Unevent will again host a business meeting for the Atlantia Performing Arts Guild!

Atlantia Performing Arts Guild – Summer 2016 – by Lady Machteld Cleine

Everyone who comes gets a KAZOO!  Because of course it can’t ALL be business…. 😉

4:30 – 5:30pm!

Come and discuss what you are doing, what you want to be doing, and what this kingdom size community of performers can do together. Event link: http://atlantia.sca.org/137-events/167-event-flyer?event_id=ebd8a9fe

I have a thousand ideas for what we can do, you guys will have even more, and we’ll never have time for all of them, so help pick! Which activities do YOU want to do in the coming year to enjoy the Performing Arts in Atlantia? Where will you find resources to help?  Who wants to join you?  Who wants to help you? Who’s already doing the same thing?

That’s what the Performing Arts Guild is for!

Here’s the Agenda for our meeting:

Agenda for Performing Arts Guild Meeting:

• Report on the Atlantia Royal Players – Year 2
• Reports from any Performing Arts Champions – What are you doing? What do you need help with?
• State of the Performing Arts in Atlantia Discussion – I’ll tell you what I see happening and you tell me what you see happening
• What specific activities to you want to do?
• What specific activities are you prepared to lead?
• Resources for getting those activities to happen
• Our new graphic logo by the magnificent Gabriel the Traveler!
  • (Here’s a sneak peek:  )
    

    Atlantia Performing Arts Guild logo

• Agenda Continued…
• What you can do with the Atlantia Performing Arts Blog
  — Publish articles you already have
  — Publish anything you want to
  — Find links for online resources
  — Get summaries of big Performing Arts activities throughout the kingdom
• Job jar! Jobs I know would help out our Performing Arts Community if anyone wanted to pitch in.
  • Do you have a job to do where you need help? Ask for help here!

Upcoming special opportunities for Performing Arts:
— Twelfth Night (Lady Kilmeny is PA Coordinator)
— Winter University (A whole Theater track!)
— Ymir
— Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival

You can participate remotely in this meeting by logging in or calling in to a Zoom call! Use the info below to connect with us:

I Firenzi Admin is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Performing Arts Guild Meeting at Unevent 2017
Time: Dec 2, 2017 4:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/571805354

Or iPhone one-tap :
US: +16468769923,,571805354# or +16699006833,,571805354#
Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location)：
US: +1 646 876 9923 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 408 638 0968
Meeting ID: 571 805 354
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=QNbctAJ4U23iq9bsM5YEAs9WBxAGRxXl

This is a rare opportunity to meet fellow performers and get organized!

With excitement and gratitude,
Baroness Sophia the Orange
Guildmistress of the Atlantia Performing Arts Guild

The next Atlantia Performing Arts Guild Meeting & Conference Call will be held at Atlantia University on June 11, 2016 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm. This is during the lunch time of Atlantia University, and the members gathered at University will hopefully get their lunch and find a quiet corner to eat lunch and gather around Sophie’s laptop to share the web cam and conference call using the Zoom.us online conference room.  Please join us using the log in information below.  You can also call in from a regular phone with the phone number below:

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/339633783

Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): 14086380968,339633783# or 16465588656,339633783#

Or Telephone:
Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 339 633 783

The Meeting will include discussion on the following topics:

Status Update of Ongoing Projects:

1. Creation of Best Practices list for Bardic Circles by Johann and Richard
2. Creation of Best Practices list for Competitions by Scholastica and Reynsa
3. Use of the Googlegroup is growing constantly! We’re up to 74 members!

Status of recruiting:

1. Lord Jaume de Monco is our Guild liaison for Atlantia University for Fall and Winter. Many thanks to Vrowe Machteld for organizing our 2.5 Performing Arts Tracks for this Summer University!
2. Mistress Dervila has accepted the position for Librarian! She is working with our WordPress blog to build in the right plugin to allow people to upload documents and other files like MP3s to share and keep organized. This is an ongoing effort, so we will use the Google Shared Drive as an interim solution.
   1. THIS is the link for the Google Shared Drive for our Guild:  https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-ta6p8JkuHPOVc0Tk0tellxcEU&usp=sharing

Special Projects:

• Ladies of the Rose song, poetry, and other performance event for new, Golden Rose inspired event
  • Ideas for this concept should be posted to the Guild email list “atlantiaperformingartsguild AT googlegroups DOT com”
  • Queen Thora expressed interest in what we could propose to her. Her reign only lasts so long, so get your ideas moving and we might be able to create something!
• We need heraldry for the Guild – and a graphic for it! The graphic should be the size of an avatar for Facebook.
• Performing Arts Demo Hour at Kingdom A&S Festival was AWESOME!  And the video is now up at:  https://youtu.be/8NYrd9kS7Ww  Many thanks to Manus MacDhai for proessing the video!
• Another hour of video from KASF is also available (Thanks again Manus!) for the many performers who demonstrated their performing prowess before the Demo Hour at KASF!!!  Here’s the link to that video:  https://youtu.be/6ifUTJwEEFI
• War of the Wings has a new Performing Arts Coordinator: Lord Akiyama Kazuhiko!  (“Sata Prescott” on Facebook)  He is seeking your ideas on what he can organize for you at WOW and offers also this sign up sheet for teaching classes:  http://goo.gl/forms/WFBuy3XU6gdJQE7k1  

Want to express an opinion or tell everyone what you want? Go for it!  You’re welcome to say so at the Guild meeting or post an email to the email list!

Keep in touch!

–Lady Sophia the Orange, Atlantia Performing Arts Guild Guildmistress and Kingdom MOAS Deputy for Performing Arts

The Atlantia Performing Arts Guild held a meeting at the Tournament of Ymir in the Barony of Windmasters’ Hill on February 27, 2016 from 11:00 – 12:00am in the Great Hall.

Attendees included:

• Lady Evelynne Merrymet
• Mistress Azza al Shirazi
• Aplin ap Daffyd
• Mistress Dervila Ni Leanon
• Mistress Rosalind Jehanne
• Eoin MacEadbhaird
• Lady Sophia the Orange

Topics covered included:

1. Ongoing Projects:

   1. Bardic Circles Best Practices – lead by Lord Johann von Solothurn and Lord Richard Wyn
   2. Performing Arts Competitions Best Practices – lead by Lady Scholastica Joycours and milady Reynsa Keyferin
   3. Troubleshooting group – lead by our two Kingdom Bards, Master Ruaidhri an Cu and Lord Gideon ap Stephen
   4. Online Resources for Sharing:  This one went into some detail….
      1. We have the Atlantia Performing Arts Blog here: https://perform.atlantia.sca.org/
         1. This includes a page for handy links to bardic and other performing resources recently re-organized by our friend Catarina di Paulo / Shannon Hamilton.
         2. This includes pages for: Kingdom Noteables, Performer’s Directory, Performing Groups, a separate page for the Guild, and more tidbits.
      2. Mistress Dervila is working on creating a library on this blog. It’s built with WordPress, so it’s really a Content Management System – one that Dervila has some experience with.
      3. While Dervila is working on that library, we will use a new Google Drive shared with the Google Group email list for the Guild. That means that if you’re email address is on the Google Group email list for the Guild, you have access to that shared drive on Google Drive.
         1. This allows us to share documents and resources immediately and,
         2. this allows us to see what files people want to share and what categories they settle out into before Dervila launches the new library. The categories we actually end up using over the next few months will be the ones we start with in the new library.
         3. The link for the Google Drive is here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-ta6p8JkuHPOVc0Tk0tellxcEU
         4. The link for the Google Group email list is here (if you’re not already on it):  https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/atlantiaperformingartsguild 
   5. Guild jobs
      1. The position of University of Atlantia Liaison for the Guild is being shared this year between Lady Machteld Cleine and Lord Jaume de Monco.  Machteld will handle organizing classes for Performing Arts for the Summer University session and Jaume will handle organizing classes for the Fall University session.
         1. When you’re ready to submit your classes for Summer University, please send email to Machteld first. She’s going to ensure that certain basic performing skills classes get taught for sure and that other classes for certain audiences don’t conflict (like having two commedia classes in the same hour slot). Jaume will follow in the Fall.
      2. Mistress Dervila is holding the position of our Librarian, but she and I can both use some help from folks who are savvy to Google and WordPress resources.
         1. Lord Kazuhiko and Harper an Cu both volunteered to pitch in on that after this Spring semester is over.
         2. More help is welcome!
      3. I’m still looking for a Point of Contact for every single SCA group in Atlantia. Some groups have a “Bardic Champion” or “Performing Arts Champion” but most don’t.  If you’re willing to step up as a Point of Contact for your local SCA group as the “person who knows something about Performing Arts and maybe how to get ahold of that crazy Guild”, please let me know!

2. New Projects

   1. Lady Teleri the Well Prepared has started working with our very music-friendly Princess of Atlantia as a “Royal Entertainment Coordinator.” (That’s a draft job title.)  I did this job for Amos and Isabella during their reign, and it was rather successful at creating more performing arts activities at Royal Progress events.  Since there is a great deal of administrative legwork involved in creating Performing Arts activities that work seamlessly and smoothly with Royal Progress events, having a person on the Royal Staff that handles all that email and planning ahead is extremely helpful.
      1. We all predict that our two Kingdom Bards and Teleri will all work as a team when the opportunity presents itself to make more and better Performing Arts opportunities happen at Royal Progress events.
   2. Dance Band Musicians
      1. Lady Evelynne Merrymet expressed a deep desire to have live musicians at dance practices.  Mistress Azza concurred with this given her deep enjoyment of playing live music for dancers.
         1. I strongly recommend using the Pennsic Pile sheet music if you’re a musician playing for dancing because the copyright in versions since Pennsic 42 have been cleared to allow for use at SCA events AND the sheet music is arranged for the correct repeat structure for all the dances as they’re danced at Pennsic.
         2. Other sheet music resources exist, but respect of copyright is important, so please check the copyright before you run sheet music through a copier.
         3. Get the Pennsic Pile in PDF download here:  http://pennsicdance.aands.org/pennsic44/PennsicPile44.pdf
   3. Pictures of Performers for the Roster
      1. Mistress Dervila has a method to create a page on the Performing Arts blog that can serve as a directory that INCLUDES PICTURES! This has been a technological struggle for me. I’ve set up text only rosters for folks to submit their data on what they perform and who they are, but I have not been able to easily create a roster with pictures. Now that Dervila has a way to do it, we can now fill our roster with pictures!
      2. Please be prepared to send in pictures once we find the best place to put them before Dervila’s ready with the new directory.
   4. Performing Arts Groups
      1. I need help fleshing out the content pages for Performing Arts Groups on the blog. I need help gathering info on the following groups:
         1. Ladies Fair singing group
         2. Ponte Alto Singers
         3. PAGE
      2. If anyone’s willing to write up a blog post on any one of these groups, or any MORE groups you’re aware of – please let me know!!
   5. Guild Heraldry and Online Graphics help needed
      1. The Kingdom MOAS wants us to nail down some heraldry for the Guild. We also need some better graphics for the blog.
      2. Eoin Mac Edhbaird volunteered to help in this, and if there are other herald & graphics folks interested in helping, please pipe up! We may need a committee for this.

The next meeting of the Guild is TBD. It will be after Gulf Wars for sure!!

Thank you all for pitching in to the Atlantia Performing Arts Guild!

–Lady Sophia the Orange, Guildmistress and Kingdom MOAS Deputy for Performing Arts

Meeting Notes for the Atlantia Performing Arts Guild meeting on February 6 at Atlantia University

Attendees:

Teleri the Well Prepared attended via the Zoom online web service

In the room were:

• Sophia the Orange
• Tessa de Spina
• Frixco Osnath
• Ruaidhri an Cu
• Harper an Cu
• Con O’Quyrke
• Rhiannon of Raven’s Cove
• Watkyn of Kent
• Johann von Solothurn
• Alys d’ Avignon
• Edward Bedevere
• Jaume de Monco

Topics covered:

1. Ongoing Projects – three of them!
   1. Project #1) Johann von Solothurn and Richard Wynn are compiling Best Practices for Bardic Circles
   2. Project #2) Scholastica Joycors and Reynsa Keferin are compiling Best Practices for Performing Arts Competitions
   3. Project #3) Ruaidhri an Cu and Gideon ap Stephan, the two current Kingdom Bards, are working on getting their Dual Kingdom Bard strategy together and they want to create a group for hard hitting problem solving. A sub-group of the regular everyday member of the Atlantia Performing Arts community who is ready to talk seriously about problem solving, including possibly using strong language and airing dirty laundry. This group should be tightly controlled with approved membership of those folks ready to make positive change. The most likely next step is to create a Google Group email list where the membership can be easily monitored and controlled but is still easy to request membership to.
   4. If you’re interested in pitching in on any of these ongoing projects, please contact the folks running them! I’m requesting that you make that contact via the Guild’s email list so we can all see what’s going on.  Facebook is moderately ok for reaching out, but if you want to build community and track the communication that happens more than a day later, the email list is the best way to do it.
2. Guild Communications: Use the new Google Groups email list for the Guild! Click here to add yourself:  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/atlantiaperformingartsguild
   1. The Atlantia Performing Arts Blog is open for anyone to write a blog post about any topic related to Performing Arts! Please write stuff!  https://perform.atlantia.sca.org
      1. Blog posts can be great for getting your material online if you don’t have your own web page. It’s better than Facebook because it’s often hard to find material on Facebook a few days after you saw it. This blog is open to anyone supporting the Performing Arts in Atlantia!
   2. Online Library for sharing Performing Arts Resources – coming soon!
      1. Mistress Dervila has accepted the job of the Guild’s Librarian! But she could use some help!
      2. She’s going to build us an online library on the blog platform since it’s WordPress and actually build to manage lots of content. She is, however, going to need some significant time to get that done, so….
      3. We’re going to launch a Google Drive to share documents and Performing Arts Resources online – through this Google Group – WHILE Dervila works on the Blog Library. This Google Drive will be a temporary storage facility that will easily migrate to the WordPress Blog Library when it’s ready.
      4. If you’re interested in helping with managing files – especially if you like being a Librarian type of person – please let us know!
         1. Kazuhiko and Harper both expressed interest in pitching in as Librarians, but only after this academic semester is over. We support their decision to keep school the top priority! J
   3. University of Atlantia Liaison for Performing Arts
      1. Lord Jaume de Monco has stepped up to be our Liaison for Atlantia University! This means he’s going to be asking around “Who’s interested in teaching these classes?” and proposing a number of classes that should always be taught like “Bardic 101” or “Research for Performers” and the like.
      2. He’s also going to help the University folks deconflict tracks of classes and schedule classes if they need to be in some kind of order.
      3. Jaume can only pick up this job in the Fall since he works in the professional baseball season. Lady Machteld might step up to handle Summer University for us, but if you’re interested in this kind of work, please step up and help them out!

Upcoming Performing Arts Events

1. YMIR has a bunch of great Performing Arts activities! February 27 in Windmasters’ Hill! http://ymir.windmastershill.org/
   1. Meeting of the Performing Arts Guild: 11:00am – 12:00noon
   2. Bardic Circle: 12:00 noon – 2:00pm
   3. Bardic Competition: 2:00pm – 3:00pm
   4. Commedia dell’ Arte family friendly performance: 3:45pm – 4:45pm
   5. Commedia dell’ Arte adults only performance: starting ~9:45pm (after feast)
   6. Bardic Circle for Night Owls: starting after commedia is done ~11:00pm
   7. Dancing starts in the big hall after feast ~ 9:30pm
2. Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival – March 5 – Canton of Studdentorre   http://sudentorre.atlantia.sca.org/jmla/index.php/activities/events/kingdom-a-s/kasf-menu-pg-entertain
   1. There is an hour of open slots for performers to sign up for a 10 minute performance slot between 10:00am and 11:00am – sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13TWU9q14CJtP1PJYXAbbO3FsKN7yQ-nLpnW9b46n41M/edit?usp=sharing
   2. There is a Demo Hour of performances between 11:00am – 12:00 noon. Sign-ups are already full, but we want to make this bigger next year!
   3. The Oldcastle Poetry Smackdown runs from 12:00 noon to 1:30pm.
   4. I Firenzi will do a mini-class in Commedia dell’ Arte to put it in perspective and context for SCAdians starting at 1:30pm.
   5. I Firenzi presents a period scenario from 1611 “The Fake Tofano” as the greatest achievement in Commedia this kingdom has ever seen!! (Ok, I’m a little biased…)
3. SCA 50 Year Celebration – June 17-26 in Indianapolis, IN – will be TONS of fun for performers of all kinds! I’m (Sophia) running the Performing Arts Program, so if you have anything that you’d like to do, perform, teach, or see at the SCA 50 Year event, please let me know!  http://sca50year.org/index.html

Anyone else want to plug the Performing Arts activities at their event???

Next Meeting is at Ymir, February 27, from 11:00am – 12:00noon and we will use the Zoom.com online conference call service so you can participate via web cam or call in using a regular phone.

The next Atlantia Performing Arts Guild Meeting & Conference Call will be held at Atlantia University on February 6, 2016 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm. This is during the lunch time of Atlantia University, and the members gathered at University will get lunch and find a quiet corner to eat lunch and gather around Sophie’s laptop to share the web cam and conference call using the Zoom.com online conference room.  Please join us using the log in information below.  You can also call in from a regular phone with the phone number below:

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/638392316

Or iPhone one-tap: 14086380968,638392316# or 16465588656,638392316#

Or Telephone:
Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 638 392 316

The Meeting will include discussion on the following topics:

Status Update of Ongoing Projects:

1. Creation of Best Practices list for Bardic Circles by Johann and Richard
2. Creation of Best Practices list for Competitions by Scholastica and Reynsa
3. use of the Googlegroup is growing constantly!
4. Reaching out to specific people to join the Googlegroup for networking – especially to help the Kingdom Bards!

Status of recruiting:

1. The two new Kingdom Bards, Master Ruaidhri and Lord Gideon are still figuring out their strategy
2. Lady Machteld is thinking about volunteering to be the liaison for Atlantia University for Summer, but we need someone for long term.
3. Mistress Dervila has accepted the position for Librarian! She will work with our WordPress blog to find the right plugin to allow people to upload documents and other files like MP3s to share and keep organized. This will, however, take some many months, so Sophie is going to establish a simple Google Shared Drive as an interim solution.

Special Projects:

• Royal Travel Fund song writing service for Ymir silent auction
• Ladies of the Rose song, poetry, and other performance event for new, Golden Rose inspired event
• We need heraldry for the Guild – and a graphic for it!
• Performing Arts Demo Hour at Kingdom A&S Fest, March 5!

Next Guild Meeting is at Ymir, February 27, at 11:00am, immediately after morning court.  Zoom/call in option will be available!