Griffintayle – Feb 1995
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February 3RIFFIHTAYLE 1995 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 6 February 7 8 9 10 11 12 Heraldry Stitch & Bitch Dancing Southside fencing Music Archery Northside fencing Novice Fighter Fighter Training Southside Sewing Fighter Training Training Drama 13 14 15 Baronial 16 17 18 19 Heraldry Stitch & Bitch Planning Meeting Southside fencing Music A Valentine's Archery Northside fencing Novice Fighter Dancing Southside Sewing Masked Ball Fighter Training Training Fighter Training Combat Archery Drama 20 21 22 ~ 23 24 25 26 WEDDING Stitch & Bitch Dancing Southside fencing Music HILLS WAR II HILLS WAR II Heraldry Novice Fighter Fighter Training Southside Sewing Archery & Fighting Northside fencing Training Drama 27 28 1 March 2 3 4 5 Heraldry Arts & Sciences Council Meeting Southside fencing Music NEWCOMERS' Town Archer Northside fencing Novice Fighter . Southside Sewing DAY Fighter Training Training Combat Archery Drama 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Heraldry Stitch & Bitch Dancing Southside fencing Music TOURNEY IN Northside fencing Novice Fighter Fighter Training Southside Sewing THE PARK Training Drama 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Heraldry Stitch & Bitch Dancing Southside fencing Music Combat Archery Archery Northside fencing Novice Fighter Fighter Training Southside Sewing Fighter Training Training Drama REGULAR MEETINGS Council Meetings: in the Dedman Building of the ANU, ground floor, on the first Wednesday of each month at 7.30 pm. Fighting and Marshal things Heavy Fighter practice: * Sunday mornings at ANU·Oval from 10 am. * Wednesday night practice at The Tinderbox from 6 pm. Novice heavy training: Tuesday nights at II Parco Cellini from 6.30 pm. Please phone first to make sure that it's on. Fencing practice: * Monday nights at 24 Rogers St, Fraser (258 2279) from 7 pm. * Thursday nights at the Tinderbox from 7 pm. Archery practice: Sundays at .ANU Oval from 10 am. Town Archer: first Sunday of each month at the saD]e time and place, but it is a costumed event. Combat Archery first Saturday of the month at the Cross Roads Site (8 km from Yass towards Golburn on the Hume Highway - look for the Crossroads sign on the left) and on the third Saturday at Southwell Park, Lyneham, both from 1 pm, Please ring the Captain of Archers Simon Price at the Yew, 291 6802, beforehand if you are going to tum up. Armouring: at II Parco Cellini, on Tuesday nights. Ring 251 6043 for details. Music Practice: Friday evenings at 8 pm at Pocketfield. For more information, contact Rosamunde (Ellen Levingston) on 295 8350. Heraldry: Monday nights from 7 pm until 9.30 pm at Schloss Unordentich for consultations on name and device submissions etc. =:ommenting meetings are held on the Thursday after CAMeL is published, from 7.30 pm. Drama: Sunday evenings from 7.30 pm on at the Mummery. Dancing: Wednesdays, from 6.30 pm, except on Council evenings at the Dancing Biscuit, 6 Meyrick Place, Florey. Stitch and Bitch: Tuesday nights from 7.30 pm at The Mummery. The rule is "No stitch, no bitch" or "No sewing? You're going! ". South Side Sewing Circle: Thursdays, from 7 until 10, at 36/18 Laynyon Ridge, Cromwell Court, Isabella Plains. For details phone )onagh (Debbie Murray) on 291 5446. Bring a plate. \.rts and Sciences: Fourth Tuesday of the month from 7.30 pm at the Mummery. Please note changes to some of the regular meeting times and places. iunday fighter training has moved to share ANU oval with archery from l O ara in the morning. Music on Friday night has a change of iddress - it's now at 7 Binya PI, Narrabundah. There is a new South Side Se\!;~ng Circle on Thursday evenings. UPCOMING EVENTS Tourney in the Park - Politarchopolis. On Sunday 12th February Arts and Sciences Meeting - Politarchopolis. March a tourney and pot-luck picnic will be held at the southern The topic for February (28th) is Practical Children's Costuming. end of Glebe Park opposite the T AFE. Lists and armour Inspection open at 11.30 am, with the tourney starting at 12.30 pm. A fencing A Valentine's Masked Ball - Politarchopolis. On February competition will also be held, with inspection starting at 2 prn, and 18th, from 6.30 pm until late, at the Jamieson YMCA Hall, fighting at 3 pm. Dancing, music and games are also planned. Bowman St, Macquarie, there will be an evening filled with Cost: $5, children under 12 free, with proceeds to be put towards dancing, the traditional Politarchopolan 'light supper', dancing, the Baronial Investiture). Bookings not essential but an indication games, dancing, fun and frivolity. dancing, romance, and more of numbers would be appreciated. This event will take place dancing. Everyone should wear their finest clothing and a MASK, during the Canberra Festival so a 'Static Display' of photographs of for which the will be a competition for the most sumptuous. Bring garb, armour illuminations and other crafts is planned. Loans of goblets and plates for the 'light supper' and your choice of photos for display will be gratefully accepted. Autocrat: Oriel of alcoholic beverages. Cost: $1 CJ$12 members/non-members, make the Gypsies (Vicky Watson) 2589587. If the weather is really bad, cheques payable to SCA Pohtarchopolis. Bookings: requested, to the event will be cancelled. There will be a message left on the Francesca Cellini (Michelle Dean) 251 6043. Autocrat: Sarah answering machine on 12th March to confirm whether the event Jane Mander (Amanda Gifford) 255 2662. will go ahead or not. ••••••••••••••• A Day of Boasts & Challenges and a Feast of Misrule - Politarchopolis. On the Feast of Fools - 1st April there will be WEDDING - not an official event. All friends of Alexander de . fighting at Corroboree Park ADDRESS from 12 noon and a 'Feast Vos (Alex the Potter) and Rhonda Shaw (Ariana) are invited to of Misrule' at the Ainslie Hall, ADDRESS from 6 prn, Fighters are attend their wedding ceremony on Monday 20th of February at 2 invited to take the field and challenge all comers on any pretext, or pm at Aspen Island (The Carillon). B - Good garb (no beggars make good any martial boast. Rules: The first fighter registered please) or semi-formal. RSVP: 2884478 or 2883177. and inspected will make initial 'boast', opportunities to challenge to be given to other fighters in order of registration with lists. ••••••••••••••• Winner may hold field for subsequent challenge if desired, but must retire from field after 3 consecutive bouts. Fighters may pre• Hills War 2 - Politarchopolis. On the 25th and 26th of arrange challenges between themselves and register these with the February come to Ruatha for the Hills War. The Bandits, lists. Further rules/restrictions to be discussed with Shire Marshal. trounced last year, are back to take their revenge. Book early to A 'Feast of Misrule' will follow, from 6 pm. Lord and Lady of ensure that Bambi and Thumper will be on the menu for the feast Misrule to be decided by lot. Order of precedence to be reversed (otherwise it's mutton again). Cost: $22/$25 for those who book, for the feast. Peers and senior dignitaries to serve the first remove. $26/$30 at the gate, includes the feast on Saturday night (book if Competitions: best pun, best riddle. best funny (or bawdy) you want to eat venison) and a partially catered Sunday lunch (left• entertainment (song or story etc.). Cost: to be announced. overs, if available). Make cheques payable to SCA Politarchopolis. Bookings: required for the feast. Autocrat: Dafydd ap Donal ap Armour inspection starts at II am on the 25th. Light, heavy and Gwilym (David Osbourne) 24 O'Sullivan St, Higgins, 254 1358. fencing authorisation will be available - this is a chance to authorise before the Rowany Festival. Mixed combat, fortifications, ambushes (including fencing), archery, a quest, SITUATIONS VACANT dancing, and page school. Camping available, but please bring your own water. Motel accommodation can be had at The HospitaUer/Chandier. This office will become vacant when the Michelago Inn (06) 235 9011. A shuttle service is available from Baron and Baroness are invested. If you would like this job, which the Michelago Petrol Station for those who do not wish to drive on requires storage space for the Shire's chattels, please contact the dirt roads: this must be requested when booking' for' the . event. ., present officers or the Seneschal (see Regnum for details): Autocrat: Llewellen of StrathcIyde (Ian Leithhead) 'Ruatha', RMB Captain of Archers requires a deputy/replacement. Please contact Tinderry Rd, Michelago, NSW 2620, (06) 230 8258. Allessandro Firenzi (Simon Price) at the Yew 291 6802. Note: The choice of successor to an office must be ratified by the Newcomers' Day - St Aldhelm's College. To welcome Politarchopolan Seneschal and the officer's principality superior. newcomers to the College and the Shire, there will be a day of Collegia, Tourneys and Feasting on 4th March. From 11 am (hall opens at to.30 am) there will be collegia for the Arts Martial, Costuming (where to get ideas and how to tum them into Non SCA Renaissance Dance Classes something to wear) and an Introduction to the SCA - who's who, and our history. A buffet lunch will be followed by a Pas d'Armes The Canberra Recorder & Early Music Society is holding and a Rapier Tourney, and collegia on Heraldry and the Guilds. A dance classes on Friday evenings from 8 pm until about 10 prn, feast of 3 removes will begin at 6.30 pm, with the first remove Venue is the Reid Uniting Church small hall on the corner of served at 7 pm. There will he a costume parade, and bardic Coranderrck and Currong St.