nine ghost stories, ranging from an ancient Irish tale (the "Adventure of Nera") to a ghostly poem. I'll be telling one of the stories ("The Shoemaker from Constantinople") Friday at Gwyntarian Dance Night and Halloween Revel. I was paid by the bookstore owner and made decent money in tips. The turnout was perfect - the room was full without being crowded. I actually frightened several people with my stories. One woman came up afterwords and wanted to know my performance schedule, which was really flattering, but I demonstrated my non-professional background by not having a webpage or Myspace with that information. I did tell her that I would most likely be performing at the OSU Medieval Faire in May. Afterwards, the bookstore owner asked me to come back in the spring.
OVFF was fun, if not period. ;-) (Although Heather Dale was one of the performers up for a Pegasus this year...) My favorite song was "Gabriel Gray's Song," about Sylar from Heroes. And I got to recite "Castle in the Clouds" from Les Miserables as a rap.
If any of you get a chance to go to OVFF next year, I highly recommend it.
Current Mood:  happy
Current Music: "Castle in the Clouds"
Tags: event, filk, storytelling
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09:43 pm
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Afternoon of Fun
Afternoon of Fun was, as usual, fun. An entirely outdoor event, I've never attended when it wasn't either raining or snowing (raining yesterday), but that's just part of its charm. I discovered my black hooded cloak works very well at holding off the rain, but stained the sleeves of my white chemise. Site tokens were monkey paws - I was very careful not to make a wish while wearing mine.
There is an annual ghost story competition, and this year I won. Most period ghost, vampire, and werewolf stories are actually quite boring for modern audiences. They go something like this: "Creepy thing appears. We all get scared. A priest prays. Creepy thing goes away." But the week before the event, I found "The shoemaker of Constantinople," a wonderfully complex twelfth century tale about obsession, necrophilia, disembodied heads, unstoppable villains, and courageous princesses. It's actually a cautionary tale about a type of shoes, but I left that part out.
I almost didn't go because of the rain, but it was worth getting wet. Hey, the weather was period.
Current Music: Folk music
Tags: event, sca, storytelling
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11:37 pm
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An amazing event
A goodly number of people from the Oaken Region had gathered in the Barony of Cleftlands for an annual celebration of summer. Little did we suspect what was in store.
For as evening approached, we saw in the sky what appeared to be a parti-colored cloud. As it came closer, we could hear and see flames from beneath it. Was it a dragon? I've told many tales of them, but never dreamed they could be real. The dragon, if that's what it was, appeared to be nothing more than a giant head. Attached to this head was a small wicker basket, large enough to hold a man.
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Current Mood: enthralled
Tags: dragons, event, persona, sca, writing
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02:48 pm
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Dance master/mistress for Masque
Help! Does anyone know of someone who can teach dance at Masque of Courtly Love on Feb. 21?
http://www.alderford.org/events/masque2009
The dance mistresses for Alderford and Gwyntarian are not available.
Thanks.
Current Music: Sound Healing, Steven Halpern
Tags: dancing, event, sca
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11:59 am
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Three recent events of the Oaken region
( Mugmort Melees )
( Regional A&S )
( Moors in Al-Andalus )
All in all, a fun three weekends.
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: "?Que querex de mi?"
Tags: event
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02:25 pm
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First Contact: Moors in Hispania
Yes, it's the same day as the OSU Renfaire, but to those of you who aren't attending, I highly recommend the following event on May 3rd in Gwyntarian (Akron, OH):
http://www.midrealm.org/gwyntarian/event.html
The theme, Moorish Spain, is fascinating, and Gwyntarian puts on fun events. I'll be teaching a class on the history of Al-Andalus (aka Moorish Spain.)
Tags: event, sca
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01:45 am
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Baron Wars
As I was reading my friends page, I noticed ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ladyvonkulp mention "an incredibly ugly website." Out of curiosity, I clicked on it:
http://www.marcheofthemarshes.org/BWIXMain.htm
(It's not that ugly. :-) ) It was for an upcoming event that I didn't plan to attend in the Toledo area. Then it ocurred to me that I was planning to drive that day to Toledo for Mother's Day at my grandmother's house. So I'm now strongly leaning towards going, and it's all because of ladyvonkulp's critique.
Amazing how life-changing livejournal can be. ;-)
Current Mood: amused
Tags: event, sca
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