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October 11-19, 2025

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Xiang Qi/Chinese Chess

Event Details

  • Date: October 16, 2025 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • Venue: VH - Arena 1
  • Categories: A&S Classes, Youth (Teens & Tweens) Activities

Instructor: Simon de Spaldyng
Cost: n/a
Length of Class: 1 hour
Class Size Limit: 12
Track: n/a
For Ages: 13 and up

Class Description: Come learn and play the Chinese version of chess.Limited to 12 people.

A&S Class Schedule

Monday, 10/13/2025

  • No activities scheduled

Tuesday, 10/14/2025

  • 9:00am Making Fingerloop Braids
  • 10:00am WoW Knowne World Choir Rehearsal
  • 1:00pm SCA 101
  • 1:00pm Jewelry Making 101
  • 1:00pm Beginner Italian Dance
  • 2:00pm WoW Instrumental Ensemble
  • 2:00pm Heraldic Wills – What are they and do I need one?
  • 3:00pm Elizabethan Dances
  • 3:00pm Brewing Quick and Easy Hard Apple Cider
  • 3:00pm Intro to Divination
  • 3:00pm Birds, Pigs, and the Hardware Store: Tips/Tricks for Embroidery and Hand Sewing
  • 4:00pm Where’s Lord Waldo?
  • 4:00pm Beneath the Veil Workshop
  • 7:00pm Latin Poetry (Aeneid) For Absolute Beginners Who Don’t Speak Latin

Wednesday, 10/15/2025

  • 1:00pm Jewelry Making 101
  • 10:00am WoW Knowne World Choir Rehearsal
  • 10:00am Using Tarot for Divination 101
  • 11:00am Persona Development: Inspiring Women from Global Middle Ages: 500-1400 A. D.
  • 12:00pm Ballads and Their Variants
  • 12:00pm Babysteps in Medieval Hunting: A Primer on Tools and Tactics
  • 12:00pm Vinegar, and Other Friends of Alcohol
  • 1:00pm Danish Niello (Lead Free)
  • 1:00pm Iron Age Central European Brewing with Grain
  • 1:00pm Renaissance Music Mixed Consort Play Session 1
  • 2:00pm What Am I Drinking and Why Do I Like It? (Red Wines)
  • 2:00pm WoW Instrumental Ensemble
  • 2:00pm Intro to Serti Method Silk Banners
  • 4:00pm Dead Easy Gresley
  • 4:00pm Twenty Squares/Royal Game of Ur
  • 7:00pm Longform Storytelling Workshop

Thursday, 10/16/2025

  • 10:00am Basket Weaving – Round Basket
  • 10:00am Greek Cleromancy: Talk and Throw
  • 10:00am Making and Building Fires for Fun or Cooking
  • 10:00am Making Newcomers Count
  • 10:00am WoW Knowne World Choir Rehearsal
  • 11:00am Create a Latin Motto
  • 11:00am Introduction to Mushroom ID & Foraging
  • 12:00pm Gods, Grains, and Gruel
  • 12:00pm Campfire Cooking Practice
  • 12:00pm Mystical Moderate Gresley
  • 1:00pm Fiber Hangout
  • 1:00pm The Story of the Rose from Antiquity til 1600
  • 1:00pm A Mead Workshop
  • 2:00pm WoW Instrumental Ensemble
  • 2:00pm Art Moot: An Arts and Sciences Solar
  • 2:00pm Rising Together: Sourdough & Other Historic Loaves
  • 2:00pm Painting your Pavilion
  • 3:00pm Meet & Greet with Her Majesty of Atlantia!
  • 3:00pm What Am I Drinking and Why Do I Like It? (White Wines)
  • 3:00pm Beginning/Intermediate English Country Dancing
  • 4:00pm Introduction to the Knowne World Courtesans
  • 4:00pm Xiang Qi/Chinese Chess
  • 4:00pm Renaissance Music Mixed Consort Play Session 2
  • 4:00pm Mead Round Table
  • 7:00pm Sadomasochism in Religious Art
  • 8:00pm 16th-Century Western Pornography

Friday, 10/17/2025

  • 7:00pm Sadomasochism in Religious Art
  • 10:00am WoW Knowne World Choir Rehearsal
  • 10:00am Backstrap Weaving 101
  • 10:00am Dayboards 101: Feeding the Masses Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Purse)
  • 11:00am How to keep all 10 Fingers- Basic Knife Skills for Teens and Tweens
  • 12:00pm Intro to Middle Eastern Rhythms
  • 12:00pm Saffron: History and Husbandry
  • 12:00pm Preparing Boards for Painting
  • 1:00pm Pastabilities!
  • 1:00pm Wire Trinket Making
  • 1:00pm Brewing Beer Part I
  • 2:00pm Brewing Beer Part II
  • 2:00pm Baltic Weaving
  • 2:00pm WoW Instrumental Ensemble
  • 3:00pm A Tale of Two Tastes: Eating in Imperial Rome
  • 3:00pm Intermediate/Advanced English Country Dancing
  • 3:00pm Hand Sewing 101 AKA: The Pointy End Goes in the Fabric
  • 4:00pm It’s a Bop! Classic SCA Dances to Modern Tunes
  • 4:00pm Symbolism of Color in Religious Art
  • 4:00pm Two C***s Together: Sapphic Sex and Love Through the 17th Century
  • 4:00pm Sylvie’s Medieval Cookbook Petting Zoo and Intro to Redactions
  • 7:00pm A History of Sex Toys
  • 8:00pm Pompeii Porn: Art Under the Volcano

Saturday, 10/18/2025

  • 7:00pm Sadomasochism in Religious Art
  • 10:00am Catullus and Roman Love Poetry
  • 11:00am WoW Knowne World Choir Rehearsal 2
  • 11:00am Iron Commedia Workshop
  • 1:00pm Iron Commedia Workshop Student Graduation Show
  • 4:30pm Known World Choir & Instrumental Ensemble Performance

 

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