Minnesota Gordon Convener

[LadyGriffin]

I just found out that I am officially one half of the new team taking over the Minnesota Convener spot for the House of Gordon, USA.

Our scottish games are in May.

ANY ideas, tips, suggestions are welcome!

Julie

[Ozark Ridge Rider]

If clan Gordon is anything like my fair lass's clan Scott, the clan people should have good suggestions for you. If they don't, she'd be very glad to help. She has Gordon ancestry also.

Otherwise, go to school off the other tents at your first games. Anita now says her first one was pathetic, but she learned quick and it really wasn't that bad. Most of the people doing it for awhile will tell you they progressed and changed and added and evolved for several years.

[jordanjm]

Do the Gordons have a national convener? I was told when I first started that to be successful you need 3 things: a tent, a banner, and the book The Scots Kith and Kin. Go your first year, be ready to help point a lot of people to where they are looking.

[cessna152towser]

Best experience is to go to a games where one or more of your clan members has been running a tent for a year or two - learn from him or her over the weekend then you should be ready to run your own tent at your own local games - that is what I did last year when I began hosting for my clan.

[Riverkilt]

Bake peanut butter cookies and oatmeal cookies and give them away at the clan tent.

Camerons did that one year in Flagstaff and it attracted a steady stream of visitors - including some clansmen.

Or see where our Gordon t-shirts come from and sell them...always a treat to find a clan t-shirt for sale at games.



And score some swatches of all the different Gordon tartans. People love to look at variations in clan tartans. So far I own kilts in Modern Gordon, Dress Gordon, Red Gordon, and Weathered Gordon. If you can't get the swatches, maybe some photos or prints of the tartans and kilts in the tartans. Maybe you can find a pic of that guy in yellow kilt hose with the Gordon Modern kilt.

Here's some pics for back up.


Weathered Gordon


Red Gordon

Anything you can do to make the tent fun and interesting. Maybe you can find CDs with House of Gordon tunes to play...

Have fun, be creative...do something more than sit in the shade an stare back at folks.

[HeathBar]

A new clan tent cavalier! Welcome. You will have more fun than you can imagine. And you will meet many new friends. We have a social group on here for conveners. Come joinf if you already haven't.

[Livingston]

Julie,

I am in the same type of possition as you with a minor difference. The Clan MacLea (Livingstone) Association is very new, we are almost ready to open up the membership page on our web site. BUT, I have the responsbility for all the game we attend in the US, Canada and Europe. PLUS, I am the one that has to come up with banners, signs, this, that and the other thing that will be needed by those setting up the tents. I will PM you with a list of what I think is needed and what I am using to base what we will need to purchase, make or ???

Good luck on your new jouney.