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Riverdale Kiwanis Medieval Faire Florida: Lakes Park, Ft. Myers: Medieval period, 900 – 1300 AD: 1996 – (01b) mid-January (2 weekends) unk Medieval Faire: St. Louis Renaissance Festival Missouri: Wentzville; permanent 16th-century Petit Lyon, France during a visit from King François I: 1999 stages (09a) mid-September–mid-October 50k
A Renaissance Festival (medieval fair or ren faire) is an outdoor gathering that aims to entertain its guests by recreating a historical setting, most often the English Renaissance. Renaissance festivals generally include costumed entertainers or fair-goers, musical and theatrical acts, art and handicrafts for sale, and festival food.
The New York Renaissance Faire is a Renaissance faire located in Tuxedo, New York off New York State Route 17A that was first held in 1978. The 65-acre (260,000 m 2) faire [1] comprises permanent structures and has twenty stages and more than 100 shops. [2] As of 2024, the fair runs on Saturdays and Sundays beginning in mid-August, plus Labor ...
A liger shown at the Faire, 2007. The Faire was founded in 1982 by the late Richard Shapiro and his wife Bonnie, who ran the original "King Richard's Faire" in Bristol, Wisconsin (which was renamed Bristol Faire when the Shapiros sold it to Renaissance Entertainment Corporation in 1988). Today, Bonnie and her daughter Aimée Shapiro Sedley ...
Scarborough Renaissance Festival, more commonly known as Scarborough Faire, is a renaissance fair in Waxahachie, Texas.. Scarborough Faire's first run was in 1981. The festival is open Saturdays and Sundays from the first weekend in April until Memorial Day Monday.
The Stourbridge fair, authorised by King John I of England by royal charter in 1199, provided for the building of this leper chapel in Cambridge, and became the largest medieval fair in Europe. In England, fairs began to develop in the early Norman period, reaching their heyday in the 13th century. [4]
The series of six fairs, each lasting more than six weeks, were spaced through the year's calendar: the fair of Lagny-sur-Marne began on 2 January: the fair at Bar-sur-Aube on the Tuesday before mid-Lent; the "May fair" of Provins on the Tuesday before Ascension; the "fair of St. John" or the "hot fair" of Troyes on the first Tuesday after the fortnight of St. John's Day (24 June); the fair of ...
Sterling Renaissance Festival is a Renaissance Festival that operates in Sterling, New York.Since 1976, it runs for seven consecutive weekends through July and August and features music, comedy, and interactive theatre performances as well as the work of artisans and craftspeople.