Welcome to the Current Middle Ages
in Northern Colorado
Newcomers (2024)
Details
Join Unser Hafen for Newcomers – a grand event welcoming all to the Society for Creative Anachronism. Discover secrets of history, combat, arts, crafts, and culture from our seasoned members at the class tables. Learn and enjoy the dances of yore, and indulge in a royal banquet. Delight in enchanting tales and melodies during the bardic competition and witness sword and shield clash in honorable combat in the tournaments. Participate in the noble duty of selecting the next Baron and Baroness of Unser Hafen through polling. All are welcome, from newcomers eager to learn to seasoned members seeking fellowship and fun. Bring friends, kin, and good cheer for a day of history, learning, and revelry. Huzzah!
Pre-Registration Link
https://sca.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/sca/eventRegistration.jsp?event=923
Call for volunteers
Brave souls of the realm, a noble quest awaits! Volunteers are sought to aid in this grand endeavor. Your valor will be rewarded, and your name honored. Click the link below to sign up for volunteering opportunities.
Food
Feast Dinner:
FEAST HAS BEEN CANCELED!
If you have pre registered for feast, refunds will be distributed at the event.
Please contact our Baronial Exchequer at exchequer@unserhafen.org if you have any further questions.
It was $10 per person (including youth)
Donation Lunch:
Assortment of crackers, pretzels, sausage, a variety of snack meat, olives, nuts, pickles, fruits, and drinks.
Feast Dinner was Cancelled
Tournaments/competitions
Newcomers Rapier Tournament and Heavy Tournament
Have you been fighting for a year or less within the SCA and have a passion for rapier or heavy fighting? Participate in the Newcomers Rapier or Heavy Tournament, or both! Both the rapier and heavy tournament will have loaner gear available for those without the required equipment. Participants need an SCA membership and a fighting authorization to participate!
Bard Tournament
Join us for The Pencerdd Bard Tournament, a celebration of bardic talent where participants can perform songs, poems, stories, instrumental pieces, or other bardic arts. Embrace pre-seventeenth-century themes and showcase your skills for a chance to be named Unser Hafen's Pencerdd Bard. Whether you compete or simply wish to perform, this is your moment to shine and share your craft. Please come prepared with two pieces and email the event steward if you would like to participate!
Subtlety Competition
Indulge your creative side at our feast with The Subtlety Competition, where culinary creativity takes center stage. Participants are invited to bring any style of fare, with a nod to pre-seventeenth-century themes encouraged.
Please provide an ingredients card with your entry and join us for a delightful evening of tasting and competition. Bring your best and let your designs shine!
Unsure what subtlety is? Review this website and send any further questions to the event steward:
Vigils
The vigil of Gwenhwyvar ferch Tewdrig and Alasdair MacDubhghaill the Scot to begin after Morning Court and end just before Evening Court.
Event Steward
Lady Caírech Liath ingen Ailpin (Skye Sutherlin)
Deputy Stewards:
Dagny Innaldi (Sara Mildenstein) - sjmilden@gmail.com
Elisa - newcomers@gmail.com
Event Fees
Adult (non-members): $30
Adult w/member discount: $20
Youth (15 & under) are Free
Payment via credit cards will be accepted
Schedule
6 am Set up starts
9 am Event Opens
10 am Morning Court
10:30 am - 3:30 pm A&S Classes
11 am Rapier Tournament
12 pm - 2 pm Donation Lunch & Subtlety Competition
1 pm Heavy Tournament
3 pm Bardic Tournament
4 pm Evening Court
5 pm - close Dancing and Revelry
8 pm Event Closes
9 pm Tear down ends
When & Where
Johnstown YMCA
Saturday, November 9th, 2024
165 Settler Way, Johnstown, CO 80534
Event to be held in the large gym and outside in a small courtyard with grass.
Tables and chairs will be provided. Feel free to bring decorations for your table.
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