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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The classes in the bardic arena I
normally teach Are Vocal production for Bards and Heralds, Performing for
an SAC audience. Performance Preparation, Improve tricks and tools for the
serious and Comidic</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Lady (Simone) Muirenn ingen Senáin uí Dúnlaing<BR>2nd Rose of FalconRose
Southern Keep, Ansteorra</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=rudin@ev1.net href="mailto:rudin@ev1.net">Jay Rudin</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=bards@ansteorra.org
href="mailto:bards@ansteorra.org">Ansteorran Bardic list</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 12, 2004 2:34
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bards] Bardic
collegium</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>> Classes you'd like to see (and who might teach them)</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Beginning classes in poetry, story-telling, and
song. I can do poetry, so can many others. Willow is my first
choice for story-telling. I'm not good enough to identify the best teachers of
song.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Generic performing classes (voice
projection, stage presence) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Advanced courses in specific topics (specific
period styles, etc., how to tell Ansteorran history, etc.). These will
be people's specific interests, and so they will volunteer. For
interest, I'd like to bring out my class on period rhetoric and poetic
devices.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> <FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Panel
discussions you'd like to attend (and who would be good
participants)</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What makes a piece work.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Period Styles.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Holding an Audience.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Mistress Serena suggests) How to choose the
right piece for the right moment.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>> Would you attend and/or teach (if available to do so) and what
factors might encourage your attendance?</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes, I will be there. General attendance is
improved by making it sound fun, worthwhile, and comfortable.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> <FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Should
it be attached to some other event or something all its
own?</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are plusses and minuses each way. If
it's on its own, it's smaller, more intense, and loses money. If it's
attached to something else, it loses focus, and individual students and
teachers get pulled away for other duties or activities. If our branches
or kingdom are willing to lose money on a bardic-intrensive event, that will
help us a lot. But is it worth the loss?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>> Would you be willing to contribute original pieces to a book to be
sold or given at the event?</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Absolutely. It would be worth trying to
find the bards who have left, as well. Lost pieces from Cadfan, Cedric,
and others who no longer perform would be a wonderful benefit. Mistress
Serena points out that we need to ensure that copyright is explicitly retained
by the authors, not accidentally and implicitly transferred to
Ansteorra.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> <FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Other
issues I haven't thought of</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What's a good site? Nice classrooms, and
(this is important) one or more good *evening* locations for
performances. We also need a place to practice projection that would not
bother everybody else. (Mistress Serena points out that a projection
class that moves between different sized rooms shows some things that can't be
shown any other way.) Classes help us get better, but long
sessions performing for each other are what gives us our focus, joy, and
mutual support. An Academy of the Rapier can be a daytime event only,
but a meeting of bards can't.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Mistress Serena adds that you might talk to
Elfsea/Three Bridges about the University Center at UTA, a site
they've sometimes used. It's central to the kingdom, near two
interstates, and has a theater on the first floor. Philip White has
rented this site more than once, and probably has info on costs.)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Robin of Gilwell / Jay Rudin</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Serena Lascelles / Diane Rudin</FONT></DIV>
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