[Lindenwood] Information for the All-CON demo

Thu Feb 21 07:24:45 PST 2008

Allcon is Friday March 7th - Sunday March 9th.

Elizabeta

On 2/21/08, sandra barton <bartonsandra at msn.com> wrote:
>
> Great information but it would be nice to know what the dates are, so far
> I have not seen that mentioned in any of the posts or I missed it.
>
> Have a happy day, Sandra (Aimiliona)
>
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> From: AlKudsi at aol.com
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:48:10 -0500
> To: steppes at lists.ansteorra.org; lindenwood at lists.ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Lindenwood] Information for the All-CON demo
>
> First of all, if you haven't heard yet, His Majesty is honoring us with
> his presence and fighting on Saturday! This is very exciting, and All-CON
> has had his permission to use this on their blog and in their publicity.
> This will mean our presence will be very noticeable...
>
> I've finally had the chance to sit down and go through the information
> I've received from the All-CON staff, and have the schedule for the fighting
> demostrations and other demos.
>
> About the passes: All-CON has been given us a fair number, but in
> addition, they have also arranged to have DISCOUNT passes and one-day passes
> for SCA people who can afford them. YOU MUST HAVE YOUR SCA MEMBERSHIP CARD
> (either blue or white) WITH YOU, AND SIGN IN AT THE GATE. There will be an
> SCA representative at the sign-in table who will handle the discount
> tickets. We are the only group they are so honoring, so please, if you can
> afford to buy your own, please do!
>
> The vendor room opens Thursday night 10-midnight for set up, which I think
> is a bit late for most of us. Friday, the vendor room opens for setup at
> 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., at which time it then opens to the public. As I
> don't think our set up will require 7 hours to do, I was thinking of meeting
> whoever would like to help about noon on Friday. We do NOT have the same
> booth we did last year...we are in an 8' x 8' booth close to the stage area.
> There is another approximately 8' x 6' of "dead" space between us and our
> neighboring vendor booth that we can spread out into some, with the caveat
> that the vendor may need some of the space for storage, as well. There will
> be some reserved storage for us in the convention's private storage, as
> well.
>
> As for demos and fighting demos, our schedule is:
>
> Friday: 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. regular demo in the Chinaberry Room (their largest
> venue) I've already told them that this is problematical, depending on how
> many people can get away from jobs, packing for the war, etc. to be there.
> We can be nice and release it for others or change the time slot to later in
> the evening.  Personally, I think we probably should be nice and release it
> for another demo.
>
> Friday: 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. fighting demo in the Chinaberry Room. Please
> notice that this is a 2-hour slot, and that there is a one hour break
> between our first demo and this demo. This may also be problematical if we
> can't get enough fighters there early enough to actually put on a demo. I'll
> go with the general opinion of the fighters on this. Remember we need either
> list ropes and stands OR marshals, but preferably both, to protect those
> watching! There will be water setups in each room, but a waterbearere would
> be nice, as well.
>
> Friday: 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. regular demo in the Dogwood Room. I'm hoping to
> have someone do a "Welcome to the Current Middle Ages" overview during this
> timeslot.
>
> Friday: 7 p.m. - 2 a.m. (yep, that's what they said!) open fighting demo
> in the Trinity II Room. Now, I'm not expecting our fighters to fight for 7
> hours, and I don't think that All-CON is, either. But it could be a good
> venue for pickup fights, or putting someone in loaner armor and showing them
> a few moves. I'm not a marshal or fighter, so I don't know exactly what is
> viable here. I'm also verifying that they mean for us to have that long a
> period of time.
> _______
>
> Saturday: 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. regular demo in the Dogwood Room. I'm hoping
> to have an A&S demo in this hour.
>
> Saturday: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. "mini-tourney" in the Chinaberry Room. I am
> hoping to talk His Majesty into doing a bit of a "court" to open a
> "mini-tourney", then close the fighting demo with another "mini-court" to
> give an award of some sort to the fighter that died best, or fought best, or
> something of that nature.
>
> Saturday: 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. regular demo in the Maple Room
>
> Saturday: 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. regular demo in the Dogwood Room
> _______
>
> Sunday: 10 a.m. - noon fighting demo in the Chinaberry Room
>
> Sunday: 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. regular demo at the Trinity Stage. This is an
> in-the-round venue, which might be great for a type of fashion show of
> costuming.
> ___________________________
>
>  Those of you who are fighting or marshalling, please get with me
> privately about the type of room set-up you'd like to see, but remember,
> there isn't much time before and after our fighting demos to do a complete
> room reset.
>
> OK, now what I need is volunteers for the various regular demos.  Please
> send them PRIVATELY to me, with preferred days and times, but please give me
> a second option. If you haven't already sent me your mundane name/SCA name,
> and contact information, please do so SOON. If you already have, I will be
> sending out to that specific list further information on passes, times, etc.
>
> I do not yet have times when the vendor room opens and closes on Saturday
> and Sunday, and therefore when the booth should be manned and when teardown
> will be.
>
> Stay tuned for further information!
>
> In service,
>
> HL Saqra al-Kudsi
> SCA All-CON coordinator
>
> Would someone please bounce this to the Elfsea and Glaslyn lists?
>
>
>
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