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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gwyneth wrote:<BR><BR>> I think if you would
move as a group towards making bards more of a part</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> of the mainstream A&S community you
would make people more aware</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> of your talents then you as a group would
become more aware of others</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> talents and therefore get stronger.
If that happens, then the A&S</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> community as a whole, and therefore
Ansteorra as a whole, gets stronger.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> MY first step, if I were a bard, would
be to make my spotlight event</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> ligitimate by bringing it into the
A&S venues. <BR><BR>Yeah, I know -- that sounds so reasonable.
As Baron of the Steppes, I had the exact same thought, and so we moved Steppes
Eisteddfod to the Steppes Artisan event.<BR><BR>After doing it once, we moved it
away. The Eisteddfod requires the absolute focus of all judges, from start
to finish. Nobody can both judge the bardic competition (if it's of any
size) and look over all the tables. That year I never got to look at the
tables, and the Baroness never got to hear the bards.<BR><BR>If Kingdom
Eisteddfod were moved to Kingdom A&S, then I would never get to see the
tables at A&S, and would be further removed from the static
artists.<BR><BR>I agree that it would ideally be at a kingdom venue rather than
Twelfth Night, but that venue should be a bardic one, not competing with other
arts for the attention of the kingdom. When it was its own event, it was a
much bigger activity, and a much bigger part of the kingdom.<BR><BR>Robin of
Gilwell / Jay Rudin<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>