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Oh, and in case you missed it ...
Jan. 10th, 2011 10:51 pmThe Historic Picnic Project is open for business! And it has it's own LJ community ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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The Historic Picnic Project is an experiment in a new way of "being creative" in an SCA context. Here's the basic idea (and the main differences from other existing ideas):
Rather than having a specific, single event as a goal of the project, the idea is to work on ideas, equipment, activities, etc. that support a new type of activity. The "end product" isn't simply to hold one picnic, but to give people the knowledge and tools to hold as many historically-inspired picnics as they want.
In fact, the "picnic" idea is just the excuse -- the organizing focus. The idea is to create a community of people working independently or in collaboration on different aspects of the same topic: finding resources and information, interpreting and explaining that information, making stuff based on that information, doing activities using that stuff. The "picnic" topic was chosen partly because it's the sort of activity that fits in well with the sorts of events we already hold, partly because it's accessible to people with all levels of interest and resources, and partly because it doesn't seem to have been seriously explored yet. ( Read more... )
picnic_project.The Historic Picnic Project is an experiment in a new way of "being creative" in an SCA context. Here's the basic idea (and the main differences from other existing ideas):
Rather than having a specific, single event as a goal of the project, the idea is to work on ideas, equipment, activities, etc. that support a new type of activity. The "end product" isn't simply to hold one picnic, but to give people the knowledge and tools to hold as many historically-inspired picnics as they want.
In fact, the "picnic" idea is just the excuse -- the organizing focus. The idea is to create a community of people working independently or in collaboration on different aspects of the same topic: finding resources and information, interpreting and explaining that information, making stuff based on that information, doing activities using that stuff. The "picnic" topic was chosen partly because it's the sort of activity that fits in well with the sorts of events we already hold, partly because it's accessible to people with all levels of interest and resources, and partly because it doesn't seem to have been seriously explored yet. ( Read more... )
