[Namron] Forwarded from the Ansteorran Bards list

[Epperson, Sheryl]

Greetings,
 
There has been much discussion of various things recently on the bardic
list, which may be of interest to some.  Warning, some of it can be
viewed as "political" and argumentative, however it is reviewing some
history of the bards in Ansteorra and looking at reforming a bardic
college/community/whater.  After someone else mentioned posting
information on their local lists, I realized that there are probably
people on these lists who don't know there is a kingdom bardic website,
and e-mail list. I am not a bard myself, although I do greatly enjoy
listening to them, which is one reason I joined the list some time ago.
 
Links to the website and list are included in the message below.
 
Annabelle
 
Message: 4

Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:04:38 -0600
From: "Gerald Norris" <jerryn at houston.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Bards] bardic website
To: "'Ansteorran Bardic list'" <bards at lists.ansteorra.org>

A suggestion; I just posted the following on the hou-announce list (an
email list that covers a few SCA-specific mailing lists in and around
Stargate).

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It's come to my attention that not everyone knows about the Kingdom
bardic website or the kingdom bardic email list.

The kingdom bardic web site can be viewed at http://bard.ansteorra.org
<http://bard.ansteorra.org/> . It is currently under the stewardship of
His Lordship Alden Drake. Drop by sometime, if you're so inclined.

To join the bardic list, find your way using
http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/bards-ansteorra.org . 

I mention this as a way of penitence, for not having shared this before.

I'll start posting this every quarter or so. You have been warned!

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May I suggest that, if you have a local list that you read, post this on
the list, for those who might be interested in bardic but don't know of
the resources.

In service to the dream with a song in my heart, I am, HL Gerald of
Leesville A bard of Stargate 

-----Original Message-----

From: bards-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 7:02 PM
To: bards at lists.ansteorra.org
Subject: [Bards] bardic website

Hey everybody,

Some folks have started sending me stuff to upload onto the website.
Kudos! That's exactly what we need!

This is some of what I would like to begin collecting:

* a list of every branch's past and current titled bards[1];

* class notes written by bards for classes they've taught

* event announcements for events where bardic things are scheduled

* bard profiles (with and without original bardic works) with photos[2]

* good resource links

* a photo gallery[3]

* news of bardic awards given by the Crown

I was also thinking about adding a bulletin board for people to post
announcements and such directly. The email list can get a bit cumbersome
to sift through sometimes. I need to look into it some more.

[1] please don't email me with, "I was the Bard of Blah from 2000-2001."
If you are interested and can, try to research all the bards of that
branch before and after you and send me the *LIST*, in order if you can,
with dates would be nice, but as close to complete as you can get it.

[2] some bards haven't sent in profiles and photos because they see the
ones on the website all have original compositions attached to them. You
don't have to write original stuff to be included there. Just send a
photo, a little bio/blurb and an email address. This is to help give
people a face to a name on a roster. 

[3] if you send me photos, be sure to send me permission to put the
photo on the website, and email addresses of everyone else in the photo,
so I can get their permission to publish their image.

Alden