You can rent Kiwanis Park which is across 9th and behind the Elementary School for $40 Bucks. This gets you access to their big covered pavilion and you can set stuff up in the park.

Pros: Covered place to do Plays should weather turn sour.

Can sell food with out BYU Catering in the way. Still need Food Handling permit though.

Lots of Space for Booths and you can invite Merchants to sell their goods there too.

Close to campus

No Fountain to turn off or grounds crew to worry about.

Visible and you could advertise in the community and Drum up Community support for the Club.

No need to hire Guest Services($10 Per Hour per person 3 necessary to take money and watch event)

No need to worry about Campus Scheduling

Cons: Unlikely we could charge admission as the park is rather open.

Weather could get bad of course this could happen anywhere.

Not as much ambience’s as the Courtyard but still you can decorate.

Anyway if we can do it off campus Myself and Heather we can come and sell some foods and stuff and give club a cut of the money.

More thoughts

The problem with not charging admission is that we have little other ways to make money at the event. I realize it would be great if we could do it all for free but the plays cost money even though we’ve been able to do them for less than you could expect them to.

I agree though we could find ways to lower the price some. However we cannot depend on Food to pull us through as you will remember food is the very reason that we could not do Feast a fund raiser.

I still think the event should be kept at the JFSB courtyard. I also suggest renting a PA system. This will help with sound and projection.

I like the idea of the Foreign Languages or the old languages. They give a flavor to the plays and the subtitle machine has worked well before.

Actually we did have the scheduling fine last year but it was the approval from the BYUSA that got us in trouble they kept pushing it back until we could not be sure when to do the event.

I thought he classes went well last year and perhaps we could have more. You could also reach out to the community to find local artisans such as the spinning shop who might want to demonstrate.

My other suggestion may be to move it off campus and use another site like the Castle I realize we would have to rent it but I think if we advertised to the community we could get better attendance. We could also legitimately involve other groups like the SCA or Arma or others.

(Careful though some of these groups don’t get along)

Also remember the festival is about Theatre not just medieval stuff .

Many of these ideas are great.

I have one final thought

Since our festival is not taking place during Corpus Christi perhaps we could call it a York Play Festival or York Cycle Festival instead that way it is not confusing. Just a thought.

Remember you can get the Grounds department to turn off the fountain.

Okay I just rambled a lot but take the ideas with a grain of salt.

Has anyone thought about a medieval history based game show for fun during down times?-could be very fun and educational:]. The wandering jesters (if there are any still alive) could do impressions of bear-baiting or cock-fighting (very period entertainment). Oh, and a canopy for the seats of the audience would be a very good idea this year!!!

And I believe that involving several other clubs (experimental theatre club, as well as the stock juggling, storytelling, chess, go, masque club-comedia del arte, even *gasp* HACKA ARMA OFFA, rebel swords, (do they still have the belly dancing club-a side workshop) or SCA guest preformers, etc.) would increase advertising and attendance.

Lowering the price or getting rid of the initial emission fee and only charge for certain activities (and the yummy food) would also help. The musicians guild could do an introduction to medieval instruments booth. There could also be an dance instruction booth. The cooking guild could have an introduction to medieval cooking booth (medieval cooking show/workshop) and sell very reasonably-priced cookbooks of our favorite recipes or make your own bread (they pay for the materials).

For banners I suggest buying paint, old colorful DI sheets, its MUCH MUCH cheaper and more noticeable (especially if they’re very long and hung from the cougareat courtyard area).

I’m just throwing ideas out, I realize what I say doesn’t have very much clout with most.

But if you guys ask me to do the obstacle course again this year, it will get done and done well.