Artisans Row Head's Up - Novice/Challenge of the Heart

[chargirlgenius]

I don't have an official announcement written up yet, but I'll be organizing an Artisans Row for Storvik Novice Tourney/Challenge of the Heart, on the weekend of June 20th.

For those of you who don't know, Storvik and Dun Carraig are getting together to host a joint event this year, which I think is a fantastic idea. The site is Patuxent River Park in Upper Marlboro, MD, the same place where Jeff's vigil was last summer. Hopefully it won't be so hot, this time around!

I'll be putting out the call for tents and who will be setting up once things are a bit more firmed up, but I thought I'd give a head's up to all y'all on my flist to start thinking about it. In a nutshell, Artisans Row gives you an opportunity to work on your craft throughout the day, in more of an active display instead of a competition. I liked it as a chance to sit and geek with fellow artisans in a laid back atmosphere. Artisans of ALL levels are encouraged to come out and play.

More details forthcoming. Wanna come out and play?

Comments

[janinas-nest.livejournal.com]

I am thrilled to hear this! We did move the date up in some small part to escape some of the heat. Last year, I had a number of people come up to me and tell me that they were sorry, but they just had to go because they were just too hot. I agreed, and said I'd have left too except it was kind of expected that I hang around [g].

There tends to be at least one tent's worth of musicians, heavy on harps. I can arrange that they set up near Artisan's Row if you would like.

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

That would certainly be a good tent to have in the row!

I've tossed some thoughts about location to Khadir, but I don't remember the site well enough from last year to think about where there could be space. There needs to be a balance - the row does the best and is most effective when it's centrally located, yet we do tend to take up space. At Challenge last year, we were right around the field, but that space is at a premium, I know. Was there much room between where the field was and the merchants were located? I was playing around with the idea of creating a "street", with artisan tents on both sides, merchants at one end, so some merchants could be part of the row *and* part of the shopping area.

[janinas-nest.livejournal.com]

Not being the autocrat, I can't make those decisions for her. But it sounds very nice, and might help funnel more people down to the merchants. We're trying to set up an informal brain storming get together but I don't think it has been nailed down yet. If nothing else, we have to work with Molly and Erwin to get our joint schtick worked out and see how it fits in with whatever the schedule ends up being. (Can you tell I'm trying not to step on any toes?)

[beatrixherald.livejournal.com]

Check out my blog for a map!

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

Huh. I thought I’d had you friended back. Sorry! Will remedy.

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

Was there an artisan's row last year? I was stuck in the vigil reception area the whole time, so I just don't remember.