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Educational Programs
We are a living history company. It is our goal to excite people about the eras and cultures we study. Ravenrook Ltd. supports a variety of programs and performances with a focus on education on a variety of subjects. Our performers always appear in historically accurate apparel and are at your service to present and discuss on a wide variety of topics.
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Featured Progams
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 Art of the Sword
Since 1999, Academia della Spada has been working with an international community of scholars, bladesmiths and martial artists to rediscover the lost arts of European swordplay. Their educational programs encompass a rich texture of history, art, combat and, of course, swords. More...
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 Country Dancing
Anna Mansbridge and Shulamit Kleinerman bring to life the social dances of court and country, dances which have delighted revelers for centuries. Join in the fun and frolic of these timeless dances expertly taught and accompanied by two of Seattle's finest Renaissance dancers. More...
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 Renaissance Week - Ages eight to eleven
Try your hand (and foot!) at the courtly arts of Renaissance Europe. From dancing to the noble art of fencing (with soft foam swords), this workshop offers a living experience of past culture. More...
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The Courtier
Step into the shoes of a courtier in Elizabethan England. Based upon Baltasare Castiglione.s .The Book of the Courtier,. it offers a view to the arts of the era (singing and playing instruments, dance, skill at arms, rhetoric, erudition). For older audiences it includes a critique of social forces and culture at play in the era as Europe emerges from Medieval thinking into the 'Age of Reason.'
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Historical music
Experience Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music played on historical instruments. Performers tell about instruments. place in history. Solo or ensemble groups available. Instruments include: lute, historical violin, cittern, harpsichord, viola da gamba, woodwinds and reeds, and many more.
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Pirates!
Swashbucklers and buccaneers galore. Take a look at the historical realities as well as many favorite myths and legends. Explore the ships and warfare, culture and chaos which combined to inspire endless novels and tales of adventure.
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What Makes a Lord (or Lady)?
Clothing through the ages. Ravenrook is blessed with a corps of seamstresses whose talent is matched only by their scholarship. They offer a surprisingly lively discussion of the textiles and trims, styles and fashions, industries and resources which went into defining the aristocracy and thereby the rest of age.
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Magic!
Master Payne has been delighting and astonishing audiences around the world for more than 25 years. Not only is he a master craftsman at his art, he has adopted his special skills to a variety of literary and historical settings including Renaissance/Medieval, Edgar Allen Poe, Harry Potter, the Wild West, and weird science.
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And many more...
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