[Hou-announce] Westgate Winter Collegium, August 4

[Jennifer Smith]

The Canton of Westgate (Southwest Houston, Texas) is
hosting Westgate Winter Collegium on August 4. The theme is Bards and
Garb, and the event will feature bardic and costuming-related classes.

In addition to an exciting array of classes -- TWO bodice making classes! -- we also are holding our
annual canton championship. It is a costume competition. To
participate, sign up at the gate. 

Other activities include the Great Fabric Swap! Bring fabric you will never use and trade it for other costumers' cloth. This should be reeeeallly interesting!

There
will also be a chance to trace out patterns from Mistress Rondinella's
collection on butcher paper ($1 to cover butcher paper costs).
We also feature an all-day charter painting table and a heraldic consultation table.
The evening will feature a bardic circle coordinated by HL Alden.
A sideboard lunch will be provided to all, including chicken salad, croissants,
 and fresh fruit.
The
feast will be scrumptious: Herb-crusted pork loin, French onion soup, pesto chicken pasta,
stuffed breads, Italian green beans, and cannoli for dessert. We are
not taking reservations, so first come first served at the gate.

 The class list includes the following, and more classes will be added soon. A tentative schedule will be posted July 25.

Sonnet
Basics [2 parts]






Bawdy Songs






Beginners Voice






Pronunciations





Courtier Poets





Sources for Songs






But I Don't Read Music






Tell Us a Story! [2 parts] (Construction & Presentation)


Beginning Bardic


Cantigas de Santa Maria 

Herjolfsnes
#38: A Hands-On 10-Gore Dress Workshop (4 hr): Students must sign up in
advance for this limited-number workshop and check in by 11 AM to be
guaranteed their  spot.  Bring 6 yards of washed linen, cotton or silk
fabric and leave with a partially complete fitted garment that the
student can easily finish on their own.


Late 15th Century Florentine Woman's Dresses


What's That Made Of?


Impressa


Treasures of Hungary


Eleanor of Toledo


Early Italian


Elizabethan and Cloth Buttons


Making a pair of bodies (corset) with reeds 


Making bodice/corset patterns from masking tape


Pilgrim Spotting


Inkle Weaving


Finger Loop Braiding



Seneschal's
Warranting class (Lady Brenna MacDonald)


Herald's Warranting Class (Lady Valeria Marcella de Martinez)


History of Cheese (Master Francois)









History of Knitting (Lady Jennette Makepays)

The
site is Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2353
Rice Blvd., Houston, TX 77005. Site opens at 8 a.m. and closes at 10
p.m. Site
fee is $9 for adults and $4 for children, which includes a sideboard
lunch.
Feast fee is $5. 
For more information on the event and classes, please see our Web site at http://westgate.ansteorra.org/wwc/.

Maureen Faulkner, Westgate Winter Collegium Event Steward
ladydaungerous at yahoo.com


       
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