[Ravensfort] Spring Event idea

Sun Jun 26 09:29:45 PDT 2011

Has there been a suggestion on where the spring event would be held ?
We have tried an outdoor spring masked ball at 
Black, White and Sort of Gray (a very well attended even),
but had little luck due to the heat and uneven ground.
A small hand full showed for the ball part of the event.
It  was just too warm for costumes with mask,
it was too dark to really see what was going on
and the ground too bumpy, even on the list field.
I thought it was a great idea, 
but it just did not come together well.
The most successful masked balls I have attended were inside 
and the most attended, during cool weather.
I hope this testimony of my failure helps.

Peace,
V NV

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lemoine Beers 
  To: Ravens Fort 
  Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 11:11 PM
  Subject: [Ravensfort] Spring Event idea

  Greeting

  A few of us have been playing with the idea of a masked ball for our spring event. I have stuck up my hand and said I would autocrat. I am also coping everything to this point that we have talked about on facebook so everyone has working idea of what has been talked about

  David Brown
  maybe we should do an event that centers around the st. vitus dance and ergot poisoning! that could be one fun and weird event!

          James Van Roekel we could call it woodstock

          David Brown awesome!

          Ric Peavy Sounds like a great idea for the spring. Maybe incorporate a Kingdom Dance Symposium into it?

          David Brown that could be fun

          Lemoine de Gascoigne
          Sam has an idea for a masked ball for our spring event. So at King's College Amy and I talked to as many people as we could on how to do a masked ball. What we were told by folks that ranked from Non-awards to almost all the way to the top of the OP was that having dance classes during the day, starting feast about 3:30 to 4:00 P.M. ending feast some time around 5:00 to 5:30. Make feast a light buffet style feast. Then about 6:00 P.M. kick off the masked ball. They also said that this should be an indoor event. The problem is renting a hall. All of the people that I talked to said doing a dance type event outside is a very very bad idea at best

          Lady Runa What about the Crockett American Legion Hall, we can camp, have horses if we want and they do want us back.

          Lemoine de Gascoigne That would be cool, I have never been to the Crockett American Legion Hall, but that sounds great. Also you need to keep in mind you need room for different dance classes to be going on at the same time

          Cam Battaglia I'm sure the American Legion would like it ... if you are seriously considering it, I can get my sister (she is the Chaplan) to ask about availability of the hall.

          Lemoine de Gascoigne It was also pointed out that you will have people that don't want to do dance classes so having room for a fighter practice and horse stuff would be good. In fact that would be very good

          Lady Runa That's where the Demo for Tori Cantu was. Fighters, Equestrian, and stuff in the hall

          Lady Runa We were at Round Table when the Demo was going

          Lemoine de Gascoigne I will autocrat if I could get about 3 or 4 people help out.

          Cam Battaglia I can help with the Hall ... but we will need plenty of advance notice as they do have things like Bingo and such going on. So, if you can set a date, I can ask my sister to see if it is open.

          Nancy Howell our Gate's Edge Fall event (Sept 9-11) is Plague themed-"Bring Out Your Dead"-it's shaping up to be very merry & irreverant!

          Cam Battaglia Oh ... and they are sprucing up the RV park and such to make the camping more "comfortable." I know for a fact that the showers in the RV area are very nice and cost $50 per day to cover the cost of water.

          Dominique Epps we already did. It was the last Quest. It was about ergot poisoining & Beowulf.
          Domai

          James Van Roekel we could call it Beowulf and Grendal's Big Adventure

          Shannon Curry ACK!!!! no no no no no.... one must not impersonate the gods or they will drown you

          Ric Peavy Ummmm...Beowulf and Grendel are not gods. One's a Scandinavian hero; the other is a monster. Both mortal. In fact, both died in the poem's plot.

          Irial Mulcahey Love the idea for spring event! We should talk date so we can get it to Cam and the Kingdom Calender.

          Amy Lee Beers how long ago was Quest ?

          Lemoine de Gascoigne Looking at the kingdom calendar and the only really good weekends that are left are Feb 24-26 or March 30 -April 1 The other weekends are the weekend before and the weekend after Gulf Wars.

          David Brown take february. and so we did something way before. this will be much different.

          David Brown and we have not done a quest in many many many many many many many years. so this would be not be anything like it.

          Lemoine de Gascoigne We also need to find out when we can get the hall in Crockett and how much it is going the cost.

          David Brown well at least we need to save the date.

          Lemoine de Gascoigne How do we go about doing that?

          David Brown ask kitsune to put in for it. even if we can not get the hall, we do not want to do another event after gulf war again. do we?

          Lady Runa Feb would be my vote also

          Lady Runa No! no more after gw

          Lemoine de Gascoigne I am not sure how bad the weekend before GW is but it can't be that good. I sent Cam Battaglia a message to have her sister check into the hall for us.

          David Brown before gulf war everyone is getting ready. after gulf war everyone is tired. feb. is a nice cool (sometimes cold) month...perfect for indoor event and kinda outdoor.

          Lemoine de Gascoigne
          After talking to a bunch of folks about a masked ball. One of the questions I asked was what to do before the dance started and it was pointed out that a baronial college where you had a lot of dance classes along with non dance classes for the people that already know how to dance and the people that just don't dance. Then for the fighter types have a fighter practice along with fighting classes. So I was thinking that we could call the event Raven's Fort Baronial College and Masked Ball. I am open to other ideas Almost forgot we could set up horse classes for the horse people.

          David Brown perfect. can we work saint vitus into the title? this did stem from me saying that it could be fun and crazy to do something like that...or we could not and just do the dance thing and other classes. i do not dance but would be up for having other classes.

          Lemoine de Gascoigne I trying to figure that out myself. I am not real sure how to get it in the title, but I have a few ideas for the event announcement.

          David Brown cool. we can work on a title. we need to save the date. use a place marker for now.

          Lemoine de Gascoigne David Brown hay if you could think up a few titles and post them I will also brain storm on some ideas and I bet between you and I we can come up with a great title

          David Brown let me think.

          Lemoine de Gascoigne I just looked up St. Vitus and he is considered the patron saint of actors, comedians, dancers, and epileptics. So we could call it something along the line of the Saint Vitus masked ball

  Later
  Lemoine de Gascony MKA "L.D. Beers" loco.cerveza at gmail.com
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