Hello Altavia!
This month started off with Potrero War down in Calafia. It was wonderful to get to camp with a bunch of the populace members in our baronial encampment. A big thank you to Petrusha for being our Camp Master and helping to find us a new spot to try out for this year. I think everyone had a great time at War trying out a bit of everything. We had people on both melee Fields, the archery range, lots of bardic circles and performances, and of course, volunteering throughout the war. It was great to see people finding joy in helping out in so many different ways throughout the event in addition to enjoying taking part in many of the activities offered.
For my part, I took the war to run the long archery range, and give as many people as possible the chance to shoot Royal rounds. I had archers shoot a total of 131 royal rounds. Everyone shot at least two, and a bunch of people shot a lot more than that. With all of this we had 8 archers gain new ranks; 3 new Bowman in Open handbow, 4 new Yeoman in Open Handbow, and one new Bowmaster in Period Crossbow, as well as a bunch of people who shot their first ever royal rounds.
The next weekend after we came back we jumped right into St. Jude’s fundraiser tournament in Angels. This is always a fun, energetic event with a great cause. Our Barony ran a photo booth stand, and a bunch of the other baronies and groups ran other booths including an RBG shooting gallery, a plate breaking booth, bowling for Peers and many others. The event was a great success, raising over $15,000 for St Jude’s Children’s Hospital.
Crescent Artisan happened for the second time ever this past weekend and was a day full of really interesting unique classes as well as some gorgeous art displays. I think having both the judged competition art displays and the classes for the rest of the populace to engage with was a great idea and a fun way for people to interact with the Arts at different levels.
We wrapped up the month with Archery practice on Sunday with 17 archers and we ran seven of them through an IKAC, getting Altavia on the board for the year with some scores. I’m always happy to see our archers doing some of the inter-kingdom competitions as well as having fun practicing and honing their skills.
Looking forward to the next month, which will wrap up with Coronation. If anyone would like to donate largesse to the incoming King and Queen, please reach out to me. I know that they will be thrilled to receive anything that people would like to make or donate and that they are especially focusing on youth activities and youth participation for the next Reign, so largesse with that in mind would be especially wonderful.
In Service to the Dream,
Baroness Amabel Radleigh
