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www.texrenfest.com. 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."
10 stages, 25 acres; free parking ≠. (10a) October–November (8 weekends) 210k. (2017) Carolina Renaissance Festival. Central Coast Renaissance Faire [8] California. Laguna Lake Park; San Luis Obispo, California; recurring event. The 1585 Shire of Donneybrook, England; Renaissance period.
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 festival is historically based in the 16th century, under the reign of King ...
In the documentary series "Ren Faire," premiering Sunday on HBO, Lance Oppenheim ( "Some Kind of Heaven") trains his camera on the 50-year-old Texas Renaissance Festival, outside of Houston, which ...
The annual festival takes place in Todd Mission, Texas, over eight weekends from November to January. It bills itself as the nation's largest Renaissance event, with its village filled with themed ...
Ren Faire, HBO’s perceptive and surprisingly thrilling three-part portrait of the Texas Renaissance Festival as it approaches its 50th anniversary, is not that kind of story. It’s Succession ...
George C. Coulam (c. 1938) is an American business owner. He is the founder of the Texas Renaissance Festival (TRF), the largest Renaissance fair in the United States. [2] Since 1982, he has also served as the mayor of Todd Mission, Texas. [3] Coulam drew wider public attention after being featured in the 2024 HBO documentary series, Ren Faire.
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 ...