Words from Their Excellencies –
• Delighted to return to events including Ethereal court & May Crown.
• So many Madronans received awards, they apologize if they don’t remember all of them!
Steven des Jardin– Lions strength & Alimentum Vitae
Sarra the Brave – Order of the Pelican
Madelena Vieri– Order of the Laurel
Rotrude Halfblind – placed on vigil for Laurel – will be elevated at Athenaeum
• Also thanks/credit to:
Aeron & the Madrone Culinary Guild who supported Vigils/Celebrations at May Crown.
Ysolt who stepped in as Mistress of the Lists at the last minute for Crown.
Gera & Kit for hauling Baronial Pavillion & all the people who helped set it up & take it down, including, Nick, Simon, Ed, Rowenna, etc.
• They are planning to attend JuneFaire, An Tir West War & Athenaeum (Alicia du Bois will be elevated at Junefair June 17/19)
Words from Seneschal
• Thank you all for a busy month.
• There are continuing problems with the Kingdom Calendar.
• Reminder to check activities/events for cancelations and changes before heading out. We cancelled fight practice in caution after a known COVID exposure at Crown. Thank you to folks who test both before & after events, for helping to make sure we’re all a little safer.
• Reminder of open and soon to be re-warranted offices: Baronial Chateleine – greeter of new members. Baronial Chamberlain – tracker of Baronial equipment. Baronial Scribe – calligrapher/painter of Baronial scrolls. Keeper of the Gold Key – loaner of spare costumes
• We have restarted Baronial Monday Socials at KapKa – we’ve had 2 so far (meet & Greet then garb swap) and are looking for hosts for future socials. Looking for individuals to be the hosts, arrange a speaker/activity & be in charge of the space for the evening. Please contact Kerij-e if interested.
• Status of the Baronial Changeover – polling now closed. Email from Polling Secretary – thank you for being guinea pigs for the polling process. Apologies for the technical issues, we did get 29 responses, she’s happy with that. If you have feedback re the process please send it to the Polling Secretary: pollings at antir.org In the midst of Curia we received word that Their Majesties have approved Kit & Gera as our next B&B. The Baronial changeover will take place at Athenaeum on July 9th.
• Next month we will discuss what events we think are realistic to put on the calendar for 2023.
Officers
• Exchequer – Etienette
-Received the paypal $ for tavern this weekend
-Spoke w/storage unit people. Ready to pay for next year. Need to make any changes ASAP.
They’ve changed their incentive plan. It’s now buy 11 months get 1 month free.
• A&S – Aeron
-Congrats to our A&S champion Rotrude for being put on vigil for the Order of the Laurel!
-Re holding our A&S Championship at Emprise, concerned about smooshing A&S onto Emprise. Logistical challenges for contestants. Will discuss with Rotrude & Gera & Their excellencies.
Whenever it falls, has received feedback that Artists would like more notice time re requirements for entering A&S Championships before the event.
• Chatelaine – Tabytha
-Gear Swap went well. Lots of people & stuff. A couple boxes of stuff left over – need to communicate better next time. Good opportunity for newcomers to talk with folks about how to adapt pieces for themselves. What kinds of garb would work for them etc. Margaret says we should do another one soon. Tayla has an idea for an SCA swap meet.
-Attended the Chatelaine mtg at May Crown. They are working on a Newcomer project with special badge.
-Communicated with a few new people interested in Madrone activities.
• Chamberlain – Steven
-baronial “stuff” went to May Crown.
-we’ll have a storage unit “party” in August after their new excellencies step up
– re Storage Unit renewal. Gera had to fight to get pavilion out, and is not sure we can get it back in! Should we get a bigger unit??? Can we just get rid of some stuff instead? Let’s take a new round of pictures of what is in there & share that data better so it doesn’t get lost in a file folder somewhere.
Maybe some of the “historical items” that we no longer use can just be kept as photo memories rather than taking up space…
-changeover of items in the care of Their current Excellencies should happen formally with Exchequer pre Athenaeum. (Her Excellency stresses that we need a better, more formal process for this going forward. It has been lackadaisical in the past.)
• Herald – Simon
-working on a new device for someone.
-Missed may crown mtg, they are looking for a Sara replacement.
-Will look back into Sveti registration. Last checked we cou
• Armored Combat – Nicklaus
-practices going well. Steady influx of people.
-re upcoming holidays: we are going to go ahead & have practices on Memorial Day, but not July 4th or Labor Day.
• Social Media – Basilius
-8 people added to our Facebook group this month.
• Webster – Rowena
-keeping up with the Baronial Polling on the Website.
-Concentrating on making sure info for upcoming events is consistent across all the places it gets put.
• Chronicler – Eden
-Leaf exists now, both physically & virtually.
-Putting summaries of Curia notes to FB & email
Guilds/Activities/Sergeants
• Culinary Guild – Ysolt
Helped with ceremonial spreads for Aeron & Sara for parties on Saturday night at Crown. A good first test to get us back in the swing of cooking en masse & determine what we can do going forward.
still mtg virtually
• Dance – Ranulf & Trahaern
-Dance continues. Madrone practice is on hiatus. Kerij-e will ask about restarting dance at KapKa.
• Equestrian – Annisa
Still planning to start practices up “real soon now”.
• Sergeantry
-Hosted persona and practical tests on May 14th.
-Next tests, yeoman tests at Wyewood’s Day of Archery 6/11, and arms/armor/marshall tests at June Faire 6/17-19
Canton of Port de L’Eau
July 23rd, Picnic in the park with Sven (not that sven) games, picnic, laid back fun. Spirit ridge park
Events
• July 9, 2002 – Athenaeum (in person) – Event Steward: Aeron
-around 52 registered exhibitors.
-working with their Excellencies & their successors re changeover scheduling
-also with Their Majesties & Highnesses re court in general & peerage elevation scheduling
-There’s also now going to be a Laurel’s meeting somewhere in there.
-So many things packed into one day !!!
-The Artisans are starting to post pictures of what they’re working on – it’s looking cool.
-He is hoping to encourage some previous participants who aren’t displaying this year into helping with the event.
-Wants to wait to open registration until closer to the event. Need to publish info in next Crier.
• August 2022 – Emprise of the Black Lion – Event Steward: Gera
-Had initial planning session. Got FB page created & initial info up on Kingdom Calendar.
-will talk with Aeron & Rotrude etc. re including A&S championship or not.
-Wants to get some PR going.
-Still waiting on update to the Equestrian Guild Website. Technical issues.