Typically the Barony hosts or co-hosts two or three events a year. These will have anywhere from 60 people to 400 people, dressed in medieval clothing and participating in medieval activities. Everyone is welcome, from long time members to newcomers. No kit? No problem! Contact our Chatelaine and we will help you get started.
Upcoming events:
Barony Beyond the Mountain & Barony of Bergental Yule–
Event date: December 7th, 2024
The Barony Beyond the Mountain and the Barony of Bergental bid you all welcome, and invite one and all to celebrate the magic of this Yule season in fine company.
Let the warmth of our NEW hall in Barony Beyond the Mountain lift your spirits with many an activity to brighten these short days and long nights. By day there will be a delicious repast, martial and peaceful activities alike, music, games, holiday shopping, ceremony, and respite. By evening we will continue the merriment with court, followed by our traditional Yule Ceremonies and feast.
Previous Events
Golden Sewist Challenge-Event date: November 15th, 2024 – November 16th, 2024
The Barony of BBM invites you to show us your costuming skills. The seamstresses and seamsters of the East will take up the challenge to create a complete set of garments, from the skin out, in twenty hours. Teams of from 1 to 6 active members are to start at 9PM Friday and continue to 5 pm Saturday. Team members are expected to remain on-site during the competition at all possible. If there is a legitimate reason that this is not possible please contact the autocrat and we will work something out.
Barony Beyond the Mountain Investiture and Armoured Champions Tournament
May 11th, 2024, Pomfret, CT
Beyond the Mountain and Dragonship Haven’s Champions Day
October 21st, 2023, Colchester, CT
This will be a day in which both the baronies of Beyond the Mountain and Dragonship Haven will come together to celebrate their martial champions and to host the tournaments in which they will chose their new ones.
Golden Sewist Challenge November 10-11,2023 Canterbury, CT
The Barony of BBM invites you to show us your costuming skills. The seamstresses and seamsters of the East will take up the challenge to create a complete set of garments, from the skin out, in twenty hours. Teams of from 1 to 6 active members are to start at 8PM Friday and continue to 4 pm Saturday. Team members are expected to remain on-site during the competition at all possible. If there is a legitimate reason that this is not possible please contact the autocrat and we will work something out.
Consort’s and Sovereign’s Archery Championships, May 19-21, 2023, Colchester, CT
The Kingdom Archery Championship, where those interested may prove their prowess with a bow. This is a weekend camping event being held at an historic 1930s-1950s preservation site and farm.
Artifacts of a Life – V!, February 18, 2023, Canterbury, CT
An arts and sciences competition, Artifacts focused on the things that medieval people would have left behind or willed to others when they died.
BBM/Bergental Yule, December 3, 2022, Amston, CT
Join the Barony Beyond the Mountain and the Barony of Bergental to celebrate the season, in a gathering at our NEW location at Camp Hemlocks in Amston (Hebron), CT.
Dragonship Haven and Beyond the Mountain Champions Day (co-hosted with the Barony of Dragonship Haven), October 22, 2022 in Meriden, CT
Come join us for a FREE day of martial activities including thrown weapons, fencing, archery, and fighting!
Bergental/BBM Yule, December 12, 2020, Your Town, MA
Join the Barony Beyond the Mountain and the Barony of Bergental to celebrate the season, in a virtual, shortened gathering.
Ethereal Seamstress, February 27 -March 27, 2021, Your House, EK
A month long competition in which competitors are expected to make a complete set of garb from the skin out head to toe, over a one month period.
Artifacts of a Life, February 8, 2020, New Britain, CT
What’s in YOUR will? Artifacts of a Life is a competition of the arts and sciences designed to showcase objects that one particular medieval person would have owned during their life.
Barony Beyond the Mountain and Bergental Yule, December 7, 2019, New Britain, CT
Join the Barony Beyond the Mountain and the Barony of Bergental to celebrate the season.
King’s and Queens Archery Championship Tournament, June 15, 2019, New Britain, CT
The archers of the East Kingdom will gather to test their skill in a competition to determine the royal champions for the coming year. For those not completing there will also be heavy list, fencing, games, and other entertainments.
Artifacts of a Life, September 30, 2017 New Britain, CT
An arts and sciences competition, Artifacts focused on the things that medieval people would have left behind when they died.
Golden Seamstresses, April 7-8, 2017 in Middlefield, CT
Golden Seamstresses is a competition with the contestants having 20 hours to go from fabric to completed garments in teams of 3-6
Hrim Schola (co-hosted with the Barony of Dragonship Haven), March 19th, 2018 in Meriden, CT
Hrim Schola was a day of classes focused on textile arts – sewing, embroidery, dyeing, clothing, etc.
