Category: Photography

AEMMA student Trevor demonstrates some of the finer points of the dagger as a weapon to interested schoolcchildren visiting the ROM during the March Break presentation.

Trevor helping a small child try out the great helm.

Shots from the Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts‘ display at the Royal Ontario Museum‘s ‘Medieval Madness’ program for March break schoolchildren. Our booth put on displays of historical European fencing (after the 15th-century treatise of Fiori de Liberi) and allowed children to handle practive weapons and reproductions of arms and armor.

John Woods, co-founder of the Ottowa Medieval Sword Guild, demonstrates the use of sword-and-buckler (“swashbuckling”).

An AEMMA student poses with a fencing weapon in front of our colorful backdrop.

Shots from the Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts’ display at the Royal Ontario Museum’s ‘Medieval Madness’ program for March break schoolchildren. Our booth put on displays of historical European fencing (after the 15th-century treatise of Fiori de Liberi) and allowed children to handle practive weapons and reproductions of arms and armor.

I am volunteering all week for the Royal Ontario Museum’s ‘Medieval Madness’ program for elementary students on March break, and do not have time to produce anything new, so I thought I would bring back one of my quirkier projects, from the Summer of 2003, designed to keep me from going mad while taking the intensive medieval Latin program at the Centre for Medieval Studies. I did a whole series of Squirrel Lords of the Sith, and even started on a theatrical poster, but, alas,duirrels are very uncooperative actors, and the project eventually petered out.