A couple of big equestrian happenings in the next few weeks here in the Midrealm and I wanted to make sure everyone got the information about those events that needed them. Also a few other notes down in there somewhere. I will be sharing this information elsewhere as well so that everyone knows.
Immediate Upcoming Events:
Crystal Chamfron – Not Just Horsin’ Around is coming up first. The event is out on the western edge of the kingdom and will be occurring June 25-27. I went out last year and had a blast. The group out there is very enjoyable company and very good competition as well. (I would go again this year, but Border Raids is the same weekend and I think I should make an appearance as it is just down the road.
Middle Kingdom Equestrian Symposium is a few weeks after that over the 4th of July weekend (July 2-4). A new idea and one I am totally behind. It will be a day of classes both mounted and dismounted covering a variety of things regarding SCA equestrian. I have not seen a complete list of classes, but I know that it includes some basics of getting your horse reading for an event to what is involved in becoming and equestrian marshal. I have just this evening cleared my schedule to attend the event and I will be present a class or two myself (at this point I am do not know if it will be with horses in tow or not). Regardless, I encourage everyone to make it out and it is in a very central location near Lafayette, Indiana.
The following weekend of July 9-11 will see the equestrians at the Siege of Talonvale. The last couple of years the focus has been jousting due to the attendees having that as a primary interests. I will be the equestrian marshal for the event and would love to do some of the more traditional games if there are those attending that will have horses and are interested. Additionally, we will be doing a balsa wood joust demonstration/tournament, the newest experimental activating allowed to us SCA equestrians.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- I am getting access to the page that you land on if you click equestrian on the new (and improved) Midrealm website. I will only have a few short pieces of information there and still point things to our primary webpage (which will hopefully be found more often that way).
- There is going to be a slight schedule change on the reporting for marshals coming in the near future. Expect it move up by a couple of weeks, as my superiors need reporting information before I am getting myself. I will be conferring with regional and senior marshals about this shortly.
- Speaking of which, at the symposium I would like to met with all marshals attending for about thirty minutes at some point. We can work this out from a time perspective in the near future. Just know I am looking forward to that.
- I look forward to seeing everyone in the near future at one of the events listed above or some other event that we have such an opportunity for otherwise.
