Avicia de Na Baiona

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Avicia de Na Baiona
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Preferred title: Lady, The Honorable Lady Their Pronouns: she/her Resides: Gyldenholt Status: Active Awards: Visit the Caid Order of Precedence
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Per chevron Or and gules, three escallops counterchanged
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Lady Avicia de Na Baiona has been active in the SCA since A.S. XLIII (2009). She spends her time in Caid when she is not at her estates in Gascony, enjoying all the wonders the thirteenth century has to offer. She enjoys poetry, vocal performance, cooking, and the courtly pleasures of life with her consort, Beorn of the Northern Sea.

Offices & Positions

• Coral Pursuivant, 2010-2013
• Lyondemere Exchequer, 2012-2014
• College of Heralds Exchequer, 2012-2015
• Lyondemere Arts & Sciences Officer, 2016-2017
• Bardic Regent, Collegium Caidis, 2017-Present
• Coordinator, Caid Choir, 2017-Present
• Editor, Crown Poems, Spring 2023-Present
• Deputy Kingdom MOAS, June 2024-Present

Event Staff

• Demo Coordinator - Big Irish Fair, Long Beach (June 2016)
• Co-Steward (Arts) - Lyondemere Arts & Archery/Queen's Champion Archery/Thrown Weapons, Co-Event Steward for Arts (February 2017)
• Demo Coordinator - Big Irish Fair, Long Beach (June 2017)
• Co-Steward - Lyondemere Anniversary 2019 (June 2019)
• Great Western War XXII (2019) Arts and Sciences Deputy
• Virtual Arts & Sciences Display Coordinator - Lyondemere Anniversary 2020 (June 2020)
• Great Western War XXIV (2022) Arts and Sciences Steward
• Event Steward - Gyldenholt Anniversary 2023 (June 2023)
• Great Western War XXV (2023) Arts and Sciences Steward
• Great Western War XXVI (2024) Arts and Sciences Deputy

Court Positions

• Lady in Waiting to HRM Mora III, 06/04/2011-11/05/2011
• Lady in Waiting to HRM Cassandra II, 06/01/2013-11/02/2013
• Lady in Waiting to HRM Dawid, 06/23/2018-01/05/2019

Championships

• Lyon Bard (Bardic Champion of Lyondemere), 2010-2011
• Lyondemere Arts & Sciences Champion, 2016

Competitions

Pentathlon 2015

• Weaving: Narrow band: 2nd place Apprentice
• Storytelling: 1st place Apprentice
• Research Composition: Research Paper: 1st place Apprentice

Pentathlon 2017

• Composition: Poetry: 1st place Journeyman
• Member of Team "Bacon of Heaven"

Classes Taught

• Rounds & Rhymes (with Angharat Goch verch Gwenhover) - Collegium Caidis 2014 and Great Western War 2014
• Traveling the 13th Century (with Mistress Mary Dedwydd verch Gwallter), Collegium Caidis 2019
• Medieval Liturgical Drama, Collegium Caidis 2019
• Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself (or How to Introduce Your Bardic Performance), Great Western War 2019, Collegium Caidis 2022
• Medieval Liturgical Drama for Easter, Gyldenholt Historians' Guild (April 2021 - online class)
• Medieval & Renaissance Comedy (discussion moderator), Gyldenholt Historians' Guild (April 2024)
• Creating and Maintaining Your Caid Wiki Profile (with Meistari Sigbiorn Sigmundarson), Collegium Caidis 2024

Associates

• Apprentice to Baroness Finella Harper (09/15/2018-present)
• Consort to Baron Beorn of the Northern Sea
• Member of the semi-active household Cliar Cu Buidhe
• Member of the inactive a cappella group Serenissima

Court Preferences

• Court Summons: Ok with being surprised with a summons into court for awards/announcements; please notify prior to shenanigans/court banter
• Contact for Attendance: Baron Beorn of the Northern Sea will be aware of upcoming events which I plan to attend (can be found on Facebook with that as his alternate name "Beorn ofthe NorthernSea")