Winter Nights East: a Performing Arts Challenge Event

A winter's night is made better by entertaining each other!  Please join us for Winter Nights East, where performers (storytellers, poets, singers, instrumentalists, dancers, actors, etc.; solo or as a small group) will perform, and will set performance challenges for each other.  Performers are encouraged to evoke the time and place where their story is told, and new performers are encouraged to participate.

In addition, their Excellencies of Carolingia will choose their new Court Performer during Winter Nights:  competitors will state their intent at the start of the event, so their Excellencies can judge their performances throughout the day.

Challenges will take place in rounds, the number of rounds depending on the number of competitors. 
* First round, please state who you are and where you come from, then perform a short (3-7 minutes) piece of your own choosing. 
* Second round will begin head to head challenges, now that we all know each other a little bit.  Challenge pairs will be organized by the MOL.  Pairs will issue challenges to each other (topics such as “revenge”, “true love”, “anything *except* Shakespeare sonnets”, etc -- be kind!), or if they’re stumped for a topic, we will have curated inspiration cards to use instead.  Each pair will have the length of the previous two performances to prepare to meet their respective challenges.  Rounds will continue until we run out of time. 
* Final round will be a subset of performers, based on both the judges of Winter Nights and the judges of the Court Performer championship.  The final round will also include (yet to be determined) participation by the current Court Performers of Carolingia, I Sebastiani (The Greatest Commedia del Arte Troupe in the Entire World).

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