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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.
Included below are the notable Renaissance, Medieval, and Fantasy fairs held in the United States. These include: any long running (20 plus years) fairs, and established fairs (5 plus years) that have a two-weekend or more annual run.
The Minnesota Renaissance Festival is a Renaissance fair, an interactive outdoor event which focuses on recreating the look and feel of a fictional 16th Century "England-like" fantasy kingdom. [1] It operates during seven consecutive weekends, from mid-August until the final week in September (or sometimes the first weekend in October) on a ...
Jousting at the Renaissance Festival. The English Tudor village is 27 acres (110,000 m 2) [1] of woods and fields. There are more than 130 craft shops and 42 food outlets.. More than 1,300 participants populate the village, 400 work directly for the company, 700 for the other vendors and 200 as performers [7] on stages or as characters throughout the village.
The Texas Renaissance Festival (dubbed the Ren Fest) is an annual Renaissance fair located in Todd Mission, Texas, about 55 miles northwest of Houston. [1] The Texas Renaissance Festival (TRF) started in 1974 on the location of an old strip mining site. The festival claims to be "the nation’s largest Renaissance theme park."
The first Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Northern California (RPFN) occurred in the fall of 1967. The nonprofit organization Living History Centre (LHC) [5] [6] was established in 1968 [7] to establish the location of the Renaissance Pleasure Faire and reify the educational potentials of the public event.
The Philadelphia Renaissance Faire is taking over the historic Fort Mifflin for three days of family-friendly adventure this Memorial Day Weekend.
The festival began in 1977, as a much smaller festival. For its first 23 seasons it was operated primarily as a benefit for the Kansas City Art Institute, rather than as a business. In 1999 it was purchased by Mid-America Festivals, which also operates the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, and turned into a much larger business concern.