June 2017 - Medieval Festival at Upper Canada Village

Each year Upper Canada Village in Morrisburg, Ontario takes a step to the side from its Canadian Settlement timeline to host a Medieval festival. We were asked to provide a viking element for this three day festival including their education day for the students on Monday. DARC was asked to provide our usual style of floating between first and third person interpretation in stations that demonstrated textiles, blacksmithing, bead making, and domestic activities.

One thing you can be sure of is that year over year there is change in the world. Last year we shivered our way through a cold/wet weekend at UCV, this year it was the exact opposite. With the humidex the temperatures ranged from the mid 30's to just over 40° C. Definately not a weekend to wear your finest woolens.

Photos

Morning meeting	Carving Wood	Carving Wood	Þorgeir
Wood turning	Net making	Weaving	Talking music
Bow work	Aesa looking on	Aesa	Making Reticella
Ragnarr Bellows	Mixing Clay	Beadmaking	Ragnarr Bellows
Ælfwyn bellows	Talking beads	Beads!	Ketill Bellows
Talking Blacksmithing	Tool discussion	Bera	Jorunn
Bera	Kaðlín spinning	Textiles talk	Bera
Bera Kitchen	Bera	Jorunn	Jorunn