Oo!Oo! I have an Idea! :-)
May. 24th, 2006 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
callistotoniLooks like there will be a rapier event in August at Ed Levin Park, and rswtr has asked me to head up 'genteel activites' for the non-fighters.
Ed Levin Park will be *hellishly* hot in August. Trust me, I know--that's where my barn is. So I'm thinking that no one--including me--is going to want to wear nice 16th C dress a la the Salon. First I thought we could set up board games in the shade, since noone is going to want to be too active. Get in contact with Utatime and get her recipe for the drinks she offered at the Salon because we're going to want that stuff by the gallon. But, overall, hot weather and 16th C court activities are not a good match.
And then it came to me: We all know that Greek mythology was all the rage. So we could have Nyads! We could set up a plastic kids wading pool (which are cheap--I used to get them for Thorvald of blessed memory), wrap it in sheets and garlands, and voila, a pool to cool one's feet off in! We can tell people to wear bathing suits under thier shirts/chemises , supply garlands from Michels and have people wrap themselves accordingly (think Botechelli's muses), and we have greek water nymphs! We can challange people to write rapier-fighter poems that integrate greek mythological imagery! Nyads can offer to spray people with cleverly disguised water bottles! Maybe we can have "Poseidon" open the days activities! It could be silly and fun!
An alternative greeky-rennaissancey-water theme would be Diana bathing. Perhalps the rapier folks could fight to defend Diana's honor? So much we could do with this. And I don't think it would be hard/costly, as long as we keep it silly.
Ed Levin Park will be *hellishly* hot in August. Trust me, I know--that's where my barn is. So I'm thinking that no one--including me--is going to want to wear nice 16th C dress a la the Salon. First I thought we could set up board games in the shade, since noone is going to want to be too active. Get in contact with Utatime and get her recipe for the drinks she offered at the Salon because we're going to want that stuff by the gallon. But, overall, hot weather and 16th C court activities are not a good match.
And then it came to me: We all know that Greek mythology was all the rage. So we could have Nyads! We could set up a plastic kids wading pool (which are cheap--I used to get them for Thorvald of blessed memory), wrap it in sheets and garlands, and voila, a pool to cool one's feet off in! We can tell people to wear bathing suits under thier shirts/chemises , supply garlands from Michels and have people wrap themselves accordingly (think Botechelli's muses), and we have greek water nymphs! We can challange people to write rapier-fighter poems that integrate greek mythological imagery! Nyads can offer to spray people with cleverly disguised water bottles! Maybe we can have "Poseidon" open the days activities! It could be silly and fun!
An alternative greeky-rennaissancey-water theme would be Diana bathing. Perhalps the rapier folks could fight to defend Diana's honor? So much we could do with this. And I don't think it would be hard/costly, as long as we keep it silly.
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