25 Apr 2026 – 10:00
Come and join us for a relaxed day in a park, with tournaments (heavy and rapier) and various games, celebrating the end of the Society year.
Bring your food for a relaxing potluck picnic.
Given that it is the end of the year the Heavy tournament will be a test of endurance offering bouts by challenge. If you thought of a P’as D’Armes you wouldn’t be too far off the mark. Come prepared for florid challenges, pithy responses and robust exchanges!
If that’s not your thing, there will be board and outdoor games set up to test your skills and reasoning.
Timetable
- Noon: setup
- 2:00: Open
- 2:30: Heavy and Rapier tournaments
- 3:00: Afternoon tea
- 3:15: Quest – all ages
- 5:00: Feast opens
- 5:30: Dancing
- 6:30: First course
- 7:15: Court
- 8:00: Second course
- 8:30: A Play
- 10:00: Close
The afternoon includes a quest suitable for children through to adults. The feast will have music, dancing and a play.
Tournaments
In honour of the unicorn theme, the armoured tournament will be a round-robin format where wins count as 1 point for a cut and two points for a thrust.
The rapier tournament will be a Tournament of Defence. A round robin tourney where you accumulate points for being wounded or killed. Victory to the combatant with the fewest points!
Site
Gospel Salvation Assembly hall and Higgins park
At Higgins shops off Fullagar Crescent
27 Higgins Pl, Higgins ACT 2615
[disability access yes] [Venue is Alcohol and Tobacco/vape free] In other words dry and smoke free
Price
Adults: $10
Children <18: Free
Concession (pensioners, unemployed incl students): N/A
Non-SCA-members pay +$20 adults or +$5 minors
Bookings and steward
Steward – David Hunt
Deputy steward – Robert Hunt