Forward Into the Past 6

Date	July 6, 1996
Place	Wilfrid Laurier University
Adult Pre-Reg Price	$2.50 / class-hour $15.00 whole day
Adult Day-Reg Price	$2.50 / class-hour $15.00 whole day
Other Costs	$ 550.63
Profit	$652.87

Interesting Stats         Class Statistics          Comments from Attendees

Interesting Stats
Speakers	30
Session Hours	64
Repeat hours	12 (18.75%)
Unique Hours	52
Canceled Hours	0
Approx Attendance	80
Most popular non-keynote session	Castration, Virginity, and Sex (9,3)
Groups Participating	SCA

 

9:00	10:00	11:00	1:15	2:15	3:30	4:30
Basic Lucette Cord Making	Cool Chicks I	Beginners Tablet Weaving	Beginners Herbs	Advanced Tablet Weaving	Armies of Bonnie Prince Charlie	Indian food of the 12th Century
Basket Weaving		History of Herbs	English Elementary Education in the Later Middle Ages	Arthurian legends	Herbal Workshop
Peasants		Introduction to Historical Dance	Embroidery		Illumination	Advanced Lucette Cord Making
		Medieval Fashion 1350-1450	Pets	History of Spanish Jews	So you want to be a viking	Pre-Christian Religion
		Merchant of Venice (In Personna)	Spanish Fashions in the Late Middle Ages	Humours in Food		Cool Chicks III
		Real Braveheart		Medieval Fashion 600-1350	Handspinning & dyeing
		Religion in Medieval Life		Romeo and Juliet's Dance		Politically Incorrect Woodcuts
		Stained Glass		Cool Chicks II		Historical Interpretation for Re-enactors

Class (Full List)	Speaker (Full List)	Time	Attendence
Advanced Lucette Cord Making	Bernard Sebastian Wolfe	4:30	1
Advanced Tablet Weaving	Rob Schweitzer	2:15	0
Armies of Bonnie Prince Charlie	Aonghas macLeoid o'hAngusa of Strathafon	3:30	3
Armour Fashions, Fads, and Fancies	Glanddth Rhys Mordwen	1:15, 2:15	15,8
Arthurian legends	Heather Dale	2:15	21
Basic Lucette Cord Making	Bernard Sebastian Wolfe	9:00	4
Basket Weaving	Rosmuire na Findlay ni Farquhar	9:00	10
Beginners Herbs	Caitrin of Chalswell	1:15	8
Beginners Tablet Weaving	Rob Schweitzer	11:00	10
Black Death	Gary Van Lingen	9:00, 11:00	18,4
Calligraphy (Practicum)	Kim McAuley	1:15, 3:30	7,10
Castration, Virginity, and Sex	Elizabeth Cadfan	1:15, 3:30	9,3
Chainmail	Gary Snyder	10:00, 4:30	15,7
Cool Chicks I	Adrienne Dandy	10:00	5
Cool Chicks II	Adrienne Dandy	2:15	5
Cool Chicks III	Adrienne Dandy	4:30	3
Costume patterns	Arnora Dunestan	9:00, 1:15	14,7
Embroidery	Leonora da Liliacea	1:15	9
English Elementary Education in the Later Middle Ages	Jim McColm	1:15	5
Feast Manners and Etiquette	Janet Lloyd	10:00, 2:15	2
Games	Cynwrig the Wanderer	10:00, 3:30	6,11
Hakamaal	Hector of the Black Heights	11:00	1
Handspinning & dyeing	Suisan	3:30	4
Herbal Workshop	Paddy Gillard-Bentley	3:30	14
Historical Interpretation for Re-enactors	Darrell Markewitz	4:30	9
History of Herbs	Paddy Gillard-Bentley	11:00	3
History of Spanish Jews	Zadok ben Soloman ibn Alfakhar	2:15	3
Holding a Feast for 4 to 10 People	Janet Lloyd	11:00, 3:30	8,9
Humours in Food	Aibhilin fra Skye	2:15	8
Illumination	Caitrin of Chalswell	3:30	3
Indian food of the 12th Century	Aibhilin fra Skye	4:30	6
Introduction to Historical Dance	Rosina del Bosco Chiaro	11:00	11
Introduction to the SCA	Arnora Dunestan, Neil Peterson	10:00, 1:15	7,5
Medieval Fashion 1350-1450	Arnora Dunestan	11:00	12
Medieval Fashion 600-1350	Susan Carroll-Clark, Ph.D.	2:15	15
Merchant of Venice (In Personna)	Leonora da Liliacea	11:00	4
Music	Rob Schweitzer	9:00, 10:00	5,11
Olde Dances	Eric the Peacock	9:00, 4:30	5,6
Peasants	Adrienne Dandy	9:00	7
Pets	Ealasaid Loginach na Kildare	1:15	11
Politically Incorrect Woodcuts	Gary Van Lingen	4:30	10
Pre-Christian Religion	Caitrin of Chalswell	4:30	9
Real Braveheart	Heather Dale	11:00	10
Religion in Medieval Life	Susan Carroll-Clark, Ph.D.	11:00	9
Romeo and Juliet's Dance	Rosina del Bosco Chiaro	2:15	9
So you want to be a viking	Darrell Markewitz	3:30	7
Spanish Fashions in the Late Middle Ages	Gwendolyn Rosamond	1:15	5
Stained Glass	J Caz Bentley	11:00	13

Comments
NOTES:

• First year for Compendium Sales over $400 at $15/book. 206 pg
• NO CANCELLATIONS ????!!!???

Summary of 40 Feedback Forms

How did you hear about us?

Friend	14
Poster	9	St. Jacobs Comic store in Wat. East Side marios UW Library Now & Then books Elizagoth (Stratford)
SCA meeting	5
Mail	4
Attended Before	3
Flyer	3
Internet	3	kw.general
Canada Day	2
UW newspaper	1

Where are you from?

KW	16
Toronto	10
Cambridge	3
New Hamburg	3
Sarnia	2
Montreal	1
Hamilton	1
Woodstock	1
Chatham	1
Brampton	1
Norwich	1
Sudbury	1
Windsor	1

What should be changed/added

• Add session on research (how to do)
• Alchemy / science
• Archery Classes
• Asian courses
• Astrology
• Cosmetics
• Design applique - application
• Flirtation
• Garment embellishment
• Hair styles
• Meditteranian course
• More classes on Literature & art
• More time for more courses x2
• Needlework (knitting crochet)
• Play area, Kids classes

Comments:

• Enjoyed the day -- glad I came.
• Good stuff
• Great selection & quality
• Highlight the "in personna" classes
• I really liked it, had a good time
• Liked castration lady, she was excellent
• Lunch
• Maybe shorten the day -- people seem to leave around 4
• More hands on (twice)
• More repeats
• Overall great presentation - Well Done!
• People should be allowed to wear garb
• please continue women personna classes
• review?? some of the teachers
• This was great I didn’t whistle my money down the wind.

1=Bad, 10 = Excellent

Class Name	Teacher	Informative	Interresting	Amt. of Info	Length
Adv. Lucette	8	8	8
Armour	10,9,10,8,7,8,6,10	10,8,9,7,10	10,10,10,8,8	OK,6,9	OK,6
Arthur	10,10,7,9	10,8,8	10,6,9	6	6
Basketweaving	8,9,9	9,8	10,8	8
Beg. herbs	4,10,1	1,8,2	1,10,1	too little - unprepared	too long
Beg. Lucette	6,8	8	8
Black Death	8,9,9,6,3,9,10	10,9,10,7,8,4	10,9,9,7,8,3	never enough,8
Braveheart	10,8,8,10,9	10,8,8,10	10,8,7,10	OK,OK	OK,OK
Calligraphy	8,7,9,4,8,7,10,8	8,6,8,6,9,6,10,8	8,7,9,4,9,7,8	8	9
Chainmail	9,10,9,8,8,4,10,9,10	10,8,9,8,6	10,10,9,7,6	OK	OK
Charlie’s Army		5	7
Cool Chicks I	6,10,6	7,10,6	3,10
Cool Chicks II	6,8,10	6,10	6,10
Cool Chicks III	8,7	7	7
Costume 600	9,8,7,8,6	10,9,8,8	9,7,8,8
Costume 1350	10,3,8,9,8	10,4,7,8,6	10,7,9,8
Costume Pattern	10,10,8,8,8,10,8,10	8,10,10,10,6	9,10,10,10		Please have visual pattern prepared to move class along
Dance	8,2,8,8,8,10,8,10	6,2,8,6,10,10	9,18,7,10	8	too fast
Education	7,8,8,6	10,9,8,9	9,9,8,6	Way too much but all very good
Embroidery	9	9	9	OK	OK
Fashion	7,8,10,8	6,8,10	5,8	5	Fashion Instructor used language base beyond that of a beginner w/o explaining terminology. Laymans terms would be greatly appreciated. Also Catholic bashing was disrespectful and not appreciated.
Feast 4-10	8,10,7,10,10	8,10,8,10,10	6,10,7,10,10	8
Feast Ettiq.	10,7,6,7,7,10,8,8	10,7,6,8,7,6,10	10,7,6,7,8,6,10	6, too little	6,OK
Games	9,9,10,9,9,7	10,10,10,9,10	10,9,10,9,10	6,9	6
Herbal Workshop	10,9,10,8	10,8,10	10,8,9	10,9,10
Hist Herbs	9	9	10	8
Hist. Interpretation	10,10,10	9,10,10	9,10,10	OK, not enough	OK,too short
Humours in Food	6,9,7,3,2	4,9,5	4,9,9	not enough prep - did not fill 1 hr; after 20 min subject was over not enough
Indian Food	7,6	7,6	7,6	7	9
Intro Dance	10,9	10	10	6	6
Intro SCA	10,10,8	10,10,9	10,10,8
Jewish Hist	5	5	5	5	9
Merchant/Venice	8,10,8	7,10,8	7,10,9
Music	1,7,5,5,3	2,7,4,2	2,8,7,7	should have rehearsed	too long I would liked to have had a historical overview of what the music was like & I didnt’ appreciate the anti-church bias. Should speak about music in general, in addition to the experimental aspect. Should also discuss the instruments used at the time.
Old Dance	10,9,10	9,9,10	10,9,10	6,GREAT	6,OK
Peasants	8,8,8,8,8,10	10,8,10,10,7,10	10,8,10,9,7,10	6,OK,	6,OK
Pets	10,9,10,8	10,9,10	10,9,10
Pre Christian	8	8	9
Religion	7,8,8,2,8,7,6,10	7,8,9,10,10,8,7,10	7,8,9,1,9,8,6,10	OK,OK	OK,OK
Sex	6,9,10,7,9,10	6,9,10,8,6	6,9,10,9,8	not enough prep - did not fill 1 hr	Well paced / informed
Spanish Fashion	10	10	10
Spinning	9
Stained Glass	1,5,8,9	1,8,8	1,8	1	9, More visual examples
Tablet Weaving	9,9,8,8	9,8	9,8	9
Viking	10,9	9,9	10,9
Wood Cuts	7,5,7,8,6,6,7,10	7,5,4,7,6,4	7,6,7,5,9,7	Too little teacher misunderstands mater.	too short