A&S

A&S Competitions

Fiber Arts:

From the clothes they wore to the bags they carried and beyond, fiber arts in all forms played an integral role in a pilgrim’s journey. Create a fiber-based item that a pilgrim would have used or encountered on their journey to or from one of the celebrated pilgrimage cities of Santiago, Rome, or Jerusalem. In your documentation, include the time period and primary pilgrimage your fiber item is from. This competition will be populace choice but 10 points will be added for each pilgrimage your item can be specifically linked to.

Food & Beverage:

Traveling on pilgrimage can be grueling work and food is needed to not only sustain the body but also the spirits. Provide a food or non-alcoholic beverage a pilgrim might have had with them or encountered on their pilgrimage. This will be populace judged so an ingredient list is required to be clearly visible with your item. Provide whatever tasting implements (little cups, plates, napkins, etc) needed. 10 points will be added to your total if documentation is provided tying your item to a specific pilgrimage route to Santiago, Jerusalem, or Rome.

Baronial Cocktail Competition:

Their Excellencies are excited to announce their second annual cocktail competition to be held at —-time at Midwinters Revel: The Way of the Pilgrim! Bring your best Lochmere themed cocktails! Points will be awarded based on taste, creativity, presentation, and how well the drink reflects our amazing Barony. A prize will be awarded!

Classes

Dancing!

Magistra Sonya Flicker (AKA Patches) will teach and lead dancing!  Instrumentalists interested in playing for the dance band are encouraged to attend!

Sing Like a Pilgrim

  • Course Description:  Students will learn to sing songs sung by Medieval Pilgrims on their long and arduous journey to a variety of shrines. Historical background will be provided. Music reading skills are not required but are helpful. Learning by rote is perfectly acceptable and period!  You will have a chance to “sing along” with Laydes Fayre later on in the day.
  • Instructor:  Mistress Arianna Morgan, OP
  • Duration:  1.5 Hours
  • Class Limit:  15 Students
  • Cost:  Suggested Donation for handouts = $2

Make and Take a Pilgrim’s Bag

  • Course Description:  What did Pilgrims carry their belongings in…  A Pilgrim Bag, of course! Pilgrim bags are the indispensable tool every Pilgrim owned to put their most important and treasured items. Come and make a Pilgrim Bag to carry all of your modern essentials like cell phone, car keys, and those bits & bobs you pick up along your way while on Pilgrimage. Your linen bag can adorned with tassels that you make in class. Other forms of embellishment will be discussed. All Instructions and materials to construct one Pilgrim Bag are included in this hands-on class.
  • Instructor:  Mistress Genevieve Dampier de la Marche
  • Duration: 1.5 hours
  • Class limit 10 Students
  •  Cost : $5 (proceeds to be donated to the Barony of Lochmere)

So You Want to Go on Pilgrimage

  • Course Description:  You have examined your life and determined you must go on pilgrimage to remedy its flaws and faults. This class will look at 3 major destinations for pilgrims – Santiago de Compostela, Rome, and Jerusalem. It will lay out the reasons for choosing the one to visit, and information the pilgrim needs to make a successful trip, like routes to take, places to stay, things to see along the road, what to do once you arrive at your destination and what to avoid if you want to arrive alive. (Told in an historical context). 
  • Instructor:  Lady Maire inghean Dhunchain mhic Oisdealbhaigh
  • Duration:  1 hour
  • Class Size:  10
  • Cost:  None

How to Make a Pilgrim’s Journal

  • Course Description:  Every pilgrim needs a journal to record their thoughts, accounts of fellow travelers, provisions, etc.  In this class you’ll create a plausibly period leather-covered journal.  The journal will be in the manner of a limp binding, the workhorse of medieval books, with pages stitched directly into the cover.
  • Instructor:  Sir Joselin D’outremer
  • Duration:  2 to 3 Hours
  • Class Limit:  12 (need a minimum of 8 people to run) please pre-register using this form:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ANYj5JVq7rQ33tPHN1jZS5EWlyPK9JviAYQqJVpixxw/edit?pli=1
  • Cost:  $20

Other Activities

Bag Game

Get to know your fellow pilgrims by trading items of unknown value! Points will be added at the end of the day and a prize will be awarded for the highest points accumulated!

Scavenger Hunt

Lady Epy Penely will be running a Scavenger Hunt!
Just as pilgrims would travel throughout lands, gaining experiences of new cultures while on their journeys, we encourage you to try new things while at Midwinter’s Revel: the Way of the Pilgrim! Given that the event spans from Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Rome in Italy, and Jerusalem in the Middle East, there will be goals to accomplish focused on each culture or area — and some may be SCA-focused! The scavenger hunt is open for singular participants through teams of four. There will be prizes while they last. You can save time at the event by signing up in advance, or you can sign up at the event. While signing up in advance is not required, it will help Epy with prize planning. Please feel free to do this Google form to help them out: https://forms.gle/56qg8nP8fCANCyQdA

Turkish Coffee House

Will be open and serving up hot beverages for those pilgrims wishing to partake.