Livestream
Livestreaming Events in An Tir
During the time the Barony of Madrone spent sheltering from the COVID pandemic from April 2020 to January 2022 Baron Enzio and Baroness Spike consulted with technology-savvy folk for ways to keep Barony activities going. The and the Baronial officers encouraged the use of Zoom for meetings. It was not long before the though arose that events could be conducted on the Zoom platform, as well.
Starting in the summer of 2020, the Barony of Madrone expanded the capability, with the assistance of several advisors in what Zoom could be made to do in order to hold events. Participants in this first wave of online events included tech-savvy team members Cristiana de Huntington, Ysolt Tayler of Windhill, Alicia du Bois, Gera Gangolffin, and Rowenna de Manning.
The Barony of Madrone hosted several all-videoconference virtual events with participants from across the Kingdom of An Tir: Road to Athenaeum on June 18 2020; Ethereal Twelfth Night on January 9, 2021 (an official kingdom-wide event); and Virtual Athenaeum on June 26 and 27, 2021.
On May 22, 2021, the University of Ithra committee hosted a Grand Ithra session online via Zoom.
When the COVID restrictions on large gatherings eased, the Kingdom planned to hold Twelfth Night in person. Queen Hélène d'Anjou, who was on the Throne of An Tir as Queen Regnant by herself (for reasons which may not be told) encouraged participants who wanted to attend in person. Someone asked if there was a way people who did not want to gather could still participate. Again, tech-savvy people stepped forward to develop what was possible with the technology of an uplink, video cameras, microphones, and YouTube as the livestream feed platform.
The Baronies of Madrone and Wyewood jointly hosted Kingdom 12th Night AS LVI (January 2022), which was attended by more than 300 socially-distancing, masked attendees. Thus, the first event in An Tir that was made available via livestream took place. Shown on the livestream were Courts, a tour of the merchants room, interviews with attendees. That first livestream was viewed live by more than 500 people who remained in their homes yet felt connected to this landmark event.