[SCA] event-planning: planting a seed

[cellio]

Hey, SCA people...

SCA events are customarily on Saturdays (or weekends centered on Saturdays). This is, as I understand it, to allow Sunday for the people who traveled from out of town to pack up and go home and be ready for work/school the next day.

There haven't been any in-person events for a few months, and in the US there won't be any before February. There are, however, events happening online on a fairly regular basis. The SCA is fundamentally a social organization; of course the events will move online rather than shut down entirely.

Online events on Saturdays are inaccessible to those of us who keep Shabbat.

However, nobody needs Sunday to drive home from them, either.

Do you suppose we could have some of these online events on Sundays instead?

Comments

[madfilkentist]

MASSFILC in-person meetings were usually held on Saturdays. Shortly after we switched to online meetings, we moved to Sundays for similar reasons.

[luscious_purple]

In Atlantia, we haven't been having that many "virtual events," but we are bursting at the seams with virtual "activities" seven days a week. Dancing, knitting socials, happy hours, bardics, afternoon "pell time," "Great Fighters of YouTube," whatever.

But, yes, I agree that the actual events like Virtual University of Atlantia should be persuaded to have a few sessions on Sunday.

Now here's a question I've never thought of posing to other Jewish friends in the SCA: Suppose you have an event like the virtual Raglan Faire, which runs from Thursday to Sunday. Which time zone governs Shabbat, your own (where you are physically) or Raglan Faire's? Or would Shabbat run from sunset in the UK to an hour past sunset in your time zone? (Just curious!)

[luscious_purple]

I should add: The Virtual Atlantia calendar is at https://virtual.atlantia.sca.org/calendar.php.