Contemplating Pent Entry

I am considering entering Pent in the 2011 Kingdom A&S. Now I know don't have a hope in hell of winning, but I figure it could be a fun experience, plus get me working on more A&S. Pent is an arts and sciences competition where you enter five arts and sciences projects covering a range of categories.

You cannot enter more than two entries in any one main category, and only one per sub category. The categories are:

I. Performing Arts  

• Bardic recitation  

• Dance: Middle Eastern  

• Dance: European  

• Dance: Original Choreography  

• Dramatic Performance  

• Juggling/tumbling  

• Musical Performance: Mixed ensemble  

• Musical Performance: String Instrument  

• Musical Performance: Voice  

• Musical Performance: Wind instrument  

• Music Composition1  

• Poetry1  

• Prose/Playwriting1  

• Research1  

II. Textile and Needle Arts:  

• Costume accessories  

• Costuming: European pre 1200  

• Costuming: European 1200-1351  

• Costuming: European: 1351-1451  

• Costuming: European: 1451-1600  

• Costuming: Non European  

• Free-form embroidery  

• Lacemaking  

• Counted thread work  

• Miscellaneous needle work  

III. Technological Sciences:  

• Armour: cloth/leather/Horn  

• Armour: mail/plate  

• Ironwork/tool making  

• Miscellaneous crafts  

• Musical Instrument making  

• Scientific Instruments  

• Weapon making  

• Woodworking: construction  

• Wood, Horn and bone carving  

• Animal Husbandry  

IV. Studio Crafts:  

• Calligraphy  

• Ceramics/pottery  

• Drawing  

• Decorative metalwork  

• Pewter casting  

• Glasswork  

• Illumination  

• Lapidary  

• Leatherwork  

• Miscellaneous crafts  

• Painting  

• Sculpture  

• Bookbinding  

• Pigments and pens  

V. Domestic Arts and Sciences: 

• Wine/Mead/Beer/ale/lager  

• Cooking: illusion foods  

• Cooking: multiple dish  

• Cooking: single dish  

• Dyeing  

• Knitting  

• Knot work  

• Spinning  

• Weaving  

• Miscellaneous crafts  

Quite a wide variety of categories eh! This is what I am considering entering:

Category I
Research - A paper on beer and bread

Category III
Woodworking: Construction - Making a Pole Lathe and using it to turn bowls

Category IV
Calligraphy - Do some Calligraphy Scroll work
Bookbinding - Do some Japanese bookbinding or Coptic bookbinding

Category V
Wine/Mead/Beer/Ale/lager - Well I am becoming known as a mead maker so what would an A&S entry from me be without some mead. My idea is to find as period a mead recipe as possible (preferably sixth century Irish to fit my persona if I can) and make that.

In any A&S competition there are three levels, Advanced Intermediate and Beginner. Generally speaking Pent entries don't stand a chance unless they are all advanced, but I am not entering Pent to win, am entering Pent (assuming I DO enter pent) for the experience, as such I probably won't be entering every entry as advanced, though the mead would probably have to be advanced since I am gaining such a reputation as a mead maker (even if my mead isn't up to the same level as others). Most entries will probably be at the intermediate level.