Scarlet Squirrel makes the poster!

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Announcing the 2025 Abbey Medieval Festival... this year from Friday 11th to  Sunday 13th July.

The 2025 poster features many familiar Faces of the Festival, illustrated in the style of medieval manuscripts. This design aligns with the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, for which this event raises vital funds to support both the Museum and the stories told through its collection. I am wildly excited than myself and a number of my friends have made it on the poster this year!

If you look at the top row, you'll see me in my blue cintamani silk surcote with Scarlet Skwirl on my hand. To my left is my friend Paula and her dog, Willow from Horses, Hounds, Hunters & Farmers, a really wonderful living history group. Underneath me, you might recognise the particolured Crowned A silk sideless surcote being worn by our Lady Edith, the making of which haunted these pages for quite some time as a work in progress. At the very bottom, you'll make out a figure hauling a hay bale on it's shoulder, and that is none other than my friend Mim from Oltramer, a really fantastic reenactment group who have been my neighbours at this event for the past few years! To my right you'll see two male figures, one of whom is Antony, a Rus warrior from Staraya Ladoga (lovingly known as the Stray Dogs) Re-enactment group who has, for the better part of the last twenty years, taken part in the Opening Ceremony with me and been the first to lead the way with garland-wearing if required. Jouster Luke Binks in yellow on his mighty steed!

If you're in Australia for the school holidays, I hope you can make it to Abbeystowe in July for our 2025 Abbey Medieval Festival!