Event Steward Notification Form

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This is the web site for the barony of Politarchopolis, geographically located in Canberra, Australia. For more information, follow the links to Information, Contacts and our list of regular and special Events.

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Event Notification

If you're lined up to run a feast, tourney or other event, you will want it to appear on this website. The quickest way to make that happen is to fill out this form as accurately as possible and click Send. Your information will be sent to the Deputy Hierophant, who will stick it on the calendar.

This form looks long because of all the explanatory notes, but it isn't really. You should have all this information at your fingertips anyway.

Event Scheduling

Concise name of event:

Good: "St Valentine's Feast", "Le Crapaud Tourney"; Bad: "Ye Olde Feast of Saints Ambrosius and Goneril, Featuring A Visit From The Baron and Baroness, Competitions..." (etc etc etc)

Dates:

Please use Common Era/Anno Domini years (2008, 2009...) not Anno Societatis (XLII, XLIII...). For recurring events, describe how it recurs: "First Sunday of the month", "Every second Tuesday from 15 Jan", etc.

Times:

For example: "Armour inspection 10am, tourney starts noon", "Arrive 6.30pm, first course 7.15, lights on 10.30"

Venue:

In mundane terms only. Good: "42 Snood St, Charnwood"; Bad: "Castle DoomFang". Include state if not ACT.

Google Maps link:

Optional (but very helpful): 1. Go to maps.google.com. 2. Find the venue. 3. Click "Link to this page". 4. Copy and paste the text labelled "Paste link in email or IM" here.

Price:

Typically something like "$10 members/$12 non-members". We can assume that comments like "family rate on application", "hardship cases will be considered" and so on are universal and therefore don't need to be repeated here.

Bookings

Bookings To:

Give your mundane and SCA names, ideally in the form Frederick von Bedrock (Fred Nurk).

Email:

Leave blank if the bookings officer doesn't have reliable email that gets checked at least daily.

Contact details:

Only put contact details here that the bookings officer is happy to have placed on a publicly viewable website.

Bookings are...

Please don't choose the last one. It limits your attendance remarkably. Talk to the Reeve about getting a float to cover early costs.

Last date for bookings:

Standard policy is: bookings after this date count as "at the door", and may be turned away; if you book and don't cancel by this date, you may be asked to pay anyway.

More Information

Short description:

This should be two or three short sentences at most, using modern English. Good: "Pot luck feast with an eastern theme. Bring cushions and wall hangings." Or "Tourneys for heavy combat and rapier. Duke Cornelius will give instruction. New fighters welcome." Bad: Absolutely anything beginning with "Come, good gentles all, ...".

Web page:

If the event has a dedicated web page advertising it (and if not, why not?) put the precise URL here.

This will appear on the events page pretty much exactly like this:

[Concise Name Of Event]: [Short Description]. [Price].; Bookings [Required] by [Date] to [Bookings Officer] ([Booking Contacts]).; [Venue]; [Dates] [Times]; [Web Site Link]

Remember: the goal is to provide essential information about an event, not to advertise it. You should have advertising flyers, information in Griffintayle and possibly even a web page about it elsewhere. The events page here is only a memory jogger and a pointer to those other resources.

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News

Bookings Policy

The barony has a Bookings Policy for its events, but it's still unofficial. Take a look, and let the Seneschal know if you have any suggestions.

Officers' Blogs

Every baronial officer is now welcome to set up a blog, or web log, to communicate with the barony about their portfolio. If you're an officer, you can use your blog to keep in touch with the barony and with the seneschal and baron and baroness, so they know what you're up to. Owain is quite happy to take your blog posts as your official report, if you keep them reasonably up to date.

As a service to the barony while the sca.org.au server waits for an upgrade, Karl Faustus von Aachen is hosting the blogs on his personal website. Once the sca.org.au server is upgraded, the blogs will move over there, but all the old content will be carried over.

Check out the list of officers' blogs here.

Help With Heraldry

Jehan de Bonifacio writes: For those who are wanting to work on their own device (it's soooo pretty to see all those banners and shields) there are ~~342~~680 (new version!) pages of traceable heraldry at the Æthelmearc College of Heralds website. [NOTE: PDF file; requires Acrobat Reader or equivalent.]

Each blazon has a couple of pages with a wide range of sizes for you to use, rather than having to scale your pictures up and down by hand. The best thing is that all the pictures come from approved devices so it is mauch easy to get your device submission approved.

Photo Gallery

The latest addition to the site is the photo gallery. If you have any photos you'd like to add, please contact the Hierophant. And if there are photos of you that you don't want on the site, let him know that too and he'll take them down.

We're still missing a lot of the attribution and copyright details for the existing photos. If you're the photographer or you own the rights to any of these photos, please get in touch to confirm their status.