Courtly Pleasures

Gingerbread Sandcastles Extravaganza & Youth Activities

Host: Lady Hawisia & Lady Jacqueline

-Knusperhäuschen: Home of the Lorelei Sandcastles

A delight for young and old! Create and decorate a tasty sotiltee to your heart's delight with candies and sprinkles and more!

A perennial Trimarian favorite, the Hausmaerchen gingerbread homes. This year, these little gingerbread palaces will have a sea theme, with shell and sand decorations fit for the finest merfolk royalty.

There will be a prize for the most magnificent of Gingerbread sandcastle for the children!

[Attention: We kindly ask that every adult wanting to decorate a gingerbread sandcastle provide one bag of candy to be used for decorating as entry fee. Thank you!]

Kindermärchen: Tales of the Lorelei

Youth will construct a simple fabric marionette while listening to a story about the Lorelei, and then use the puppets and fabrics props to reenact the story. Participants will then be invited to perform the story for a gathered group with their made marionettes and fabric props.

Glückshaus: Game Board Make & Play

Youth will design, construct and play their own felt version of the House of Fortune game board. Materials provided to make one set of board and playing tokens. Participants can practice both playing and narrating gameplay.

Weaving Symposium

Host: Mistress Gwennan, Baroness Anne of Blackthorne, etc.

Watch the shuttles dart swiftly back and forth and nimble fingers work magic in thread at the Weavers Symposium @ Hausmaerchen!

Classes

We have the pleasure and privilege to welcome these following artisans and scholars teaching their craft at our event. If you would like to add your name and class to this list, please contact our class coordinator!

"Naughty Hands" by HL Dar
"Bread for Feast Cooks" by Baroness Jehanette de Lille, OP
"Coinmaking workshop and demo" by HL Gieffrei de Toesni also known as Jeff the Moneyer. Come see the art of medieval moneying from punching the die to banging the hammer. Supplies will be on hand to try your own.

Bardic Bonfires

On both nights we will celebrate the treasure trove of Trimarian tales with story and song around a blazing bonfire, and nosh on treats.

Download Songbook!

YouTube Playlist of some Bardic favorites

Storyteller Contest

We invite Trimaris' finest storytellers to Hausmaerchen for a test of skills. Bring your best story to capture the ears and hearts of your audience at court and to take home a piece of Rhine gold!

Heralds Contest

The Great Geoffry Chaucer Prize
Host: Lord Lonan Mor

Each combatant of the tournament is required to have a herald announce their entry into the list. Team up with a fighter and figure out your announcement ahead of time or sign up at the event to serve as herald to a fighter who didn't bring a herald. We will provide notes to spur your creativity!

We will honor the best herald with the "Great Geoffry Chaucer" Prize!

Wright of Castlemere

A&S Competition

Host: Baroness Anna Syrakousina
Contact: syrakousina@gmail.com

Come one, come all to participate in the Arts and Sciences Faire at Hausmaerchen 2018 to compete for the coveted title and honor of "Wright of Castlemere" as baronial Champion for the arts and sciences!

Participating entries should either revolve around double-entendre and all things naughty or all things German
The theme for this year's competition is "Let us be naughty ... or German! (or both!)" or, if you like things risky, both!

The A&S Competition will be hosted in a separate location, secure from the young and those who feel ill at ease with the naughty side of the Middle Ages!

The Paperwork:
All entries must fall between 500 CE and 1650 CE.

Only -EZ DOCUMENTATION - required!
Download the form here!

Baronial Champion "Wright of Castlemere"
From all entrants, the baronial A&S Champion of Castlemere will be selected. Ideally, this champion will be a resident of the Barony of Castlemere whose skill and passion in their arts fosters the arts among the populace. The champion will be selected by the Baroness, the Baronial Minister of Arts and Sciences, and a local Peer. Non-resident artisans are also eligible to compete for the honor of baronial A&S champion of Castlemere, as long as they do not hold a Baronial championship title from ANY other Barony within the Kingdom of Trimaris. This is in keeping with the wishes of the Baronies of Trimaris that no person may hold Baronial Championships from more than one Barony at a time.

For more information please visit the Kingdom A&S page at https://sites.google.com/site/trimarisartssciences

Dirty Dozen Largesse Derby

Host: Lady Isabeau Chadronnet

We challenge our artisans to a “Dirty Dozen Largesse Derby” at Hausmaerchen 2018. This brilliant idea originally hails from our cousins in the faraway Kingdom of An Tir: Create 12 largesse items, win the favor of the populace, and come home with a selection of the finest creations of the Kingdom of Trimaris while creating beautiful largesse items for the Kingdom of Trimaris and the Barony of Castlemere at the same time.

The necessary part: RULES

All entrants must create 12 items based on a theme that are suitable for largesse (example: 12 needle books, 12 hats, 12 items games, etc. Not: 12 socks – those would count as 6 items)
All entries must be tagged (what is it, what is it made of, and who made it) and ready to be gifted the day of the competition
The items need not be documentable - this is not an Arts and Sciences competition - but need to have value for a member of the SCA
The items need to be handmade.
The items should not have heraldry on them.

Judging will be open to the public at the event by the ’beads in a cup’ method. Winner of the Dirty Dozen Largesse Derby is the person with the most beads in their entry’s cup.

The best part: PRIZES

The winner of the Dirty Dozen Largesse Derby by popular choice gets to select one (1) item from each of the other competitors. So in case of 12 entries, that means the winner gets to take home 11 fabulous, handmade, special prizes!

The entrant placing second in the Derby will get to select two (2) items from the other competitors.
The entrant placing third in the derby will get to select one (1) item from the other competitors. In case of a tie the number of prizes (3) is split between the first three runner-ups.

All remaining entries will be donated as largesse items, half of them going to the Crown of the Kingdom of Trimaris, and the other half to the Baron and Baroness of Castlemere.