*–Facebook Group All times are Central Time unless otherwise noted.
Nordskogen
*Nordskogen Social Practice Online via Zoom, 3rd Wed., 7-8:30pm (may run longer)
Next online social practice: May 21, 2025 (business meeting at 7:30pm).
Join us for an online gathering via Zoom. The meeting invitation will be posted in a pinned post in the Facebook discussion group at the link above and also will be posted to our Baronial email discussion group. Please remember that you are muted when you join in. Video is encouraged but not required. Drop in and out as you wish.
Online Arts and Sciences Competition—February 2025
Nordskogen on Discord
After that, you can follow this link and see messages on the Nordskogen Channel.
Nordskogen Special Interest Facebook Groups
Barony of Nordskogen Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Nordskogen
Canton of Nordleigh
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Nordleigh
Nordskogen Archery
https://www.facebook.com/groups/304828682244883
Nordskogen Armoured Combat
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Nordskogen.armored
Nordskogen Dancers
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1587325938146072
Nordskogen Group Camping
https://www.facebook.com/groups/7456272577774535
Nordskogen Rapier Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/nordskogen.fencing
Nordskogen Thrown Weapons
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1697917837116667
Northshield Activities, Classes, and Events
Northshield on Discord
After that, you can follow this link and see messages on the Northshield Unofficial Discord Server.
Ethereal Stellar University of Northshield, Nov. 6-9, 2023
Virtual A&S Display—Entries from the June 1, 2024 Northshield Arts and Sciences Competition
Northshield Royal Activities, Courts, and Events Send in award recommendations!
*Their Royal Majesties of Northshield’s Website
Past Ethereal and Live Northshield Courts Available Online
(Live courts are double starred.)
Schützenfest and Mermaids Retreat, May 29, 2020
Border Skirmish, Castle Fever, Castel Rouge 50th, June 13, 2020
Warriors and Warlords, July 11, 2020
All Garbed Up and Nowhere To Go, Aug. 22, 2020
Venturing Forth, September 26, 2020
It’s the GREAT Nordfest, Charlie Brúnn, Oct. 24, 2020
SUN Court, Saturday, November 14, 2020
Boar’s Head Court–This Little Piggie Stayed Home, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020
The Elevation of Eyja Bassadóttir to the Order of the Laurel, Sunday, December 20, 2020
Queen’s Prize, Saturday, February 13, 2021
Royal Birthday Court, Saturday, April 10, 2021
Feast of the Venerable Bede, May 22, 2021
**Elevation of Dane of Needham to the Order of Chivalry, June 12, 2021
**Courts at Northshield Crown Tournament and Crown Tourney Itself, June 19, 2021
Royal Court at Wishes and Waiting, Sunday, July 11, 2021
**Fall Crown Tournament: Morning Court and Tournament, Saturday, October 9, 2021
**Fall Crown Tournament: Evening Court, Saturday, October 9, 2021
Royal Court at the Feast of Isabelle, Saturday, February 26, 2022
**Spring Crown Tournament, Saturday, May 14, 2022
**Spring Crown Tournament: Afternoon Court, Saturday, May 14, 2022
**Crown Tournament: Saturday, September 10, 2022
**Fall Coronation: Saturday, September 10, 2022
**Fall Crown: Saturday, October 8, 2022
Northshield Special Interest Facebook Groups
Anglo-Saxons of Northshield and Friends
https://www.facebook.com/groups/279315155938918
The Army of Northshield
https://www.facebook.com/groups/656097414404272/
Artillery Arts Martial in Northshield
https://www.facebook.com/groups/144334776010909
Clan Blue Feather
https://www.facebook.com/groups/683301623830034
Companions of the Stellar Hart (Northshield Courtesans)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NorthshieldCourtesans
Kingdom of Northshield Glass Workers
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1529244790687790
Northshield Arts and Sciences
https://www.facebook.com/groups/532690726749947
Northshield Bards
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1552940374967878
Northshield Barter and Trade
https://www.facebook.com/groups/469057956444539
NorthShield Black Griffin
https://www.facebook.com/groups/733902189960294
Northshield Brewer’s Guild
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1702958423277864/
Northshield Brigits Flame
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NSBrigitsFlame
Northshield College of Heralds
https://www.facebook.com/groups/308940499761457
Northshield College of Scribes
https://www.facebook.com/groups/107714786015764
Northshield Combat Archery/Siege
https://www.facebook.com/groups/569152006574803
Northshield Cooks
https://www.facebook.com/groups/706755262740309
Northshield Early Music
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1219008355459586
Northshield Equestrians
https://www.facebook.com/groups/111719882243075
Northshield Farming Guild
https://www.facebook.com/groups/855993841238202/
Northshield Hand of Tyr
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NShandoftyr
Northshield History
https://www.facebook.com/NorthshieldHistory
Northshield “I Am No Bro” Interdisciplinary Fighter Squadron
https://www.facebook.com/groups/iamnobro/
The Northshield Inn
https://www.facebook.com/groups/462797700463779/
Northshield Moneyer’s Guild
https://www.facebook.com/groups/477072765762866/
Northshield Rebated Steel Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/220595020772855
Northshield Youth Boffer Combat
https://www.facebook.com/groups/479972685536766
Unofficial Northshield Forester’s Guild
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1247898808582127/
Unofficial Northshield Marshals and MOTs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1975515086007887
Unofficial Northshield Rapier Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/GriffinRapierArmy
Unofficial Northshield Seneschal Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2339525366083880
Greater SCA
Lists of Events and Classes–General
SCA Classes On YouTube
(List maintained by Countess Jehanette)
Events and Classes–Ongoing
ARTemisia Virtual University
Dahrien’s List of Online Bardic Circles
Barony of Lyondemere Monthly Virtual Arts & Sciences Nights, 9-11pm
Registration at this link is required in order to get all class updates and Zoom links. Zoom links will be posted close to the actual meeting. The rest of the 2025 dates are: June 20, July 18, Aug. 15, Sept. 19, Oct. 17, and Nov. 21.
Welcome to the Barony of Lyondemere’s Arts and Sciences monthly Virtual A&S Nights. We are excited to be able to host historical pre-17th century online classes, covering many subjects that are relevant to any history or SCA enthusiast. Meetings are usually the third Friday of the month, starting at 9-11PM (or ending earlier) Central time. All are welcome to these online classes. You do not need to be a paying member of the SCA or part of the Barony of Lyondemere to enjoy these classes.
If you’d like to teach a class, have feedback or have any questions, please feel free to Private Message Mercy Neumark through Facebook or you can email direct at artsandsciences@lyondemere.sca-caid.org
The schedule of classes and class descriptions is currently hosted on the Baronial website at: https://lyondemere.sca-caid.org/meetings/
Further details on individual sessions will be posted under Events and Classes–One Time below.
East Kingdom/Midrealm Bardic Showcase, a [post] Pennsic tradition, 2020 Ed.
On YouTube
Known World Chatelaine Symposium 2023—YouTube Playlist of 27 videos
Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium
Meridies Open Social Zoom, Tuesdays, 5pm-Midnight, Central Time—Link to Schedule
Pennsic 50 House Sans Nomen Concert
*Royal University of the Midrealm (RUM) On YouTube
SCA Board of Directors Quarterly Meetings on YouTube
SCA Iberia Webpage and YouTube Channel
*SCA Online Virtual Bardic Night
*SCA Virtual Classroom and Artisan Display
Silent Herald / ASL Practice 8pm (Central) Every Thurs. via Zoom.
Send a Facebook message to Suzanne Booth for link.
Sunday Night With The Scribes (SWNTS)
(more info. on individual sessions under Individual Events–One Time below)
Sunday Night with the Scribes is an evening spent in the company of other Scribal Arts folks from around the Known World. Whether you’re here to learn a skill, share your success or simply hang out with your Art friends, there is room at the table for you. Come for the Community, Stay for the Art!
Extended calendar, class times for multiple time zones, event descriptions, and zoom links are at the link above. Zoom opens at 6p Central and the classes start at 7p Central. It’s also a great place to share your work and group think solutions and ideas.
SNWTS also maintains a YouTube channel at this link where recordings of some of the classes are preserved.
*Viking Klan Zebitz’s Facebook Page
They do Viking era recreations. Of particular interest are their Winter Viking Experiments which they have been carrying out for several years. Search “Winter Viking Experiments” on their Facebook page for photos, videos, and comments.
Virtual Known World Arts and Sciences Display from 2021—A Pennsic Activity
Virtual Pennsic University courses are available on their YouTube channel.
Weekly Fiber Room in Meridies Open Social Zoom on Tuesdays—8pm to ?
Watch the Facebook Group “Artisans of Meridies” for the weekly codes to this Zoom. The password is the name of Meridies’ current Queen. Next password change will be April 2025.
Every First Tuesday: Lace Enthusiasts: Geek about all forms of lace.
Every Second Tuesday: Warped Weavers: For enthusiasts of all forms of weaving.
Every Third Tuesday: Fiber Arts Enthusiasts
Every Fourth Tuesday: Spinning and Dyeing Enthusiasts Hangout
They cover even vaguely related fiber subjects, so go on by and talk about your favorite fiber art! It doesn’t matter what night you come they’ll talk about it.
West Kingdom’s Past and Future Newcomer 101 Classes
Go to westkingdom.org Click on Calendars. Then click on Activities. Scroll through for the various Newcomer 101 classes. Click on them to get information and meeting links and the programs web link. You can even add to your own electronic calendar. Visit/Subscribe to the West Kingdom YouTube Channel to see the taped versions when they are posted after the fact. The Newcomer 101 Classes have been gathered together in their own YouTube playlist.
Events and Classes—One Time
Join us for the Huapahua Period America Lecture Series, a monthly invitation to explore the indigenous history of North, South and Central America within SCA period!
Andean Backstrap Weaving – This weaving system is the basis for pre-conquest era, conquest-era, and post-conquest weaving (pre-1500s and later) in what is now the Cusco region of Peru. This weaving has roots in history that spans several eras in the region (including Nasca, Wari, and Incan weavers) and introduces students to a wealth of weaving, spinning, and natural dye opportunities.
What you might not know is that these traditions have been kept alive since the conquest era, against all efforts of completely eradicating this history. The master weavers in the Quechua-speaking communities passed down their cultural identity textiles for centuries (by word of mouth). And in modern days, they are continuing to keep the traditions alive as well as doing their own revival of “lost techniques” in the past several decades (especially during the pandemic hard lockdown years).
Dame Eilidh Swann never originally expected to bring her studies of Andean textiles into her SCA reenactment. But having studied weaving with Abby Franquemont (author of “Respect the Spindle”) since 2017, she has been part of the online instruction in current day Andean Backstrap Weaving. But from the SCA point of view, Eilidh has also recently been researching what we can learn about conquest-era contact and how the extant textiles in museums and the first-person accounts published in 1615 give evidence that the stories passed down amongst the weavers can be recognized in the historical record.
Lyondemere Virtual Arts & Sciences Night, Friday, May 16, 2025, 9-11pm
This month’s class is: Dining with the Sultan: A Look at 15th & 16th Century Ottoman Cuisine. Turkey only came into being in 1923. Before that, the various Turkic peoples inhabited Central Asia, gradually moving westward as the Seljuks of Persia and then the Ottomans of Anatolia. This fully illustrated discussion covers the development of Ottoman cuisine from Central Asia to the Mediterranean. Teacher is Mu’alima Urtatim al-Qurtubiyya bint ‘abd al-Karim al-hakam al-Fasi, OL. Please join the event at this link in order to get all class updates and Zoom links.
Workshop Safety: Practical Love Demonstration, Tues., May 20, 2025, 7pm Central—Knut Bjornsson
In this class, Thegn Knut teaches the basics of workshop safety for power tools and hand tools, with practical demonstration using food as an analogue for realistic injuries. Be safe; have fun; make things. The Zoom link will be in the comments of the post attached to the link above. The Zoom links are usually posted around 3pm Central the evening of the class.
Pennsic 101 Online Class, Third and Final Class, NEXT Sunday, May 18, 2025, at 3-5pm Eastern (2-4pm Central), Lady Jenna Childslayer
***Class will not be recorded.***
You want to go to Pennsic! Everyone you talk to makes it sound like so much fun… but you’ve never done anything like this, so… now what do you do?
Come to Pennsic 101 on Sunday 5/18/25 at 3 pm (Eastern) to find out! (Those with Pennsic experience are very welcome – I don’t know everything, plus I’ve had 40+ year veterans learn something new in this class!)
The class will be held ONLINE via Google Meet. Class link will be posted the day before. You do not need a Google account to attend, just click the link like you would for Zoom. If you are joining more than 5 minutes late and are in the waiting room, please be patient, they’ll get to you ASAP.
Pennsic is a wonderful SCA event and attending this class will help you to both prepare and have the best time possible… We will discuss how to prepare for Pennsic, what you will need to do and bring. We will answer questions you may have on how to manage to get your things to Pennsic and what you can expect when you finally get there and get set up. If you have garb you’ve already made and are not sure it’s Pennsic-ready, bring it. We can help you decide.
I look forward to seeing you there! YIS, Lady Jenna Childslayer, Class Hostess
Bronze Age Diadems: Meridies, Martel, and the Diadem of Dispute—Tues., 6-3-25, 7pm Central—Erik Martel
How a single picture, a little intuition, many helpful people and a bit of luck led to the proper identification, provenance and possible repatriation of a rare Bronze Age artifact.
Virtual Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium (KWHSS), Fri., June 13, 2025-Sun., June 15, 2025
Hosted by the Kingdom of An Tir. Event Time Zone: US Pacific Standard Time. Location: Zoom. Zoom link will be emailed to pre-registered attendees. The event is free and pre-registration is required. The link for that will be coming soon.
University of Atlantia Hybrid Session, Saturday (in-person) and Sunday (online), June 14 and 15, 2025
Time to explore! STUDENT REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
Sunday Night with the Scribes
– Zoom opens at 6pm Central; Classes run from 7-9pm Central; Zoom Closes at 10pm Central.
– The Zoom address for the sessions is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89540958886 Please note: a Hastings Lock is used for the password for the Zoom Room. Message them at the Facebook link below if you need the Lock.
– FB Page (Zoom links can be found here): https://www.facebook.com/ScribalSunday
– Webpage: https://scribal.art/ Google Calendars for many time zones. Zoom links are in each calendar entry.
Sunday, May 18—Digital Scroll Design Using Free Software with Ellen deLacey
Join Ellen deLacey as she demonstrates her methods of designing a scroll using digital tools.
Sunday, May 25—No Meeting
Sunday, June 1—Intro to Flat Gilding—Tools & Options—Hands-on—Hellen of Haldane
Flat gilding is the easiest form of gilding. We will review some basic methods and tools and then try a hands on class. Supplies: Real gold patent leaf, PVA glue, glue stick, glassine, eyeglass cleaner or silk or cotton ball, hotpress or smooth paper, fine brush.
Sunday, June 8—Scrolls, Poles, & Banners, Oh My!—Thomas Wildstein
Bring your pencil, eraser and a ruler and learn how to draw scrolls and banners with Thomas in this hands on class.
Sunday, June 15–What did you learn at KWHSS and University of Atlantia this weekend?
A round table discussion and sharing of what we learned, saw and experienced in these amazing on line symposiums. This is a great way to reinforce your learning and experience and share with others too!
Sunday, June 22–Durer’s Gothic Alphabet–with Alicia Langland
In his treatise “Of the Just Shaping of Letters”, Albrecht Dürer walks the reader through the steps needed to write his lowercase version of Gothic Textura Quadrata. Following Dürer’s method (mostly), we’ll work our way through the alphabet. This class is suitable for beginning scribes as well as intermediate calligraphers. Students will leave with an understanding of the order and direction of strokes and how slight changes to the order result in a variety of letters.
Those wishing to participate in the hands-on portion should print the worksheets (sized for a 3.8 mm nib) ahead of class. The link will be found in the meeting invite.
Supplies: Handouts (will be emailed to those who register) and 3.5mm marker or nib and holder (a 3.8 Pilot Parallel Pen will also work).
Sunday, June 29—Micrography–Making shapes and forms with letters–with Amalie Reinhardt
We have all seen those amazing shapes and forms that are really made with tiny letters. This old form of calligraphy has become fashionable again and our presenter, Amalie Reinhardt, will share knowledge and wisdom.
SCA Individuals
(The Wrong) and Honorable Master Dahrien Cordell’s Online Bardic Circle via Zoom
*Meeting ID: * 850-6206-6750 Passcode: 1 (yes, just that single digit)
Join in browser or installed Zoom app/program: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85062066750
The next bardic circle will be Thurs., 5/15/25, starting at 6pm, Central Time (official start)
[Sometimes he opens things early, though.]
End: When his last bardic playmates leave him.
Website of Dúgū Jìnán (Kasia Gromek)
Duke Tom’s Fighting Videos Including fighting in the snow in January 2023.
Magistrissa Anna Dokeianina Syrakousina/Angela Costello-Perrone Moves Into The Digital World