Forward Into the Past 22

Date	March 31, 2012
Place	Wilfrid Laurier University
Adult Pre-Reg Price	$15.00 whole day
Student/Senior Pre-Reg Price	$10.00 whole day
Child Pre-Reg Price	$5.00 whole day
Adult Day-Reg Price	$20.00 whole day
Student/Senior Day-Reg Price	$15.00 whole day
Child Day-Reg Price	$10.00 whole day
Site Cost	$ 0.00
Speakers Cost	$ 273.59
Advertising Cost	$ 26.67
Other Costs	$ 165.65
Profit	$910.96

  

Interesting Stats         Class Statistics          Comments from Attendees

Interesting Stats
Speakers	60
Cancelled Speakers	0
Session Hours	90
Repeat hours	0 (0%)
Unique Hours	90
Canceled Hours	4
Approx Attendance	113
Number of hours attended / 7	74.29
Adult hours attended	360
Student hours attended	160
Average attendance per session-hour	6.05
Most popular non-keynote session	Sex and the Church (26)
Groups Participating	Society for Creative Anachronism Dark Ages Re-creation Company Independant Scholar Wilfrid Laurier University International Jousting Association University of Waterloo University of Guelph University of Western Ontario Hamilton & Sourge NHSC

 

	9:00	10:30	11:30	12:30	1:30	2:30	3:30	4:30
BA101						Linen: flax seed to fibre #		Sex and the Church
BA102	The Hamilton & Scourge	Development of the King Arthur Legends	Cancelled: Understanding Close Combat and Shock Tactics			Get in the Game Part I - The Game is Banned
BA110		A Mere Matter of Marching: Causes and Impact of the War of 1812	Torture 101		European Dance - Mimed Bransles of France	English 16th & 17th Century dances from the Inns of Courts		European Dance - English Country Dances
BA111		Sprang: A Basic Introduction $#		Digging in the dirt - attending an archaeological fieldschool	Introduction to Tablet Weaving $		Introduction to Drop Spinning #	Brocaded Tablet Weaving
BA112		Bawdy Songs & Love Ballads	Experimental Vikings: Glass and Iron	Fingerloop Braiding - beginner $#		Presenting the Past - developing Living History programming	Fingerloop Braiding - Intermediate $#
BA202		Influential battles of the Middle Ages	Polite Society	Vocal Technique for Speakers/Singers	I wrote some	Introduction to the SCA	History of Japan from 1100 to 1573	History of Japan from 1573 to 1603
BA208		Working Up the Past - A History of Knitting $#		Early Medieval Weights and Measures	The Logistics of Supplying English Archers during a battle	Presenting the Medieval Joust as a Modern Sport	Medieval archery	Stinging Nettles
BA209		What Motivates Magic, and How Far Would a Magus Go? - A Case Study of the Latin Picatrix	What Middle Bronze Age grave goods say - Southern Levantine tombs	The Hispanic Papers	A second look at Art	The New World Papers	2E3P (Two Estates - Three Papers)	Archaeology and the Single Re-enactor
BA210		To Singe the King of Spain's Beard Part 1: Events Leading up to the Armada Fight of 1588	Storytelling 101	To Singe the King of Spain's Beard Part 2: Naval Warfare and Technology during the Age of Elizabeth I	Eating the Past: The food of Apicius comes to life	Dundurn Castle and the 1855 Kitchen Garden	14th Century French Feasts	Large Menu Planning
BA211		A Working Day on a Victorian Farm and Estate	Bookbinding 101 $	Turn Ons and Jack Offs: Pornography in Ancient Greece	Cryptography	The Russian Civil War	Costuming Research (1000 - 1800 A.D)	The military development of Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Russia
BA305		Oh happy dagger! This is thy sheath		Counted Cross Stitch - Learn to Make Your Own Heirlooms $#	Whips and whip making, a misunderstood tool	Cancelled: Bone and Antler Carving	The life and times of the unicorn	Basic Calligraphy $#
BA306		Introduction to Glass Bead Making $#		Beads - Open Torch Time $#		Get Stuffed!!! - Sausage-Making and You $#
BA307		Trade Guilds and Furniture Construction Styles in Medieval England	Small Kit Box Construction Workshop $#			Silk-Painting a Medieval Banner
BA308		Norse wire weaving $#	Chainmail for Beginners #	Meaningful Scratches #	Pewter Casting for Beginners $#		Chainmail - Beyond the Basics #
Ampitheatre				SCA heavy fighting demonstration	Cancelled: Being Graby - Medieval Style		Introduction to Italian Rapier	Get in the Game Part II - So... Let's Play

# - Session has attendance limits
$ - Session has a materials fee

Class (Full List)	Speaker (Full List)	Time	Attendence
14th Century French Feasts	Wendi Trauzzi	3:30	18
2E3P (Two Estates - Three Papers)	Brent Krajewski, Alexander Wreford, Clare Pember	3:30	10
A Mere Matter of Marching: Causes and Impact of the War of 1812	Nathan Laanstra	10:30	13
A Working Day on a Victorian Farm and Estate	Ken Cook, Margaret Trainor Cook	10:30	13
A second look at Art	Samantha James, Barry Torch, Candice Kernot	1:30	4
Archaeology and the Single Re-enactor	Ronald A. Ross, Ph.D.	4:30	10
Basic Calligraphy	Jackie Wyatt	4:30	15
Bawdy Songs & Love Ballads	Richard Schweitzer	10:30	19
Beads - Open Torch Time	Jean Ross	12:30	12
Bookbinding 101	Erynn Bockler	11:30	8
Brocaded Tablet Weaving	Rob Schweitzer	4:30	12
Cancelled: Being Graby - Medieval Style	CANCELLED	1:30	2
Cancelled: Bone and Antler Carving	CANCELLED	2:30	10
Cancelled: Understanding Close Combat and Shock Tactics	CANCELLED	11:30	5
Chainmail - Beyond the Basics	Jerry Penner	3:30	5
Chainmail for Beginners	Jerry Penner	11:30	4
Costuming Research (1000 - 1800 A.D)	Amy Menary	3:30	4
Counted Cross Stitch - Learn to Make Your Own Heirlooms	Ellen Mervin	12:30	6
Cryptography	Peter Westergaard	1:30	20
Development of the King Arthur Legends	Heather Dale	10:30	20
Digging in the dirt - attending an archaeological fieldschool	Neil Peterson, Karen Peterson	12:30	15
Dundurn Castle and the 1855 Kitchen Garden	Victoria Bick	2:30	14
Early Medieval Weights and Measures	Mila Little	12:30	8
Eating the Past: The food of Apicius comes to life	Krystal Osborn, Cady Berardi	1:30	19
English 16th & 17th Century dances from the Inns of Courts	Marc Collins	2:30	11
European Dance - English Country Dances	David Learmonth	4:30	5
European Dance - Mimed Bransles of France	David Learmonth	1:30	8
Experimental Vikings: Glass and Iron	Neil Peterson, Darrell Markewitz	11:30	12
Fingerloop Braiding - Intermediate	Karina Bates	3:30	2
Fingerloop Braiding - beginner	Karina Bates	12:30	16
Get Stuffed!!! - Sausage-Making and You	Sam Falzone	2:30	20
Get in the Game Part I - The Game is Banned	Jeff Johnston	2:30	8
Get in the Game Part II - So... Let's Play	Jeff Johnston	4:30	7
History of Japan from 1100 to 1573	Brendan Smith	3:30	6
History of Japan from 1573 to 1603	Brendan Smith	4:30	3
I wrote some	Catherine Ollerhead DeSantis	1:30	2
Influential battles of the Middle Ages	Brendan Smith	10:30	9
Introduction to Drop Spinning	Karen Peterson	3:30	10
Introduction to Glass Bead Making	Jean Ross	10:30	13
Introduction to Italian Rapier	David Stamper	3:30	6
Introduction to Tablet Weaving	Rob Schweitzer	1:30	25
Introduction to the SCA	Brendan Smith	2:30	2
Large Menu Planning	Jean Ross, Martin Ross	4:30	1
Linen: flax seed to fibre	Wendy Maurice	2:30	6
Meaningful Scratches	Richard Schweitzer	12:30	11
Medieval archery	Erik Roth	3:30	23
Norse wire weaving	Susan Carroll-Clark, Ph.D.	10:30	11
Oh happy dagger! This is thy sheath	Marcus Burnham	10:30	4
Pewter Casting for Beginners	Richard Schweitzer	1:30	24
Polite Society	Catherine Ollerhead DeSantis	11:30	13
Presenting the Medieval Joust as a Modern Sport	Jordan Heron	2:30	2
Presenting the Past - developing Living History programming	Darrell Markewitz	2:30	7
SCA heavy fighting demonstration	Brendan Smith	12:30	3
Sex and the Church	Susan Carroll-Clark, Ph.D.	4:30	26
Silk-Painting a Medieval Banner	Heather Dale	2:30	14
Small Kit Box Construction Workshop	Nicholas West	11:30	10
Sprang: A Basic Introduction	Jo Duke	10:30	14
Stinging Nettles	Lynette Pike	4:30	14
Storytelling 101	Andrea Shalay	11:30	8
The Hamilton & Scourge	Michael McAllister	9:00	58
The Hispanic Papers	Craig Mackay, Gregg French	12:30	6
The Logistics of Supplying English Archers during a battle	Russ Sheldon	1:30	8
The New World Papers	John Sampson, George Kennedy	2:30	0
The Russian Civil War	Jordan Burrows	2:30	5
The life and times of the unicorn	R. M. Kerr	3:30	4
The military development of Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Russia	Jordan Burrows	4:30	7
To Singe the King of Spain's Beard Part 1: Events Leading up to the Armada Fight of 1588	David Stamper	10:30	0
To Singe the King of Spain's Beard Part 2: Naval Warfare and Technology during the Age of Elizabeth I	David Stamper	12:30	3
Torture 101	Simon Newcombe	11:30	19
Trade Guilds and Furniture Construction Styles in Medieval England	Nicholas West	10:30	4
Turn Ons and Jack Offs: Pornography in Ancient Greece	Candice Kernot	12:30	6
Vocal Technique for Speakers/Singers	Heather Dale	12:30	10
What Middle Bronze Age grave goods say - Southern Levantine tombs	Nichole Sotzek	11:30	10
What Motivates Magic, and How Far Would a Magus Go? - A Case Study of the Latin Picatrix	David Porreca, Ph.D.	10:30	1
Whips and whip making, a misunderstood tool	Tim Foster	1:30	5
Working Up the Past - A History of Knitting	Samantha James	10:30	0

Summary of 65 Feedback Forms
Spelling and grammar are that of the participants, editorial notes are in [these brackets]

How was the variety of workshops and lectures?

• Average: 4.6
• 5/5: 40
• 4/5: 23
• 3/5: 2
• 2/5: 0
• 1/5: 0

How was the quality of the workshops and lectures?

• Average: 4.3
• 5/5: 23
• 4.5/5: 2
• 4/5: 35
• 3/5: 4
• 2/5: 0
• 1/5: 0

Did you enjoy the location?

• Average: 4.6
• 5/5: 41
• 4/5: 19
• 3/5: 2
• 2/5: 0
• 1/5: 0

Was parking simple and easy?

• Average: 4.7
• 5/5: 41
• 4/5: 16
• 3/5: 0
• 2/5: 0
• 1/5: 0

How helpful were volunteers?

• Average: 4.5
• 5/5: 43
• 4/5: 13
• 3/5: 5
• 2/5: 0
• 1/5: 0
• 0/5: 1

What were the lectures and workshops that stood out for you?

• hands-on: wire weaving, fingerloop braiding
• fingerlooping, King Arthur legends, silk painting
• King Arthur, Dundurn Garden, Archaeology & the Single Re-enactor
• I found the lecture on Dundurn Castle very fun and informative
• Banner painting was great!
• Pewter Casting, Beads Intro - 5 of 5
• Dundurn Gardens and Nettles
• All of them stood out!
• Wire weaving - Nicolaa made it incredibly easy and the kit was great
• Apicius, all the dancing, bronze age tombs
• all
• Russian Civil War, Military Development of Late Medieval and early modern Russia
• Sausage Making
• Exp. Viking
• Sex and the Church - very interesting
• Heather Dale - need I say more
• Jousting! Amazing
• Archaeology & the single re-enactor
• Keynote, Archaeology and the single re-enactor
• Nettles - different, interesting to me as another fibre option makes me want to learn more
• I was a vendor so unfortunately did not get to attend
• hands-on
• I only attended 3 (manned OHS table part-time) - sprang, fingerloop braiding, and Get Stuffed - Sausage making is the one that stood out because it's something I've wanted to do for awhile, but haven't seen in offered. It was made _so_ simple: put in the herbs, spices that appeal to you, cook up a bit, taste it, make changes if desired. Hands-on, but not tied to a recipe. Lovely! Braiding and Sprang were also terrific, in line with my usual fibre hobbies, and just add to my growing knowledge. All three instructors for these workshops were helpful and not dogmatic. I had a wonderful day.
• I liked all the lectures, each one had a style all its own. The Q&A sessions for all the lectures were really informative - the session leaders knew their subjects and were happy to talk. The dance class (16th and 17th century English dances) was a hoot! The Legends of King Arthur was very entertaining. It would have been fun to try and decipher a coded message in Cryptography (a simple code!). Thanks for giving the second years a chance to give a presentation.
• Russian Civil War
• 2 Estates, 3 Papers
• Polite Society
• Simon's class on torture rocked!
• Practical hands on
• Liked the Pewter Casting and the lecture on stinging nettle
• Arthurian Legend, tablet and finger weaving
• Hands-on was my focus of appeal
• Weights and Measures, Knife Sheath
• King Arthur Legends
• Glass and Iron
• Games 1 and 2
• Any hands-on stuff
• Calligraphy and french feasts
• Japan and chainmail
• Bead Making
• Silk painting a medieval banner
• Hamilton and Scourge, to singe the king of Spain's beard and Intro to Rapier, oh and Bawdy Songs and Love Ballads
• Eating the Past - really interesting and scholary as well as experimental
• Sausage-Making - loved being able to take home fresh sausage!
• Rapiers. Ow my arm.
• The make and take like the calligraphy and stitching
• Loved Linen, Apicius, Archaeology and the single re-enactor (my husband), enjoyed Hamilton and Scourge, too
• loved beginner bead making
• Russia and Banner Making
• Magic Lecture
• Norse wire weaving
• tablet weaving
• Pewter casting
• small kit box
• Hamilton and Scourge
• Hamilton and Scourge
• Sex and the Church - superb!
• Calligraphy
• Keynote Speaker
• 1865 Victorian farm
• Polite Society
• Dundurn Castle kitchen gardening
• Guest speaker from Hamilton military museum
• Russia from Ivan W to Peter the Great
• Sausage making
• Nettles
• Bawdy Songs
• Sausage making was great
• Legends of King Arthur and the dance workshops
• They were all good
• Silk Banner Painting
• Archaeology and the single re-enactor

What lectures were unsatisfactory? Why?

• Because all of the speakers were volunteers, some professionalism was missing, but it was still a ton of fun
• 14th c feast was very short, despite the amount of time she may have spent on powerpoint and printouts for her menu game, kind of lightweight
• Caligraphy - I could sit at home, look in a book and copy letters myself. There was no actual teaching for a beginning which I was the only one in the class
• None
• Stinging Nettle ok but not great - 3.5 of 5
• No lectures/workshops. Generally, the number of hours in the day; too few. Also my body's obnoxious need to be fed.
• None were unsatisfactory, although some suffered from lack of preparation
• None
• French feasts soft spoken, very short
• Ran out of time for sprang but it was informative, I'm just slow
• n/a
• More classes, clearer class descriptions
• Some instructors did not show up, that spoiled what I came for
• Medieval Archery - slow, rambling & not much new or interesting (and maybe not correct) information
• I would encourage profs to coach students on presentation skills
• n/a
• None!
• Influential Battles - not as well prepared as the others
• None
• French feasts could have had a bit more detail
• N/A
• Logistics Supplying English Archer - good material, poor speaker
• None
• Box-building. It was mostly my fault. I failed at building
• Runes because the instructor couldn't make it
• None
• Storytelling 101, not what it was advertised as
• 14th cent. feasts - very little about food, only 20 min. - read from powerpoint
• None
• None
• Sprang was fun, but not enough time
• Tablet weaving could have been more organized. Look! a Squirrel
• N/a
• Medieval Archery - no lesson plan, know topic but really rambling
• 14th century french feasts - under prepared
• 'Bawdy Songs' presenter also unorganized, but he did at least fill the 50 minutes
• None
• Bookbinding - instructor could do with more information on medieval books and the materials used in bookbinding
• Archery - good info not a great presenter
• None
• I only went to 'Meaning Scratches' - the guy did his best for only just having taken over the class, technical difficulties and losing his notes. Only thing is I wish we could have started actually carving a little sooner
• Medieval Archery - the speaker was, while very knowledgable, was very monotone

Other Comments

• Would like to see a floor plan layout of all 3 flooors at sign-in station to help figure out where classes are because of tight time between classes. Thanks for coffee, but excruciatingly weak!
• Would love it to be over 2 days in order to take more classes. More variety in vendors - lower prices as well as high end prices.
• The lunch table would be more visible in a hall rather then then a classroom.
• Thank you for a most interesting day!
• I will be coming next year as well.
• Glad to see this day growing so well!
• Had a great time, learned a lot. May take up tablet weaving.
• My first time here, hoping to come again next year.
• Great as usual!
• I noticed a dog in during lectures which was very distracting.
• What a gem of a conference!
• A historical linguistic discussion would be interesting.
• A longer lunch period. For those in class 11:30 - 12:30, there isn't a lot of time to get food
• Need more fencing!
• Thank you for a wonderful day.
• Great location, good student involvement.
• Parking was simple and easy (5) once I found the way in! Don't pay attention to your GPS!
• It was a every enjoyable day with a nice variety. The vending seems to be good for people in between lectures and workshops.
• Thank you for your hard work.
• Really enjoyed the day and variety.
• I <3 FTIP
• Material costs seem quite low - hope that the instructors are not losing on the deal.
• Having the speaker talking too fast was my irritant. I rarely give a 5 as there is always the chance for improvement.
• Great day!
• Someone had a (what I believe) was not a service dog. I wish I could have gone to the Apicius talk (I had a conflicting class).
• Thank you!
• Next year, someone else mans this booth!
• This was fun! I hope it happens again next year
• Fantastic event!
• Will return next year.
• Great variety of classes
• Jordan Burrows is the best lecturer ever. Russia is fascinating.
• Too much going on in one day - I get exhausted.
• Tons of fun see you next year.
• Well done there!
• Loved the hands-on. Should have it twice a year! I'll be back.
• This is my first time to attend - It was great. Thank you.
• A really fun day overall. Thanks!
• Job well done!
• I would like handouts if possible. I take notes to refer to later but can't always get it all down. Even lists with websites, contact info, and Resource list would be helpful.
• Had fun!
• Also enjoyed the vendors.
• Another excellent conference! Thanks!