VISS 2017 T-Shirt Design Contest Winner!

The 2017 T-shirt design contest results are in! The judges chose this design by Marika Purisima of Vancouver! Marika has won a full three day pass to VISS 2017 and we all get the pleasure of wearing T-shirts with her awesome design on it. Marika’s design borrows historical illustrations to evoke this year’s asymmetrical “This […]

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Devon Boorman confirmed for VISS 2017

Devon Boorman, co-founder and director of Academie Duello Centre for Swordplay in Vancouver, Canada

Among this year’s Vancouver International Swordplay Symposium intensive instructors will be Devon Boorman, co-founder and director of Academie Duello Centre for Swordplay, one of the largest schools for historical European swordsmanship in the world. Devon is best known for his instruction in various forms of Italian swordplay, from 15th century longsword arts to the Bolognese […]

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Billeting needed

One of the ways that we help keep VISS affordable and build the community is by doing our best to host out-of-town attendees. If you’re based in Vancouver and you are able to host one or more VISS attendees, please contact our registrar. Alternately, if you plan on attending VISS you either need a place […]

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Marco Quarta confirmed for VISS 2017

Marco Quarta will be joining us as an instructor for the 2017 Vancouver International Swordplay Symposium! Marco taught a variety of standalone workshops at VISS 2013 and 2015, and this time he’ll be teaching an intensive 3-day workshop alongside Tom Leoni, Matthew Howden, Christian Tobler, Ilkka Hartikainen, Jessica Finley, and more! Marco is an instructor […]

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Jessica Finley confirmed for VISS 2017

We are proud to announce that Jessica Finley will be joining us as an instructor at the 2017 Vancouver International Swordplay Symposium! Jessica Finley is a veteran of VISS 2013, when she led a three-day intensive on Liechtenauer’s longsword, messer, and unarmed grappling. She is the author of Medieval Wrestling: Modern Practice of a 15th-Century […]

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Ilkka Hartikainen confirmed for VISS 2017

Ilkka Hartikainen has been confirmed as an instructor for the 2017 Vancouver International Swordplay Symposium! Ilkka will be leading an intensive 3-day workshop on Bolognese swordsmanship. Ilkka hails from Helsinki, Finland, where he teaches at the Espoo Association for Historical Fencing. You may know Ilkka from his Bolognese swordsmanship workshops around the world, his website […]

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VISS 2017 Early Registration is Open!

Early registration is officially open for the 2017 Vancouver International Swordplay Symposium! Register now and you will receive a 20% early registration discount until our full schedule is announced in the coming months. To register, head on over to our registration page. In addition to the early registration discount, our American registrants currently enjoy an […]

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UPDATED: 2017 VISS T-Shirt Contest

Update: we’ve extended the deadline! VISS 2017 planning is well underway, but one thing we still need is a fantastic design for this year’s T-shirts. We are now accepting entries to the VISS 2017 T-Shirt design contest. Entries will be accepted from now until midnight on Friday, September 30 Friday, October 14. The winner will […]

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VISS 2017: This vs. That

Greetings swordplay enthusiasts! The fourth Vancouver International Swordplay Symposium is coming up in on February 17-19, 2017 and preparations are now well underway. We’ve started booking great instructors, and we want to let you in on some details, namely this year’s “This vs. That” theme. VISS has always featured four in-depth intensive study tracks. At […]

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VISS 2017

The Vancouver International Swordplay Symposium is a couple of weeks behind us now and plans have already begun for the 2017 event! We have already set the date for February 17-19, 2017. Please mark your calendars! We are now looking for new board members to help plan and execute VISS 2017. Though the event is […]

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