[Ansteorra-announce] Lughnasad A & S Competition

[Kathy Varner]

Attention all Artisans and would be Artisans,

Beltaine has come and gone and the Ansteorran Summer is nigh, how will you 
spend your time during the heat of the season? Why not learn a new craft and 
submit the fruit of your labors as an entry in this year’s Lughnasad 
Competition?
Time grows short for starting or perfecting your entry for the Lughnasad X A 
& S Competition hosted by the Shire of Loch Ruadh.

This year’s format will focus on newly acquired skills and crafts.
For ideas consider this:
A seamstress learns to carve wood, a painter begins to ply floss for 
embroidery, a wood crafter enamels copper.
Have you decided what your entry will be, did that last class you took 
really spark your creativity? Were you amazed at the quality of your first 
endeavor? Bring it on out and enter our competition!

Rules:
1.Entries must be the fruits of skills or crafts newly learned since the 
turning of the year (Jan.2004 through Aug. 2004)
2.The skill or craft should be sufficiently different from your field of 
expertise or experience for you to be considered a novice. Please no entries 
where-in you embroider with silk rather that cotton etc…
3.Divisions will be limited to Adult’s and Children’s categories, with no 
degrees of skill, as all will be novice in their new craft.
4.For this competition the definition of novice has naught to do with the 
number of times a particular piece has or has not been entered into 
competition. By this definition novice simply means that the skill has been 
acquired since the beginning of the year. Not that you have become 
proficient since the beginning of the year, but that you have begun learning 
the skill within this time-frame.
5.Documentation is not required, however a short essay outlining how and why 
you chose this new skill, any difficulties encountered, and your intent to 
pursue or abandon the skill would lend support to the entry.
6.The number of entries per person is not limited, but all should follow the 
guidelines as listed.

Work diligently through spring and summer, and reap the rewards of your 
labors with the ending of summer and the celebration of the harvest.


In Service,
Catrin ferch Rhys
MoAS Loch Ruadh