While the re-enactment scene in New Zealand is nowhere near as busy as the one in Europe there are still a fair number of events that happen. I mostly attend SCA ones, but there are also a number others that I try to get to when I can. This is a record of the various events.
St Catherines Faire and the Bal d' Argent 2016
The weekend of the 5th and 6th November was Ildhafn’s annual St Catherines Faire. Normally this event runs in December but this year it was in early November. As part of the event, Ildhafn hosted the Bal d’Argent. This is the annual ball of the guild of the Silver Rondel, Lochac’s official dance guild. This meant that most of the weekend was devoted to music and dance practice, with the main ball being on the Saturday night, This was exciting for us as we have been dancing with the SCA for almost 3 years now and we have been hosting the Ildhafn music group for over a year.
Labour Weekend 2016
As we have been doing lots with the SCA here we haven’t done much actual living history camping where you have no modern conveniences. This weekend will be different. Master Ed Braythwayte of the SCA is once again hosting a camp at his property but this year he has deemed that the house is off limits, except for the toilet. There is access to fresh water as well but aside from that everything will be stored, prepared, cooked or worked on in camp. There will be no modern tools, like gas cookers or torches. so it is back to open fires and candle light
St Johns 2015
Over the weekend of the 10th – 12th July we attended the annual Cluain event of St Johns.
This is an SCA camp held in the Waikato region. While normally we would take our tent and camp we decided to make use of the bunk rooms available at the site, and it was very fortunate that we did as temperatures over the weekend dropped to around -2. Fortunately both the main hall and bunk rooms were nice and warm once the heaters got started.
Waikato Waldorf Festival 2014 Review
The Waikato Waldorf Festival is a 1-day event at the Waikato Waldorf school. It is one of the main fundraisers and is always themed medieval. We have attended as part of the living history village for the past few years.
This year the village was organised in a timeline from Roman to Renaissance. we were part of the high medieval area. As usual, we had the space trades set up, unfortunately, this year the weather didn’t play nicely so we moved the stall inside the tent for protection. Alongside this, I was making a leather box for a friend of ours.