Jaida al-Sahrawiyya

An Tir! I have had the ability to proudly say I’ve been involved in the 12th Night Silent Peers Auction since 2022, when my Pelican (Rai’sa Zahra bint al-Rammah) asked me to help her with it when I was her Head of Retinue.

I INSTANTLY fell in love with this Auction that year. Seeing all the donors get excited to see their handmade or donated with love items go to people who were just as excited to bid on them just felt magical to me. I volunteered to help her with the next year. For the next 2 years, she mentored me on how she ran this thing, and let me make suggestions and changes to help smooth out the process as the event got more and more submission every year, so there was more and more work to be done. For 2025, she left me on my own to run it for the first time. I had help of course, just not to the level I’d had before, and I got to learn some lessons. This year – I asked for help, and I got it from Maestra Ana De la Sara. She jumped in with both feet and helped me promote the event, handle the registration of items and assisted with making the bid forms for the 48 items that were submitted prior to the Auction. This was such a great help, especially as I had some big modern life stuff happening, and did not have the capacity I previously had for it. So to Ana for her steadfast assistance in the lead up to the event, and for helping relieve me for a while when I decided to go off site for lunch (something I had not previously allowed myself to do when running the auction.

Aside from Ana, I have a handful of folks to thank for either hanging out to keep my company during the few lulls in the day, or for helping to keep an eye on the room the few times I had reason to leave it.

BIG THANKS to HL Sabina di Zorzii – my sister on the Pelican Peerage Path has been a huge boon for me at many an event, and aside from my husband and my Pel, she’s one of the few people I tend to turn to when I need an opinion or a hand, and she very rarely tells me no. She’s very quickly become one of the pillars of my SCA Journey, and once again I’m grateful she was by my side for a lot of the day to help me execute plans made up on the spot.

One of the other pillars of my SCA Journey was also around most of the day helping me out, and keeping me from going crazy – Lady Camilla Valerian. She and her husband, HL Lóftr Jólgeirson, swooped in throughout the day and gave me breaks, and most importantly stuck around to help us with the pickup process which is wild every year, but they helped me keep it much more organized this year!

Additional Shoutouts to Lord Michael Maximillian de Champagne, HL Conal MacLaren, OD, and Lord Farkas Veres for all coming in and relieving me when I had reason to be out of the room and the other 3 weren’t available to keep an eye out. Each of you helped make this auction as great as it was!

Another great 12th Night Silent Peers Auction on the books!

For those of you who missed Ana’s post about the results of the Auction: This year we raised $5,430 for the ACLU through the 61 items submitted to the Auction by the many great artisans of An Tir, and through direct donations from a few folk who didn’t want any items, but still wanted to donate to a great cause. Can’t wait for 2027! See you all next year!

Yours in Service,

Jaida al-Sahrawiyya

On behalf of the 12th Night Peers Auction Team

PS: For more information on how the auction works, check out our Wiki Page: https://antir.sca.wiki/index.php…

Or our Info Doc: https://docs.google.com/…/1Qu2k2KfqkiiAlQC…/edit…