Victorian event UK

[Lord High Everything Esle]

I'm talking to someone about the possibility of including some Victorian re-enactors in and event based in the Midlands over the weekend of 28/29th July. Contact me if that's of interest to you.

Apart from some very specific and well researched roles there is no cash involved on this first occasion. It's just a fun event but there are some Fringe benefits.

Will/Dave

[Mark Griffin]

I have enough fringe already!

[Miss Costello]

We do 1840s/50s....or are you looking for late Victorians?

K

[Senilis Pravus]

Given when the Victorian age ended I would have thought all Victorians were late by now

I'll go away now.

Definitely going to have to look into this Victorian re-enactment - great outfits!

[Miss Costello]

Badum-tish!



And we're looking at Roman! Exchange of kit?

K

[Senilis Pravus]

No Roman kit anymore I'm afraid...all gone now.
Got a lot of re-stocking to do, kit-wise

[Miss Costello]

Re-shopping! that's the fun (yet pricy) bit!

[Senilis Pravus]

I know...le sigh

Apologies for the thread hijacking Lord HEE

[Lord High Everything Esle]

We do 1840s/50s....or are you looking for late Victorians?

K

Haha, Vickies Golden Jubilee, 1897 BUT anyone is welcome even Mr Griffin

[frances]

OOoo I can do that - infact I have a weeks worth of outfits of that date. Do keep me informed please. Is it confirmed yet, and can I bring friend and the doggie?

[Lord High Everything Esle]

OOoo I can do that - infact I have a weeks worth of outfits of that date. Do keep me informed please. Is it confirmed yet, and can I bring friend and the doggie?

Well maybe not frances, but doggie and friend can come

I am having a meeting with the event sponsors this week so maybe I will be able to announce more later this week.

This is a trial event that is being appended to a long running and internationally successful series of events. But there is no great budget. For subsequent events we will have to work out ways of financing, if we are to pay all but a select group of "special" characters.

However the event should be fun and the more the merrier.

[Miss Costello]

Well, we're interested. My speciality is mourning. not exactly jolly, but interesting.



K

[Lord Byron]

Given when the Victorian age ended I would have thought all Victorians were late by now

Violet Wood, Grace Jones, Ethel Lang, Margaret Cooke and Esme Pearce might take exception to that statement ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Wood

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Br ... race_Jones

[Miss Costello]

Grace Jones?

[Senilis Pravus]

FLEEEeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

[Polly Victorian]

We do 1840s/50s....or are you looking for late Victorians?

K

Haha, Vickies Golden Jubilee, 1897 BUT anyone is welcome even Mr Griffin

Err, shouldn't that be Diamond Jubilee, milord?

[Lord High Everything Esle]

We do 1840s/50s....or are you looking for late Victorians?

K

Haha, Vickies Golden Jubilee, 1897 BUT anyone is welcome even Mr Griffin

Err, shouldn't that be Diamond Jubilee, milord?

Yes, absolutely right, glad to see your keeping check on me

[Lord Byron]

Grace Jones?

Don't be silly - that's Grace Jones II, daughter of Grace Jones (112). She followed her mothers advice of how to live a long life of "Good, English food, never anything frozen". She's 87 you know...

[Miss Costello]

My mistake... Safe to say Mum didn't go to Iceland then.

Well, we're interested if we're of any interest.

God it's been a long day...

[frances]

Right, I've had a word with doggie about her coming along without me. She is not happy ... unless you can take care of her and replace me as her staffperson. She is an old lady of 84 now and needs someone to remind her to have a drink and to walk around with her clearing up whatever needs to be cleared up, and feeding her and cleaning up the bowls, and washing her if she decides to roll around in the best smelling residue on the field, every day a different one.

Are you willing to take on this role LHEE?

[Lord High Everything Esle]

OK Frances we might let you come as long as you behave yourself.

I had a word with the organizers yesterday and we had a very constructive meeting.

I can't say much more at the moment because I have to write up what we agreed at the meeting and see if their perception is the same as mine.

We certainly agreed about the "Fringe benefits" which will be a lot of fun for many people.

[frances]

Oh! behave myself. Damn, that will be a hard one to achieve.

I can do working class or upper class and can talk about Victorian this and that, a bit about social etiquette can be thrown in, and the strolling minstrel bit. Plus, I know loads of late Victorian people. Now how can you possibly refuse to have me?

[Lord High Everything Esle]

We have now created a Yahoo group to talk about the details of the festival. Anyone can join !!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VictorianFestival/

[Polly Victorian]

We have now created a Yahoo group to talk about the details of the festival. Anyone can join !!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VictorianFestival/

Have joined, milord! Will see you in Buxton.

[Lord High Everything Esle]

That's good news.

The main activity will be on the Sunday but we have the hall on the Saturday too but many people will be coming on from Newark which is on the day before.

[Lord High Everything Esle]

I don't seem to be able to PM boncannon so can you please join the Yahoo group under your own steam

Ho Bon

join this group to find out what is happening

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VictorianFestival/

[bonnacon]

Noted !
Will do!
Also now free that weekend !

[paintingnanny]

Re. Victorian Event. We have local members who could attend. See www.sevendialsrapscallions.co.uk.

Regards Tilly Chubbins

[Lord High Everything Esle]

Excellent, just what we need

How about a Feenian and a Baby Farmer

join this group to find out what is happening

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VictorianFestival/

[Lord High Everything Esle]

Victorian Festival at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival 28/29 July 2012
Charles Dickens was, no doubt, one of the brilliant minds of the Victorian era and was certainly admired by one of my heroes, William Schwenk Gilbert, when he penned the lines for one of his last collaborations with Sir Arthur Sullivan, the operetta “Utopia, Limited”:
King.
Our Peerage we've remodelled on an intellectual basis,
Which certainly is rough on our hereditary races —
Flowers of Progress.
We are going to remodel it in England.
King.
The Brewers and the Cotton Lords no longer seek admission,
And literary merit meets with proper recognition —
Flowers of Progress.
As literary merit does in England!
King.
Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens
Like you, an Earl of Thackery and p'r'aps a Duke of Dickens —

These are among the lines sung by “The Flowers of Progress”, a group of “representative” Englishmen imported into a South Sea Island Paradise in order to anglicise it. Gilbert is being satirical about England, but in their way they represent the progress of British society during the Victorian era.
LORD DRAMALEIGH, A British Lord Chamberlain
CAPTAIN FITZBATTLEAXE, of the First Life Guards
CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD CORCORAN, K.C.B., Of the Royal Navy
MR. GOLDBURY, A Company Promoter (a Birmingham capitalist)
SIR BAILEY BARRE, Q.C., M.P.
MR. BLUSHINGTON, Of the County Council
The story of Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” has sparked many Local town centres to create Dickensian festivals in the run up to the Christmas celebrations.
What I aim to do at the Victorian Festival is to create more of a “Flowers of Progress” by having Living Historians portray a range of skills to illustrate the “progress” that Britain underwent during Victoria’s lengthy reign. The effect, I hope, will be more than Dickens or Gilbert and Sullivan, worthy though these gentlemen were.
We have been offered the use of the Octagon in the Buxton Pavilion complex over that weekend. The main event will occur on the Sunday with the arrival of Queen Victoria herself.
We have an especially dedicated Yahoo group which we would invite anyone to join, who wishes to know more. You will see what facilities we can offer and a range of “fringe benefits” for participants.
Here is the link to join:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VictorianFestival/