Baronial Birthday

Bright Hills Birthday at the Bazaar

Saturday, February 13, 2010
Barony of Bright Hills

Bright Hills is renowned for hospitality, especially with Middle Eastern Flair! Bring your special someone and all your friends and family as we celebrate romance in true SCA style, complete with singing, dancing, learning, and a lavish crusader’s feast! Join the Barony of Bright Hills as we celebrate our Baronial Birthday!

The event officially runs from 10am to 10pm, volunteers for set up and clean up outside of those hours are welcome! Schedule and activity updates will appear on event webpage at: http://parchmentandpcs.com/Pages/birthday.html

Martial activities: Heavy weapons fighting will be held weather permitting, MIC Lady Swieczka Kaim, swieczkahorse@hotmail.com, armor inspection will begin at 11am and the melee and tavern brawl will be followed by extended practice for fighters looking forward to springtime tourney season. Archery will also be held weather permitting, contact Lady Katarzyna Nowina Witkowska at k_hawk_us@yahoo.com

A&S activities: A&S display area will host displays of projects completed or in progress for commentary. Specific competitions will be held as well. We also invite experienced artists to display their arts and documentation to inspire those who are learning how to develop documentation and prepare displays for competition. Bring your project and documentation for display. Contact Mistress Chagan Khulan at chagankhulan@comcast.net (see "Competition Details" below)

A class in Finger Loop Braiding will be offered by Mistress Branwen Wallis, O.L. For those who took Lady Reyne's class on Jan. 29th this is a fine opportunity to broaden your skills. We hope many folks will take advantage of this class and create cords for Their Royal Majesties to give with the various award medallions they will present during their Courts.

Mistress Branwen will be supplying materials. You need bring only a pair of scissors. However, if you wish you may bring materials for additional work after the class. Materials should be 2 skeins of embroidery floss of each color or one ball of number 5 pearl cotton in each color. If possible an RSVP to chagankhulan@comcast.net would be appreciated to be sure enough supplies are on hand.

See the event schedule for class time.

Our Bright Hills Baronial Brewing Champion will be chosen at Birthday so bring your entries! (see "Competition Details" below)

Lord Richard Wynn will host the third annual Bardic at Five Paces- a Bardic Bear Pit competition- come prepared with your best bardic skills! Contact Richard with questions at rickwyn1@aol.com or see "Competition Details" below

Tavern space will also be available for bards to congregate, sing, swap stories, share songs and brew mischief with the Bright Hills “sekunjabin bar” hosted by Lady Livia di Samuele.

Bright Hills heralds will have a consult table open during the day for your herald edification and preparing submission of names and devices.

Children’s activities: We will have the ever popular “children’s corner” and activities will be available through the day. Parents must supervise their child while at children’s corner! No youth minister will be available! The populace will be able to commission valentines made by the quite artistic youth of Bright Hills and all young artists will compete for the favor of the Baroness for their valentines.

Merchants are welcome, and should contact Lady Livia di Samuele, abramsonsm@comcast.net, current merchant listings are available on the event website.

The Saturday lunch will be offered as a fundraiser by the Bright Hills archers. The evening crusader’s feast will be prepared by the famed Bright Hills Cooks Guild with Lords Bruce and Seamus as head cooks. Complete menu is available on the event website, please notify the autocrat of any food allergy issues by February 1^stat the latest.

Cost:

Adult, Member:	$ 8.00 Site
Feast, Adult or Child:	$ 8.00
Adult, Non-Member:	$11.00 Site
Youth (6-17):	$ 5.00 Site
Child (0-5):	$ 0.00 Site (guests of the Barony)

Make Checks Payable To: SCA, Inc., Barony of Bright Hills.

No family (of parents and children) shall pay more than $40 total in site fees.

Total refunds will be available if the reservationist or autocrat receives your request by February 6^th, 2010. Onsite feast refunds are available ONLY if we are able to resell your seat.

RESERVATIONS: Send reservations to Autocrat. Advance reservations for feast are highly recommended as only 10 seats for feast will be available at the door, the only good reservation is a paid reservation, please include your member # and expiration date if you are reserving at the member rate. Registration will be open the day of the event from 10am-4pm.

AUTOCRAT: Lady Faye de Trees (Angela Yau), 1402 Hillside Dr., Bel Air, MD 21015;
Phone: (410) 838-9694; Email: feataure@gmail.com

SITE: Manchester Volunteer Fire Company Social Hall, on fairgrounds at York Street and Locust Street, 3291 York street, Manchester, MD 21102

SITE NOTES: This site is discreetly wet, conforming with all applicable laws. No smoking in any building. No Pets are permitted on site. The building is handicapped accessible and has accessible restrooms.

Directions:

From the South: Take your best route to I-795 northwest of the Baltimore Beltway (I-695) and continue to Exit 9A toward Hanover, merge onto Butler Rd/MD-128/MD-795, Turn left at Hanover Rd./MD-30 and continue 13.4 miles then turn right on York St. and go 0.3 miles to destination on right. The entrance is at the corner of York and Locust streets.

From the North: Take I-83 south to Exit 8 for PA-216 South toward Glen Rock, follow onto PA-216/Sticks School Rd., take Right at PA-516/Lineboro Rd., Continue East on Main St./MD-86, make slight left on Water Tank Rd., continue straight onto Millers Stations Rd., continue on York St. to destination on left.