Feast-Day of Saint Nicholas in Whyt Whey

Come celebrate the Feast-Day of Saint Nicholas in Twelfth Century French Style in Whyt Whey with the Coribant Compaignye!

December 6 is the Feast Day of Nicholas of Myra, fabled in later years as Santa Claus, and the famed Coribant Compaignye will be presenting two 12th Century works about Saint Nicholas from the Fleury Playbook:

• First is a puppet play which involves three students who get cooked into a stew and who are later saved by St. Nicholas. Inspired by "Tres Clerici" (St. Nicholas and the Three Students), this will be presented early in the day in order to get us into a festive, carnivalesque mood. It will be performed in the vernacular - modern English in this case.
• "Filius Getronis" (St. Nicholas and the Son of Getron) in which the saint restores a kidnapped child to lamenting parents, is a more narrative piece and will be presented as a staged music-drama later in the day. It will be sung in Latin.

At 6:00, spiritually replete from the theatrical repast, a feast shall be served to nourish the body. The head cook is Alexandre Lerot d'Avigne and further information about the menu is available at The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ancient Cookery, in the last few articles.

After the feast, there shall be room for dancing and other such amusements until the hall closes.

During the day there will be space set aisde for an A&S Display and any artisan who would like to display their work is encouraged to do so.

Important Information:

Date and Time:

December 6, 2003. Site opens at 1PM, closes at 10PM, must be empty by 11PM. Those on site after 10PM have volunteered to help with clean up. Curtain for the play is at 5 PM, with the feast to follow at 6PM.

Fee:

$12, site and feast. There is no off-board. A $3 Non-Member Surcharge must be collected if proof of membership is not provided with the reservation or at the door.

Autocrat and Reservations:

Medb of Mull
Mimi Curry
113 East 13th Street, Apt. 6C
New York, NY 10003
212-529-1322
mimi.curry@med.va.gov

Head Cook:

Alexandre Lerot d'Avigne
nexus@panix.com

• No tickets are available at the door. Only pre-registered attendees will be allowed. This is a restriction of the site.
• Bring an ID! Building security may check IDs at the door.
• The site is dry.
• Reservation cutoff is November 15. We must have the list of attendees to the site shortly after this date.
• Parking may be available on the street, or it may not. This is Manhattan, after all. There are parking garages near the site.

Directions to Site

• By Public Transportation:

  Subway:

  Make your best way to Union Square. Go to the southeast corner and down to 13th street. The site is between 3rd and 4th avenues on the North side of the street.

  Bus:

  It looks like a 1,2 or 3 bus will take you to 13th St. and 4th Ave. Walk east to the site. The #9 goes across 14th St as do the 14A and 14D busses, get off at 4th Ave., walk down one block and over to the site.

• By car:
  • Take your best route to Manhattan.

    From the West:

    If you take the Holland tunnel, you probably should take Broadway north to 14th St, then head east.* If you take the Lincoln tunnel get onto the southbound West Side Highway to 14th St, then head east.* From the GWB, either take the West Side Highway/Henry Hudson south to 14th and head east* or go across to the FDR Drive and follow the directions From the East.

    From the East:

    Take your favorite East River crossing and then take the FDR drive to 23rd St. Drop south when you get a chance and go to 14th St. Head west.*

    *You are now on 14th Street. Take 14th to 2nd Ave and turn South. Go one block south to 13th and turn right, so that you are heading west again. The site is between 3rd and 4th Ave.