SCA CV/ Resume

    • Name: Henric van den Casteele - registered 2021-04-30

    • Device: Per pale vert and argent, a castle triple-towered and an orle counterchanged - registered 2021-04-30

    • Badge: (Fieldless) A millrind vert - registered 2023-04-30

    • Kingdom University - 2020-11-28 - Drachenwald - Online

      • Event promotion, teaching assistant

    • To Uncrown a King - 2021-04-24 - Insulae Draconis - Online

      • Event promotion, teaching assistant 

    • Practical Drachenwald - 2022-01-28 - Drachenwald - Online

      • Event promotion, teaching assistant

    • Yule Ball - 2023-12-01 - Insulae Draconis - Flintheath

      • Event promotion

    • Baht’at Bardic - 2024-09-20 - Insulae Draconis - Depedene under Wychwood

      • Deputy steward, class co-ordinator

    • Yule Ball - 2024-12-06 - Insulae Draconis - Flintheath

      • Reservations co-steward

    • Baht’at Bardic - 2025-09-05 - Insulae Draconis - Pont Alarch

      • Deputy steward, reservations steward, class co-ordinator

    • Yule Ball - 2025-12-05 - Insulae Draconis - Flintheath

      • Reservations Steward

    • Kingdom University Online - 2026-02-06 - Drachenwald - Online

      • Promotional skit recording organisation, teaching assistant 

    • Midsummer Coronation - 2026-06-12 - Drachenwald - Depedene under Wychwood

      • Event Steward

    • Baht’at Bardic - 2026-09-18 - Insulae Draconis - Online

      • Website co-ordinator/ tech support

    • Yule Ball - 2026-12-04

      • Arts & Sciences co-ordinator

    • 2020-09 to 2022-10 - Social Media Officer - Principality of Insulae Draconis

      • Created ID instagram and Discord server; fostered community and raised the online profile of Insulae Draconis.

    • 2020-09 to present - Administrator & Moderator - Insulae Draconis; Drachenwald

      • Building community and banning trolls/ spammers in the Insulae Draconis FB group, Insulae Draconis Discord Server, and Drachenwald Discord Servers.

    • 2021-06 to 2026-01 - Access and Inclusion Deputy - Principality of Insulae Draconis

      • Advised on event accessibility, communicable diseases policy, complaints procedure, bullying and harassment policy, Code of Conduct etc. to ID Seneschal; shared original and pre-existing DEIB resources to the populace, e.g. factsheet on Being LGBTQ in the SCA. 

    • 2023-06 to 2026-03 - (Co-)Minister of Arts and Sciences - Shire of Flintheath

      • Organised monthly classes and A&S activities at the monthly meeting (Flintmoot); kept track of A&S activities in the shire and reported to Principality MOAS.

    • 2024-03 to present - Director, SCA UK CIC Board of Directors

      • Advised on the Insulae Draconis Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Policy, facilitated the move to a new insurer.

    • 2025-09 to present - Company of Larks, Scribe and Founder - Principality of Insulae Draconis

      • Founded an interest guild for those who are involved in/ otherwise support the performance arts (including, but not limited to, the bardic arts). Established a mailing list. Minuted officer meetings, organised projects. 

    • 2026-01 to present - DEIB Officer - Shire of Flintheath

      • Point of contact for DEIB issues in the shire.

  • Drachenwald Order of Precedence page

    • Order of the Dragon’s Tears - Kingdom University - 2020-11-28

    • Award of Arms - Eplaheimr Tionól Barúnach - 2021-02-13

    • Order of Ffraid - Yule Ball - 2021-12-04

    • Order of the Panache - Bourn ffair - 2022-08-13

    • Order of the Silver Martlet - Yule Ball - 2024-12-07

    • Orden des Lindquistringes - St Bede’s Fair (Flintheath’s Anniversary) - 2025-05-24

    • Order of Robin - Yule Ball 2025 - 2025-12-06

    • A 15th Century Secondary-Ring Frame Purse - Submission for the Forester’s Tourney at (Virtual) Raglan - 2020-08-07

    • A 1580s Fencing Doublet - Nordmark (Virtual) Laurels’ Sponsored Prize Display - 2021-06-19

    • Golden Egg challenge presentation - Yule Ball - 2023-12-01

      • The Society of the Golden Egg is an Arts and Sciences challenge household for Drachenwald. Those wishing to become members of the Society of the Golden Egg plan and undertake a challenge project that takes one year to complete in whatever art or science they choose. I made a complete fifteenth century Burgundian outfit comprising of underwear, a shirt, doublet and hose, of a fitting style for a wealthy noble of the late 1460s/ early 1470s.

    • Performance of “The Hay" by Thomas Dallis (active 1583-1598) - Mynnydd Gwyn Eisteddfod III - 2024-03-09

      • My first ever solo lute performance, for the bardic competition. 

    • Burgundian Doublet m.2 - Yule Ball - 2024-12-06

      • A presentation on the second iteration of the doublet I made for my Golden Egg challenge above: a lightweight summer doublet from shot silk. 

    • A 14th Century Hairnet - St Bede’s Fair - 2025-05-24

      • Showcase of a replica 14th century silk hairnet based on finds from the Museum of London. 

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Panel

      • Practical Drachenwald - Drachenwald - 2022-01-29

      • At the request of the ID Seneschal, I subsequently wrote up a summary of the roundtable discussion for publication in the August 2022 edition of the Dragon’s Tale (Drachenwald’s newsletter). This was nominated for the AS 57 William Blackfox awards.

    • Beginners’ Bobbin Lace

      • Ormþing - Insulae Draconis - 2023-08-12

    • Bystander Intervention workshop: helping to empower the populace will the tools they need to intervene in harassment and other uncomfortable public interactions

      • Online - Drachenwald - 2024-06-21

    • “Shaping the Body: padding, constriction and support in medieval and early modern European masculine dress”

      • Drachenwald Kingdom University Online - Drachenwald - 2026-02-07

    • Working On - tapestry weaving; cordwaining and leatherwork; Chinese clothing construction; calligraphy and illumination; learning modern Dutch and Middle Dutch (for research purposes)

    • Costuming - advanced - focus on 15th century Western European masculine dress, particularly Franco-Flemish; proportionate pattern drafting (intermediate); draping on the body (beginner)

    • Persona research and development - intermediate - mid-late 15th century Burgundy; queerness in the Middle Ages; disability in the Middle Ages. I can also assist others with Chinese persona research (intermediate Mandarin and Classical Chinese).

    • Music performance - early intermediate - voice and lute. I particularly enjoy playing for dancing! 

    • Miscellaneous fibre crafts - beginner - blackwork embroidery, fingerloop braiding, netting, bobbin lace

    • Event promotion guide - 2023 - Insulae Draconis - part of a suite of materials on SCA event planning and management organised by the ID Seneschal.

    • Museum exhibition reviews in Baelfyr (Insulae Draconis newsletter)

      • “Chaucer Here and Now” - The Bodleian Libraries, Oxford - 2024-04

      • “The Perspective of the Medieval Scribe” - Magdalene College, Cambridge - 2024-05