Dreamstone Activities

Activities

We are offering travel-focused classes and amusements, with heavy and rapier tournament fighting, arts and science activities (including a brewing competition), feasting, dancing, and revelry. There will be a fiber arts solar hosted on the field during the day. Activities may change, depending on the weather.

A&S Contests

4 p.m. (entries due)
Bard’s Poetry Competition
When April with his showers sweet with fruit
The drought of March has pierced to the root,
Then travel folks from barony and shire,
To test their bladework skills with hearts afire.
For others, though, the flame is in the head:
Wordcrafters game to wield their thoughts instead.
I challenge you to bend your mental pow’rs
To crafting poems in your leisure hours.
The chiefest stipulation of the rhymes:
The subject, which must be of travel times.
For journeys great or small are fertile ground
For sowing phrases light or thoughts profound.
I pray thee, come to Dreamstone with a verse;
It matters not if flowery or terse.
To entertain the people is our aim;
We pay our bards with prizes and with fame!

Afternoon (TBA)
The Barons and Baronesses’ Brewing Competiton
A Bryn Madoc classic is returning! Judged on the field during the day. No distillation, only fermentation brewing. Two categories, Open and Historical. For both, all ingredients must be listed for allergy purposes. For Historical, documentation is optional, but entrants must be able to at least discuss the historical context of their entry.

For the Open category, our panel of Baronesses will confer with one another, and give a score based on 1) how tasty the thing is, and 2) how representative it is of what the person says it is. For example, if it’s a blueberry mead, does it taste like blueberry mead? This will be judged as a team, so even if one member of the panel doesn’t like that category of drink as a whole, it won’t hurt the entrant’s score.
For the Historical category, points will be awarded on taste, representation of stated category, and description of historic context.

Classes

10 a.m.
Spinning 201 — Beginning Linen
Instructor: THLady Robin de Shelladh
Flax spinning basics. Preparing stricks for spinning, dressing a distaff, an alternate way to spin without a distaff, and why a bath towel is your friend. Stricks of unspun linen are available for purchase ($10).
Location: Fiber Arts Solar pavilion on field

11 a.m.
Costuming on a Budget
Instructor: Magestra Allessandra Giovanna Fioravanti
You have the basics to make it through an event, but what now? In this class we will discuss steps and resources or achieving your clothing dreams when money is tight.
Location: Main Hall

1 p.m.
Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages
Instructor: Thegn Dyfn
A discussion of religious travels around England, Europe, and the Levant
Location: Main Hall

2 p.m.
Animals on the Silk Road
Instructor: Liv Iverdatter
A focus on the Silk Road with discussion about silk moths, butterflies, and turtles; also their use in marginalia
Location: Main Hall

3 p.m.
Belt Reliquaries
Instructor: Lord Gaius Nautius Maximus
A make & take class where you will decorate a personal belt reliquary. Bring your own tiny fragment of significance to inter… or use a genuine, authentic 3D printed finger bone! Safety note: We will be using totally period hot glue guns, which can be a burn hazard.
Age limit: 16 and up
Participants limit: 6, although more can watch
Location: Main Hall

Heavy / Armored Combat

SATURDAY
9 a.m.
Armor inspection

10 a.m.
Bridesmaid Tourney
Open to any fighter who has never before won a tournament. Show up, get your fight on if you’re eligible, or cheer on the up and coming fighters in the Kingdom.

11 a.m.
Dreamstone Tourney
This is a no-frills, double-elimination tournament, open to any fighter and any weapon style. Bring your best, and join the list of legends that have achieved victory on this field.

1 p.m.
Great Weapons Tourney
Bring your full gauntlets and favorite great weapons. Show your love for big armaments!

3 p.m.
Barons’ Prize Tournament
For this tournament, a heavy fighter will pair with a rapier fighter. Participants will fight against their respective opponents on another team. If both fighters of a team win their bout, it will constitute a loss for the opposing team in that round. If the outcome is even (i.e., one teammate wins their bout while the other loses), then both pairs will reset on their respective fields, and fight their opponents simultaneously. When one person on either field has been struck, both bouts will end, with the team receiving the touch having lost that round.

Rapier Combat

SATURDAY
8 a.m.
Armor inspection

9 a.m.
First Mate Tournament
This tournament will be fought as 2 vs. 2 melees, either as a single elimination bracket or a round robin depending on the number of participants. All standard rapier equipment is permitted, with the exception of RBGs. Teams must consist of one novice fencer and one senior fencer. Depending on attendance, “novice fencers” will be determined either by rapier awards or by years of fencing experience.

10 a.m.
Weighted Targets Double Elim
This tournament will be fought as a double elimination bracket, and will be an obligate single sword tournament. Draw cuts are disallowed for this tournament, only point actions will be scored. Infighting or corps-a-corps actions are disallowed and will result in a halt.

Bouts will be fought first to six points. Touches to the arm and hands will score one point each, and touches to the torso or head will score 3 points. Touches below the waist will not score.

1 p.m.
Saber and Backsword Tournament
This will be an obligate cut and thrust tournament, with equipment restricted to sabers and backswords alone. Two sabers will be provided by the Athens School of Arms for fencers wishing to participate but who lack their own sabers. Offhand devices are disallowed. The tournament will be fought in a round robin format.

Conventions for this tournament will allow for full body targeting, with the bout fought first to 3 points. All valid blows will score one point. In the case of double hits, all valid blows will score.

3 p.m.
Barons’ Prize Tournament
For this tournament, a rapier fighter will pair with a heavy fighter. Participants will fight against their respective opponents on another team. If both fighters of a team win their bout, it will constitute a loss for the opposing team in that round. If the outcome is even (i.e., one teammate wins their bout while the other loses), then both pairs will reset on their respective fields, and fight their opponents simultaneously. When one person on either field has been struck, both bouts will end, with the team receiving the touch having lost that round.

Youth Activities

Youth activities will be offered.