The Salem Zouaves

The Salem Light Infantry (Salem Zouaves), as is our annual custom, will march in the Nahant and Lynn Memorial Day parades on Monday 28 May 2018.  The Nahant parade steps off at 9:30 am, and the Lynn parade steps off at 1:30 pm.

We will participate in the Watch City Steampunk Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts, on Saturday 12 May 2018.  We’ll be set up on the front lawn of the Waltham Public Library all day on Saturday, and we’ll give periodic demonstrations of manual-of-arms and bayonet drill.  Time and inclination permitting, there may also be nineteenth-century fencing and visits from some of our favorite 1860s ladies and civilian gentlemen.  Come visit us!

The Salem Zouaves will demonstrate manual-of-arms and bayonet drills on video, and broom drill—an actual period practice—live, at Smith College’s ConBust ’18, on Sunday, March 25, 2018 (short notice, I know) at 12:00 noon in Seelye Hall room 106.  In addition, we have members involved in programming throughout the weekend, including speaking at the Writing Believable Fight Scenes panel at 9:00 am Saturday and  demonstrating historical swordplay in the Swordswomen through the Ages demonstration at 11:00 Saturday morning.  And we’ll appear as our seventeenth-century selves at 10:00 am Sunday.  We hope to see you there!

The Salem Zouaves will demonstrate manual-of-arms drill for the rifled musket, bayonet-fencing drill, and saber drill at Arisia ’18, on Sunday 14 January 2017 at 10:30 am in the Otis conference room.  A few of our members will also be sitting on panels about historical costume and writing fight scenes, as well as demonstrating historical combat and critiquing historical combat in video games.  For more information, check our schedules on line.  We hope to see you there!

The Salem Light Infantry (Salem Zouaves), as is our annual custom, will march in the Nahant and Lynn Memorial Day parades on Monday 30 May 2016.  The Nahant parade steps off at 9:30 am, and the Lynn parade steps off at 1:30 pm.

We will participate in the Watch City Steampunk Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts, on Saturday 13 May 2017.  We’ll be set up on the front lawn of the Waltham Public Library all day on Saturday, and we’ll give periodic demonstrations of manual-of-arms and bayonet drill.  Time and inclination permitting, there may also be nineteenth-century fencing and visits from some of our favorite 1860s ladies and civilian gentlemen.  Come visit us!

The Salem Zouaves will demonstrate manual-of-arms and bayonet drills on video, and broom drill—an actual period practice—live, at Smith College’s ConBust ’17, on Saturday, March 25, 2017 (short notice, I know) at 11:00 am in Seelye Hall room 312.  In addition, we have members involved in programming throughout the weekend, including speaking at the Writing Believable Fight Scenes panel at 4:00 pm Saturday and  demonstrating historical swordplay in the Swordswomen through the Ages demonstration at 1:30 Sunday afternoon.  And we’ll appear as our seventeenth-century selves at 2:00 pm Saturday.  We hope to see you there!

The Salem Zouaves will demonstrate manual-of-arms drill for the rifled musket and bayonet-fencing drill at Arisia ’17, on Saturday 14 January 2017 at 4:00 pm in the Commonwealth Ballroom.  A few of our members will also be sitting on panels about historical costume and writing fight scenes, as well as demonstrating historical combat and critiquing historical combat in video games.  For more information, check our schedules on line.  We hope to see you there!