[Ponte Alto] Something We talking about at a New Comers meeting.

Fri Jun 2 18:00:45 PDT 2006

A suggestion: The Potomac Celtic Festival 
  http://www.pcfest.org/

  Every year in Leesburg VA there's a Celtic festival at Morven Park. this year it's the weekend of June 17th and 18th. it's probably much too late to set up any kind of demo for this year but if anyone would like to go in costume, hang out, and possibly hand out some fliers on the SCA it could be a really good opportunity. Even if we can't use it for recruiting purposes it's a lot of fun to go to. there are displays on different styles and time periods of celtic clothing, living history presenters, merchants, storytellers, dance groups, bagpipers, other musical performances, food (typical carnival food + copious amounts of beer) and as i mentioned before, the night concerts are reeeeeaaallly good. Gaelic Storm was there last year, ( http://gaelicstorm.musiccitynetworks.com/index.htm ) and this year will be "The Prodigals." I haven't heard of them but maybe some of you have.( www.prodigals.com ) 

  well, just wanted to share :-) 

  ~Rhiannon

james barker <flonzy at hotmail.com> wrote:
  Sir Guy and Master Kevin

Currently looking for demos in the weekend section is something I don't do, 
I reply to folks who submit requests for demos, cub scouts, boy scouts, 
libraries, and schools. I think it is a great idea to look for opportunities 
but I truthfully am a bad person for the searching end of things but I am 
more than willing to work with someone good at finding such opportunities 
coordinate with the event organizers.

I know the city of Alexandria holds parades from time to time we could march 
in, all a group has to do is apply and have insurance.

I have a contact in the Fairfax county library system, we are on schedule to 
do 2 Sunday demos in July (I will post more soon) for their summer reading 
program. One is at Reston library and one is at Pohick library in Burke. I 
know Pohick has a large outdoor area with sports fields; but they are all on 
one open piece of land unlike the library we hold practice at, plus its is 
in view of a major road way. I have been kicking around the idea of asking 
to be able to run a full demo outside at the same time as the one for the 
kids. Even if they say no for those days we might be able to get permission 
for such demos at a later date. Also if we get such permission maybe we 
should contact the paper to see if we can get in the weekend section again.

I personally don't recall us, Ponte Alto, doing a recruitment demo in the 
last 4 years since I joined the SCA full time. Last one I recall hearing of 
was held in DC on the mall by Storvik.

James

----Original Message Follows----
From: Kevin of Thornbury 
Reply-To: The Barony of Ponte Alto 

To: ponte-alto at atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Re: [Ponte Alto] Something We talking about at a New 
Comers meeting.
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:00:29 -0400

Quoting guylestran at aol.com:

> At a new comers meeting we spoke about attracting new folks and
> looking for events to do this.

Sir Guy, and members of Ponte Alto, good morning.

You bring up a noteworthy point, that Ponte Alto has been sorely
lacking in recruitment demos for a long time now. We do seem to fill
the need for school and educational demos when necessary.

Countess Denise organized a demo at Northern Virginia Community
College recently, and from the reports I heard, it was fantastic. Is
it possible to continue this activity? Denise would be the best to
answer that.

Years ago, we did demos at the Fairfax Fair until we got squeezed out
and eventually not invited anymore. I think that was just the nature
of business, and the fact that we didn't pay for our space. I also
recall a Fairfax City/GMU Fall for the Book demo we did that seemed
very successful. Unfortunately, we haven't heard from them since
either.

I imagine that combing through newspapers and/or the Internet for demo
opportunities - as Sir Guy suggests - would require lots of
organization. We obviously can't show up and do our thing
unannounced. (Some of the more veteran members of the barony may
recall the local reaction when one of our fighters decided to do pell
work/exercises by himself in a neighborhood park some years ago.)
This is not to say the opportunities aren't out there, but I'm
guessing finding them and making cold calls takes a lot of time. If
Lord James is doing this, that's terrific. However, it's certainly
not an expectation of his job to do so. If he's motivated to start,
I'm certain there are those in the barony willing to help with
direction from our chatelaine/seneschal's office.

--
+ Kevin of Thornbury, OP
+++ (Kevin Maxson)
| Kevin at Maxson.com
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