21 July 2007 - Dress Rehearsal & Village Feastday

This weekend, our guildmaster and his lovely guildmistress hosted the First Annual St Brigid's Hearth Practice & Feast Day in thier garden.  To fully replicate the faire environment there was copious amounts of food, beer, mead, pop-up tents, Cassie as our very own patron ("They didn't really have spoons back then"  "They wouldn't have done it that way, I saw a movie once where they...") and as a special treat, even a hive of hornets especially brought in to make the event a true dress rehearsal for faire (where there be dragons aplenty)! 

There was stew in a burbling cauldron (okay, a dutch oven, but whose counting), marinaded chickens, mountains of bread, handpies, beautiful deserts, and the gathered fruits of our fields.  Games ensued, leading with a rousing round of favors and forfeits courtesy of the illustrious and delightfully middle-class Mistress Mel of the Guild of Pleasant Pastymes!  

As an added treat, our new folk from the far Southern Country, Cassie and Mike, graciously volunteered to give their Improv class and much hilarity ensued!

 
The villagers danced until it began to rain on our peasanty heads, and every helped clean up and all was well in the shire!

HUZZAH!!!  The Villagers are ready for faire!!!

 

19 May 2007 -Guildmeeting, Improv Class, Dancing Practice

Meeting Minutes - For those who could not attend

Projects & Status

  •  A REMINDER: We are currently running on a debit-budget. Any markers incurred must be held until we are paid after faire. Do NOT spend any money you want reimbursed without Scott's OK. The goal is to go into next season with a bit tucked away so we will have an ACTUAL budget to work from.
  • LAST CALL for projects needing building. If you need cooler covers, get your measurements to Chris Dellert.  He will get to them as his busy schedule permits.
  • THE WHEEL BARROW & FENCING are nearing completion.  The wheelbarrow will (hopefully) be finished in time to participate in the Gig Harbor Maritime Festival Parade.  The fencing will be completed by the time it is needed at faire.
  • OVEN a source of clay has been located and the prototype will be undertaken soon.  Help will be needed in this project (MMmmm nummy bread for those who participate!) details to follow as soon as the clay is procured.

Gigs

Prospective Members

  •  Mike Robles formerly of the Monger's Guild & Puritans of RPFS visited the meeting and participated in our Gary Izzo improv class.

 

 

Dancing practice

  • The guild is learning "Gathering Peascods" to perform at faire and events... practice was abbreviated due to rain...

 

 

21 April 2007 - Public Appearance
Daffodil Festival in Tacoma, Washington

We learned last year at this event that most of the people who show up from the Performing Arts Department at WRFF are villagers.  No stones thrown, simply a fact of life for this event.  We get out- numbered at other events, I'm sure.   

 Because it isn't really faire, and it isn't an event where we can bring our gear and really set up the whole peasant yard and whatnot (HELLO concrete!)  this year at Daffodil Festival, we freed ourselves from our standard characters for the most part and some of the guild took the opportunity to bring their biggest, boldest ensembles out of the trunk and show 'em what a cross-section of faire is really all about!

The weather was drizzly, but that didn't keep our new selection of pirates and pretty dresses out of circulation!

Once again, our old buddy photographer Chris Yetter (follow link) paid us a visit and took the only known photos of the fabled "Villager Knot"!  A fun interactive gig made all the more difficult by big hats and hoopskirts!  What troopers!

Of course we still managed to draw some of our core cast of mischiefmakers, including the ubiquitous Calabash, the Dellert urchins and others.  Many ropes were jumped, nine men were morrised, glass was stained and afterwards... well, afterwards a good deal of spaghetti was eaten!

Huzzah the daffodil festival!

 Posts from 2006 have been moved to the Archives