At 10:01 AM -0500 9/5/05, Susan B. Farmer wrote:
Quoting otsisto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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SCA events in public parks draw non-costumed spectators too.
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Usually, these are refered to as demos, fighter practice or
"recruitment"(for lack of a better word).
"Events" are usually something on a much more grander scale and normally is
not posted to the regular public.
Our two big tourneys are held at the group came at a local state park --
which is very much a public site. The spectators do watch the fighting
from a distance -- many ask questions and some stay and feast with us
(suitably garbed/tabarded of course). One year, one of the park
rangers came, stayed and later joined. Unless your event is held on
Private Property, if you at a visible part of State Park property
(which is where many of our events are held), you have spectators.
Yes, but in the case of SCA events, these general public spectators
are an unintended (and unavoidable) accident, not a primary, intended
part of the plan. SCA events are not put on for the
benefit/entertainment of a non-participatory audience, while many
other re-creation societies do put on their events purposefully for
the benefit/entertainment of a non-participatory audience. (If the
same SCA event that attracts an audience on public property were held
on private property, there would be no audience -- while the civil
war battle re-enactment will have an invited audience regardless of
whether held on public or private property.)
In short, SCA events are not a performance for an audience.
Renaissance fairs and nearly all battle re-enactment societies'
events are. And this difference profoundly affects the nature of
these events and re-creations.
Sharon
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Sharon Krossa, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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