Event Schedule
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Hero
of the Chalice 2012 Schedule
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Friday
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7pm
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Travelers'
Feast
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Saturday
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8:00
am
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Breakfast
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9:00
am
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Armor
Inspection
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Class:
Nunsense
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9:30
am
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Arts
and Sciences setup
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10:00 am
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Hero
of the Chalice Tourney
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Combat
Cooking begins
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Archery
field opens (closes at 3pm)
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Class:
3-D Wet Felting by Mistress Alexis MacAlister
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11:30
am
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Wyvernwoode
vs Marcaster bridge battle
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12:00
pm
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Lunch
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1:00
pm
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White
Elephant Rapier Tourney (bring consort and wrapped gift)
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Class:
Replication of Period Rosaries by Mistress Anne of Blackthorne
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2:00
pm
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Defend
the Relic resurrection melee
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Class:
Continental Knitting by Mistress Alexis MacAlister
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2:30
pm
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Pie
the Punster Fundraiser
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3:00
pm
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Class: Monastic Sign Language by Lord Dmitri
Skomorochov
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5:30
pm
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Consecration
of Wyvernwoode Abbey and Court
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7:00
pm
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Feast
by Lord Christoffer Koff
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9:00
pm
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Festival
and Games
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12:00
am
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Midnight
Meat
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Sunday
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8:00
am
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Coffee
(and such Leftovers as may be available)
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9:00
am
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Coffee
break ends... packing up commences!
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11:00
am
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Site
Closes - All gentles remaining on site: thank you for volunteering to help
with cleanup!
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Class
Schedule With Descriptions
All
classes will be held in the Activities Hall with the Art/Sci competition unless
otherwise announced.
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9:00
– 10:00
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Nunsense:
a lecture/workshop on the Medieval nun's habit
by
Marian Makedance
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The
word "habit" derives from the Latin "habitus", meaning
"demeanor, appearance, or dress." Even today (long after the
ecumenical reforms of the 1960s) most people, when they think
"nun", think "habit", and the habit they envision is the
voluminous black gown with wimple, guimpe, headband, and veil, in which most
women religious dressed from the earliest centuries of the Latin Church to
the late 20th Century. The habit has been described by more than one
historian as the dress "of most women in the Medieval period", but
is it really? The answer is that it is and it isn't. This hour and a half
lecture/workshop will disassemble the nun's habit: its origins, variations,
rituals, and components. Class hand-out will include a list of resources for
those who want to make their own period-correct (Latin or Byzantine) nun's
habit. There will be time for Q and A. Participants will also make a
"paternoster" or a traditional knotted cord cincture that was and
is worn at the waist by many religious orders. Are you bold enough to undress
a nun?
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10:00
– 11:30
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3-D
Wet Felting
by
Mistress Alexis MacAlister
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Participants
will make a pouch. This class is appropriate for all ages; children must be
accompanied by an adult. Time: approx 90 minutes, cost: $1.
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1:00
– 2:00
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Replication
of Period Rosaries
by
Mistress Anne of Blackthorne
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Replication
of period rosaries based on depictions in illuminated manuscripts.
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2:00
– 3:00
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Continental
Knitting
by
Mistress Alexis MacAlister
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Participants
will make a pouch. This style of knitting is also called 'picking', and is
easy for crocheters to learn. Time: 1 hour, cost: $4.
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3:00
– 3:30
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Monastic
Sign Language
by
Lord Dmitri Skomorochov
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Class
describing hand signs and signals from early medieval monasteries,
specifically from the 11th century Benedictine manuscript “Monasteriales
Indicia”. 30 minutes; no material
costs.
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