We've mentioned before that one of the cool things we could do with the Order of the Marshal is to do some charitable activities, and educational demos and the like. There are other groups out there that do these sorts of things already, of course. The Order of the Fiat Lux does some charitable activities and demos, for instance. The Chivalry-Today folks do educational demos, and I think the Order of Selohaar has done some medieval demos at children's hospitals and the like.
But of course such things don't strictly need to have a structured organization to accomplish. This could be something that forum members in general participate in.
I'm just wondering what sorts of ideas you guys might be able to come up with.
Here's a short list off the top of my head. Some of these will work both as fundraisers for charity, or as educational presentations:
- Combat demos
- Presentations on knights, chivalry, and weapons/armor.
- Visits to schools or summer camps
- Visits to childrens' hospitals
- Some local events might enjoy having us do demos/presentation
If we get serious about doing any of these, we'd need to spend some real time working out details. For instance, a presentation needs material, both the spoken kind as well as props. (props are easy, amongst us we have quite a few weapons and armor)
Thoughts?
