[MR] Attention all Performers

[Craig Lee-Allen]

Greetings unto the Performing Artists of Atlantia.

Recently Atlantia has seen the creation of various Guilds promoting various 
arts and sciences. I have spoken with a few of my fellow performers on the 
subject of starting a Guild for Performing Artists in the Kingdom. A 
charter has been drawn up and discussed and it is at this time that I wish 
to bring the subject to all of Atlantia, most notably Her Performers. I 
include the text of the charter here for you to examine and ask that if any 
of you have any questions to please forward them to me personally as I do 
no subscribe to the Rose on a regular basis. To aid in communication among 
Atlantia's performers I have also set up an email list on Yahoo. I 
encourage all those interested in discussing the performing arts of the 
middle ages to subscribe to the list via perf_guild-subscribe at yahoogroups.com.

What follows at the ends of this missive is the text of our charter. I wait 
to hear from you. Until then I remain,

In service,
Corun

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The Charter of the Atlantian Guild of Performers

1. Purpose

The purpose of this Guild is to promote interest and activity in the 
performing arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Performance arts include but are not limited to; Minstrel, Minnesinger, 
Skald, Bard, Storyteller, Trouvere, Musician, Actor, Poet, Jongleur and 
Juggler. The members of the Guild will be encouraged to understand and 
promote the distinctions between various performance styles in various 
periods and cultures.

2. Scope

The scope of the Guild will include all performers who wish to learn from, 
teach to and, most importantly, perform their various arts for the Crown 
and populace of Atlantia.

Further, the scope of the Guild will be to include all performance styles 
in the hope of eliminating grey areas in the definition of one performance 
style over another and to encourage greater understanding of the various 
performance arts that occurred throughout individual periods.

The Guild will be all inclusive of every period performance form and shall 
not discourage any who wish to pursue any aspect of Medieval or Renaissance 
performance art.

Further, the Guild will promote entities, either individuals or groups, to 
work together to bring entertainment and enjoyment to the Crown and 
populace of Atlantia.  To that end strong encouragement will be given for 
entities in different locales throughout the Kingdom to plan and work 
together to achieve this goal.

3. Activities

The members of the Guild will be encouraged to be active in their given 
locales as well as throughout the Kingdom. To that end the members will be 
encouraged to hold local classes and other activities and to work with 
autocrats to enhance local events by providing performance entertainment.

Apart from working within individual locales and at Kingdom events, the 
members of the Guild will be encouraged to participate in Symposia that 
will be held under the auspices of the University of Atlantia, with credits 
earned for teaching or attending classes put towards University credits earned.