[MR] Move Debates Off List?

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Achbar ibn Ali wrote:

>   How is this for a Debate...how can we as SCAdians...recruit more
> SCAdians?  We have Festival in the Park here in Charlotte,NC.   Duke
> Logan has done a Great job of autocrating this event for that past few
> years.    What can we do or what have we done to recruit more SCAdians
> into our Society?

Demos work well, but in my experience, a stand alone demo (i.e., the SCA
doing a demo in apublic park) doesn't work as well as a demo that is a
part of a larger event, such as a small town festival where the SCA
perhaps does a fighting demo as part of a scheduled activity of the
festival.  I think it would be fun to work with other history groups
(especially those who are not doing medieval or Renaissance history) and
have history festival, where all fo the different groups can put on demos
of comabt, A&S, 'living history', and so on.  Most of all, I think these
should be done as free events, to separate them from the more commercial
Renaissance festivals.

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