[Steppes] Twelfth Night -- major decision in front of us.

[Duncan Hepburn]

This was good timing on Master Robin's part to bring this up now. We 
have enough time to make the switch for next year, and we still have 
Artisan on the calendar for this year.

I don't see an issue with Artisan (re)becoming an non-calendar event. As 
it was stated, the Artisan title given can be given without a royal 
court. Local titles (i.e. Artisan) and non-armigerous awards could still 
be given (acorns, grices, etc.) Also, Artisan always falls right around, 
if not during Pennsic, which the crown would be at anyway. We have a 
major event 2 months before Artisan that any awards could be given out 
at... so saying we need it on the calendar to give awards is a weak 
argument.

I agree that combining it with 12th Night would be asking for trouble, 
due to the space that Artisan would take, and the toll on the judges.

Combining 12th Night with Coronation might be feasible... even 
forgetting about the whole calendar issue, both events are a lot of 
carousing and court foo.

In a nutshell,

Duncan

AlKudsi at aol.com wrote:
> I have a question.  Since when do we have to have a kingdom-level event to 
> award a local titled position?  I thought that a Baronial Court would be 
> sufficient for Artisan, and Baronial courts can be at any local event.  It IS true, 
> according to Corpora and Kingdom law, that awards that grant precedence (i.e. 
> include an AoA or other Kingdom-level award) can only be given at a 
> Kingdom-calendar event, but if I am remembering correctly, Artisan was NOT a calendar 
> event for quite a few years and the title does not grant precedence.  There is no 
> reason why, therefore, other than the reflected glory of possible Crown 
> presence, that Artisan must be a calendared event.  Buy an advertisement in the 
> Black Star, and post the announcement to the Ansteorran list, and we will get 
> artisans!  It will not lose any luster, actually, since it is one of the premier 
> A&S events in any case.
>  
> Now, this does NOT mean we should not consider Master Robin's idea of making 
> 12th Night a Regional event (well, in my definition, it is already a 
> Kingdom-level event because of the usual amount of kingdom business conducted there 
> regularly), or our new Baroness' ideas, but we need to consider the ideas in 
> their proper context.  
>  
> Personally, I would like to see more regional events -- one of the reasons I 
> have been touting the Rosenfeld demo -- because I think we would see more 
> people become active at the events if the events were not a six-hour drive away.  
> This is a BIG kingdom, and with gas continuing to rise in price, regional 
> events may be the only sane way to continue to have events outside of local 
> events.  But to feel that Artisan MUST be either combined with another event (a bad 
> idea, in my view), or to drop one of the two largest events in the kingdom as 
> a Steppes event is, as her soon-to-be-Excellency intimated, thinking only 
> within the box -- when the box isn't necessary at all.
>  
> HL Saqra al-Kudsi
> Steppes Artisan  
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