[Steppes] Information for the All-CON demo

[AlKudsi at aol.com]

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.
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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
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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.
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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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