[MR] KASF date

[Jen Thies]

To fill in a bit of history, the first three KA&SFests (1997-99) were held
in July. At the time it was determined that so many are in the pre-pennsic
crunch of just getting the basics/upgrades made for Pennsic camp, that no
one was really focused on documentation and the indoor-only arts. July was
also a good conditioning time for the army, for good or ill.

It was moved to March in 2000 since that month was free on the Kingdom
calendar, and the theory was that folks were coming out of their winter of
hibernating and working on projects and ready to display. There is also
greater Atlantia participation at Pennsic than Gulf Wars, as far as
preparing the army is concerned.

Is there a perfect time? Likely no. Should we make the time? I think so.
Regardless, at this point it is up to the soon-to-be-new KMOAS, and the
Crown as law would have to be changed in order to change the date.

Genevieve d'Aquitaine
Former KMOAS 1998-2001

On 2/27/07, Karen Setze <brunosharpy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> How about swapping it into July? That way artisans
> would be getting feedback just before taking their
> projects to Pennsic. Having helped staff a major
> fighting event over the July 4 weekend a few years
> ago, I can vouch that the weather was brutal. I think
> that time of year is much better spent indoors in the
> A/C.
>
> A wonderful event with fighting we could put in the
> March slot... All Things Martial II!
>
> Yseulte Trevelyn (former seneschal, current busybody)
>
> --- Becky McEllistrem <bmcellis at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > KASF was intended to be a mostly A&S event.  While
> > I'm
> > a strong believer that fighting can be an art form
> > and
> > that there's tons of A&S around fighting others do
> > not
> > agree with me.  I'm beginning to wonder if we have
> > the
> > best date for KASF.
> >
> > Since it's right before Gulf War (and yes I meant
> > War
> > - I attend one War at a time.  I have been to many
> > Wars in the past - and maybe caused a couple.
> > <grin>)
> > I understand the urge to take this chance at a
> > pre-war
> > practice.  However many fighters might not come
> > knowing that the original intention of the event was
> > to celebrate the non-fighting side of our hobby.
> >
> > I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't time to change
> > the
> > date for KASF to a different month and place some
> > sort
> > of Assessment battle type event for the first
> > weekend
> > in March instead. Maybe KASF should switch dates
> > with
> > one of the University dates...
> >
> > Rebecca
> >
>
>