Airdrie Centennial Demos

[Cib]

Just want to confirm that you will be attending the celebration in September for the Centennial.

I believe you were going to come on Friday Sept 11 and Sunday Sept 13.

As it stands right now, I am not here in Sept so... is it still posable to do this? Do you guys still want to do it?

[Cib]

I need to send a reply... What should I say?

[Moginheden]

I'm interested, but I need more details, like when/where/how long. Who else would be coming?

[Cib]

Just following up to confirm you are still going to be a part of the Centennial Celebrations......

I believe we had agreed on Friday and Sunday.....is that still correct..?

I need to give an answer.

Here are all the e-mails in reverse order:

ipputnam:

Just following up to confirm you are still going to be a part of the Centennial Celebrations......

I believe we had agreed on Friday and Sunday.....is that still correct..?

Cib:

I am sorry for my delayed reply! A lot is happening right now.

Yes, we can do that, we can be very flexible in how much time to take for our "show" as well. However, I won't lie, I would really like to do an all day demonstration in the park as well. We make our own armor weapons and Garb that we would love to show off to people as well as hand out coloring pages and such.

Dallas

ipputnam:

Now I know a bit more about what you do, I'm thinking as a new group, you might be looking for some of the younger generation that may be interested in this sort of thing.

On the Friday night, we are having the Battle of the Bands at Nose Creek Park and we are expecting quite a few younger groups that have put a band together and want to show their stuff. We were thinking that perhaps this might be a opportunity to show your stuff so there's more than just the bands playing.

Cib:

ipputnam,

Thanks for contacting me! The old time fair sounds like a lot of fun!

We are a medieval combat game, not really a show. We do demonstrations (of what we do) that have very good entertainment value. We primarily revolve around recreating foot combat from medieval and dark ages. We can do stage presentations, or even better, take a small space and provide demonstrations all day long.

We are a newish organization, so not really tied to the history of Airdrie. One way we are sort-of tied to Airdrie's History however, is in name.
Our Chapters name is Arderyth of Strathclyde. Strathclyde was a kingdom in ancient Scotland whose independence was won in the battle of Arderyth, later a city was made there and called Airdrie, and subsequently a town named after in in Alberta, which now homes our chapter of Arderyth.

Dallas

ipputnam:

Do you do a wild west show instead of the medievil?

On Saturday, we are doing an old tyme fair. The idea behind this is to have local entertainment through out the day with demonstration of past such as threshing machines, blacksmyths, items from the museum, crafts, homebaking contests, perhaps pie eating contests, hot dog eating contests, pie throwing, farm animal petting zoo, sack races, three legged races, carnival games, antique cars,....a fair like they may have attend 100 years ago.

On Sunday there's a farmer's market and entertainment however that's kind of around the present.

Can you expand on what you can do and approx time it takes to do it? Maybe that would help us determine where and how you can be involved. I'm sure we can figure out something. Thanks for your interest in participating......it's going to be a great celebration.

Robbie:

Hi Dallas, I think I may have forgotten to reply to this email, so my apologies if I did. I’m forwarding this to the person in charge of our Old Time Fair to get her feedback.
Everything on the Saturday will be at Nose Creek, so I’m sure we can find space somewhere for you to do a demonstration. Any idea how much space you’d need?
-Robbie

Cib:

Robbie,
Thanks for contacting me! I thought I had missed the boat when I took so long to get back to Michael! Yes we are very interested in doing some sort of demonstration and/or activity for the centennial.
You may have read about is in the papers or seen us in the park on fridays, are a medieval recreation group. We are fairly flexible on what we can do, but would love to be involved! What does the centennial look like? A day at nose creek park, or is it more of a city wide event?
Dallas

Robbie:

Hi Dallas, your name was passed along to me by Michael McAllister. Michael and I work together at the City of Airdrie, and we’re both members of the Airdrie Centennial Committee. I help facilitate the Projects & Events sub-committee, and I understand that you’re interested in doing some sort of medieval battle demonstration or activity. I think this is a great idea, and it fits best with our ‘Past’ day, which is Saturday, September 12th.
If you could let me know the details of what you’d like to do, I can pass it along to our committee. You can also come to a committee meeting if you want, but this isn’t necessary.
Thanks,
Robbie

[Cib]

So Friday Night is "Battle of the Bands" at Nose Creek Park and Saturday is an "Old time fair".

I need someone to take charge of organizing this (I can help until I leave) or I will have to tell her no. It doesn't have to be both, it could just be one.

[Moginheden]

We are doing this Sunday from 2-4 in the field behind where we normally are, (the one we use when there is something in our main field, (like say the Airdrie Centennial fair )

[Moginheden]

I just talked to David and he is coming, (and maybe bringing a few friends.)

Most of the Calgary group has other plans, but I'm still waiting to hear back from some of them.

[Natalie]

I'll be there and 2 more people might be coming. Thisll hopfully get some more people

[Darr]

Well we if we get a good showing of people on our own part that will be good. Everyone cross your fingers and hope that this will be a gold mine for recruitment.

[Cib]

How did this go? I had e-mailed just before I left that we couldn't do it!

[Natalie]

I thought it went good but as Darr said the people who wanted try it were mostly 5and 6 years old. We did get some 12+ and a few older people to play. 2 of the guys who tried out were really wanting to come on friday. I had a long chat with them afterwords.

[Cib]

Back when I thought I would be there I had planed to have coloring pages for the young ones to take.

Defiantly need to do some more demos.