Category: FAQ

What is there to do?

An easier question to answer is what isn’t there to do?. There are many skills and crafts people pursue in the SCA. These skills and crafts include:
Archery, Armouring, Basketry, Bardic (music, song and storytelling) Recital, Brewing, Calligraphy, Candle Making, Chivalry, Cooking, Costuming, Dancing, Drawing, Dyeing, Embroidery, Equestrian Pursuits (horse riding), Falconry, Gaming, Armoured Combat, Heraldry, Herb Lore, Illumination, Jewellery Making, Leatherwork, Music, Rapier Fighting (fencing), Scribing, Siege Engines, Sewing, Spinning, Tanning, War and tactics, Weapon Smithing, Weaving, Woodworking.

The Arts and Sciences Officer can help you with your interests by providing information, or referring you to a person knowledgeable in that skill or craft.

What is the SCA?

The SCA is a non-profit educational and recreational organisation devoted to the study of pre-seventeenth century European culture. The SCA stands for the Society for Creative Anachronism, and was started in 1966, in Berkeley, California, as an informal party. Since then it has grown to have branches all around the world with more than 50,000 people involved in a huge range of activities.