ANST - Proposition: a Kingdom Business Meeting

[chuck_graves at mmacmail.jccbi.gov]

     Greetings, all.
     
     I thought I might add a bit to the discussion.  I arrived from 
     Atlantia a little less than a year ago.  Atlantia hosts an annual 
     Unevent (guarded kingdom date on the second weekend of September).  
     The schedule for Unevent incorporates most of the suggestions posted 
     by Her Excellency Berengaria.
     
     A typical schedule might look like the following:
     
                Room A          Room B          Room C
     
     0900       Seneschal       Chronicler      Laurel
     1000       Treasurer       Knight Marshal  Pelican
     1100       A&S Minister    Herald          Chivalry
     
                                <Lunch>
     
     1330       Chirurgeon      Centurions      White Scarves
     1430       Hospitaller     Iris of Merit   Landed Baronage
     1530       Rapier Marshal  Star of Merit   Minister of Children
     
     Unevent has no fee--Kingdom picks up the tab.  Normally, the site is a 
     college, church, or governmental center with a central lobby (for 
     general hanging out) and eateries in the near vicinity.  Some of the 
     sponsoring groups hosted a low-cost lunch but that varied depending on 
     the site.  Depending on the site and group, there were also revels or 
     post-revels.  
     
     Unevent is done in garb on Saturday; Curia Regis is held in mundanes 
     on Sunday.  Curia in Atlantia is a pure business meeting (held once a 
     reign) to discuss Kingdom law, etc., and is composed of the King, 
     Queen, Prince, Princess, (Territorial Coronets and Heirs, if they ever 
     get any), Great Officers of State, Barons, Baronesses, and Seneschals. 
      Persons are free to attend but may not speak unless specifically 
     recognized by the Crown.
     
     Unevent is pretty much an all-day business meeting for the officers.  
     After having attended several (and scuttling back and forth to gather 
     information for the local officers that couldn't make it), I didn't 
     tend to view it as an event so much as a part of the job.  The name 
     pretty much sums it up.  However, you do manage to get a LOT of 
     business done in one day.
     
     Of course, the schedule doesn't take into account interkingdom 
     anthropology.  The counterparts of the Centurions, Irises, and Stars, 
     are polling orders in Atlantia, which I don't believe they are in 
     Ansteorra.
     
     At any rate, I hope this helps.  I am a great proponent of Unevent.  
     It works well--and tends to cut down on the meetings throughout the 
     year.  They don't go away but they seem to lighten up a bit.
     
     According to the household matriarch, Unevent was conceived at one 
     particular Kingdom 12th Night:  "We arrived in the morning, scuttled 
     off to the first meeting, and stayed there until it was time for 
     court, which was followed by more meetings until it was time to eat 
     dinner.  Oh, they let us out a couple of times for toilet breaks-- 
     usually when the assembled faces were shifting--and they brought us 
     lunch.  Being Queen managed to take all the fun out of 12th Night."  
     As you say, that's her story and she's sticking to it.
     
     Regards,
     Tadhg


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