The
SCA, or Society for Creative Anachronism Inc.,
is
a non -profit, educational organization whose aims include re-creating the
arts and crafts of the Middle ages up until 1600A.D.
We
get together, learn all sorts of skills and crafts from cooking to
fighting and everything in between, and we have a good time doing it.
We are as much a recreation groups as a re-creation group - that is we do
what we do as much for fun as for authenticity. We have many members
whose aim is to be as authentic as possible in as many ways as
possible. We also have just as many members who are content to
be as authentic as required to give a medieval feel to things while
having a good a time as possible. The choice of your goals is up to
you.
The
only things required are that you at least make an attempt at period garb
("garb" means costume), try to avoid the look and feel of the
modern world (the terms "mundane" or "mundanity"
usually refer to the modern world), and that you be polite to others while
you are doing it. If you want to be a totally authentic person,
fine. If you want to be a barely authentic party animal, fine as well.
We
have a Dream. the Dream of an ideal medieval world where the arts of
war are practiced without death or injury, and the crafts of peace are
taught freely to all. A world of pageantry, where all can aspire to
true nobility.
