[Cynnabar] Celtic Fest

Tue Mar 8 20:26:37 UTC 2011

Most of you know I attend more demos than other events. Naturally I will be
at the Celtic Festival with the Sword Club, and as always I will TRY to do
some SCA as well. It would not be the first time that Kieran/Willam and I
were the only two fighters on the bill. He is in fact my favorite opponent.

Same goes for setup. I am willing to take on a lot of the before and after.
The Festival people know me well from both camps.

Since the Sword Club now has MANY more members than last year, thanks in
part to this very Celtic Festival, there is a chance they will lift my
burden a bit and let me play across the street. And as always, my peaceful
and less-peaceful exhibits will be available.

Just my opinion, but I do not believe the Festival will penalize any group
for not being able to participate, or for having a small crew, in one year
out of fourteen.

Daibhid

From: Art Sinclair <tairdelbach at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 11:54:09 -0500
To: Barony of Cynnabar <barony at cynnabar.org>
Subject: Re: [Cynnabar] Celtic Fest

Hi everyone,

So here is the deal with Talonval/Celtic Fest and the scheduling conflict.

I think it is important to point out that it was the Celtic Festival that
chenged their schedule by moving up their event a week this year. I have
spoken with our contact at the festival and they are aware that we may be
light and/or no shows at the festival this year because of this...and seem
to be ok with that knowing that schedules are tricky and almost impossible
work out for everyone. They are looking at a variety of new dates to help
their attendance...but have not settled on anything...but I was told that
having it that close to July 4th is not likely to happen again.

Talonval has long been aware of the Celtic Fest and had a good weekend
picked out for their event that worked for us all. They have their own
concerns to take into account for scheduling as well...July 4th is a
problematic weekend for both Talonval and the Festival.

The summer SCA schedule is in a bit of flux too, with Baron Wars making a
well advised move to later in the year so weather doesn't harm that event.
So I think it is premature to ask Talonval to look at schedule changes, as
my suspicion is that next year the Festival will be on it's usual weekend or
at least not in a direct conflict with Talonval.

For this year at the Festival I have asked Sir William (you may remember him
as Sir Kieran) and his household Leonthas to cover the fighting for us,
since they are often there in support of the jousting as well. He agreed
that he would be willing to do that for us. So that was a big help in
covering that aspect of the festival Demo and I am personally very
appreciative of his willingness to make that sacrifice.

I agree it is unfortunate to have to ask people to skip an event...and if we
cannot cover the festival demo then we will have to decline, however, I
remain hopeful that we can find a way to cover the demo with a smaller staff
than typical to keep our presence there fresh in peoples minds. However if
the group feels that this is not a tenable situation I will go back to the
festival and pass along our regrets for this year.

I hope this sheds some more light on the issues involved, and I am happy to
address any other questions that may be out there regarding this.

Tairdelbach

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Anne Stevenson <elaine242 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sir RanthulfR,
>  
> Thank you for your thoughts!  I just want to mention that there is no
> requirement for anyone to change their plans to attend Celtic Fest instead of
> Talonval.  I realize that most people (if not all) will not wish to miss out
> on Talonval.  So it is possible that we will not have the attendance, and if
> that is the case, we will make due and try to push hard for next year.
>  
> I think it is reasonable for us to bring up this scheduling problem with
> Talonval - we have had numerous Talonval attendees in the past and it would be
> great for us to do both events together, if possible!!  However, they may have
> their own reasons for scheduling their event on a particular date, and we may
> have to find possible solutions if this happens again.
>  
> Thanks again!
> 
> Yours,
> Giovanna
> 
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Randy Asplund <randyasplund at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>> Arin and I plan to be at Talonval.
>> Its a shame that we have them the same weekend. We do also want to support
>> our neighboring shire. Maybe it would be wise to make a request that
>> Talonvale try hard not to schedule their event on the same weekend as when a
>> huge portion of their attendees would have a commitment elsewhere?
>> 
>> I do think it is important to retain the Celtic fest demo. However, we seem
>> to be a pretty major site there, and frankly, I would be quite surprised if
>> that committee didn't recognize the value of having something so showy as the
>> SCA at the festival. Baron Tairdelbach would have a much better clue about
>> this, while I have no inside information, but I'd be very shocked if they
>> didn't take us back the following year because we declined 100% this year.
>> 
>> So here's a question: If my hunch is correct, and we decided to drop Celtic
>> Fest 100% this year and promise a 100% participation next year, regardless of
>> whether Talonvale hosted their event the same weekend, would we be willing to
>> commit to that? Talonvale would know well ahead, so they could make that
>> choice of dates knowing what it meant.
>> 
>> I feel a bit uneasy about asking anybody (the A&S) people to forego the
>> Talonvale event when the rest of us fighters have an excuse to go. The demo
>> is important, but after all, events are what we do, and demos are what we do
>> to tell people what we do. So if we choose a demo instead of what we do, it
>> seems counter to the point.
>> 
>> RanthulfR
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 8, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Anne Stevenson wrote:
>> 
>>> Just a quick clarification -
>>>  
>>> His Excellency would expect fighters to attend Him on the field of battle at
>>> Talonval, so primarily I am looking for Arts and Science persons who would
>>> be willing to attend Celtic Fest and showcase their works there, instead of
>>> attending Siege of Talonval.
>>>  
>>> The people in charge of Celtic Fest have been spoken to and they understand
>>> we may have a small group this year with the hopes of more next year. 
>>>  
>>> Thanks!
>>> Giovanna
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Charles J. Cohen <charles at eecs.umich.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I'll go whereever the Baron and Baroness would like my service.
>>>> 
>>>> In my opinion, I'm concerned that if we don't fully commit to the Celtic
>>>> Fest we risk losing our spot.
>>>> 
>>>> So, is the Celtic Fest worth maintaining for recruitment and publicity?
>>>> If so, then we unfortunately will have to skip the Talonval event (and I
>>>> really like going to that...).
>>>> 
>>>> - Midair
>>>> 
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