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If you're in Toronto on 7-8 June, you can't miss this. If you're not here, then you should be. The York Plays will be staged in their full splendour overseen by pageant master Matthew Sergi. From dawn to midnight! This will be bigger than Woodstock - don't be stuck with the bootleg. www.yorkplays.ca

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One of our founders, @hellomizk.bsky.social, has co-organised the 'Cartooning the Medieval' symposium at the Newberry Library, Chicago! Professional cartoonists will explore the potential for comics to engage diverse audiences with medieval culture. Read all about the event here: shorturl.at/YOHiy

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Our next Making Space Session (online co-working) where you can set time aside time to work on YOUR creative project is taking place on Thursday 22nd May, 5:30pm-7:00pm (GMT). Sign up to our mailing list via the 'Join the Guild' page to receive the link! www.guildmedmak.com/events-1-1/m...

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Crow - "A long-lived bird that foretells the future" Unlike coots, the crow will eat dead bodies, specifically plucking out the eyes to get to the brain. Mmm. (Bestiary.ca) Drawing a medieval bird every day in May. #MedievalMay #Birds #BirdArt #AmericanCrow #MedievalArt

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Do you learn by doing? @ies-sas.bsky.social has a new summer school course that explores medieval manuscripts by making them. You’ll learn how inks and pigments were made and used and get to experiment for yourself! 📖📚🎨 @ies-sas.bsky.social book 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-...

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The @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social is hosting a workshop by @saracharles.bsky.social, 'GOLD in Medieval Illumination: A Practice Based Workshop' on 16th May, 2:00pm ✨ An exciting session for our Oxford-based medievalist makers!

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Self indulgent art challenge: I'm drawing a medieval style bird every day in May. Only birds found in California, from species on bestiary.ca Tracking with #MedievalMay Day 1 - Bittern - "a bird that puts its beak in the water or into reeds and makes a booming noise" #BirdArt #Birds #MedievalArt

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CFP: Data Art! ✨Through 5/16, we're accepting proposals for creative work telling evocative, artistic, thought-provoking stories w/data for display in our community space. Craft, making, art, media & more methods are all options (hey, #DHmakes!). Funded; open to all (don't need to be at UVA; 18+) +

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Last Friday our Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project hosted a group of Forest School leaders at Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (CEAMC) making early medieval Souterrain Ware cooking pots working with 'wild' raw materials and techniques from over 1000 years ago.

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Just in case if you missed this printing event in #Mainz: they publically printed a giant page of the Gutenberg bible in the format 5 x 7,20 meter. #bookhistory #skystorians

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Our next 'Meet A Medievalist Maker' blogpost is by co-founder @drlauravarnam.bsky.social! Each our MMM blogs are structured around 4 'p's: 👷‍♀️Project 💭Process 👀Peak 👉Prompt Read about Laura's four 'p's relating to her poetic responses to Old and Middle English literature here:

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I’ll be cohosting this 5-day course with @stevelawesarts.bsky.social. It will be messy and smelly but also lots of fun. Come and experience the practical side of medieval manuscript making!

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Trying again without using words that will inundate me with bots. I’m just a writer, y’all. I’m looking for someone who can do the style of Lucas Cranach the Elder. Please only respond if you have something you can show me in at least the same era’s style.

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Co-founder @hellomizk.bsky.social has written up her experience hosting the first Making Space Session for our Substack! Read all about it here 👉 guildmedmak.substack.com/p/reflection...

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I spent this evening’s @guildmedmak.bsky.social “Making Space” co-working session experimenting with an autobio zine exercise that I had written but never worked through. It was so encouraging to look up at my screen and see everyone else diligently working away at their projects! #guildmedmak

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I spent this evening's @guildmedmak.bsky.social Making Space Session (ably led by @hellomizk.bsky.social ) printing some more of my medieval herbal-inspired apathetic beetroot cards. It was really great to hear about other people's fantastic projects and practices!

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This was such a wonderful and inspiring work-and-chat session! It’s definitely got me thinking a lot about trash as a surprisingly generative creativity fuel. 🧡 Thank you to everyone who showed up and shared your thoughts and your practices!

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A reminder that our first 🖍️Making Space Session🪢 is taking place this evening, 17:30-19:00 (GMT). @hellomizk.bsky.social will be leading this first relaxed co-working session, so that you can prioritise working on your creative-critical project!

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#Medieval #StainedGlass in All Saints, Pavement, #York, depicting the Passion & Resurrection - & the comic book inspired by it! Fascinating to think these images might have influenced local staging of the Mystery Plays. My favourite frame? The literal OMG moment when Doubting Thomas gets his proof.

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🎨Our first Making Space Session is taking place 17:30-19:00 (GMT) Thursday 17th April on Zoom!🖋️ Our Making Space Sessions are relaxed online co-working sessions designed to help you schedule time for your creative projects. We will open with brief introductions and some discussion... [1/3]

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Want to get a heads-up when we update the GuMM website? You can subscribe to our substack to get notifications right in your in-box! open.substack.com/pub/guildmed...

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Medievalist-friends! Interested in learning about comics and narrative art and meeting cartoonists for potential collaborations? Apply to join us in Chicago from 5-6 June 2025 for a crossover workshop at the Newberry Library entitled “Cartooning the Medieval”!! www.newberry.org/calendar/car...

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CALLING ALL MEDIEVALISTS AND THE MEDIEVAL-CURIOUS: the Guild of Medievalist Makers lives!!!!!!! This is a MUST-join for all creative academics, academic creators, and anyone wondering how to merge creative practice with curiosity about the Middle Ages. Please join, and please share widely!

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

There are so many creative medievalists I follow on here and having a community of practice like this is a great idea. Give them a follow.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

A brilliant idea!

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

This is so cool and so needed!

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Omggg what a brilliant initiative 😍

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

We are delighted to announce the launch of The Guild of Medievalist Makers (GuMM), a community for academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work. Read more about us and the society on our new website: www.guildmedmak.com

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