The Crown Province of Østgarðr is the greater New York City chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism, a not-for-profit educational and social organization dedicated to re-creating aspects of medieval and Renaissance culture. You can read more about the SCA at “About Us.” If you have any questions or want to get involved, email our newcomers’ officer. You can find links to our Facebook group, mailing list, and local sub-chapters at “Getting Involved.”
His Excellency and I are looking for a few scribe volunteers to create scrolls for upcoming Feast of John Barleycorn that will be on Sept 11.
Please contact us if you are able and willing to help by emailing viceregents@ostgardr.eastkingdom.org
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The Crown Province of Østgarðr will host a public demonstration at Eternal Con on August 7-8, 2021 at Hofstra University in Nassau County in Long Island. Interested in the SCA? Attending Eternal Con? Come to the demo to find out more about us and to meet some of the members of the Crown Province.
Information about the convention can be found at https://eternalcon.com/
Interested in Being an SCA Demonstrator/Participant?
SCA members and participants from Østgarðr and the surrounding area are welcome and encouraged to come demonstrate their skills and arts for the public.
The demo organizer is Østgarðr’s knight marshal, Lord Ervald LaCoudre Edwardson the Optimistic. If you are interested in being a demonstrator on either or both days of the demo, please reach out to him via email at knightmarshal@ostgardr.eastkingdom.org.
Demonstrators may arrive as early as 8:30 AM to help set up. The SCA outdoor demo will be in sight of the entrance cue for the convention, so we want to be ready early. We can entertain and promote to that line. Details about passes, parking, etc. are being resolved this week.
Lord Ervald will be there both days as a heavy-list fight marshal and will run a fighter practice on both days. The outdoor fighting field will be shared with The Brooklyn Black Company (one of the independent steel fighting teams in NYC).
There will be no fencing at the McCarren Park practice tomorrow, Tuesday 8/3, because the provincial fencing marshal will be unable to attend.
As always, there is a lot going on this week in the Crown Province and its cantons. Take a look and find the best way for you to get medieval!
| Sun 8/1 | 2:00 p.m. – 5: p.m. (weather permitting) | Denizens of Whyt Whey and the surrounding lands, join us for a park picnic to celebrate the summer and spend time in good company after so long apart! | Details |
| Tue 8/3 | 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. (weather permitting) | Join Østgarðr’s rattan fighters and fencers for for a combined weekly practice in Brooklyn’s McCarren Park. Artisans, dancers and onlookers are welcome as well. | Details to follow |
| Sat 8/7 & 8/8 | 10:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Join Østgarðr for a public demonstration of SCA activities at the Eternal Con comic book and media convention at Hofstra University on Long Island | Details |
For more details about activities and events in future weeks, check the Østgarðr web calendar.
At the recent Crown Tournament, Ioannes Aurelius Serpentius and Ro Honig von Sommerfeldt were victorious and named the new Crown Prince and Princess of the East. Vivant to their Highnesses and to everyone who entered the tournament.
Coronation will take place on August 28 in Concordia — see the event page for more details.
The weekly Provincial practice sessions continue this Tuesday starting at 7:00 PM in Brooklyn’s McCarren Park; a map is available here.
In addition to armored combat and fencing practitioners, it’d be great to have some musicians — and there’s often a crowd of onlookers so if you’re up for talking about the Society we’d love to have you as a chatelaine.
The weather should be clear and warm, so bring something to drink and we’ll see you on the field!
Come join Lady Maude Louisiana d’Orleans in a seminar discussion on the effects of humanism in Italian Renaissance art during the Quattrocento period. Together, we will explore the influence of the Medici family in conjunction with Rome’s greatest benefactor, the papacy, and how they promoted art that reflected both human and religious qualities.
We will see how the idea that man was created in the image of God was an ideology that flourished in Italy during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Moreover, for the purposes of understanding Renaissance painting in Florence, we will survey Florentine painters, ranging from Masolino to Botticelli, and their works for their trends of humanism in art.
Please join us here: https://meet.google.com/otq-vnjr-qfk
July 2021 Minutes • Østgarðr Commons
The July commons meeting was held July 21. Here are the minutes/notes as recorded by Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin and edited by Alienor Salton. The officers’ reports are attached at the end.
Denizens of Whyt Whey and the surrounding lands, join us for a park picnic to celebrate the summer and spend time in good company after so long apart!
We will gather on Sunday, July 25, starting at 2:00 PM — unless the weather is inclement, in which case we will announce a postponement to the following Sunday, August 1.
[UPDATE, July 25: the weather forecast for this afternoon has been downgraded to “scattered thunderstorms,” so it looks like we need to push our picnic back to the rain date, next Sunday, August 1. The long-range forecast suggests next Sunday will be dry and pleasant — I look forward to seeing you all then!]
[UPDATE, August 1: Today’s weather is looking pleasant — comfortable temperatures and no rain until late in the day — so we’re moving ahead with our picnic plans for this afternoon. Pack your lunch and join us at 2:00 on the Great Hill!]
I was appointed as Provincial Webminister on an acting basis when the previous office holder moved away earlier this summer, and although I enjoy doing this work, I already have too many things on my plate, so I am recruiting volunteers to take on the role.
If you’re interested in the position, please speak up at Commons this evening, or reach out to me directly.
I’d love to take on one or two people as deputies as soon as possible, and then turn the office over to one of them as of the August meeting. Of course, I’ll still be around, and am glad to provide ongoing support and assistance as needed.
Attached below are a job description and some notes about the tools and tasks involved — and of course, if you have any questions that aren’t answered here, please don’t hesitate to ask me!