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Greetings from Arval!  Dennis O'Connor wrote:

> It irks me a little to constantly see the "costume-party" phrase, whith
> the negative connotation it carries in these discussions, in such wide
> use by the proponents of "narrow-focus" events...  if I put on garb
> and go to an event where we discuss making armour, sword fighting,
> medeaval history, SCA history, weaving, brewing, court dance and the
> like, and we eat various medieval-style food and drink, I don't think of
> that as a "costume party", I think of it as an SCA event.

I agree; it is one kind of SCA event.  A narrow-focus, strongly-in-persona
pseudo-re-enactment is another kind of SCA event.  The SCA has room for
both, and a great deal more.  It isn't written anywhere that every event
has to appeal to exactly the same interests.

> I still don't understand why people need SCA sanction to hold their
> events with "narrow recreative environments".

You lost me, Dennis.  Isn't the obvious answer "For the same reason that
people want any other kind of event to have SCA sanction?"  I.e., insurance
coverage, publicity, access to seed money.  What don't you understand?

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Arval Benicoeur                                       mittle@watson.ibm.com