This post will be continually updated as we finalize details.
Have you ever wanted to be a gladiator? OK, probably not – the life expectancy issues tend to be a deterrent. What if you could be a gladiator for one glorious day, and then resume your normal life, still alive and not even lightly maimed? There, we can help. If this has always been your dream (or even if you just want to spend an awesome weekend with wonderful people) we’d like to invite you to the eleventh annual Feast of Mars. This event has come a long way in the last decade, growing from a day event to the largest California Amtgard has to offer, and we’d love to see even more people take the field this year. Feast of Mars is expanding, and while we are trying new things, we are keeping the great things that make Feast of Mars a special event!
Feast of Mars XI will be held from October 8th through October 11th, 2015 at San Lorenzo Park in King City, California. We’ll have food, fun, battlegames, and, on Saturday, the piéce de résistance: The 11th Annual Feast of Mars games. That morning, our gladiators will line up to be purchased by our select group of trainers, be issued their uniforms, and proceed to the fun. We have a variety of our classic games, while expanding on new ideas from last year!
There’s nothing quite like this event, in or out of Amtgard. We’d like to thank everyone who’s been a part of this event over the years, whether as staff, trainer, or gladiator (or, as in one case, all three). We hope to see all of our old friends take the field once more, and to make some new friends as well.
Event page: http://www.feastofmars.com
Facebook RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/371597926359165
Dates: Thursday October 8- Sunday October 11, 2015
Location:San Lorenzo Park, King City, CA
Price- Weekend- $30, Daily: $15, Children under 13: $15
Thursday
4:00 pm- Gate Opens
7:00 pm- Early Bird Tourney
Friday
8:00 am- Breakfast- scrambled eggs, bacon, pancakes
9:30 am- Dragon Play Competition team briefing at Gate
10:00 am- Class battlegame- Munera ex Gracia
11:00 am- Archery Tourney
Drop Spindle Class with Lady Tamara, De Anza picnic tables
Mask making for Plays, De Anza picnic tables
12:00 pm- Lunch- lemon garlic chicken, veggies, rice,
1:30 pm- Class battlegame- Carthago Delenda Est
2:00 pm- Needle Felting Class with Lady Tamara, De Anza Building
Scavenger Hunt begins, De Anza Building
4:00 pm- Class battlegame- Idus Martiae
6:00 pm- Scavenger Hunt closes- responses due to Yrduna
Dinner- pulled pork on pita, cucumber salad, spicy lentils,
Circle of Monarchs meeting during dinner, open to populace
7:00 pm- Waterhammer’s Seven-Elevenzees- pudding and dessert potluck,
Play performances
7:30 pm- Dice of Fate Tourney
8:00 pm- Movie,The Black Calderon, De Anza Building
Saturday
8:00 am- Breakfast- burritos with egg, sausage, and potatoes
Reeves, Fates, and Luminaries briefing during breakfast
9:30 am- Trainer Briefing, Slave Ditch begins
10:00 am- Slave auctions begin
11:00 am- Set I
12:30 pm- Lunch- cold cuts, cheese, fruit, pita bread- served on the field
1:30 pm- Set II
3:00 pm- Break
3:30 pm- Set III
5:00 pm- Games conclude
6:30 pm- Dinner- spaghetti, carrots, green beans, garlic bread, dessert
Prizes and Court during dinner
8:00 pm- Movies, Princess Mononoke and the Sword in the Stone, De Anza Building
Sunday-
Vacate site by 11:00 am
Munera ex Graciae: The Trojan Horse was a success and Odysseus has opened the gates of Troy. His team wants to get captured loot and slaves to their fleet outside the gates, while Deiphobus must rally the Trojans to hide their belongings and families in their family tombs.
Carthago Delenda Est: Scipio Aemilianus wants to destroy Carthage, Hasdrubal the Boeotarch wants to save it.
Idus Martiae: Julius Caesar is heading to the Senate on the Ides of March. Will he enter among allies or enemies?
Saturday Trainers:
Red: Baronet Squire Collin the Red MacAbee
Orange: Baronet Squire Torbjorn Kegslayer
Yellow: Lord Gale Stormhammer
Green: Baron Man-At-Arms Fiks
Blue: Lord Squire Kalevra Fallstar
Purple: Dagny of Crimson Wood