Atlantian Bardic Madness : The Maiden Voyage
* Bardic Madness is an entire day devoted to all the bardic arts. There are Challenges designed for all styles and skills. Everyone can sign up for up to 4 challenges and listen to everyone’s entries.
* Challenges are arranged in 4 rounds, named after the sailors’ watches, and called Fyts. Each Fyt has 3 challenges.
* There are breaks for classes, lunch, and socializing.
* This is a Bardic Safe Zone – with a friendly and encouraging audience. Come play!
Challenges
* Welcome to the inaugural Atlantian Bardic Madness!
Welcome to a space to perform, stretch your wings, bring new or established pieces.
Enjoy the bardic workshop atmosphere.
* Welcome to all levels of performers from novice to experienced to masters, bosuns to captains.
Welcome storytellers, poets, singers, instrumentalists, jugglers, interpretive dance, playwrights.
* These are challenges to encourage creativity, growth, and new ideas. Some are solo, some with other performers, and some same-day spontaneous.
* These are NOT competitions – participation is winning! The guidelines are meant to be broad, so you can answer the challenge in many different ways – including song, short tales, prose, poem, music, movement – it’s up to you! Read the guidelines carefully. Follow, but stretching into unexpected directions is also fun.
* Your response can be in many different forms. Song, story, poetry, prose, script, other performing arts and movement forms can also express the idea. Whatever works for you.
At the end of your performance, check in with the patron of that challenge for a small token, as well as the applause and compliments of the audience.
* Each challenge has a Patron, who will introduce you, compliment your entry, and bestow a small token of appreciation.
* To allow the largest number of people to participate, each person may enter a maximum of one piece in each challenge and a maximum of four challenges. Use your best courtesy to keep your challenge entries limited to 3-5 minutes or less for Poems and Songs; 5-7 minutes or less for
stories. (Including any introduction and/or set up & clearing of performance area.)
* Credit where credit is due- please announce the title and author/composer(s) of the work being performed, or the works something has been derived from/filked/parodied, etc.
* Duets/Trios/Ensembles of 2,3 or more performing together can appear together in up to 4 challenges, including the concert.
Individuals who participate in both group and solo performances are asked to use your best courtesy selecting other challenges.
* Please keep the performances family friendly, as children may be present. Post revel has no such restrictions, parents be advised.
* Forenoon Watch Fyt the First
1.1 Reveille –Wake up the Sailors
Provide some merry pieces to accompany the coffee, chai, yawns, and stretches. Lively sing-along choruses, call and response, movements, something of your choice in song, story, poem, prose, script, improv.
1.2 Vittles from the Galley
Present a work somehow related to food, drink, grog, grub, chow.
1.3 Tales from the Nautilus
Each turn of the circle of the nautilus snail grows bigger than the previous. Participants will start a story where each performer should elaborate and grow the tale from the previous tale-teller. This will be improvisation.
* Afternoon Watch Fyt the Second
2.1 Row All Together, Crew
Any performance requiring 2 or more performers. Scripts, duets, ensembles, etc. Press your friends into service.
2.2 Ayres of Yore
Period music or spoken word -a documentable work of music, song, story, poetry, prose, or script from earlier than 1650. Briefly let us know the author and culture.
2.3 Wonders of the Deep
Praise or warn of the denizens of the ocean, the sailing ships, the voyages, the pyrates, in whatever bardic form you choose. Your provost knows that many shanties are post-period, and she doesn’t care.
* Dog Watch Fyt the Third
3.1 Blow Someone Else’s Horn
Perform a work of another SCAdian that inspires you, and tell us why you chose that piece.
A special seat of honor will be provided if the author of the work is present.
3.2 Lobscouse – a Sailors’ Stew
A list of words will be provided at the beginning of the day. Your challenge is to write and perform a piece including as many of the words as possible. Bonus applause if you manage to use all of them.
3.3 Poetry Ports of Call
Sea voyages brought sailors to many lands and cultures. Write a poem, in a poetic form of your choosing, perhaps about something you saw or brought back from another land.
* Night Watch Fyt the Fourth held during feast
4.1 Health to the Company
Start off our feast with toasts to our Royals, our Kingdoms, our spouses, our cooks. Impress us with your eloquence or grandiosity of your praise.
4.2 Hornpipes & Fiddles & Whistles, O my!
Instruments and instrumental music of all kinds is welcome, to provide a lovely showcase. Perchance you cannot bring your instrument, contact Simon de Spaldyng, fullersteaching@ yahoo.com, and we may be able to lend you an instrument so we can lend you our ears.
4.3 Thersites
Table reading of a new play by Atlantia’s own Master Ishmael Reed, author of The Murder of Thomas Brynde. Players who signed up will receive a script at the beginning of the day and will perform this raucous comedy during the latter half of feast time, for the entertainment of the guests. We will provide the props, but Ishmael will bring the snail.
* Shore Leave Post Revel
Afterhours Bardic, address to be given at the event
Would you like to sponsor one of the challenges?
Contact the Provost, Rosalind Jehanne at ros@lionrose.org to be a Patron.
* Duties of a Patron – The patron is the host or hostess of that challenge. They will receive a signup sheet and will announce the name and description of the fyt, and will call up each person who signed up in turn, and who is “on deck”. After each performance, they will thank the person and provide a small token of appreciation. These can be any small item, sometimes related to the challenge or the patron. If a foodstuff, please have an ingredient list. Each challenge may have about 10 signups, bring about 15-24 tokens depending on if the challenge allows for multiple people per entry.
* Event MC Rosalind Jehanne ros@lionrose.org
Patrons of the Fyts
1.1 Reveille – Wake Up the Sailors – Elizabeth de Spaldyng
1.2 Vittles from the Galley – Signy Jarnadottir
1.3 Tales from the Nautilus – Adair of Makyswell for the Order of the Pearl
2.1 Row All Together – Gawain de Barri
2.2 Ayres of Yore – Alain ap Dafydd and Azza al-Shiraziyya
2.3 Wonders of the Deep- Thōrvē Skāld Rikardsdottir
3.1 Blow Someone Else’s Horn – Song Qingzhao
3.2 Lobscouse – a Sailors’ Stew -Snorri Halfdan
3.3 Poetry Ports of Call – M Ishmael Stedfast Reed
4.1 Courts- TRM Christoph and Adelhait
4.2 Hornpipes & Fiddles & Whistles -Ruaidhri An Cu
4.3 Thersites – M Ishmael Stedfast Reed
Revel Shore Leave — Afterhours Bardic, address to be given at the event