You are invited to Dragonslayer, where Montengarde’s Heavy and Archery Champions are chosen. The event is a two day event beginning Saturday July 20 at 9 AM and ending on Sunday at 5 PM. THERE IS NO CAMPING ONSITE at the Balzac Community Hall. Enjoy a weekend away from the smoke, angry badgers and itchy bugs! There will be fighting and smiting, archery, TUA classes, Helga ball, Tablero, merchants, “Captain, Ship, Crew”, Bardic, Prize Tourneys for all major activities and more. Archery is indoors at Archery World and is included in the site fee. We will be holding a potluck feast, but it’s not just ANY potluck. Your challenge: bring the food that you’ve always wished Feast Stewards would serve! Please bring your own heating and serving supplies, as well as a list of ingredients for allergies.
We are looking for merchants. We want to buy your stuff!! There is no merchanting fee.
For questions, please contact Baroness Adis or Co-steward Sigfuss Thorwulfsson at events@montengarde.org.
Pre-registration is HERE
Schedule Document is HERE
Adult Event Registration – $35
Adult Member Discount Event Registration – $25
Youth Registration (0-17) – $0
Location – Balzac Community Hall
Dragonslayer Champion:
Here ye! Here ye!
I have fought the dragon long and hard over the past year, I grow weary and need a rest. I held it back as long as I could using strong steel, tenacity, and cunning tactics. However, the Dragon has started cheating, for it has enchanted the warriors of this land to defend it. For such fierce defense, I sadly have no answer.
Let it be known that I am stepping aside, so another warrior that is more fierce, more cunning, and! willing to cut down their former allies can take up the mantle of Dragon Slayer and keep this land safe once again.
Know that this will be no small task, as you will face the fiercest warriors this land has to offer in order to succeed. So come steel your heart against what needs to be done and take up the Dragon Slayers mantle from me.
Lordship Martin McDuff.
Arts and Sciences Competition:
Calling all seamstresses, embroiderers, cooks, painters, metal and leather workers!
Dragonslayer is approaching and there will be an A&S prize competition on the Saturday, July 20.
The theme is Dragons and Chaos!!
Show us, through your chosen Art or Science, the destruction and chaos Dragons can bring.
The competition is open to all who wish to enter, no matter what land they hail from. There will be three prizes – Populace choice, Champions/ defenders choice and Emerald Rose choice.
Entry not finished?
I still want to see it! It’s important to see your process and where you started.
Doesn’t exactly follow the theme?
I still want to see it! Creativity is key, Rules Lawyering Pre-Approved.
Research paper?
I still want to see it! Just by July 13 so it can be properly reviewed with the time it deserves.
Is it food?
I still want to see it! And maybe eat it!
Aren’t sure if it qualifies? If it falls under Arts or Science I want to see it!
Still not sure? Send me a message and we can chat.
I’m so excited to see what magic you all will bring. 55 sleeps!
Yours in Service, Arts and Science,
Kassandra Formica, Stenbocken Hus
Apprentice to Master Mai
Emerald Rose of Montengarde
Classes Available:
Pre-registration can be sent via email to arts-sciences@montengarde.org
If you have any questions please free free to contact me
In Service
HL Custance Frideswide Featherstonehaugh
Beginner Recorder (Saturday outside under the sunshade 11am- 12pm)
by Baroness Adis
All supplies including recorders for loan, supplied
Maximum 6
Cost $5
which includes the cost of a brand new Baroque recorder with a bag, fingering chart and cleaning stick you may take home, as well as a booklet of simple songs. I can take more than 6 if those people just want to borrow one of my sanitized loaner recorders.
Intro to the SCA 101 (Saturday 11am-12pm)
by Magnifico Bjar the Blue
What’s the SCA and who are these people? What’s a persona? Why are so many people wearing red and white belts? All this and more answered in a casual conversation about the SCA.
Maximum Unlimited
Cost: Free
Punjabi Pagg- Tying a Turban (Saturday Noon to 1pm)
BY Arjun Singh
Come and learn a little about the history of the turban in India, and learn to tie a simple North Indian turban!
Min – 4 Max – 12
Cost $15, if you want to take your turban home with you
Introducrion to Heraldry (Saturday Noon to 1pm)
by Dristan
Learn the basic fundimentals of Heraldry
Maximun 12 students
Cost:Free
Learn To Make A Cloth (Self-Stuffed) Button (Saturday 1pm to 2pm)
by Lady Joycelyn of Montengarde
Learn how to make self stuffed cloth buttons. Hand-sewing skill may be helpful, but not needed; this is a hands-on class. All materials will be provided.
Maximun:5 students (more can be accommodated if you bring your own needle and thread or if students would like to audit the class
Cost: Free
Assisi Embroidery
By Hl Custance Frideswide Featherstonehaugh
Learn the fun and easy Assisi Embroidery. All supplies are included
Maximum: 8 students
Cost $5
Let’s make a Byzantine-style necklace! (Saturday 2:30pm-3:30pm)
by Drífa at lækjamoti
Come make a necklace in the style of a few different early Byzantine period finds. Tools, wire, clasps, & beads included.
Max Students: 8
Cost: $5
Beginner Ship, Captain, Crew (Sunday 11am- 12pm)
by Baroness Adis
Learn to play Ship, Captain, Crew
Includes a small bag of treasure and 5 dice to learn with and keep for Sunday’s games!
Maximum 10
Cost $3
How to keep yourself entertained while at Hadrian’s wall (Satuday 3pm-4pm)
by Master James d’Oleans
An introduction to basic medieval ganmes
Maximum: 10 students
Cost $2
Lucet Cording 101 (Saturday 3:30 – 4:30)
By Isabelle Bassett
Have a lucet gathering dusk in your SCA basket? Come on out and learn how to use it! Basic introduction to the history and to how to use a lucet. Please bring your own lucet if you have one. Yarn optional, I will have a selection. Everyone else will get to make a simple lucet with a fork.
Maximum 8 Students
Cost: Free unless you would like to have 3D printed fork for $5
SCA 201 (Sunday 1pm- 2pm)
by Magnifico Bjar the Blue
Still got more questions about the SCA? We’ve got more answers! What are some of the major events and what is there for me to do? Can I be an officer or marshal? Can I go to a vigil (whatever that is)? A little more in depth look at what one can do in the SCA and common customs.
Maximum: Unlimited
Cost: Free
“Ballads” (Sunday 1pm- 3pm)
by Master Thorvald
First portion would be a simple introduction to the European ballad, a common narrative song style appearing in most countries, with extra reading material. Academics are certain that ballads were sung in the Middle Ages, though few words were collected until post 1600, and even fewer melodies. So ballads fall into a “period but seldom provably so” category. In the rest of the class I would sing some of the ballads in my repertoire.
Download 2 PDF documents for the class: Ballad Intro , Ballad Selection
Maimum 10
Cost Free. Online PDFs as indicated in the description.