Thank you all for making my time as Seneschal the past four years easy and enjoyable. I continue to be amazed by the number of people who live in the Shire that give their time and energy at the local, kingdom, and society level so we can all enjoy this game. Thank you.

Congratulations and welcome to the job, Andreiko. I know the Shire is in good hands.

Matthias

PS

Thank you Seansmas fairy, I’ll enjoy this.

Greetings,

As the weather moves colder come inside to the Quintavia business meeting to see what activities are upcoming. We are also going to have elections for the following positions.

Seneschal

Herald

Webminister

Captain of the Archers

Thrown weapon marshal

If you are interested in any of the roles please send myself and the appropriate officer a letter of intent, which is a simple one or two paragraph statement on what you want to do with the office.

The meeting will be Monday 11/11 at 7:00pm in the Camelot Common House (69 Village Ct, Berlin MA 01503)

Thank you

Matthias

I’m sure most of you have hear of Luis stepping down, due to the ongoing criminal investigation. Her Majesty is firmly committed to continuing on and I ask all to give her your love and support through these times and to think twice before posting anything on social media. Being royal is a very hard job even in the best of times. Thank you.

I also wanted to say thank you to our new Kingdom seneschal Mistress Medhbh inghean Uí Cheallaigh. Being seneschal to the kingdom is also a labor of love, please give her all your support.

It continues to amaze me the number of Society and Kingdom officers that reside within Quintavia’ s borders. Thank you all for your service.

The business meeting is today, at the Mosaic Common house at 11 am. (22 Village Ln, Berlin Ma). Officers please send in a report if you or a deputy won’t make it.

Finally have old Garb and/or fabric looking for a new home? See below!

The Worshipful Company Fabric (and Garb) Swap
Where:  Camelot Common House
When:  October 20th, 10am to 3pm
They say one person’s trash is another one’s treasure.  So bring all your ‘what the heck was I thinking when I bought this?’ fabric, trim, sewing and other crafting stuff, and go home with a whole new set of ‘I know just what I want to make with this!’
This is mostly about fabric, trim, and sewing-related stuff, but finished garb (especially kid’s garb) is welcome, as are other crafty, textile-y stuff.   UFO’s (“Unfinished Objects”, partially finished projects) are welcome as well.
Novice costumers are welcome to come collect material for experimentation and practice (we want to encourage your fabric addiction!).  Those who don’t sew (e.g. normal people) are welcome to come check out the finished garb.
Anything left at 4pm will be offered to gold key, donated to charity, or discarded.

Contact Cassandra with questions – 508-517-0527, lady.cassandra.grey@gmail.com

Hello Everyone, I hope folks have recovered from what summer plans you have had, and look forward to the fall. The next business meeting is this Sunday the 8th from 11 to 1 pm at the Mosaic Common house (22 Village Lane, Berlin, MA 01503)

In addition to the normal business we’ll start taking nominations for the positions that are up in November (https://quintavia.eastkingdom.org/shire-officers/).

We are hosting a demo at the upcoming Start on the Street festival in Worcester ma on 9/15. https://www.startonthestreet.org/start-street-fall-edition. We have a booth for displaying wares, and a space for fighting/fencing demo’s right behand it as in past years. We will be in a similar spot across from Elm Park as in the past few years. Anyone who can show up even for an hour or 2 is very welcome (start runs from 11 to 5 pm)

Finally there is a great local event coming up on the 9/14 that will have all the activities the SCA can offer including E+K equestrian champions

https://eastkingdom.org/EventDetails.php?eid=3506

Greetings all if you on ancestral lands or taking it easy this year, just a couple quick announcements.

Thursday Heavy List practice is on break for the next 2 weeks. Nominally practice starts up again 8/15 but that tends to be more story telling. 8/22 we’ll be going again in earnest.

Please keep an eye out for worthy folks to write in. Their highness are accepting recommendations for there first poll until 8/17.

Thank you

Hi All, First off due to the way Sunday’s fall and the fact the second Sunday of the month is the same weekend as GNE, the july business meeting is the 21st at the Camelot Common house great room (69 Village ct, berlin ma).

Look for Camelot Co-Housing on the directions page, https://quintavia.eastkingdom.org/events-practices/directions/

If you haven’t recently done so, take a look around the Shire and see if you notice anyone doing good work that should be written in for awards. Especially search out the quiet ones 🙂

For a quick refresher on writing someone in, take a look at this post from last year. https://quintavia.eastkingdom.org/writing-folks-in-for-awards/

If you are looking for something to do this long weekend, don’t forget the Weaving day this sunday.

https://www.facebook.com/events/599344500569166/

See you on the field

Please join us June 9th at Fiona’s for the Buisness meeting and then stay for general hanging out, crafting and merriment!

Location 7 Spruce St, Blackstone, MA 01504

Pot Luck lunch, with a grill available. Bring your swim gear it is warm enough. Bring your current project to work on and socialize over 🙂

Hope to see you there 🙂

Matthias

Greetings,

As we shake off the winter now is a good time to see all the activities that the Shire does.

Practices & Meetings

In addition there is a host of Central region events coming up that look fun to play at, including Kingdom Archery and HL champion events.

https://eastkingdom.org/EventListing.php

Even if you don’t partake in the activities, cheering on the participants is always appreciated.

The May business meeting is this sunday from 11Am to 1pm at the Mosaic Common house,
22 Village Ln
Berlin, Massachusetts 01503

All are welcome, there might be mystery snacks…

PS Respond to your polls if you haven’t 🙂

Hi all,

Please feel invited to the annual spring practice this coming 28th/29th.  Spring practice is a chance for new folks to try out activities, experience people to kick the rust off and in general to practice some of what the SCA offers.

The festivities for both days happen at Camelot Cohousing (69 Village Ct, Berlin Ma, 01503)

A general schedule

4/20

Location  Barn and Field next to it

11  — 1pm  Newcomer focused HL activities.  Come try on armor, swing a stick and see if it interests you.

1 – 5pm (ish)  —  Pickups and then Small melee drills  Balfar’s Challenge – SCA Armored Combat)

1 -5pm  Youth fighting activities (assuming parents to help wrangle kids)

Common House

Noon – 5pm.  A+S Project work.  Bring your project to work on and hang out.

5pm+  Potluck

We’ll have some basic grillables, bring something to share or a 5 dollar donation.

4/28 ( note this is a week after the HL Saturday because of scheduling this year)

10am —  1pm  Target Archery.  New and Closer range!

Location  Barn and Field next to it

1pm  — 5pm Fencing Activities.  Singles and then melee drills. Note this is no Sunday practice this week in millbury come here instead 🙂

Common House

Noon – 5pm.  A+S Project work.  Bring your project to work on and hang out.

5pm+  Potluck

We’ll have some basic grillables, bring something to share or a 5 dollar donation.

Thank you

Matthias