Artifacts of a Life VI

The Barony Beyond the Mountain invites the populace of the East to join us on November 8, 2025 for a unique opportunity to recreate the past.

Have you ever thought how cool it would be to walk into a museum or an archive or an archaeological dig and see the things that your persona left behind? This is your chance to create that experience!  Depending on the culture and time period, these could be grave goods buried with you, recreations of items mentioned in your will or probate inventory ("my second best bed to my wife..."), documents such as charters, indentures, or receipt books, or items that might be found in an excavation of your life context -- all the ways that we know about the material culture of the past and can reconstruct a plausible life.  Examples can include votive gifts found in a bog, the tools found in your workshop when they dug up the old town to put in a parking garage, and the cookbook passed down for 8 generations.  In short, the things that could have ended up in a museum that were associated with your life, or the life of a persona that you wish to recreate (it doesn't have to be your current SCA persona).

To add spice, there will be a contest and rich prizes will be given -- goodies from artisans of the East, as well as materials for future projects.  The rules for the contest, as well as information about registering your entries, can be found at the event website:  https://bbm.eastkingdom.org/events/artifacts-of-a-life/

Schedule:
8:00 Staff and Set Up
9:00 Site opens
9:00-10:30 – Entrants check in and set-up
10:30 -- Meeting of Judges
11:00-3:00 – Judging
12:00-1:00 - Lunch Break/Dayboard Served
3:00-4:00 – Judges meeting and tabulation of scores
3:00-4:30 – Breakdown of entries
4:30 – Court
7:00 Site Closes


JUDGES NEEDED

Judges will be needed for the event.  If you are interested or wish to learn more, please contact Sunnifa Heinreksdottir at 173642@members.eastkingdom.org .  Make sure to include your SCA name and area(s) of focus.  This information will enable us to best match our judges with our exhibitors wherever possible.  As the judging process for Artifacts differs significantly from other competitions, we will review as a group the procedures prior to judging during the morning of the event, however questions via email, in person, or through Facebook are encouraged and welcomed.

Site Information / Accessibility

**This site requires us to dispose of our own trash.  Please be prepared to carry in/carry out everything you bring with you**

The indoor site is flat, has traditional and wheelchair accessible bathrooms, and has a family/gender neutral bathroom.
Outdoors are predominantly parking or mostly flat grassy areas.

PARKING- There are approximately 60 parking spaces at the church.  Across the street and about 1 block down there are 2 large public park parking areas for overflow.

The site is completely dry.  This prohibition includes no alcoholic entries in the competition.

No smoking or vaping on site.

Anyone onsite after site close- help cleaning up will be cheerfully accepted!

No animals are allowed on site except Service Animals as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (guide dogs, signal dogs, or other animals individually trained to provide assistance to an individual with a disability).
Connecticut laws on assistance animals and guide dogs are summarized here:
https://www.jud.ct.gov/lawlib/Notebooks/Pathfinders/Dogs.pdf
(This is a .pdf.  See Section 4, page 25.)

Food:  There is no feast, but there will be a tasty dayboard prepared by Baroness Aurelia Stellari. 
**Dayboard will be pre-registration only and capped at 100 people**. 
The menu will be posted when it becomes available.

Site Opens: 9:00 AM
Site Closes: 7:00 PM