Crisis of confidence

[mrsbrown]

I seem to be responsible for finding a hall, booking it and doing the publicity for the Midwinter Ball

We currently have Brunswick Town Hall tentatively booked, but they won't let us have candles, it costs about $900 and it's enormous.

Should we be organising smaller venues, put caps an attendances and have really good small events rather than fuck off big ones?

For instance, could we use Sophia Mundi? Where there is an adequate kitchen, a space where we can have fires and people outside and a nice enough small hall. Also, a second dance space for classes during the day.

Photos from the midwinter event we held are here - http://abbotsford.sca.org.au/gallery/Winterfeast-2005

hmmm

Comments

[celsa.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting event - the masque ball, I believe? If costume display is to be a feature, a little more floor-space might be better so that people can be seen more easily than in a crowd. Winterfeast 2005 was a terriffic event, but toward the crowded end of the 'cosy' scale. How many attended that?

I wonder....

I wonder whether some kind of show of hands for people intending to attend might be possible through the e-mail lists? It'd likely be so inaccurate/speculative at this early stage to be of little predicitive value, but... if there were an extreme lack of reaction or an unexpectedly large wave of affirmative responses, it might assist in deciding on the large/small hall issue.