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- From: amy@lloyd.Camex.COM (Amy Lindsay)
- Subject: Crafts at Events (wasRe: Authenticity vs. fantasy)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.155347.11936@lloyd.Camex.COM>
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- References: <199211130151.AA26701@meryl.csd.uu.se> <1992Nov18.054535.15835@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:53:47 EST
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- In article <1992Nov18.054535.15835@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin) writes:
- **Thomas' description of doing art in persona at Crown Tourney deleted**
-
- When I was more involved in the SCA, I used to take my loom with me to
- outdoor events. I would sit with my friends (who were usually doing some
- kind of handwork,) and we would talk and enjoy the weather (and whatever
- sports were happening at the event...) and "have a picnic."
-
- Sometimes people would come over to us and ask about what we were doing,
- and sometimes they wouldn't. It wasn't the purpose of the doing of the
- handicrafts, anyway. The topics were sort of what people would discuss in
- period (politics in the kingdom, who was doing what to whom...:)) We did do
- some singing. (You sort of HAVE to when you weave, I think it's a
- requirement...) And some of us were a LITTLE more in persona than
- others...
-
- I don't think anyone ever asked us if we was selling things because we were
- never set up terribly close to the merchants. Also, the fact that there
- was always more than one of us, and we were all doing different things
- probably lent us an air of "we're doing this because we do this" as opposed
- to "look at me because I have something to sell you."
-
- Next time maybe you could get a couple of your friends and set up a little
- demo area, sort of a "Ephemeral Enchanted Ground" for the day. It would
- make it alot easier to stay in persona.
-
- It was interesting that you tried to stay in persona and speak that way.
- That could be somewhat intimidating in itself, and perhaps no one who
- noticed you felt they could converse on that standard (except for the one
- Bozo who you described,) so they didn't come over to talk to you. At Renn
- Fairs, people know you don't expect them to be medieval, sometimes in the
- SCA, you're not quite sure what others expect of you, or if they'll be
- offended if you don't deliver.
-
- Anyway, take it as a compliment that he thought your stuff was good enough
- he was interested in purchasing it. In period, you would probably have
- been interested in selling it. Try it again at some other event and see
- if people behave differently.
- --erill
-
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