[WurmWald] brainstorm about demo at Urbana Free Library

[Jenn/Yana]

> I don't know if I can attend or not yet (probably
> won't know until the day
> before, unfortunately) but here's a few ideas I'd
> like to toss out:

We'd love to see you if you can make it!

> Kids, especially the little ones, love to dance and
> a few of the simpler
> bransles are easy enough even for children.

Would any of the dancers be able to lead the audience
in some basic dances? Let us know, please. otherwise,
you'll get me trying to dredge up old moves from the
dusty recesses of my memory.

> I've got about a dozen lucets that just need some
> sanding to be useable,
> if some one wants to do a quick lucet workshop. 
> I've had success teaching
> lucet cord-making to kids as young as 7 or 8 years
> old.

Great idea! What can we do to help you get these ready
to use?

> There are a few coloring books of period fashions
> floating around
> somewhere (they're either in my closet with the
> sewing guild stuff or with
> the MoAS stuff) that might be fun for kids to color,
> in addition to
> shields.

If you can look into finding out if you have those,
that'd be great. We'll have to find some crayons
too...

> A&S displays - I think it's better to have a few
> things people are
> actively working on than just items on display. 
> It's more interactive and
> more exciting to talk to a person about something
> they are doing - also
> less like a museum display which people ususally
> aren't allowed to touch.

Definitely. I'd like people to bring stuff to demo,
talk about, and maybe show other people how to do. I
can demonstrate handsewing or tablet weaving, those
are two easily portable things. The tablet weaving was
a huge hit at the Ren Faire last year, so I'll
probably be taking it along this year as well.

More ideas people! And who can show up to the
Newcomer's Night?

--Yana

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