[Cynnabar] Celtic Festival -- July 13 -- Save the Date!

Genoveva von Lübeck genoveva.von.lubeck at gmail.com
Tue Jun 11 07:30:49 CDT 2013


Greetings unto the fair barony of Cynnabar!

Our annual appearance at the Saline Celtic Festival is coming up in less
than a month and I'm hoping to see many of you there, demonstrating the
amazing things we do in our Society! Folks attending the festival are
always very enthusiastic about our demos, and we always have a good time!
Please take a moment now to mark the date in your calendars:

*Saturday, July 13 is the Celtic Festival!*

Yes, this is the weekend right before Pennsic, but we still need your help!

Right now I'd really like to get an idea of who plans to attend and what
they are interested in demonstrating. I'm going to make an attempt at
organizing our demonstration attempts so we an avoid having too many of the
same thing -- many of us are multi-talented and I'm sure we can present a
well-rounded showing with a little pre-planning. If you're just not sure
what you'd like to demonstrate, or would like some guidance, we'd love to
have folks showing things like:

- Food Then vs. Now (i.e., look at the difference between a store-bought
baby carrot and a big, long carrot with it's greens still on and maybe even
a bit dirty from the ground!)
- Armor - folks love to look and touch real armor, be it plate, mail, or
leather
- Costuming - While we're all wearing our garb, I'd still love to see
someone bring more examples that a person could touch and feel, and perhaps
illustrations of various time periods
- Archery - Bring the accoutrements so folks can see and touch it, maybe
see how it feels to pull back a bow string
- Illumination - Love to see some scribes at work!
- Weaving - Definitely want to see this, many people stopped to talk with
us about it last year
- Games and Toys - Always popular

These are just a few ideas, and there are many, many more things I just
don't have room to mention. In previous years I also saw wool carding,
bobbin lace, Viking handicrafts, and more!

So if you plan to come for the day on July 13, or think you might be able
to and just aren't sure yet, please drop me a line and let me know what
you'd like to demonstrate. I will draw up a list and post it later to our
mailing list.

In the meantime, check out and share our page on the Saline Celtic Festivalat
http://cynnabar.org/saline-celtic-festival

For those of you unfamiliar with this great event, here's an article on a
past year's festival, complete with photos of Cynnabarbarians:
http://www.annarbor.com/news/celtic
-culture-and-entertainment-draw-crowds-to-saline-festival/

Thank you so much!

Genoveva
Cynnabar Chatelaine
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