[Bards] DASMoBA and Kingdom Bard

[Dawn Rummel]

Having a stand-alone bardic/performance event has the added difficulty of getting on the schedule.  The original thought was to have a stand alone, but after talking to several others who put together similar events (like Kingdom Dance), it seemed pretty clear that, with the restrictions on events, it would have to be hosted at an existing event, until and unless it became a big draw.  And, yes, you end up with audience members and people who aren't bards but might be interested (who will take a class or two) if some group is kind enough to let you hold it at their event.
   
  As for bards and cooks meeting on a regular basis... I don't know if you'd call once a year regular, but there is a known world bardic "congress" and it happens in conjunction with... dum-dum-dum!... the cooks collegium!  I'm guessing there's booze there too.  http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~arnora/arnora/cooksbards06.htm
   
  Antonia
  who is, indeed, usually armed

Scott Barrett <barrett1 at cox.net> wrote:
  I agree with Dona Antonia because...

a.) She's cute
b.) usually armed
c.) correct that this would further performance in the kingdom.

Sure let's have classes of music and storytelling, poetics and even 
history. Let's also have juggling and sleight-of-hand classes, 
puppetry, acting, dance, musical instrument basics, practices and shows.
It was decent of you to volunteer your office in such a generous way, 
Master Ihon.
heh... heh-heh..

However, let's not ignore the monstrous, gore-spattered face of reality 
looming up over this affair. We're bound to have an event of nothing 
but performers staring at each other (and we aren't that large of a 
group) unless this event travels like King's College and/or is held in 
conjunction with something else. Despite my missing the last one due to 
flu, I understand Battle of the Three Kings in Rosenfeld was quite 
successful as a collegium. I stand by my conviction that brewers and 
cooks make for a "bardin" good time, but how those three types artisans 
will meet on a regular basis is beyond me.

~Finnacan


On Monday, May 1, 2006, at 08:58 PM, Dawn Rummel wrote:

> Master Ihon wrote:
> This office will be happy to facilitate Bardic Collegia.  Is it the 
> sense of those participating (and lurking :) ) on this list that there 
> should be at least one bardic centered event each year?  Master Ulf 
> shared his dream for a bardic event with me that lit my fire but 
> neither of us have been successful in bringing it to fruition. What 
> say you, bards and performers, as to where this responsibility should 
> lie?  Should the DMoAS be instigator or facilitator?
>
> Antonia responds:
> First, as the bardic collegium has been organized by the kingdom bard 
> two years running, and as two years makes it maybe almost a tradition, 
> I’d like to hear the Elanor’s take on the subject. 
>  
> I believe (and hope) that the bardic community benefits from the 
> bardic collegium, and thus I hope that it (or something along those 
> lines) will continue to be put on each year. I like the idea of making 
> the bardic collegium the responsibility of the Deputy Minister. By 
> doing so, we give the job (and it is definitely a job) to someone who 
> has applied for a job and knows what they’ve gotten into, and we free 
> up the Kingdom Bard to focus more on 
> performance/writing/community/etc. It worries me that wonderful bards 
> might hesitate to enter Eisteddfod because they think that planning 
> the bardic collegium comes as part of the title and they don’t want to 
> do it or feel that they’re just not good at that sort of thing. That 
> having been said, I also believe that the Kingdom Bard should be 
> heavily involved in the bardic collegium. I can see this being an odd 
> relationship to work out at first, but if the first few get it right, 
> we’ll have a good standard to follow.  Of course, I'll be there to 
> help no matter who organizes it.
>
> Antonia
>
>
>

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