[SCA-Dance] KWDS report (What I Did on my Summer Vacation...)

[David Learmonth]

Hey, yeah, another email response from me.  :)

I just wanted to cite that for Ealdormere, we speak of it as a Kingdom
initiative, but that was basically just because we are a small kingdom, and
we didn't have too large a core of dancers in any one spot, so we just
worked together on it.  (actually, our staff really just came from across
kingdom.  unfortunately we didn't have too much from any one local group
directly, but that was also due to the event conflict that occured)

The kingdom itself wasn't really involved, except from the formal
requirements of approval and reports, and finances a bit.

I think that these events in general will be mainly hosted by local groups,
or a small collective of groups.  I think that other than some core dancers
on staff, the main other thing you need is just some outside non-dancer
help, if possible, to do some staffing at the event itself, and approaching
the time of the event.  (things like Troll, decorations and setup)  But
collaborations are also definitely a possibility.

Darius



On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Jane & Mark Waks <waks at comcast.net> wrote:

> A variety of tuppence:
>
> C. Timar wrote:
> > In the past, KWDS was awarded to kingdoms
>
> "In the past" is a bit ill-defined. *Historically*, KWDS was more about
> local groups, not Kingdoms -- for instance, ours was very much a local
> affair, with the Barony doing nearly all the work, and members of the
> Kingdom mostly involved at the same level as all the other dancers from
> all over the Society who helped out.
>
>