[Artemisia] Carnevale di Venezia! (Please cross Post)

[John Farmer]

Carnevale di Venezia!
a masked ball
Barony of Arn Hold
(Boise, ID)
January 30, 2010
 
In Arn Hold, we hold a masked ball sometime after Christmas and before Shrove Tuesday.  Since this habit is the same as that in Venice, we have adopted that as this year's theme:  Carnival in Venice  or in the Venetian dialect, 
Carnevale di Venezia!.
 
Like Carnevale, we will have music, dancing and performers! 
On the Piazza, live music by Tempus Perfectum will be for your dancing pleasure.
 
Also will have three sets of dance to include old favorites and recent introductions of Italian dance.  If you have not been to dance practice regularly, the dances will be run through with instruction before the ball from 2-6 pm.  
 
Since this is a Masked Ball in Venice during Carnevale, masks are highly encouraged on the Piazza.
If you do not have one, masks will be available ($2 - proceeds going to the Dance Guild)
 
Between dancing sets, the annual Lord and Lady of Color contest will be a "liston maschere" or parade of masks to pick the best dressed of Arn Hold.
 
And what would Carnevale be with out singers and storytellers.  Enjoy the performances of  Arn Hold's finest as they ply their bardic abilities to earn the champion's cloak in the Bard of Arn Hold competition.
 
Of course no festival is complete with out food and drink.  In the fine Italian tradition, selected morsels will be provided by the Cooks Guild from the Epulario - an Italian feast manual.
 
To get you in the spirt of competition for Estrella, there will be a populace vote competition for the best place setting.  Is your feast gear period?  Tell us about it.  Did you find some period looking plates on sale at a department store?  Show them off!  Inspire others to round out their kit by showing them what is possible.
 
Site fee: $5.00   Children 0-5: free   Family Cap: $20
Make checks payable to "Barony of Arn Hold SCA Inc"
Site is dry, no pets allowed
Site opens at noon for set-up,  Dance practice begins at 2pm.  
Registration opens at 6pm.  Clean-up starts ~ 10pm 
 
Directions
Odd Fellows Lodge (2nd Floor)
600 N Curtis Rd, Boise ID
 
Take your best route to Boise on I-84
Take the I-184 exit (exit 50A) into downtown
Take Exit 2 (N Curtis Rd)
Turn Right (South)
You will pass St Alphonsus hospital on your right
Cross Emerald St (four way traffic light)
The Odd Fellows Lodge is in the first office building on your left after crossing Emerald.
There is elevator access to the 2nd floor.
 
SCA signs will be posted from I-184
 
Autocrat: Signoria Xeno della Lama (Rod Eggleston) 208.608.1781 (old.xeno at gmail.com)
Feast Steward: HL Elighe MacDonnal (Nancy Parker) 208.724.0348 (nparker4 at mindspring.com)
MOAS:  Countess Esebell Grant (Sharon Cates) (sxcscates at hotmail.com)
 
Crash space?  contact the autocrat!   Hope to see you in disguise at the Ball!
 
Additional info:
 
So you can practice, the dance sets listed below:
 
Belle Qui
Horses Bransle
Gathering Peascods
Petite Vrien
 
Black Alamande
The De Medici Circle Dance
Rufty Tufty
Amoroso
 
Mannschaft
Picking Up Sticks
Geliosia
Korobushka
 
 
 
 
 
 

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"Quick, hide behind the mound of dead bards!"
-Flynn the Fine (The Gamers: Dorkness Rising)