ES - Highland Games

[Galen of Bristol]

Galen here...

Wow!  What a great set of plans!

From: Christine Fink <eleefink at consultant.com>
To: <elfsea at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 12:47 PM
Subject: ES - Highland Games


> Hola!
<snip>
> Before I start. I would like to thank everyone for your support! You've
> really kept me going and have encouraged me to work that much harder for
you
> and our barony.

Looks from here like you're doing great so far!

> This is what I need from you. If anyone has period pavilions that I might
> beg, or borrow from you, please let me know. If you are not attending, I
> will make arrangements to have them picked up (I will be loading the truck
> Friday morning...that's June 2). I will make sure that they are well taken
> care of. I would like to know by Friday how many pavilions we will have.
So
> far, I have set aside the children's pavilion and the Baronial pavilion. I
> would like to have only period pavilions there.

It seems I have a large round period-looking pavillion, if that would be of
use.
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> As far as children activities are concerned, Lady Bree has volunteered to
> sponsor an activity. She will be showing children how to make favors to
give
> to our fighters. Thanks, Bree! What a great idea! Also, she said she has
> some stories to tell the children. I have sent her e-mail to Lady Ameline
so
> they might get together and talk about other activities for the children.

Way to go, Bree!

> I would like to see dancing out there, if that is possible.  If you have
> music we can borrow or know a few dances that you can call, please let me
> know. I need a teacher and dancers. I am a beginner dancer and know only 1
> dance so far by heart. If you love to dance (whether you know the steps or
> not), please let me know. If I have enough dancers and a teacher, we can
> have a dancing demonsration. I would like to pull in onlookers and teach
> them the different dances as well. I don't need a boombox. I have one with
a
> tape player and a CD player.

This has been a big at many demos I've been to.

> Bascially, my goal is to have something for every mundane that comes to
our
> area to see us.

Excellent!

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Have you discussed with Brigid having literature to distribute?  There are
brochures (last I spoke with Brigid, she was looking for them), but I don't
know if there are enough.  Even a card with a reference to our website for
folks to take with them would be a good thing.  My goal is for the person
who sees the demo and loves it to have something to take with them to get
back in touch with us the following week, or the following month.  I don't
want to have to stop and start fumbling for bits of paper and pens in the
midst of discussing the SCA.  We should also have a book or sheet for
interested folks to sign, so we can contact _them_.  Perhaps following
up on that signup sheet should be a seperate task for another volunteer?
Or, Brigid, do you want to do that yourself?

We've gotten some very good members through this demo, and it's always
great fun, especially for our celts (whether in persona or, like me, only
mundanely).  We've also gotten some good press (one year, all the press
the entire festival got in one paper was the SCA presence -- nice for us,
but not exactly fair).

This will be a lot of work before it's done, but it's a blast!

- Galen, Baron



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