PARTNERS AND SPONSORS

Center for Blade Arts
The Center for Blade Arts (formerly Minnesota Sword Club) is one of the Twin Cities’ largest and most prestigious fencing schools. The Center for Blade Arts offers classes for all ages and levels in all forms of Olympic fencing as well as several forms of historic fencing.

Oakeshott Institute
The Oakeshott Institute is a research organisation based in Minneapolis, and curator of the acclaimed Oakeshott collection. The Institute is dedicated to the research and promotion of historical arms and armor through a hands-on educational approach.

Focus Minnesota
Focus Minnesota is a basic-needs assistance charity and grassroots neighborhood organization. Focus provides basic needs assistance to any and all people who may need it.

Arms and Armor
Arms and Armor forges some of the best historic replicas in currently in production . Their unsurpassed knowledge,attention to detail and craftsmanship has made them popular with museums, reenactment groups, collectors and historic fencers around the world.

Robin Kodosky
Robin Kodosky is an artist of many talents. one of the specialties she is known for in the HEMA community is wood burning’s of historic fencing plates, as well as some other HEMA related art and merchandise. she can be contacted through her facebook page.

Finer Meats & Eats
Finer Meats and Eats is the oldest full service meat market in Minneapolis with over 50 years experience. They now bring their quality product to the streets with their own food truck which provides a selection of BBQ, Burgers, Sandwiches and more, all made with their very own premium beef, poultry, and pork.

Purpleheart Armory
Purpleheart armory are one of the premier manufacturers and supplies of historic martial arts equipment in the US. Their range covers a huge spectrum of disciplines from around the world. As well as training equipment they also have an impressive range of tournament supplies. while mainly a web based company they can often be found as vendors at historic martial arts events around the county

Life Event Services
Life event services is a local company that provides expertise and equipment for event hosting, everything from audio , lighting staging and staffing to help make your event a success

Castille Armory
Castille Armory began in 2013 as a small hobby forge and has since grown to one of the largest training weapon suppliers in the US with an international reach. Castille Armory makes the highest quality sparring and tournament grade combat weapons designed for SCA, HEMA and WMA.

Sigi Forge
Sigi forge began life in 2018 in Bratislava, Slovakia with a goal to produce high quality, aesthetically pleasing and reliable training weapons. The com[any has grown steadily adding ever more products to meet the demands of its customers.

Ox and Plow Clothing
Ox and Plow is an apparel company that looks to provide clothing for HEMA practitioners that goes beyond the HEMA black. Ox and Plow has a simple philosophy “Make cool HEMA stuff, make it nice, make it affordable.”

Seven Embers Forge
Seven Embers Forge is owned and operated by Sam Halote, a full-time bladesmith and cutler with over a decade of experience. He specializes in making swords for Historical fencing, with a particular interest in studying existing artifacts. He is currently based out of Chicago, Illinois.

Wadle Sword and Steel
An Iowa based small business with a focus on servicing the Midwest HEMA region with construction , repair and maintenance of training weapons and gear.