The Barony of Roaring Wastes has MANY activities going on each and every week. Below are descriptions of the activities and links to pages with more details like times and places.
Baronial Activities include many normal scheduled activities but also we try to let people know of other local activities such as Equestrian practice, Dance practice, Music practice, Bardic or many other workshops that happen throughout the Eastern lower Michigan area. You can find announcements for these on any of the following pages.
Baronial Business Meetings – These happen the 2nd Monday of the month and are in person and accessible via Discord Video Meeting
The monthly Populace Meeting is a chance to check in on the various Baronial activities, discuss upcoming SCA events (both ours and our neighbors’), review the financial health of the Barony, and propose and discuss new and ongoing plans for the group.
More info: https://roaringwastes.org/events/event/baronial-business-meeting/
Baronial BBQ’s/Monthly Fun – These happen Monthly and are in person at our 2nd weekend Sundays Fight Practices.
Monthly we take the opportunity to enjoy time together with every in the Barony and at our Sunday Armoured/Rapier/Youth combat days. These usually include Potluck BBQ’s in the Summer but we have other fun activities we try to do in the Winter as well. Please keep an eye on our Web/Facebook/Discord pages for announcements.
Baronial Calendar – https://roaringwastes.org/baronial-calendar-of-events/ , https://www.facebook.com/groups/roaringwastes, https://www.facebook.com/groups/LegioDraconis, Discord Invite
Local SCA Martial Activities info:
Developed over the 50 years of its existence The Society for Creative Anachronism’s Marshall activities are intended to closely produce the thrill of participating in archery, battles and equestrian scenarios while still keeping our members safe.
More info found here: https://www.sca.org/resources/martial-activities/
Armored combat in the SCA resembles medieval foot tournaments. Combatants can face each other in single combat in tournaments or can take part in large melee battles with dozens or even hundreds of combatants on each side.
More info found here: https://www.sca.org/resources/martial-activities/armored-combat/
Rapier combat is our attempt to recreate the style of unarmored combat that took place from the medieval period to 1600 A.D. Participants engage in this sport for fun and fitness! Many also study the extant manuals and theories of combat from that time period, in order to more accurately recreate the style of pre-17th century swordfighting.
More info found here: https://www.sca.org/resources/martial-activities/rapier-combat/
Summer Tuesdays Practice – @7:30pm – 11pm Includes Armored Combat, Rapier Combat, Axe Throwing(coming soon)
Summer Sundays Practice – @1pm – 5pm Includes Armored Combat, Rapier Combat, Armored Combat Archery
Winter Tuesdays Practice – @7:30pm – 11pm Includes Armored Combat, Rapier Combat
Winter Sundays Practice – @1pm – 4pm Includes Armored Combat, Rapier Combat
Monthly Youth Combat – @1pm – 4pm Normally 2nd weekends of the month (please see Baronial Calendar)
The SCA’s Youth Martial program gives children from ages 6 through 17 the opportunity to participate in a kid-friendly version of adult armored and rapier combat. The program emphasizes courtesy, honor, and service as well as skill and safety. Boys and girls participate together, divided into three age brackets, Division 1: ages 6-9, Division 2: ages 10-13, and Division 3: ages 14-17.
More info found here: https://www.sca.org/resources/martial-activities/youth-combat/
Summer Target Archery – Usually announced on both our Facebook group and Discord groups (see above links to facebook and discord pages)
SCA archers use materials and methods available to period archers. This includes a focus on natural materials such as wood and feathers in our bows and arrows. Archers use recurve bows, crossbows, and longbows. Certain types of modern equipment like compound bows, and accessories like stabilizers and sights are not allowed in our archery activities to keep the playing field more level and medieval.
More info: https://www.sca.org/resources/martial-activities/archery-tw/
Armouring/A&S nights (Thursdays)
Armouring nights usually consists of helping people on new armour and fixing things as need but also includes MANY other activates like costume making, textiles, classes, heraldry consulting, and general conversation and help with what every you would like to do in the SCA. All ARE WELCOME!
Brannos & Rebekah Keep – (8PM – 11PM)
Sadb & Louis Keep – (8PM – 11PM)
Other links to find scheduled activities
Midrealm Calendar – This has the Midrealm events going on within our Kingdom (MI, OH, IN, KY, IA). Each event will have information listed and an event link for more detail information on the activities at the event itself.
https://midrealm.org/events-calendar/
Barony of Cynnabar (Ann Arbor regional area) – https://cynnabar.org/events,
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cynnabar/?ref=group_browse_new
Barony of Northwoods (Lansing, Northern Metro Detroit and many areas around it including Sterling Heights, Troy, and other of there all the way to Flint) –
https://northwoods.midrealm.org/activities/canton-and-baronial-events/,