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The Acorn Newsletter for the Kingdom of Atlantia SCA, Inc. March 2021 A.S. LV (55) Volume 41 Issue 3 THE SCA PROHIBITS HARASSMANT AND BULYING Table of Contents OF ALL INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS. Participants engaging in this behavior are subject to appropriate sanctions. If you are subject- Legal Notes 2 TRM Anton and Luned 3 ed to harassment, bullying or retaliation, or if you become aware of anyone being harassed or bullied, contact a seneschal. President of the SCA, or your Kingdom’s Board Ombudsman. From the Kingdom Chronicler 4 From the Kingdom MoAS 5 January Letter of Decision 5 From Society Chronicler 6 Society Law & Officer Policies may be found on the Society website: —William Blackfox Awards http://sca.org/ Atlantian Kingdom Law & Officer Policies may be found on the Kingdom website: http://atlantia.sca.org/ FEBRUARY EVENTS (Virtual only) Winter University 9 Please look there for the most up-to-date Society or Kingdom documents. Bright Hills Baronial Birthday 26 9 If there is a discrepancy between any printed editions of Society or Kingdom Law/ Raven's Cove B-day & Investiture 9 Officer Policy or copies found on other websites and what is published on Nottinghill Coill Baronial Birthday 10 the Society or Kingdom website, precedence will be given to Tournament of Ymir—The Giant Sleeps 10 the most recent edition published on the Society or Kingdom website. Atlantian Kingdom Curia Regis Please do not copy or host Society or Kingdom Law and Policy to any other website. Instead, link directly to the original so that as changes are made, the version will auto- MARCH EVENTS (Virtual only) matically be updated when the Society or Kingdom original is updated. Kingdom Arts & Science Festival 10 Anyone needing accessible versions of any Kingdom document may request these Webminister's Symposium CANCELLED 10 from the Kingdom Seneschal. Caer Mear Baronial Investiture 11 Defending the Gate and Stierbach Baronial Investiture 11 Hidden Mountain Baronial Birthday 11 Event Specifics The Royals 12 The events herein have been registered in the Kingdom of Atlantia and have Great Officers of State of Atlantia 12 an event registration form on file with the Kingdom Chronicler. Barons and Baronesses of Atlantia 13 For an event to be official, the following information must be published Royal Notables Combat Arts 13 in the issue of The Acorn of the month the event takes place, Principals of the Peerages of Atlantia 13 otherwise the event is declared unofficial Grant Order Principals of Atlantia 13 (i.e., registrations may not be collected, awards cannot be given, etc.): Royal Notables Arts & Sciences of Atlantia 13 Warranted Seneschals of Atlantia 14 **NEW**●Group Refund Policy• Spell out your group’s refund policy **NEW** Society Officers / BoD / Web Pages 15 ●Date of event• Day, month, and Gregorian year that the event will take place. Kingdom Calendar of Events 16 ●Group name• Name of the group hosting the event. Must be an official group. ●Location and directions• Name and directions to the legal address of the site. ●Autocrat• Autocrat’s Society name, modern name, address, a contact phone num- ber with area code, and email address. ●Registration• Member & non-Member for event, with deadlines (for pre-registration) as necessary. If there is a Registration for the event, the following statement must be included beneath the $ amounts: “Make checks payable to SCA, Inc./(group name).” If the event is free, say so! ●Activities• Brief synopsis of event, site restrictions, handicapped accessibility, etc. Credits ●Duration• Start and stop time of the event. Cover Artwork: Lady Korrin Valravn Photo of TRM: Screen Capture from 23 January 2021, Andalu- See Kingdom Chronicler policy in the Atlantian Book of Policy for more information. cia Court at the Alhambra, by Meisterin Adina von der Heide TRH: Baroness M achtel d Cl eine Atlantian Badges: Created by Master Bran Trefonnen For current Sustaining, Family, and International members, or Signore Etienne le Mons d'Anjou The Acorn is available online! Miscellaneous Illuminations: All pictures/clipart are royalty and If you wish to opt out of your black & white paper Acorn and help the SCA save money, copyright free. please visit http://enewsletter.sca.org for the full colour version! please contact the Kingdom Chronicler, who will assist you in contacting the The Acorn original creator of the piece. Please respect the legal rights of our contribu- This is the March 2021 Issue of the Acorn, the official newsletter of the King- tors. Event flyers and calendar information may be reproduced for branch newsletters of the SCA, Inc., without permission. dom of Atlantia. Atlantia is a branch of the Society for Creative Anachro- nism, Inc. (SCA, Inc.). The Acorn is published monthly as a service to the Acorn Submission Guidelines SCA’s membership. Subscriptions are available only to members. The 1. All submissions should be sent to the Kingdom Chronicler, newsletter is available online at https://members.sca.org/apps/#SignIn for by the 1st of the month. current Sustaining and International members. Memberships are available 2. Event flyers must be submitted through Spike. from: Member Services Office, SCA, Inc., P.O. Box 360789, Milpitas, CA 3. Advertisements are to be emailed to the Kingdom Chronicler and will 95036-0789 be printed at the Chronicler’s discretion. All changes of address or questions about subscriptions should be sent to The Chronicler reserves the right to edit all submissions as necessary. the Corporate Office. Membership information and subscription information can be found from the SCA Inc., website at http://www.sca.org/ Chronicler Meisterin Adina von der Heide, OP Copyright © 2020 Kingdom of Atlantia, Society for Creative Anachronism, [email protected] Inc. For information on reprinting letters and artwork from this publication, Kingdom Calendar For any questions concerning the On-Line Kingdom Calendar or SPIKE submissions, please contact: Lady Caissene ingen Fhaelain (Kathy Fletcher) [email protected] or visit the calendar submission website at http://spike.atlantia.sca.org/ THE ACORN, VOLUME 41, ISSUE 3, MARCH 2021 PAGE 2 Their Majesties Atlantia Anton, Rex and Luned, Regina THE ACORN, VOLUME 41, ISSUE 3, MARCH 2021 PAGE 3 There are a few ADDITIONAL / different From the Office Considerations for Virtual Event Flyers. of the ●Event Name• VIRTUAL need to be supplied on the cal- Kingdom Chronicler (and the name) endar but the link to where to ●Group name• The hosting find it AND when it will be post- group ed does need to be supplied. Consider having participants Greetings and Salutations! ●Date of event• Day, month, and Gregorian year email the Registrations Coordi- ●Duration• Start and stop nator for any passwords. I would like to remind Autocrats, Seneschals, Officers, and How to find/ TIMES of the event ●Site Notes• anyone who would like anything to appear in Atlantia’s news- receive the URL of the ZOOM, letter, The Acorn, that the deadline is the 1st of the month, for ●Website• link to more infor- Google Meet, etc., if not addressed mation; MAY NOT include any link in “Location”. the next month’s Acorn. Much the same as Magazines in a that requires a login, may include a store. Also, if something is to be recorded, Facebook Event link but that may the name and location of where it not be the only link provided will be posted, i.e., Shiny Stone For example, DECEMBER Acorn deadline is 1 NOVEMBER. ●Activities• Brief synopsis of Baronial Court, 1 April, 2020 will be event posted on YouTube. Of particular note-Event Flyers. The Calendar Coordinator ●Location • ZOOM, Google ●Autocrat• Society name, mod- collects Event Flyers from the current Kingdom Calendar en- Meet, etc & possibly the URL to ern name, a contact phone number tries and submits them for the 1st of the month. Your event the Address of the site. with area code, and an email ad- flyers must be complete before the Calendar Coordinator gath- If using a password to access dress ers them on the 1st. the virtual location, it does not For Event Flyers, please ensure a minimum of the following information is included for in person events: In the box above are the minimum requirements ^^^ for a VIRTUAL event.^^^ ●Event Name• animal policies, handicapped acces- sibility, etc. ●Group name• The hosting group The event flyer must still be in the newsletter no later than ●Duration• Start and stop ●Date of event• Day, month, the edition of month the event occurs in. TIMES of the event and Gregorian year ●Autocrat• Society name, mod- ●Activities• Brief synopsis of event For example, if the event occurs anytime in December, the ern name, address, a contact phone ●Registration• Member & non- number with area code, and an flyer must be complete on the Kingdom Calendar no later than Member at the gate, the day of the email address 1 November, as 1 November is when the December newsletter event. ●Directions• Directions to the is compiled. ●Registration Notes• If FREE LEGAL address of the site NOT a – say so! If different for pre-reg, explain. link to a map The START/END times of the event must also be clearly ad- ●Location • Name & Address of —NEW— the site vertised—if the group would like folks to attend, anyway. This ●Refund Policy– your group’s ●Wet or Dry • Alcohol allowed is not a new requirement. refund policy; Kingdom’s is to re- or NOT quest in writing within 5 days of the It is however, VERY important to have a good/useful event ●Site Notes• site restrictions, event description in the flyer. This is always important and also not a new requirement. In the box above are the minimum requirements If the Autocrat does not want to publish a Zoom or Google or ^^^ for an in person event.^^^ whatever link and/or access code (which this office wholeheart- edly supports for security reasons), I suggest utilizing the SITE Remember, The Acorn has the official location, date, time, and NOTES or RESERVATIONS area, so that participants can REGISTRATION (cost) information, not a website or FB.