It’s a fencing week this week, starting with the events currently in the sticky slider on the front page (in date order):
- February 9th, SSS Sheffield freeplay session
- March 9th – 10th, SWASH 2013
- April 6th – 7th, The International Sabre Symposium (new-ish link)
- May 10th – 13th, XIIth Dijon International Historical European Martial Arts Gathering (new link)
- June 29th – 30th, SSS Sheffield presents Chris CHATFIELD
I should be attending the SSS Sheffield events and I’ve just booked my place at SWASH (including the dinner) – but I may slope off to watch Scotland vs. Wales on the Saturday.
Further dates for events that I may be going to but don’t currently have enough detail to put up a link for are:
- April 13th, SSS Sheffield freeplay session
- May 11th, SSS Sheffield freeplay session
- August 10th – 11th, Fechtschule York
- August 16th – 18th, Fightcamp 2013
- October 19th – 20th, Smallsword Symposium V
(And if you can think of any that I ought to mention, whether or not I can attend, let me know.)
In keeping with the theme, I have two new pages, having written something about the latest addition to the Knight Shop waster set and my second hand Federschwert.
To cap it all off, there’s been a call for submissions to a “dragonpunk” anthology that aims to turn the privilege of medieval-style high fantasy upside down (Combustion Books: [External Link]). And a similar point of view on high / medieval Europe based fantasy can also be found in an older post on the Future Fire Editor’s Blog (“L is for Low Fantasy” [ target=”_blank”>External Link]).