Because in those  days we didn't think in official and unofficial 
events those little events were just as much of "an event" as Warlord. 
The barony would help us with funds. Most of the time they made money. 
We had people come from all over the place for them. Usually they were 
paid for by the crew that did them. The sponsoring group was anywhere 
from 6 to 10 People. Joycelin really liked doing everything herself. 
The rest of us would hang around and when she needed more people jump 
in. 
I worked on a lot of those events. I remember buying chickens and 
stuff out of my weekly food budget. We would all pitch in some money 
and even if the event lost money we would get part of our money back. 
This was wonderful. It was like an income tax return.

One of my favorite event like that was a 150 person Saint Crispin 
feast put on by Mistress Aurelian and Mistress Branywn. It had  some 
other people in charge, but I am sorry to say I have forgotten them. 
There were 12 courses based on the signs of the Zodiac. I was Libra. I 
was also in charge of serving. I had 8 servers and we could serve the 
150 in 10 minutes. We also changed the color of our tabards for each 
course. The food was great. Ragnar was a centaur. He looked real. 
Mistress Branywn had made the horse part.  I missed most of the signs 
because I was busy changing tabards. 

I would be willing to work on your event if we could get enough people 
to support it. Your event sound like fun. Maybe we could start small 
and had a fete in someones backyard. 

I would like to see a plague party or a Banned by the church party. We 
did an Aesop fable masque in someone backyard in Elfsea and it was 
fun. I might be inspired to do a couple of wall hangings for that. We 
did a faerie court a couple of times and that was also fun. We tried a 
Japanese Moon viewing, but that was too Zen for me because the night 
we tried there was no moon. We drank sake and wrote poems. We thought 
they were great. I think because of the sake
I always wanted to do a Lamas day party with a bread tasting. Of 
course that is the same day as Lugh, but we could have on some other 
weekend then Aug. the first. I think we had an Irish cehida(can't find 
proper spelling-- an Irish Party)  somewhere that I have lived  and it 
was fun. It  had a dead body and we all made fantastic toast to the 
fictional person. I was at another little event at a persons house 
were we moved all the furniture out and turned off all the lights we 
had Irish stew and bread on wooden bowls and sat on pillows and 
benches and hay?? and told Irish stories. The person running the event 
welcomed us to his small home. He spoke with a really thick Irish 
accent and explained that normally with guests everyone would be naked 
but because we were foreigner that they would not do that unless we 
wanted to. We had a man running from a lord, who we hid and the lords 
men busting through the room. It was lots of fun. We had receptions 
for visiting nobility and at one sponsored by Viscountess Megan a  
plague rat was found and we all ran out of the building. It was funny 
to watch Mistress Megan face. We did a late period gambling den. With 
cards games and dice and a fight between ladies of the evening. I had 
to come in my latter period persona ( Mary Katherine Anna Louise 
Sullivan Caldal Barrnet)  because I (willow de wisp) did not have 
costume for event.  

Someone was going to have a feast in a bathhouse, but I didn't get 
invited to that. I think they thought I was too stuffy. I am pretty 
sure that didn't happen unless the Valar did it. 

All of these, except St. Crispin, happen in someone house or backyard 
and the gambling den happened in an Apt. We did do a Crusader Tavern 
in a club house of an Apt. building. 

willow