I can be quite stupid sometimes… Pigheaded even… How have I shown this lately? Well… Despite the SCA causing issues with work (well… my involvement and interest in it), I have still managed to get myself the job of stewarding Newcomers this year. Yes, this is something that has been on the cards for ages, yet I have been strangely quiet about it in here… The reason? I’m well… not that confident that I can pull it off. At least not in the way I’m envisioning it.
The good thing is though… That I am actually planning it so that I myself will be doing very little actual work. I have appointed many coordinators to various tasks (yes, I still have a few gaps that need to be filled). These people will organise their little sections of the feast, and I shall organise the feast as a whole… Sounds sensible doesn’t it? I just hope it works. 
As for my lack of confidence, maybe it’s just the fact that I have never done something like this before. Maybe it’s that there is still so much I don’t actually know. Or maybe it’s because it’s only 7 weeks away and there is still so much to organise. All I can do is my best, and hope that people forgive my faults, and are understanding that I am new to Stewarding, and whilst I have a great team to help me, ultimately any failures will be from my lack of organisation and communication.
For now though, I would like to thank those that have been encouraging me so far…
Tatya and Elyssant – The well organised team who will be looking after the kitchen.
Paddy – A highly hilarious hairsuite herald and a marvel of medieval merryment!
Megge – A mild mannered magnificent musician to manage much merry music.
Ailis – The Kings Dance Instructor, to direct daintily daunting dance.
Alfar – Our Baronial Champion and coordinator of the tourney.
Lijsbet – Coordinator of the Games and T-Tunic Collegia.
I would also like to thank Mistress Finn, and Adam the Renegade for all their help too.
Oh… And please Book early and help Tatya and Elyssant to cater enough for the evening. It will make your night a much better night.
Okay. What do you need me to do? I can do high table, or door. I think i prefer high table
It will all be fine. You’re style of stewarding here is reminiscent of the Midwinter and Guilds Day that I ran. I basically subcontracted out so that all I had to do was turn up on the day. And it worked like a charm!
Remember though: This is your first event. And if you don’t run screaming from the building, there will be many more, so you have got plenty of time to get your thang down.
Make sure you have extra toilet paper and don’t forget to breathe!
Sounds like you’re doing just fine. I’m an event coordinator by trade, and I know I’ve done a good job if I don’t have any pressing tasks to do on the day, that I have Coordinated it all and there is a person responsible for all necessary tasks… makes it easier if I am just choosing contractors but you get the idea.
Hall decorations – you have plenty in storage and I’m sure if you had Adam there he’d put whatever you want up wherever you want, plenty of banners and the hangings in red and green from Yule
A&S competition, skip the comp, ask a few snazzy people to display some a&s – maybe even see if you can get some mannequins to display whole outfits on – it’s a newcomers, you’re trying to show them about the SCA, I don’t think a competition is necessary, but since you’ve advertised it, don’t be stressed if it is not flooded with entries. I would ask either Helen (A&S officer) or Bean as she seems pretty keen at the moment.
Clean up crew is almost everyone who attends – good to have a couple of people lined up but not too much of a big deal i don’t think.
I won’t be going, sorry. It’s not just the SCA, there’s actually something else more important to me on in Bathurst – a bit like a reunion, so I will go to that and enjoy the company of some old friends.
You’ll be fine, don’t stress. You have very capable people organising the food and that is the main uphill battle – everything else will sort itself. Your main problem is you’re doubting yourself more than you should, you’ve been to enough events to know what you want – as Finn said, if you don’t get it all perfect this time, there’s plenty more opportunities to run bigger and better events inthe future.