Collegium brainstorming

[hrj]

So clearly it's time to start thinking of a class to teach at West Kingdom Collegium in late April. I'm already involved in one proposal for a panel-discussion sort of thing on strategizing compromises in fabric choice for historic costuming. But I'd like to do something else on my own. I can't fall back on my usual "what new thing have I learned lately?" And my mind always goes blank trying to remember what people have said they'd like me to teach (either repeaters or new classes). I suppose I could do one of the shorter slide-show classes that I put together for the Vallejo Music Theater lectures last fall. The one on problems and sources in researching medieval Welsh costume has some more broadly applicable methodological themes. But I always get stuck trying to think what people might like me to reprise from older material. It's sort of like being at a bardic circle or filksing and have someone say, "Sing something!" If I don't have any new material, it's all pretty much the same to me and I have no clue what people might want to hear if I don't get a more specific request.