Competitions
Bardic Activities
Heraldic Activities
A&S Classes (RUSH)
Solars

Competitions (in the A&S/Inn building unless otherwise noted.):

Best Brew:
"Drinking is the joy of the Rus." Entries to be judged by a panel of experienced vintners and brewers at the Broken Harp. Winner: Stone and Lennox with a Mulberry Raspberry Mead with handpicked berries.

Trade Goods

Russia's wealth came from trade. Bring an example of an item that could have been traded in Rus whether native goods such as furs, wax, woodwork, embroidery and fine metalwork, or foreign imports including Venetian glass, Flemish wool, Frankish swords, Chinese silks, eastern spices. Please document the connection of your item with Russia. Entries will be judged using Calontir A&S criteria. http://www.artsci.calontir-rush.org/criteria.php which is similar to the criteria to be found on the NorthStar Arts and Sciences Homepage. Winners: Ldy Juliana MacNayre (leather bottles) and Hans Sebastian Bamberger (hand-tanned/dyed leather made into simple belt and shoes)

Russian Food:

Bring your best period, or plausibly period, Russian recipe. Entries will be judged on taste, authenticity and documentation, and then shared. Winner: Ldy Antonia Stefani (a full Russian feast, of course)

Non-Russian Persona Tie-in:

Fill out a 3x5 card with a plausible explanation of how your NON-Russian persona would have come to interact with Russia. All entrants will be entered into a raffle for a modest prize and the best example/s may receive special recognition. Russian Interaction with Foreign Lands may help you get started on ideas.

Russian History Test:

Unfortunately, no one had a passing score.

Feast performances:
HL Christian d'Hiver on the recorder providing period ambiance
Hans Sebastian Bamberger with an excerpt from the Russian Folk Tale, the Magic Ring
HL Sofya la Rus with the Russian Folk Song, Kak na gore kalina (On the hilltop grows snowball bush)


Heraldic Activities:

Heraldic Consult Table: HL Anplica Fiore anplica@gmail.com.
Camp Cries: Ldy Royse Meingnes
List Heraldry: HL Brigida von München.

Solars:

Informal gatherings in the A&S Building (or by the Broken Harp, weather permitting) for anyone interested in a particular area to work on projects, and share questions, resources, and ideas.

A&S/RUSH Classes:

Classes will be held inside the air-conditioned A&S/Inn building unless otherwise noted.

Period Embroydery Stitches - Lady Isabella Beatrice della Rosa, Silfren Mere
Period What Not To Wear - Lady Aigelene, Silfren Mere
Period Spices - Lady Alinore, Silfren Mere
You've Gotta Have Balls - Lady Juliana, Heraldshill
Female Heavy Fighter Round Table - Lady Sorcha, Silfren Mere
Preparing Fiber for Spinning - Lady Simone de Mare, Calontir
Beginning Spinning - Lady Simone de Mare, Calontir
Pilgrimage to the Heavens - Lord Thomas, Nordskogen

A&S Coordinator: Lady Alaina Frantzin von Wurtenberg - tasmanian_hamster@yahoo.com

The Russian Knowledge Pages
Life in 13th Century Novgorod
Novgorod Archaeology - photos of artifacts provided by Calontir's own Ld Michael of Saffita.