The Spring Renaissance fair if coming up quick! We will have a booth as well as an event focused on siege weapons! Which means we will also need volunteers for both to not only setup and tear down but also run.
If you are interested, people are also welcome to vend at the event, as long as they coordinate with the event host a head of time (at this point me).
We’ll need people to help setup and tear down the tent and castle facade as well as run a small project area. We’ve done catapults and laser cut thrones in the past, but we’re definitely open to more or different ideas, but I’d highly recommend what ever prototyping that needs to be done, be done in February, and aim to be ready to crank out copies in March (less last minute maker panic)
Arkillion stepped up their game heavily last fair. They had a lot of kid focused events (like teaching kids how to LARP), but they were also focused on more physical activities, and less putting together puzzles or projects. So that still gives us a major niche at the fair.
So we do have quiet a few tasks to crank out before the event in 3 months from now.
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Improve the bow string and fiddle with the chicken lobbing bit
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Figure out what kind of make-and-take projects we want to prep
a. LaDeana may have a few thrones left over from last year, might need to make more
b. Definitely thinking origami dragons would be a good one to do with kids
c. Not sure if catapults are a big draw like they use to (might look into simpler siege weapons)
d. Might not be too difficult to make chain mail flowers (might be fun to try anadizing scales before hand)
e. would it be all that difficult/expensive to do wax seals?
f. James is digging the idea of making a miniature 3d printed version of the big castle that assembles with magnets -
Finish building the castle
a. yeah… there’s a lot left, but I could really use help pealing off the rest of the tin foil on the 8 panels that are in the boiler room at the makerspace right now, next step: paint?
b. there’s also some metal frame work that we need to get to moving on
c. we should have all the panels for the towers laid up this weekend -
Help people with garb (Patrick Hutchinson can vouch for how much he underestimated the time it would take to make a tunic)
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Figure out better ways to decorate the inside of the castle
a. some kind of tapestries? Or more ways to advertise what we do at MakeICT
b. some way to make it not feel like a tent on the inside
c. some way to make it feel more inviting
If you are interested in volunteering or vending, let me know and I’ll update the charts below.
| Great Plain Renaissance Festival | ||||||
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| Volunteers Needed | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Setup April 11th (10am - 6pm) | Rustin A. | Aaron R. | James L. | Matthew C. | ||
| April 12th (9:30am - 6pm) | Rustin A. | Aaron R. | Matthew C. | |||
| April 13th (9:30am - 6pm + tear down) | Rustin A. | Aaron R. | James L. | Matthew C. |
| GPRF Vendors | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Volunteers Needed | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Sept 28th (9:30am - 6pm) | |||
| Sept 29th (9:30am - 6pm + tear down) |
I’ll try to post another meeting for the middle of February, but I’ll be doing what I can in the mean time, so feel free to tag up with me on what you want to help out with or find out when I’m planning to tackle another big step. Help is greatly appreciated.
