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Jun. 23rd, 2010 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Providing that whatever site we obtain for RUM this fall has room for a display, what SORT of format for an A&S display/competition would you find most interesting...
Laurel-sponsored categories: We'd need to solicit Laurels to participate. The Laurel dictates the category, then commits to providing a prize or tokens as he/she sees fit and commits to providing written commentary for each entry.
A specific time period or culture - which would rotate with each successive RUM.
Persona Pentathalon - 5 items related to your persona, from at least 3 different dvisions.
Event Presence Pentathalon - 5 items from 3 different divisions to enhance the period nature of your camp or daycamp. These items need not be period in and of themselves, but rather not-obviously-mundane solutions. So - not so much criteria-based as it is a Craftspersons Faire on steroids.
Picture Perfect - recreate something from period art. A costume, the food items from a still life, an object, whatever.
Heraldic Display - Present a suite of items that use heraldry - banners, seat cushions, sugarplate, sewing boxes, purses, portraits. Whatever.
Thoughts or additional suggestions?
Laurel-sponsored categories: We'd need to solicit Laurels to participate. The Laurel dictates the category, then commits to providing a prize or tokens as he/she sees fit and commits to providing written commentary for each entry.
A specific time period or culture - which would rotate with each successive RUM.
Persona Pentathalon - 5 items related to your persona, from at least 3 different dvisions.
Event Presence Pentathalon - 5 items from 3 different divisions to enhance the period nature of your camp or daycamp. These items need not be period in and of themselves, but rather not-obviously-mundane solutions. So - not so much criteria-based as it is a Craftspersons Faire on steroids.
Picture Perfect - recreate something from period art. A costume, the food items from a still life, an object, whatever.
Heraldic Display - Present a suite of items that use heraldry - banners, seat cushions, sugarplate, sewing boxes, purses, portraits. Whatever.
Thoughts or additional suggestions?
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Date: 2010-06-23 05:03 pm (UTC)I think the Laurel-sponsored display might be an especially good one since it can be limited focused and the entrants know at least one Laurel will see their work ;)
I always like limited focus stuff, it's a great chance for folks to try something new too.
Heraldic displays are fun because so many folks already have stuff with their heraldry and can show it off. :)
Anyway, more A&S Venues is always a good thing!
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Date: 2010-06-23 05:49 pm (UTC)I rather like limited focus stuff, too - though I don't want to shut anybody out.
So, I'd like it to either force the entrant to focus - like lifting Atlantia's Perona Pentathalon - or rotate the focus from RUM to RUM so that something for everybody comes up at least periodically. I'd also take suggestions on WHAT to rotate, if you have them.
I know a fair few people don't participate in Faire because they don't like the format.
And, just in trying to drum up a site for RUM, a lot of people in the region have expressed that they've shelved competition projects or Pentathalon plans because Kingdom Faire is just too far away. So I'd like to provide a venue that will be reliably available as a place to show your stuff that will move around from location to location, with a format different enough to also appeal to those who don't care for how Faire works.
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:19 pm (UTC)What I also like about this format is that it gives the opportunity for the judges to teach beyond the 'I took a picture and just made what I thought it was' to how to actually research the item from the visual inception point. Frankly, I think that is what most of the newer people do, and because they get skerrit of the "documentation" they never try to go further. That's why I'd make a picture the 'minimum' documentation, and points are added after that just to get folk to play. One thing I've never seen happen was to appoint a group as a resource bank for entrants - especially first timers who want advice on where to look for more info. Perhaps start an e-group for interested parties, or a web-page where you can sign up for a mailing list if you are interested in playing? That way you sneakily start to collect a group of people interested in A&S in your area...
This isn't a championship, is it?
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:32 pm (UTC)I wonder - if I could set up a form on the event page for pre-reg and do either a mailing list or "assign a mentor" sort of thing?
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Date: 2010-06-23 10:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-23 10:37 pm (UTC)Cause I think it sounds like fun.
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Date: 2010-06-24 12:45 am (UTC)