Chronicler: Aurelia Colleoni a’Buccafurno
Sunday, September 26, 2021
In Attendance: Laura Flintbrook of Panther Vale, Aurelia Colleoni a’Buccafurno, Laura, Margaret, Rosaline, Alida di Conti, Zophia, Angie, Aelinor Hathaway, Edward Talbot, Tib, Vopiscus, Siubhan Wallace, Ivan*, Julian McBane*, K’tusha*, Ruadhnait
*attended virtually
Agenda
- Review of Meeting Minutes From Last Meeting
- Officer Elections
- Minister of Arts and Sciences – Aelinor Hathaway
- Minister of the Lists – Alida di Conti
- Chronicler – no one volunteered, so the position will be posted online
- Web Minister – Brita
- Seneschal – Aurelia Colleoni a’Buccafurno
- Panther Vale Homecoming
- Walk through happened last weekend. People who are running things were there to figure out spacing and locations.
- Staff can show up at 9am. Site opens at 10am.
- Archery and thrown weapons will be set up the day before.
- We do not need the pickle.
- Laura will bring her net.
- Archery and thrown weapons will be set up the day before.
- A&S Display only, not a competition. Please bring tokens to share with artists.
- Siubhan will be making apple cider on site if people would like to bring apples.
- Siubhan will bring tea and coffee service.
- We need to make sure people are following mask rules.
- We will see what we can throw together for site tokens.
- Yule and 12th Night Planning
- Crown has asked for more Northern region events.
- Panther Vale is considering running Kingdom 12th Night
- It’s usually in January, so we are looking at January 8th or 15th
- Barre Auditorium is available both weekends, and it is a site we have used before for this.
- $2k starting price, depending on how much of it we rent
- Site requires us to hire police and have alcohol purchased there.
- Looking for this to be a breakeven event with caps.
- Rena is interested in being the official mask compliance officer for this event.
- We need to decide what the event size limit and cap.
- We will check in with EK and other groups to see how they handled events with feasts and mask mandates.
- Popular opinion sounds like we want to hold both, a smaller Yule for just local people.
- The space requires us to spend all day setting the site up on Friday.
- Two options:
- Have a work party Yule celebration on Friday night.
- Freehold has asked if they should run Yule this year because last year’s Yule was supposed to be run by them, and they held a small virtual gathering. Ask Freehold if they’d like to take it on this year since we will most likely be holding 12th Night.
- Vote passes to hold EK 12th Night.
- We will be putting in a bid for 12th Night on January 8th.
- Laura will be contacting Freehold.
- We will explore Covid contingencies.
- Siubhan volunteers to autocrat the event. Alida and Rosaline will be deputy autocrats.
- Friday night work party still.
- Studium Generale
- March event again The Space on Main in Bradford
- Zofia will autocrat
- Panteria
- Site still has our money and is holding our spot. They have been really good with COVID.
- Margaret and Vopiscus are still co-autocrating.
- Pricing should be the same, as long as the site pricing does not change.
- Other Business
- The Pickle
- Needs repairs, especially on the roof.
- We have voted to authorize up to $250 for repairs.
- Needs to be inventoried.
- We need to set a date.
- October 16th.
- Needs repairs, especially on the roof.
- Shire Showers
- Group voted to get rid of them.
- Call for Inventories
- Do you currently have shire gear? Please let it be known.
- The Pickle
- Set Meetings for Next Year
- Friday of 12th Night, January 7th, during work day, at night. Subject to change.