[Cynnabar] The issue with the Terp date.

Thu Oct 1 15:19:36 UTC 2015

I don't think this went through, So i'm sending it again. Sorry if you get
it twice!

Hey everyone!

SO yes, Golden Seamstress does have the date in question. It turns out that
the date was submitted before Pennsic and had once been on the calendar but
some how went missing from it recently. That being said, It is something
being worked on. As I see it we have a few options.

1. Find a new date. (this would possibly mean early March or possibly even
looking for a new location.)

2. See if they would mind if we still held our event this day. Yes, there
would likely be some cross over by some people who may be interested in
both.

3. We could combine events.

I ask that no one jumps to conclusions just yet. I'm working on gathering
all the information to see what would work best. I will give an update as
soon as one is available. If you have comments or concerns, I ask that you
Email me directly (terpsichoreatthetower at gmail.com) so that I can address
them properly.

Thank you,

Ceara

____________________________________

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Richard Harper via Barony <
barony at cynnabar.org> wrote:

Hmmm...it's possible that I have insider knowledge as I was asked to save
that date, so just a word to the wise that whomever comes down the pike
quickest...

hk

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Kell Carnahan via Barony <
barony at cynnabar.org> wrote:

Update: To submit an event idea to PenguiCon 2016, here's where to do it:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cwPfcLrPaRaBQqXTYnWxlPZRkasWSAAY8fj0fe_V3ww/viewform

I also got this message:

If you have specific questions you'd like an answer to in the short term,
please email our head of programming at programming at penguicon.org.

Hope that is helpful!  ~Birke

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Kell Carnahan <wyndsung at gmail.com> wrote:

PenguiCon 2016: This is truly a fantastic arena to do demos or classes in.
Anything the SCA does, they do - history, arts, science, tech, martial
arts, food, dance, performance - they already have mundane versions of all
of these, and are eager to host more SCA versions.  PenguiCon 2016 is April
29 - May 1, so it's the same weekend as St. Cecelia (local event) and This
Land is Our Land (Shadowed Stars, very popular rapier event).

If anyone is interested in demoing or teaching anything at PenguiCon 2016,
I can put you in contact with the right people, or please feel free to dig
out contact info for them directly (they have an active Facebook group and
year-round monthly meetings, and a contact page on their website,
http://2016.penguicon.org/contact-staff/).

I put in a question about who to talk to about indoor archery on their
Facebook page, and will let you know when I hear back.

~Birke

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Anne Stevenson via Barony <
barony at cynnabar.org> wrote:

At the moment, Golden Seamstress is not on the calendar for this date!

-G

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Richard Harper via Barony <
barony at cynnabar.org> wrote:

Many thanks to Mistress Kay for her informative reporting, as usual.

I just wanted to bring up a point which I'm not sure has been realized --
did anyone else note that Terpsichore was up against Golden Seamstress on
April 9?  I was contacted early regarding judging so the date may not yet
be common knowledge, but I think it might be an issue.  And probably
unavoidable at this point.

Henry K

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Cynnabar Seneschal via Barony <
barony at cynnabar.org> wrote:

My this is a big one.

REMEMBER, our Next Meeting should be in the Boulevard Room at Pierpont
Commons. If it is different, I will send a message, or ask that Hattie do
so. It it is not settled before I leave town on 10/11, Please, someone post
a sign on that door. Thanks!

*20150928 Barony of Cynnabar                   7:00PM*

Location:  Ahmo’s Seating Area Pierpont Commons, U of M North Campus,
Boulevard Room. 2101 Bonisteel Blvd Ann Arbor, MI 48109. NC43 is the number
of the free evening parking lot closest to Pierpont Commons.

*Activity, Event & Demo Reports*

*Let’s include everything we are doing in the Society in these reports; not
just events and travel!*

Coronation:  Baroness Kasha attended, as did Emily, our journalist friend,
Jason, Jadwiga, Aaron, Gregoire, several others.  The site was a beautiful
old Polish church.  The musicians report good acoustics for their
performances, both vocal and instrumental. Earl Ekbrander was photo-bombed
by Jason, Gregoire, the Dragon Herald… the photo was quite the mob scene.

*Upcoming Baronial Events and Demos*

*Old Movie Night:*  *Thursday Oct 3, 7pm on campus in **1528 CC Little
Building*.

1100 N University, across the street from the Exhibit Museum in a building
that looks Just like the Museum.  Near the Big U-M Bus Station.

Free Movie- Princess Bride.  Popcorn Provided.  Expenses:  $100 from Rooms
Fund SORC.

*DEMO:  Dixboro Farmer’s Market Festival (Friday Oct 23, 2015) – *Gabby,
Anne, & Deputies. 3 pm to 7 pm. 5221 Church Rd Ann Arbor, MI.

All on track, per Daye.

*Fall Revel, Closing of the Range, & Battle of Agincourt
600th Anniversary.  (Sunday October 25, 2105) Dillon’s Range.* Grey Odsson
$250.

·         SITE IS BONE DRY.  330 West Clark St Superior Township MI (North
of Ypsilanti)

·         Please help with Target Coloring.  We may be doing this during
the next meeting, Oct 11.

·         Set up Help needed for Saturday 10/24 from 12 till done.

·         Wood has been gathered for a bonfire.  Their Excellencies will
hold Court, perhaps by firelight.

*Grand Day of Tournaments (Saturday November 7th, 2015) – *Johannes $___
Budget. Lunch tavern budget $____.

*Staff:* Jason Irenfist, Heavy Marshal.  Birke, Marshall of Defense. Daye,
Royalty Liaison.  Genoveva, Deputy Steward.

·         Planning meeting was held with great success.   Everything is on
track for November 7th.

·         Baroness Genoveva has agreed to be Deputy Steward.

·         Insurance certificate was ordered by Mistress Kay. Order was
acknowledged by SCA, Inc.  this morning.

·         Emphasis is on bring and displaying heraldry and pageantry.

·         If our Exchequer Lady Ilse is present, I would like for her to
cut a check to the school for $1,000. I can arrange to pick up the check
this week and deliver it on Thursday or Friday. If she is absent, I will
try to get it from her at the next baronial meeting.

·         TE Request to update our officer webpage.  Removed some old
information from my illustrious predecessor.  Other content is relevant
with plans to add more information such as a listing of Heraldic reference
material.

*Wassail* *BID* (*Saturday* *December 12, 2015) – *Steward: Eddy Site:
Chelsea Fairgrounds.  *2nd of 3 Meetings*

·         Funding by Donation, no site fee.  Site is Wet. Site reservation
includes set up time on Friday night.

·         Eddy is Seeking a Deputy.

·         There will NOT be a GARAGE/ Yard sale.

·         Decorations will be collected from Daye and Peter’s barn.

·         Please bring a *surge protector* if you bring an electrical
appliance.  It will help to spread equipment about the room and use outlets
besides the kitchen. Eddy will get some heavy duty extension cords, too.

·         There may be a test run of the Indoor Archery Shoot Idea in the
basement.

*Terpsichore at the Tower (Fri & Sat, April 8-9, 2016)* St Paul United
Church of Christ, Saline, MI Ceara  *3rd of 3 meetings*

·         Ceara was present to answer questions.

o   No Teacher Comps.  This was supported by the post event teacher survey
last year.

o   Tavern will be divided into day parts as described in proposal.  There
will be more of fewer kinds of foods, served from the kitchen window to
better control flow.

·         Correction:  Site fee is $275.  This does not affect the budget
total.

*St. Cecilia at the Tower (Sat April 30- Sun May 1, 2016)* St Paul United
Church of Christ, Saline, MI Mistress Jadwiga.

·         Jadwiga & Aaron were present to answer questions.

·         Apple Tree Tavern will operate for Lunch and Dinner.  There was a
“feast” feeling to dinner last year.  Do bring your own feast gear if you
wish, as that may happen again.

·         Solicitation for classes will happen in a few weeks.

*Old Business*

*New Archery Marshal.*  2nd of 3 meetings

·         Luisa has offered to take the position.  She was not able to
attend.  Some discussion on her progress through training as an archery
marshal.  Grey says she can be the group’s reporting marshal even as a
marshal-in-training.  She would just need support running ranges.  There
are a few winter archer y events, where she can continue to work with
marshals and have her qualifications signed.

·         Grey says he will step down at Fall Revel, but that as the season
has ended it is not critical that the post be filled until spring.

·         Other Candidates are welcome. Please come to a meeting, or send
your proposal to boc.cynnabar at gmail.com in a timely manner to get on the
agenda.

*New Business*

None

*Other Group Discussion*

There were new visitors to Archery Practice on Sunday.  They were students
who came due to the recruiting at NorthFest and Festifall. [Daye bounces up
and down, here ] Gabby met them on campus and brought them out.  They left
discussing buying their own bows.

Archery Demo at PenguiCon this winter? Perhaps, if the test of the Indoor
Shooting tunnel is a success at Wassail.  Ask Birke about conditions on
that site.

*Words from Their Excellencies Ermenrich and Kasha of Cynnabar**:*

SEE the Office Reports.

*Status check on Approved Budget Items: *

·   *Fabric/materials for making new Baronial floor covering *($95 budget)
Ms. Giovanna:  for Grand Day of Tournaments.  A work session was held at
the EMU Costume Shop this past weekend

·   *Youth box* – continues

·   *Leather and Rivets for refurbishing Loaner Armor *– Gregor  $200

·   *Stickers with the Baronial Populace Badge* (and maybe name?) $60-100

·         Seeking Art or Artists.

·         Gavriil might do some art by December.

*Trailer for List field parts*.  $3500-$3950  Black, 5’x10’ covered trailer
6 feet tall,  lights, inside and out, hitching stuff and other
technicalities.

·         INSURANCE issues are clear. The Society will PAY the Insurance
through their Insurance carrier.  They estimate this at only $50/ year.  NO
COST to Cynnabar. We just register the trailer and send SCY Inc a copy of
the registration and title.

·         Max was informed he could put in the order today (9/28/15).

·         Increased length to 12 feet to allow for adding the Floor to the
storage. Also allows us to pack the Shade Fly.

·         Added Corner Jacks to the purchase list if there is still money
in the proposal budget.  Otherwise, re-state as new business.

*Announcements* – All covered in other items.

*Officer Reports*

Exchequer (Ilsa) –

Not available

Webminister (Aaron) –

Has helped some officers get their web pages updated. Working on developing
a Searchable Cynnabar Order of Precedence.  There is not a lot to do with
the site.

This provoked discussion about future program updates, which are expected
soon, when Drupal 8 releases.  There will be options to make our site more
mobile friendly which Ermenrich and others are looking forward to.

THAT provoked discussion about the fact that our site is considered very
useful and friendly to SCA experienced visitors, but not as easy to
navigate for newcomers, who do not know our vocabulary.  Perhaps we should
add a layer, a front page that is vey newcomer focused… sort of a Front
Porch.  Then our current home page becomes the inner layer.

Fencing Marshal (William) –

No report.  Word is that William and Birke are teaching.

Min A&S (Arina) –

The *Japanese workshop day* is now more or less ready to go:

Here is the tentative schedule (will be posted today, with name of teachers
and addresses and such):

11:00 Museum to see the small Japanese collection

12:00 Leave to go to site

12:20 ish Start serving food and eat food  - Mistress Kay is going to talk
a bit about Japanese food.

*Table 1                                       Table
2                        Craft table*

1pm - 2:30 Intro to Kumihimo   1:30 Heian Poetry       Crafts starting.

2:30 -3:30 Heian 101                                                     Go

3:30 - 5:00 Heian clothing         4:00 Furioshiki             Art books

Tea ceremony and a short slide show.

The craft table will have all kinds of crafts, from origami to calligraphy.

I am also working on an update for the MOAS page of the Cynnabar website,
and hope to put up some basic tutorials in tunic makings and such, but am
working on finding a good one.

The MOAS report is due the 15th of October, please everyone, send me a line
about what YOU have been doing lately

Min. Youth (Viktoria) –

   - We have a lot of kids in the Barony! Yay!
   - There will be Youth Point at Grand Day and I'm working to put together
   a few classes either taught by children or youth. There will be time set
   aside for our youth to work with the Youth Marshall as well.
   - I am still working with our Regional MoY (Lady Ceara) on Page School.
   We have met with the Kingdom level Page School Dean, Baroness Katayoun
   al-Aurvataspa and she will be helping us through this process.

Chatelaine (Daye) –

My Web Page is done!  Movie Night is posted on the web.  I give us a B+ for
the Mass Meeting.  We had less turnout that last year, but that may have
been because many people using the Union were there for some sort of
political event, Young Republicans(?) Lots of Kudos to everyone who helped
make the event a success. [More names were named that Kay could record…]

Chronicler (Gavriil) –

Not available, but Kay reports that tonight was deadline for submissions to
Citadel.  And the new feature for offering praise to those who impress you
got some comments from those at the meeting.  This seems like a Good Idea.

Herald (Johannes) –

My report has been submitted today. Early!
No herald’s night in September due to the Labor Day weekend.  Next meeting
is October 5th.

Knight Marshal (Gregor) –

Not Available.

Archery Marshal (SOON to  be Open) –

Grey plans to step down at Closing of the Range.  If anyone is interested
in becoming a new Archery Marshal, please see your local seneschal.  It is
the Last call foe arrow making for the season.  Soon it will be too cold to
do outside and the materials are dangerous for indoor work.  Contact Grey
to order Arrows.

Seneschal (Kay) –

It’s been quiet, except for all the event planning, and demoing, and
arts!  Grey and Daye offered  to *run the 10/12 Meeting for Kay*.   Thanks
for supporting my trip to England.  If YOU are interested in running a
meeting as practice for a future position do let Kay know.

The same goes for any officer position you might be interested in learning
about.  Talk to me if you are not sure you want to talk to the officer
directly.

The quarterly report went in after out last officer reports but before the
deadline.  If you ever want to see a copy let me know and I can email it.
(All except sensitive information)

My web page revision #1 had been done, but I have not managed to get it up
on the web.  Maybe Friday…

Baron and Baroness (Kasha and Ermenrich) –

Our court at Mass Meeting allowed us o pass on Awards of Arms to 2 people,
and to give an Elephant’s Heart.  We were very happy that the Heart and one
AOA went to student members of Cynnabar; it was the perfect time.  There is
a lot going on and we will have Court at events like Fall Revel and Grand
Day.  Please get recommendations in to both Us and Their Majesties.  Also
bring us your ideas for Court Shtick, performances, anything you think we
might use to make them memorable.

IMPORTANT:  Their Majesties say they complete their Court Lists 1 month
before an event they plan to attend.  This means that you must have
recommendations in for Grand Day by Oct 6.  T

Please bring us Prizes that can be given for Grand Day.

We hope you will support Cynnabar Practices and Meetings, even at the busy
time of year.

We too have updated our web pages.  “What is a Baron/ Baroness?” Champions
List.  We are trying to make this better for newcomers. [Here is where the
discussion of updates to the BOC Home page occurred.  SEE Web Minister
Report, as it seemed to belong there. KofT] Thanks to the officers who have
done page updates.

And, We are still a Barony.Hey everyone!