Webminister November 7, 2024

Winter has settled in and long nights are upon us.

Join Their Excellencies Refr and Adis in celebrating the coming of the new year. Come together and push back the dark and cold with revelry, comradery and joy.

The new champion of arts and sciences as well as champion of fencing will be decided.  Come and witness, participate and support the choosing of these new representatives

We will be having many other activities to enthrall, entertain and edify.

In the evening, join us for an amazing feast prepared by Duke Ellias and his team.

Where: Delacour Community Hall
When: 18 Jan 2025, 8 AM to midnight.
Site fee:  Adult $20.  ($10 NMR will be applied to all non-member
adult site fees)
Under 18 free
Feast: $15.  12 and under $10

Contact Master William Bennet events@montengarde.org

Tentative Schedule

  • 8 am – doors open (set up)
  • 9 am – Gate opens
  • 930 – Armoured tournament inspections
  • 10 am – Opening court – invocation of A&S championship entrants.
    • A&S Championship judging begins after opening court
  • 1030 – Armoured tournament begins (until noon)
  • 11 am –
  • Noon –
  • 1230 – Afternoon court – invocation of fencing championship entrants
  • 1 pm – Fencing tournament inspections
  • 130 – Fencing tournament begins (until 330)
  • 2 pm –
  • 3 pm –
  • 330 – Hall changeover
  • 415 pm – Pre-feast court
  • 5 pm –
  • 6 pm – Feast begins
  • 7 pm –
  • 730 pm – (After Feast) – Kingdom court
    • After court – bardic, dancing, games, social
  • Midnight – Hall closes

Feast Information

Twelfth Night Feast Sign-up is here! Only 60 spots are available; don’t hesitate! The following link takes you to a menu, feast information and sign up form.

Montengarde 12th Night Feast

Montengarde Arts and Sciences Championship

Unto the populace of Montengarde shall these words be shared! At this upcoming Twelfth Night, January 18, 2025, there is to be a grand Tournament to choose the next Montengarde Emerald Rose, Champion of Arts and Sciences!

January brings us into the middle of the darkest nights and coldest days. However, there is rejoicing to be had when we do the things that we love. These activities help bring us through these challenging times and into the bright light of the coming Spring.
Thus! The theme for the upcoming Tournament is What Inspires You?* Show us, through your chosen Art or Science, what brings you light and inspires you through these bleak winter months.
(* Please note that while we would love to see entries that follow the theme, it is not a requirement for entry. Just a fun extra!)

The document containing information on the A&S tournament for this year is now available in this folder on the website. If you have any issues accessing the document please let me know.

Rubric for judging physical and non-physical entries may be found on the Avacal Kingdom site (Avacal.org) under Officers, Ministry of Arts and Sciences, Documents.
For further information contact Kassandra Formica at champion-as@montengarde.org

Yours in Service, Arts and Science,
Kassandra Formica, Stenbocken Hus
Apprentice to Master Mai
Emerald Rose of Montengarde

Course list and Schedule

To preregister please send an e-mail to HL Custance Frideswide Featherstonehaugh (Christie Johnson) at arts-sciences@montengarde.org.

Inkle Loom

2 hours (10:30 to 12:30) Instructor Li Xia

Come learn the basics of inkle weaving; perfect for making belts, trim, and cording. You will learn how to warp a loom, read (and design) a pattern), and how to weave.

All supplies (including a loom) will be available, but if you have your own inkle loom or favourite colours of #10 crochet cotton and scissors, bringing them will be helpful.

No class maximum, there will be only six (6) loaner looms available.
No fee. Loaner looms have a $20 deposit to continue working on your weaving when class is over and the deposit will be refunded in full if the loom is returned undamaged before the end of the day.

SCA 201 – Building on the Basics

1 Hour (10:30 to 11:30) Instructor: Magnifico Bjar the Blue

Been playing in the SCA for a while now but still have questions? Want to know more about peers and coronets? Curious about officers and council? Wondering about these things or just missed out on the SCA Intro 101? Then drop in to find out more about the Living Dream that is the SCA.

Fee Free

The Self-reliant Sewer – Basic skills for repairing your own garb by hand

1 hour (11:30 to 12:30) Instructor Joycelyn of Montengarde

Hands-on instruction will be provided to help students gain confidence to make simple repairs (emergency or otherwise) independently. Learn to assemble a basic field sewing kit and learn (or review) running, whip and back stitching.

Bring your garb needing the repair and/or finishing, a sewing needle and, if you wish, matching thread to your garment (I will have plain black and white thread).

Maximum 5 students.
Fee: $2
Note: there will not be a sewing machine handy.

“What is that beastie on that shield over there?”

1 hour (1:30 to 2:30) Instructor Drystan ap Ercwlff

How to recognize different animals in heraldry and their positions and postures. From the true to life to the fanciful and everything in between.

Fee Free

De arte venandi cum avibus (The art of Falconry)

1.5 Hours (2:00 to 3:30) (run time of the film is 54 minutes with a question and answer time after the film) Instructor: Rowan Nabbanseax

A video presentation on historical Falconry and it’s links to the modern age.

De Arte Venandi cum Avibus is a Latin treatise on ornithology and falconry written in 1240s by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and this film is narrated with excerpts from the book

Fee Free

Basic Medieval Embroidery Stitches

1.5 hours (2:30 to 4:00) Instructor HL Custance Frideswide Featherstonehaugh

Learn basic embroidery stitches that can add style and flare to almost any piece of clothing or cloth.

All supplies included but if you have a small embroidery hoop that would be helpful.

Maximum 5 students
Fee $4

Armoured Tournament

There will be a heavy combat prize tournament at 12th Night.
Please be aware that armour inspection is before opening court, and we will have to clear the space for court. Please be on time and ready to go for this early inspection.
9:30am Heavy combat inspection
10:00am Opening court and invocation of A&S championship entrants
10:30am Armoured tournament (runs until noon, all pickups must be done and the space cleared for Rapier by 12:30pm)
The prize for this tournament is a basket hilt generously provided by Plasticsmith Amoury, and a stick of rattan to go with it. I’ll probably find excuses to add more prizes too. So please, come out nice and early to fight!

Lord Vladimir Strážca
Dragonslayer of Montengarde

Bardic Competition

Lords, Ladies, Good Gentles all! Are you ready for a street fight? The middle ages were alive with street performers – Jongleurs, Magiciens, Acrobats, Dancer, Musicians – all vying for the attention, and the coin, of the thronging masses! But while the performers were seemingly unlimited the coin was not and so each would strive to outdo the others with their wit, charisma and skill!
And so shall it be on the eve of the 12th Night as we call on the Bards of Montengarde and neighbouring realms to compete in a brawl of the Buskers! Bring your best SCA appropriate performance of any style, filch, or period! Amaze and amuse the thronging crowds with your prowess and be judged by the coin that fills your caps, cases, or satchels!
Coins will be available for sale to the populace and spare hats will be provided for any bards without a head cover of their own. The winner will be whomever collects the most coin and all shall be donated towards the war wagon at the end of the night. An additional prize will be bestowed upon the bard who best embodies the spirit of the street performance!
So come! Busk a Move! Don’t miss out, or you will Rue the Day! The challenge will be Thorough and Fare! Don’t be shy – Avenue Experience! Take the Boulevard by the horns and take it Alley the way! Cul de sac your opponents and see them Lane before you! Proclaim that “I did it High Way!” Be Loud and Road! Express yourself and enter now by writing to Alexander Blackadder at champion-bard@montengarde.org
A Bardic Circle will follow immediately after the bardic competition – all welcome – all styles!
Yours in Service,
Alexander Blackadder
Montengarde Champion of Bardic
champion-bard@montengarde.org

Montengarde Fencing Championship

Twelfth Night is a time for roguery, fellowship and fun—but it is also when Montengarde’s Champion of Rapier, the Dragonblade, shall be decided!

Bring your favourite weapon style. The tournament format will be a Round Robin (everybody fights everybody else once). Double kills are to be re-fought once, and then it shall be counted as a double loss.

Non-vying fencers are welcome to test mettle! There will be a prize for highest number of wins overall and a prize for Gallantry.

All fencers MUST pass inspection before the tournament, and must present proof of authorization in their weapon styles of choice on the day of the tournament.

Fencers vying for the championship must have an SCA membership and participate and reside within the borders of Montengarde or the surrounding shires (Sandeshend and Windwyrm). Fencers vying for the championship must have an inspiration.

Fencers wishing to vie for the championship must declare their intent to vie to Their Excellencies Montengarde, Baron Refr and Baroness Ádís, by January 11, 2025.

The Champion of Rapier must hold a tournament to select their successor at the next Twelfth Night. It is customary for the Champion to inspire participation in the fencing community, attend Their Excellencies Montengarde behind the thrones during court, and lead Montengarde’s army into battle on the rapier field. If you have more questions about the duties and responsibilities of the Champion of Rapier, please contact Their Excellencies or myself.

Hope to see you there!
Rhiannon
Dragonblade