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Heather Dale singing at an SCA event. The SCA holds its own events as a non-profit education organization for the benefit of SCA members and their guests. This is unlike most Renaissance fairs, [11] [12] which are held mainly for profit to entertain customers and open to the public. Another noticeable difference is that SCA events are ...
Since 1992, the event has been held at Smithville Lake in Missouri. Unlike most SCA wars, which exploit inter-kingdom rivalries, Lilies War is a themed event, the contending groups based upon the theme of the year. [12] According to the Lilies War Committee charter, "the theme may not place the Kingdom of Calontir against another group". [13]
The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is a medieval reenactment group with an international membership, founded in California in 1966. Members of the group participate, to a greater or lesser extent, in a wide variety of activities based on those found in pre-1601 CE cultures.
The Pennsic War is an annual American medieval and Renaissance camping event held by the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), a "war" between two large regional SCA groups: the Kingdom of the East and the Middle Kingdom. It is the single largest annual SCA event, with more than 10,000 people attending each year, from as far as China, South ...
SCA Health (SCA), based in Birmingham, Alabama, is an operator of outpatient surgery facilities with a network of over 300 ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in 35 states performing more than 1 million outpatient surgery procedures a year.
The SCA in Australia was initiated with a local SCA-inspired group, The Society for the Current Middle Ages (SCMA) holding its first event in November 1980. [6] The Sydney-based SCMA joined the U.S.-based SCA in 1981. In New Zealand, an SCA-based group first appeared in Christchurch in 1982. [7]
SCA armoured combat, [1] or informally heavy combat, is a combat sport developed by the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) in which participants in protective body armour compete in mock combat, individual tournaments inspired by forms of historical combat, and tournament combat practiced in medieval Europe. Groups also compete, under ...
The Solidarity Committee for Afghanistan (SCA, Swedish: Svenska Afghanistankommittén, SAK), formerly the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, [1] is a Swedish non-governmental foreign aid organisation active in providing aid to people in Afghanistan. The organisation was formed in 1980, as a reaction to the Soviet invasion. The SCA was active in ...