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Recruitment Project Shopping ListProject ideas to accompany the SCA Recruitment for the Populace ClassVincent De Vere, Axed Root, Calontir (Vincent.devere.calontir@) () ver 1.0 11/11/2020Educational demoGroup Games/demonstrations/Activities to demonstrate ideasHow many in the audience would be alive activity – if anyone has had accidents, infections or medical conditions that would have resulted in death without modern medical attention.The Feudal Job Pyramid – taking an audience and dividing them up by % that would be surfs, minor lords/land holders, merchants or nobility, What would you be doing at your age activity – Talk about apprenticeship contracts, working in the fields, getting married, Felt emblazoned shield that allows the audience to create a shield and have the herald emblazon it. Medieval Math- use an exchequers cloth and markers to do math problems History trivia - Depending on the audience you can find many trivia questions to stump or surprise an audience. Check out the CBBC book series Horrible Histories or make up your own. Did Henry the 8th play tennis? Did romans have running water and central heating in some of their houses in Britton almost 2000 years ago? Norse names included descriptions like Blue Tooth, Hair Pants and Boneless. Urine was collected for uses like washing your hair, washing your clothes and dying fabric.Conversation/Talk topics/ Specific stories from historyThere are many famous or not so famous stories from history that make for good stories to tell an audience. These can be practiced in advance and written down to help the presenter. The battle of Hastings, Hotspur, William Marshal, the death of Richard the Lion HeartSlideshows or videos on specific topicsVideos showing fighting, archery, thrown weapons, or equestrian activities.Slide shows showing images from events and meetingsRecruitment binders Photo albums with images connected that show many aspects of events. These can easily be made in word or publisher. Some headers may be useful to describe what is happening in images but you may consider limiting the wordiest sections and isolating them so they can be removed. We might be able to utilize a wordy description to hold someone’s interest for a length of time, but most likely people won’t read more than a header. Consider grouping the pictures in sections to tell little stories or to show specific topics or ideas. Keep the images large enough to be seen at little distance, 3 to 4 images per page. Use sheet protectors so pages can be updated. A piece of clear tape along the top of the page can decently waterproof sheet protectors. When using the binders to sell at demos they can be laid out to capture peoples’ attention long enough for you to talk to them. You can flip through them using them to illustrate your points in a longer sales pitch. When people ask about specific topics like archery, equestrian etc. you can illustrate your points with images. People who may not be willing to talk to people may be willing to flip through a book of images. Objects or projects with a storyPre written fact sheets, descriptions or stories that talk about the history of specific objects and their cultural significance or stories that resonate with an audience. Examples include the late period use of pinners bones to make pins and how it was used as a social safety net, or curfews, the risk of fires in medieval towns and the modern use of the term. If you are presenting at an educational demo then a full length description with all the supporting information can be provided to a member to allow them to speak with knowledge on the item. A more pared down description only highlighting the key points may be useful at slower paced demos to be placed out with an object. A very brief description can be placed out at faster paced demosBuilding a knowledge station / ActivityTying together several items and talking about how they relate to each other and to other topics. Examples could be cooking utensils – a cooking pot and connecting it to actual recipes and nursery rhymes like peas potage hot. A meat hook used in cooking and used in liturgical illumination associated with punishment, Spices used in medieval cooking and medicine. The importance of salt to medieval cooking and food preservation. Sugar as a spice. Historic Clothing- Insure all members participating in the demo have appropriate historical clothing. Some may represent specific time periods or cultures if there is a specific educational goal. Others may be wearing obviously medieval or very showy clothing to better attract attention at recruitment focused events.Good demo clothing doesn’t have to be perfect or complex, as more basic geometrically constructed garments are good at showing the ease of accessibility to the hobby. Garments should be historically based (not fantasy.) A 2 seam T tunic is probably not a historic garment, but a tunic constructed correctly can be a good demo asset. Members should have a reasonable understanding of what they are wearing so having a write up of the description of the garment can be helpful. This can be on a 3x5 card each person can carry with them.You can turn the time, location and culture of the demo participants’ clothing into an activity of the demo. Have the audience see if they can correctly place the participants on a timeline or make them stand in chronological order, or see if they can place them on a map.Historic ProjectsHistoric based projects can take many forms. We find it useful if they include examples of more complex items as well as the easily accessible projects. We also use many of the A&S activity kits from the A&S Treasure Chest project to act as pre-assembled demo kits for many of the activities. Information about our A&S treasure chest project can be found here: here: examples of kits that relate to demonstration:Weaving, Lucet, C&I, Maille, twisted wire rings, leather working, leather tooling, copper spoonsOthers that have been used that are not related to the A&S Treasure Chest project:Coin Stamping, lamp working, Demo Display BoxesDemo Display boxes can not only aid in organization, transport and setup of a display, but it can also be used to aid in securing smaller items that have a tendency to walk off at demos. A write up of the process we used to create a specific type of display box can be found here: lockable display boxes or display cases can take many forms. It is also useful to have boxes that make it safe to transport fragile or valuable items. Display descriptionsSimplified – headers or key points onlyComplex – Could tell a story or connect with other items. More complete description but often too much for busy demos. Backdrops Panted cloth, silk banners or purchased modern commercial examples. It is good to keep in mind that within the SCA there is a valued style of homemade displays. To our modern audience it could give a bad impression. Table clothsright508000Purchased modern commercial table cloth or a sewn project that could include group heraldry or the group nameArmor DisplayHistoric display of armor other than that used by fighters (i.e. – not stinky) Can include short write up as well as longer descriptions that can be used at appropriate events. Can be used as a “dress the knight” demonstration. This example is the 1066 knight. Items include braies, hosen, linen undershirt, wool tunic, arming cap, cloak, shoes, cross garters, padded gambeson, mail hauberk and coif, helm, kite shield, spear with pennon, axe, sword, dagger, and armor standWe will also be experimenting with small QR codes to link to more information about various parts of the armor display. At events where a wordy description won’t work, an interested party can still scan a QR code and get more information but also be connected with subsequent recruitment information at the same time. Clothing Display. A display of a garment on a dress form may leave guests more open to touching than when the item is worn by a member. Examples can be garments that are unfinished or ones that don’t fit participants present. A written description can be included; a more verbose version for slower traffic events and a brief description for high traffic events. A photo album showing the stages of construction could be included. Other DisplaysMany projects can be turned into displays for demosDiorama – a diorama of different homes or buildings through the centuries can make for a very portable and relatable display Dressing up Dolls – although making historic clothing the correct size for a doll can be a challenge, having a timeline of tiny outfits Shared Snacks – If the demo allows for outside food a sampling of things like Sekanjabin or Shrewsbury cakes Calligraphy Station - Have a scribe write out people’s names in a fancy script with a quill penMedieval Smells – a variety of body powders, salves, waters or herbs used for toiletries or to scent laundryThe Spice Rack – a display of common medieval spicesCommon medieval fabrics/Narrow Band weaving – essentially scraps and left overs turned into a touchable display showing the kinds of fabrics we use and/or weaving examples.Archery bits – Some sites don’t allow weapons but often they will allow arrow heads on a display. Recreations of many of the common types of arrow heads can be purchased or made by a blacksmith and these can be compared to the ones used for target practice or even combat archery. House Layout – Using the dimensions of some of the smaller houses (Iron age round house, village house from 1000CE, etc) use things like strips of paper or caution tape to lay out the house on the floor. Show where the animals would have stayed, where the whole family would sleep/eat/cook. Talk about how much space they would have as compared to a noble or a modern familyDisplay QR codes – QR codes are easy to make and can link to many things. You may have a limited display space on a table and strive to not clutter the display with too much verbiage. A QR could link an item to a web page with a detailed description for people who are interested in digging deeper. Many displays are just peoples’ SCA projectsTraditional Recruitment Resource KitsQR codes to important web sitesProminent display of website information Prominent and easily read sign for name of groupBusiness cards Trifolds / brochures - updatedSign up sheets Stands for business cards, trifolds, literature – made or purchased onlinePress kit for use with media as well as promotional materials to event hostsResource CheckDoes this connect with people?Is there undefined jargon?Does this represent the SCA or something in history?Does this help to show all of the SCA?Does this push away anyone?Does this reflect negatively on the SCA?Does this represent our community?Does this have images/representation of people that our audience can connect with?Does this help to demonstrate what we value?Does this move people along the path towards membership?Link CheckWhere are links directed to? Have all the links been checked for dead links?What will potential members see when they get there?Before they talk to us, what will their experience be?How updated are the resources? What e-mail addresses are provided? Who checks them? How often are they checked? Have they been pinged? How will they respond?Is there offensive or exclusionary content on any of the materials?Is there undefined jargon? Place names using SCA names rather than actual names?Who will they be talking to?What SCA will be represented to them?Making the Sale Class Handout ................
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