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<DIV>Has there been a suggestion on where the spring event would be held ?</DIV>
<DIV>We have tried an outdoor spring masked ball at </DIV>
<DIV>Black, White and Sort of Gray (a very well attended even),</DIV>
<DIV>but had little luck due to the heat and uneven ground.</DIV>
<DIV>A small hand full showed for the ball part of the event.</DIV>
<DIV>It was just too warm for costumes with mask,</DIV>
<DIV>it was too dark to really see what was going on</DIV>
<DIV>and the ground too bumpy, even on the list field.</DIV>
<DIV>I thought it was a great idea, </DIV>
<DIV>but it just did not come together well.</DIV>
<DIV>The most successful masked balls I have attended were inside </DIV>
<DIV>and the most attended, during cool weather.</DIV>
<DIV>I hope this testimony of my failure helps.</DIV>
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<DIV>Peace,</DIV>
<DIV>V NV</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=loco.cerveza@gmail.com href="mailto:loco.cerveza@gmail.com">Lemoine
Beers</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=ravensfort@lists.ansteorra.org
href="mailto:ravensfort@lists.ansteorra.org">Ravens Fort</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, June 25, 2011 11:11
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Ravensfort] Spring Event
idea</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Greeting<BR><BR>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<BR><BR>David Brown<BR>maybe we should do an event that centers around
the st. vitus dance and ergot poisoning! that could be one fun and weird
event!<BR><BR><BR> James Van Roekel
we could call it woodstock<BR>
<BR> David Brown
awesome!<BR>
<BR> Ric Peavy Sounds like a great
idea for the spring. Maybe incorporate a Kingdom Dance Symposium into
it?<BR>
<BR> David Brown that could be
fun<BR>
<BR> Lemoine de
Gascoigne<BR> 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<BR>
<BR> Lady Runa What about the
Crockett American Legion Hall, we can camp, have horses if we want and they do
want us back.<BR>
<BR> 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<BR>
<BR> 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.<BR>
<BR> 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<BR>
<BR> Lady Runa That's where the Demo
for Tori Cantu was. Fighters, Equestrian, and stuff in the
hall<BR>
<BR> Lady Runa We were at Round
Table when the Demo was going<BR>
<BR> Lemoine de Gascoigne I will
autocrat if I could get about 3 or 4 people help
out.<BR>
<BR> 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.<BR>
<BR> 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!<BR>
<BR> 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.<BR>
<BR> Dominique Epps we already did.
It was the last Quest. It was about ergot poisoining &
Beowulf.<BR>
Domai<BR>
<BR> James Van Roekel we could call
it Beowulf and Grendal's Big
Adventure<BR>
<BR> Shannon Curry ACK!!!! no no no
no no.... one must not impersonate the gods or they will drown
you<BR>
<BR> 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.<BR>
<BR> Irial Mulcahey Love the idea
for spring event! We should talk date so we can get it to Cam and the Kingdom
Calender.<BR>
<BR> Amy Lee Beers how long ago was
Quest ?<BR>
<BR> 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.<BR>
<BR> David Brown take february. and
so we did something way before. this will be much
different.<BR>
<BR> 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.<BR>
<BR> 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.<BR>
<BR> David Brown well at least we
need to save the date.<BR>
<BR> Lemoine de Gascoigne How do we
go about doing that?<BR>
<BR> 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?<BR>
<BR> Lady Runa Feb would be my vote
also<BR>
<BR> Lady Runa No! no more after
gw<BR>
<BR> 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.<BR>
<BR> 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.<BR>
<BR> Lemoine de
Gascoigne<BR> 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.<BR>
<BR> 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.<BR>
<BR> 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.<BR>
<BR> David Brown cool. we can work
on a title. we need to save the date. use a place marker for
now.<BR>
<BR> 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<BR>
<BR> David Brown let me
think.<BR>
<BR> 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<BR clear=all><BR>Later<BR>Lemoine de
Gascony MKA "L.D. Beers" <A href="mailto:loco.cerveza@gmail.com"
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any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have
to reject. <BR>---Ayn Rand<BR><BR><BR><BR>
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