Curia Minutes – October 23, 2024

Curia Minutes –  October 23rd, 2024 Madrone Curia

Words from their Excellencies

Progress: Good Yule, 12th Night, Virtual Known World Accessibility, Inclusion, and Belonging Symposium, Ursulmas

Words from the Seneschal: The Customary review went well and we got through about half. The next is scheduled for November 30th at 10am but December 8th has been suggested as an alternate. Choice will be made next Curia.

Words from the PdL Seneschal: UpcomingEvents – Good Yule, New Years Eve-Eve in 2024, May Crown in 2025

Exchequer: Officers who have not turned in their budgets for 2025, please do so. We will be having a financial meeting in November to review the budget. Still seeking a deputy.

A&S: Social night went very well. New Kingdom A&S judging forms are available from the Kingdom A&S website. The 12th Night Peers auction will benefit Pasado’s Safe Haven.

Chatelaine: Demo at Odin’s Fest at the Swedish Club went very well. We shared the space with several other Norse/Viking groups. Pamphlets and business cards were taken and interests expressed in Culinary, fighting and storytelling, etc. Farmers Markets in 2025 offer a table/booth for demo, but must be food / culinary related.

Herald: We are still looking for someone to step into the office. You don’t have to be a book herald or a voice herald to perform this office. It is more of an administrative function. Please contact Seneschal and/or Baroness to express your interest.

Rapier: Beginning to slow down a bit

Chamberlain: List ropes were lent for the demo at the Swedish Club and have all been returned. 

Scribal: The scribal meetups are still going on at 3rd Place Books and Crossroads Mall

Webminister: Website updated with latest information.

GUILDS/ACTIVITIES/SERGEANTRY

  • Madrone’s Sergeantry continue to support the Kingdom at large and local events:
    • Rose and Thorn Symposium
      • Gallant’s Mecia Raposa and Katryne MacKim (also a Courtier, Courtier Basilius taught classes at Rose and Thorn Symposium 
        • Courtier Margaret supported retinue and gate
    • OdinFest demo last weekend was well attended and supported by Courtier Margaret and candidates Nicklaß, Cody and Salvadro and Filo

Coming up: 

  • Updates to sergeants and candidates resumes/wiki pages continues and candidate continue work on their quests.
  • Any candidate seeking to work on their quest/look for services projects, please contact your B and B or any sergeant.

Culinary: Business Meetings will be on Zoom during the colder months. There will be cooking on November 17th – contact the guild for more information. Looking towards 2025: Harvest Feast & Peasants.

Dance: There will be dance instruction at Yule in the afternoon and a ball in the evening. Practice continues at the Madrone Baronial Social site at KapKa Cooperative School, dance in the meeting space upstairs from the heavy/rapier practice in the gym starting at 7 PM every third Monday of the month.

Equestrian: All were not at Curia but attending a clinic with an international expert.

Socials Upstairs at Kapka School:

Guilds and Groups activity night on Oct 7th was a fun and successful evening

Socials continue every first Monday, with dance on the third Monday of the month

Events:

Yule: St. Andrews Lutheran Church in Bellevue. There will be dance! Music! Court! A&S Championships! Free gear swap and exchange! Bread baking competition!

Event will be free, but donations are welcome.

Rogues Tavern: February 8th 2025. Hall has been booked an all progresses anon.

Spring Colloquium: March 2025 – a desirable event but optional. No bids have been received. Since this is the last Curia for a bid to be presented and discussed per customary, the event will be cancelled and date released.

Lionhearts: May 31, 2025 – offer from Wyewood to combine it with their elevation which will involve Royal presence at their free outdoor site. It will not be a demo therefore.

Athenaeum – June 28, 2025. Bid presented by Ameline de Beaumont with options for lunch by Culinary Guild or outside caterer if the guild does not wish to run it again. All coordinators have been sourced/volunteered but for Gate head.

Virtual Athenaeum – a discussion was had and will continue at November Curia. Main takeaways – the site resides on the kingdom server. Delays were caused by software updates, server issues, and life / communication issues. Some of the problems would be addressed by adding a project manager to the project, so we are currently looking for a project manager to work on the event.

No New Business