Forward Into the Past 24| Date | April 5, 2014 |
| Place | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| Adult Pre-Reg Price | $15.00 whole day |
| Student/Senior Pre-Reg Price | $10.00 whole day |
| Child Pre-Reg Price | $5.00 whole day |
| Adult Day-Reg Price | $20.00 whole day |
| Student/Senior Day-Reg Price | $15.00 whole day |
| Child Day-Reg Price | $10.00 whole day |
| Site Cost | $ 0.00 |
| Speakers Cost | $ 423.59 |
| Advertising Cost | $ 152.55 |
| Other Costs | $ 363.50 |
| Profit | $121.36 |
Interesting Stats Class Statistics Comments from Attendees
# - Session has attendance limits
$ - Session has a materials fee
| Class (Full List) | Speaker (Full List) | Time | Attendence |
| A Prow on a Misty Sea | Damien Coles | 2:30 | 8 |
| A mixed bag: Pirates and Cross-dressers | Samantha James, Debbie Kerkhof | 11:30 | 9 |
| An Overview of the Evolution of Germanic Swordplay | John Enzinas | 12:30 | 10 |
| Bleaching with Cow dung | Wendy Maurice | 12:30 | 12 |
| Bone and Antler Carving | Steven Strang | 3:30 | 14 |
| Brief History of Pottery | Karina Bates | 2:30 | 7 |
| Chainmail - Beyond the Basics | Jerry Penner | 3:30 | 16 |
| Chainmail for Beginners | Jerry Penner | 1:30 | 9 |
| Children: Create your own Shield | Katie Anderson | 10:30 | 2 |
| Children: Face Painting and Colouring | Katie Anderson | 11:30 | 3 |
| Children: Medieval Board Games | Katie Anderson | 9:00 | 7 |
| Children: Movie time | Katie Anderson | 1:30 | 6 |
| Children: Playdough Runestones | Katie Anderson | 3:30 | 4 |
| Children: Pottery Puzzles | Katie Anderson | 4:30 | 4 |
| Costuming Research (1000 - 1800 A.D) | Amy Menary | 3:30 | 10 |
| Dances from Tudor England (Gresley Dances) | Richard Schweitzer | 10:30 | 12 |
| English 16th & 17th Century dances from the Inns of Courts | Marc Collins | 2:30 | 9 |
| European Dance - Cascarde of 16th Century Italy | David Learmonth | 1:30 | 1 |
| Food of the Vikings (or what DID Lagertha have in that pot?) ! | Vandy Simpson | 12:30 | 23 |
| Food through Time and Location: particularly the Middle Ages and the Renaissance | Jean Ross | 1:30 | 26 |
| Gryphon Medieval Brass Rubbings (I) | Colleen Moynham, Alexis Cooke | 10:30 | 3 |
| Gryphon Medieval Brass Rubbings (II) | Colleen Moynham, Alexis Cooke | 11:30 | 2 |
| History TV's Vikings and History's Vikings | Neil Peterson | 3:30 | 22 |
| Iconography of Power in the Mediterranean and the Near East | Teresa Wight, Natalia Handziuk | 2:30 | 2 |
| Introduction to Drop Spinning | Karen Peterson | 3:30 | 10 |
| Introduction to Drop Spinning (repeat) | Karen Peterson | 10:30 | 6 |
| Introduction to Glass Bead Making | Rob Schweitzer | 1:30 | 12 |
| Introduction to Tablet Weaving | Rob Schweitzer | 10:30 | 21 |
| Introduction to Troubadours | Melanie Burrett | 1:30 | 7 |
| Juvenile Osteology | Jessica McGinn, Aaron Fehir | 4:30 | 7 |
| Late 16th Century Men's Costume | David Stamper | 2:30 | 7 |
| Lies, Damn Lies, and Viking Pseudohistory | Neil Peterson | 11:30 | 34 |
| Making Musical Instruments | Richard Schweitzer | 3:30 | 22 |
| Meaningful Scratches | Steven Strang | 12:30 | 10 |
| Medieval Games People Play | Erik Roth | 12:30 | 5 |
| Morris Dancing | Roy Underhill | 11:30 | 2 |
| Naalbinding 101 | Mark Patchett | 12:30 | 1 |
| Naalbinding 102 | Mark Patchett | 2:30 | 3 |
| Norse Stamped Jewellery | Sam Falzone | 1:30 | 25 |
| North American Archaeology and Indigenous Populations | Katie Anderson, Hillary Weppler, Alex Gabauer | 1:30 | 6 |
| Persona and Living History - A Round Table | Darrell Markewitz, Steven Strang, Karina Bates | 10:30 | 21 |
| Re-enactment and Education | Dr. Darrin Cox, Darrell Markewitz, Alicia McKenzie | 4:30 | 22 |
| Round table on sources for Viking Age textiles | V.M. Roberts | 1:30 | 5 |
| Stepping Into the Void: The tools, trials, and dangers of re-enactment based learning | Nicholas Cioran | 2:30 | 15 |
| Tablet Woven Artefacts | Rob Schweitzer | 4:30 | 10 |
| Textiles 202: Historical Dress Design From the Ground Up | Jo Duke | 11:30 | 10 |
| The Greeks and Their Art | Natassia Lei, Emily Sunarine, Jenna Lemay | 3:30 | 3 |
| The Medical History of Richard Third | Catherine Ollerhead DeSantis | 11:30 | 11 |
| To the Hilt: An Examination of the Renaissance Sword Hilt 1460-1600 | David Stamper | 4:30 | 9 |
| Try your 'Hand' at Calligraphy | Melanie Burrett | 10:30 | 16 |
| Vikings: Medieval Metrosexuals? | Dr. Darrin Cox | 9:00 | 46 |
| Working an Experiment - 'Turf to Tools' at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop | Darrell Markewitz | 12:30 | 6 |
Summary of 50 Feedback Forms (plus some email)
Spelling and grammar are that of the participants, editorial notes are in [these brackets]What session did you like the most?- Lies, damn lies and viking pseudohistory - well presented, interesting information
- Keynote, or History TV's Vikings - both interesting and well-delivered
- Making Music (Martin) - I now have another tool to annoy with!
- Medical History of Richard III - knowledgable speaker
- Great keynote! Great Naalbinding!
- Dance and instruments
- History's Vikings & History TV's Vikings - historical info to boost understanding of what is/isn't accurately done
- Meaningful Scratches - intro to the two scripts and given opportunity to try them out
- History's Vikings vs. History TV's Vikings - fun to discuss, v. informative for viewers with no/little knowledge. Would like to see more in future
- Richard III medical history - Presentation was clear, concise, complete as possible
- The one about Richard III. Very interesting and well presented
- Stamped Norse jewellry - it was educational, fun and produced a shiny object
- Neil's History TV's Vikings and History's Vikings - Neil is a great speaker and the use of film/television as a teaching tool is something I find interesting
- Beadmaking - hands on, well described
- Richard III - more updated info from last year
- Bone-carving - I loved it, very detailed, very helpful & friendly!
- German Sword Play - learned some intersting facts on (mzo-iginc szaigle)(?) handed sword play
- History TV's Vikings - good discussion and visuals
- Drop-spinning - I was good at it! hands-on and take home
- Viking Stamped Metal
- Stepping Into the Void - provoked thought about what we do, how we can do it better, and get more from it
- Drop-spinning - fun, hands-on
- Viking & Anglo-Saxon Tales - well done and interesting
- Evolution of Sword Hilt
- History's Vikings & History TV's Vikings - it was entertaining and educational
- My own
- Viking Stamped Jewellry - it was interesting and entertaining, very cool
- Tie: Morris Dance - energetic, got the blood flowing, woke people up! Detailed explanations for steps, figures, everyone seemed to have fun! and To the Hilt - informative, well-paced, followed the evolution of sword-hilts in a logical manner
- Making Musical Instruments - Why? Music is my thing
- Keynote - I will never think about the phrase of 'being soft' the same
- Stepping Into the Void
- Bead-making - not something one gets to do everyday
- The roundtable on re-enacting
- I found the personna roundtable very informative
- Keynote, Prow on the Mist
- Copper Stamping with Sam Falzone
- Bone & Antler Carving with Steve Strang
- Morris Dancing - vigorous
- The 12th - 16th century German Sword-play - it had period sword techniques
- Albrecht's Hilt Class - good combo of slide show and story telling details & entertaining
- Bone & Antler Carving - different, hands-on
- Norse Stamped Jewellry - good balance of good information and practical learning
- Germanic Sword-play - professional and informative
- Glass Beads - hands-on
- Troubadours - totally different info then expected
- liked them all was very informative
- History of German Sword-play & Chainmail Basics
- History's Vikings & History TV's Vikings - very analytical, I love to debunk therories
- Stepping Into the Void - new perspective
- History's Vikings & History TV's Vikings - Neil is a great speaker, but also interesting to compare
- Tabletweaving & English 16th and 17th century dancing - they were both a lot of fun and engaging
- the keynote was quite entertaining, the Sword Hilt (David) and Cook Early Food (Vandy) were both very entertaining
What session did you like the least? Why?
- Stepping Into the Void - because it wasn't what I was expecting based on the class description
- Textiles 202 (Jhone) - my mum was so boring, I left after 2 minutes!
- Try your hand at Caligraphy - speaker started early, before published start time, very little instruction, just experimentation. Didn't feel like I learned what I'd hoped to learn
- Juvenile Osteology - not enough depth
- Good stuff in Bleaching with Dung, but no presentation per se
- None
- Intro to Troubadours - knowledge teacher, but badly conveyed
- Dances from Tudor England - I couldn't seem to get the hang of it
- Intro to Troubadours - speaker was obviously knowledgable, but failed to provide a coherent ordered talk
- Tudor Dances - presentation not well organized
- Caligraphy - memories of school
- Food through Time and Location - felt the talk lacked clear purpose and direction
- all attended were well done and enjoyable
- Keynote - gross
- n/a
- Prow on Misty Sea - good, but ?????????? was just reading essay
- Calligraphy - there was no real instruction or discussion, just a few handouts to draw on and copy from
- Children's programming not as active as I'd hoped
- Food through time and location - very brusque
- n/a
- Troubador talk - poorly presented
- English 16 and 17th century dances from the Inns - I'm not a dancer
- Void - good but ran long
- Viking Stamped Jewellry - I was truly dreadful at it. Also, presenter has some facts wrong
- n/a
- I liked all of mine, I didn't have a least favourite!
- Food Through Time
- From Turf to.... - more about the buildup not the end
- n/a
- all the ones I saw were great
- not that I didn't like it, but Darrell Markewitz's talk on organizing a workshop on metalworking in Aberdeenshire was more about getting grants & booking planes then making smelting furnaces & making axes, which I would have been more interested in (there was some of that at the end)
- liked 'em all
- Elizabethan Costume - it was informational, but uninteresting
- Food Survey - Jean Ross - paper presentation, had complicated numbers on her paper, found it very dry
- Food Through Ages - presenter not great, visuals less helpful
- Drop-spinning but only because I sucked :-) Class itself was fine
- Piracy - little relevance to casual interest like me
- None, all were good
- Reenactors
- Food of the Vikings - presenter was not congenial and info not organized
- Intro to Troubadors - speaker wasn't as good and while listening to music was great, seeing handout on screen that didn't really match what she was saying was not helpful
- Food Through Time and Location - I feel it would have been more relevant if there were handouts or if it was more streamlined
What other sessions would you like to see?
- Hands-on, Norse wire-knitting - Nicolaa, I need to relearn posementeni(?) Finnish/Norse metal decoration
- more hands-on, making general stuff
- more post-medieval history choices
- ???
- ?
- further TV/history comparisons
- Heraldry
- Methods of Execution
- always love 'hands-on' sessions
- Viking wire weaving
- would love to have the combat sessions return, though weather is always an issue
- have to think about that
- more combat/weapons
- Step 2 - after the pattern, how to pieces things together
- Bookbinding
- Enamiling
- more on archaeology of Ontario
- Iron Age Civilization, hill forts, evolution of fortifications, evolution of firearms
- Gender Studies
- mmm.... Crusader stuff
- Maybe a more beginning naalbinding class? I couldn't really keep up with all the others
- More TV comparisons, Vikings was fun
- more hands-on, broader time periods
- experimental archaeology [I'll make sure this one happens myself - Neil]
- more hands-on/making stuff
- I was very interested in the old materials
- Medieval Armor
- Gardening
- crafting, 'barbarians'
- Maybe some kind of cooking class?
- Gender norms through history
- more advanced chainmail / music history
- Falconry
- Sword hilts
- Brewing
- I really enjoy the hands-on classes
- Russian clothing/history, Spanish clothing/history
How did you hear about us?
- SCA
- you're kidding, right?
- Parents
- attendance in past years
- Mr. Strang
- internet/email
- through friends
- info from Richard III society
- web
- my husband recieved an email
- word of mouth
- SCA contacts
- helped out and spoke for 4 years
- friend, advertise with WATSfic, UW's sci-fi club (on facebook), they could likely enjoy
- SCA
- Neil
- Neil bugged me
- SCA
- Dark Ages Recreation Company demonstration
- SCA
- came last year, and the year before, and the year before.....
- been coming for years
- email list
- Darrin Cox
- Neil & Darrell
- How could I not here?
- SCA / former lecturer at this event
- Professor told us about the trip to Canada and the conference
- SCA
- been coming for years - SCA
- went last year
- Laurier Medieval Studies Society
- I know a guy....
- friends in SCA
- your mailing list
- through Dr. Cox
- SCA
- I know Neil
- Friend
- wife
- friend
- from my sister
- friend
- thru friends as I've hinted an interest in re-enacting
- SCA
- internet
- been here/done that
Other Comments- survived mine, though it could have been way better. Better organized. Need to overcome fear of public speaking, which probably makes me seem brusque. Need to develop idea for new sessions over much longer period.
- disappointed by low turnout of vendors and guests
- now I know two naalbinding stitches!!
- so cool/so much fun! Loved it!
- also liked the chainmail for beginners
- a very intense day
- the vendors/displays - very disappointing, very sparse this year
- I had an amazing time
- great day as always
- thank you for welcoming me for my first FITP presentation! I felt appreciated and had a great time!
- Great day! Thank you for the forum!
- Great setup, well organized, excellent variety
- I loved the 'coup de gras!!'
- the hands-on classes should always be longer, they always run long or projects not completed
- excellent as usual - thank you!
- Another excellent year. Hope next year will be just as amazing. More vendors!
- more time to do everything. More vendors?
- I look forward to FITP every year. please don't stop
- Enjoyed it!
- very friendly group! Thanks!
- I was at the SCA table all day (just what I needed), enjoying watching people heading to classes who also stopped at each table to ask questions. Good mix of interested people, young and old, experienced and inexperienced. Once again, a nicely run event!
- Thank you enjoyed
- Excellent
