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Come feast like our founders at our Mediaeval pageant and banquet in St Salvator’s Quadrangle.
Wednesday 15 June 2011
As part of its 600th anniversary celebrations the University of St Andrews is inviting everyone to join in a day of family friendly feasting in the style of its founders – with a Mediaeval banquet to be held in St Salvator’s Quadrangle on Sunday 26 June, at 12.15pm.
The banquet marks the end of this year’s summer graduation week which will see the first students ever to graduate from a 600 year-old Scottish University, including Sir David Attenborough and Sir Steve Redgrave.
A hog roast will be served for lunch, while there will be a variety of mediaeval entertainments including; mediaeval music, dancing, a jester who will be juggling and performing tricks, some student re-enactors who will be giving a weapons demonstration and arming the knight demonstration from the early mediaeval period, another student group who will be coordinating some dressing up in costume, a costumed performer who will be telling stories of some of the University's famous graduates over the 600 years and mediaeval games including skittles and an early version of croquet.
After lunch everyone is invited to join in a 600th anniversary photographic portrait in the Quadrangle, which will form part of the lasting legacy of the University’s anniversary celebrations.
Tickets cost £10 (£6 concessions) and are available from https://onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk
What’s more, as part of the weekend’s celebrations Historic Scotland is opening the doors of both St Andrews Castle and Cathedral for free, to help tell the story of what led up to the founding of Scotland’s first university and the turbulent events that followed. Doors will be open from 12 noon – 4.00 pm (12noon-1pm at the Cathedral and 1pm-4pm at the Castle).