By DASHKA SLATER Published: July 5, 2010 The gates of the Gulf Coast International Jousting Championships opened at 6 p.m. one Friday in January at a 4,500-seat arena 13 miles outside Pensacola, Fla. Some of the spectators were dressed in leather doublets and velvet gowns; some wore jeans and cowboy hats or American-flag-patterned do-rags. Most [...]
The premiere Renaissance Faire in Washington for 2010 will be The Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire (the short form will likely be the Midsummer Faire) at Maris Farms over the first three weekends of August. Last year the Washington Renaissance Fantasy Faire was held over the same time at the same location, but due to challenges [...]
Greetings all. Have you ever walked through an actors camp and saw something and thought, ‘OOO that would make things so much easier, or wow I wish I would have thought of that.’ We have all made little discoveries that make our lives easier at Faire. It may be the 1500′s down on the Faire [...]
The webisode series "All’s Faire" is filming its full first season this week at the site of the Midsummer Renaissance Faire in Lehighton. It is a comedic tale of a small Renaissance Faire that is threatened to be bulldozed and turned into a Mall Mart (The Mall with Marts in it), and the cast of [...]
Clockwork Salon Society, Ltd. presents a Steampunk fundraiser: The Indescribable Delights of the Clockwork Caliphate ~ An Arabian Night. The Salon promises to be a decadent evening of sumptuous Moroccan feasting and delightful entertainments in a Steampunked grand Ottoman Empire style. Berkeley, CA, August 25, 2009 –(PR.com)– This first ever Clockwork Salon will take place [...]
The first weekend of the WRFF (now moved to Maris Farms in Buckley, WA) is now behind us and it was a blast. It was a blast both in terms of temperatures as well as in fun – the Pacific Northwest was in the tail of the grips of one of the hottest heat waves [...]
San Francisco, CA, July 7, 2009 – It is with our deepest regret that we must announce that the Golden Gate Renaissance Faire, planned to be held August 1 & 2, 2009, in San Francisco has been canceled. The reason for cancelation is two fold. The Parks and Recs department approved the event and offered [...]
Do to issues with scheduling with the city and the parks and recreation department, Renaissance Productions is announcing that the dates for the 2009 Golden Gate Renaissance Faire have been moved to August 1st and 2nd, 2009. For more information, go to www.sffaire.com
Ok, people… Want to give everyone a heads up about a supplier… A few months ago, I was approached by a wholesaler named "Indo Crafts" out of North Carolina – the owner’s name is Chris Glover. He saw my websites and was all excited about wanting me to carry his peasant/poet shirts. They looked primitive [...]
Why do we call the people who allow us to live our dreams, these names? Each one is derogatory and sets us apart from those we are supposed to be serving. Like the terms used during wars to make the enemy less than human, with the repeated use of our terms we have desensitized ourselves [...]
