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15 February 2024
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Art Gallery Fundraiser
15 February 2024 08:46 pmI've been approached to assist with a fundraiser for our museum for the new art gallery which is currently underway. The Bribie Island Arts Association in conjunction with the Abbey Museum are having a high tea with a medieval entertainment, and guess who that is?
I offered a few suggestions about what I could talk on as a guest speaker, but somehow it's been extended into even more things, and now I'm prepping for this event in April and I'll be:
- dressing a medieval lady with explanations as I go
- dressing her hair and talking about her hygiene and beauty
- having samples of all of those things which people can see at the touch table
- having original 800 year old artifacts from my private collection out for looking and possibly touching with care
- making Trotula's hair powder as a scent experience
- setting up my hand washing station so people can try the rosewater hand wash with the lavarbo
- possibly making a slide show so people can see stuff while I talk about it
- a raffle prize of dressing someone up in medieval clothes and doing a digital portrait
I'll be donating all my time and resources but it's a lot of stuff and time and effort on very short notice. The event was decided at the start of the week and on Tuesday the lady emailled asking for what I could do, a photo, a blurb and by Wednesday please so it could go into the newsletter and promotions started by Thursday or Friday. I already had a nice talk about hygiene and beauty tools but adding in an entire other talk and production of dressing a lady (from her underwear out) is an extra thing and now I have to rewrite everything so it joins together seamlessly.
I'd like to note that the clothing my niece will be wearing isn't finished yet either, and since it's for an actual display, I can't just sew the buttons down the sleeve like I was going to do- oh no- I have to do actual buttonholes and lacing holes down the front. It's the wine underdress I posted about a little while ago, which I was going to machine sew, but really can't now if it's for a talk on proper clothing because people will get to see it all up close. And as my model (thank you niece) is a size 6, I can't just throw her in something of mine.
As for the raffle prize, the organiser original thought I could just use all my own personal clothes and do the dressing a lady on the random person who won the raffle who is 100% not going to be my size. so, no. I offered a portrait like the ones I've been using for my quotes books.
I offered a few suggestions about what I could talk on as a guest speaker, but somehow it's been extended into even more things, and now I'm prepping for this event in April and I'll be:
- dressing a medieval lady with explanations as I go
- dressing her hair and talking about her hygiene and beauty
- having samples of all of those things which people can see at the touch table
- having original 800 year old artifacts from my private collection out for looking and possibly touching with care
- making Trotula's hair powder as a scent experience
- setting up my hand washing station so people can try the rosewater hand wash with the lavarbo
- possibly making a slide show so people can see stuff while I talk about it
- a raffle prize of dressing someone up in medieval clothes and doing a digital portrait
I'll be donating all my time and resources but it's a lot of stuff and time and effort on very short notice. The event was decided at the start of the week and on Tuesday the lady emailled asking for what I could do, a photo, a blurb and by Wednesday please so it could go into the newsletter and promotions started by Thursday or Friday. I already had a nice talk about hygiene and beauty tools but adding in an entire other talk and production of dressing a lady (from her underwear out) is an extra thing and now I have to rewrite everything so it joins together seamlessly.
I'd like to note that the clothing my niece will be wearing isn't finished yet either, and since it's for an actual display, I can't just sew the buttons down the sleeve like I was going to do- oh no- I have to do actual buttonholes and lacing holes down the front. It's the wine underdress I posted about a little while ago, which I was going to machine sew, but really can't now if it's for a talk on proper clothing because people will get to see it all up close. And as my model (thank you niece) is a size 6, I can't just throw her in something of mine.
As for the raffle prize, the organiser original thought I could just use all my own personal clothes and do the dressing a lady on the random person who won the raffle who is 100% not going to be my size. so, no. I offered a portrait like the ones I've been using for my quotes books.
