On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Catrijn vanden Westhende wrote: > I'd love to hear otherwise (so I can plan ;-) ), but I doubt the > location for next year has been announced yet (perhaps not even > decided at this point). Last year was in eastern Ohio, and I didn't > hear about this year's location until after that was over. They may > announce it one year ahead of time, at the end of the current event? > All that is a long way to say that I don't know, and can't find _any_ > information about a KWCS after this one.
You can sign up for information here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KWCostume_Symposium/ Till now this has been used to post notices of bids and sites. There have been only 8 messages in 2005, so it's not at all burdensome, though there was a lot more traffic early on from people going to the first KWCS in 2000 (setting up carpools and classes, etc.). The SCA has changed the bidding system for events of this type, so I don't know how that will affect planning, but this would be the place to find out. The latest message (just last week) points to instructions on bidding and notes that there is not yet a bid for 2006. The events have not always been at the same time of year; sometimes it's more than a year between them. It seems to be useful for a group to try combining it with another major symposium -- the Denver KWCS was combined with a rapier symposium and also a smaller dance event, which meant it attracted a large enough number of attendees to allow them to get a great conference hotel and facilities. I see that this year's is combined with a "rattan" symposium, which must have something to do with either weapons or fighting though I don't know which. I've been to two KWCS events (as a guest speaker) and had a ball both times. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
