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DESCRIPTION:Faire: An American Renaissance (2009) is thrilled to have its premiere in 
 the Bay Area on the weekend of October 10 and 11 as part of the Oakland 
 International Film Festival. The film presents the creation of the 
 Renaissance Faire and its metamorphosis to present day - the good and the 
 bad, the pure and the bawdy, the struggles and the solutions. A vibrant 
 cast of characters shares their stories about the Faire and how the 
 movement informed their lives. \n\nThe story begins in 1963 when the 
 “Renaissance Pleasure Faire” was born as a class project by a history 
 teacher on a small field on Haskell’s Rascals Ranch in Los Angeles. The 
 idea quickly caught fire, as a place to critique, mock or escape the 
 turbulent times of the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and the 
 1960s. The namesake historical era in Europe actually parallels the change 
 and rebirth that was also happening in America at that time. The film 
 chronicles how Ron and Phyllis Patterson took a weekend event and turned it 
 into a worldwide phenomenon, and how the Faire’s counter culture 
 blossomed into now familiar mainstream events like guerilla street 
 performance, living history reenactments, Reduced Shakespeare, and the hand 
 craft movement. \n\nThe film shows how the Faire is adapting, and changing. 
 It ends on an upbeat note, chronicling the evolution of the Gilroy Faire, 
 the original offspring of the first Faire in Los Angeles, that has now 
 re-risen from being shut down to becoming the first participant-owned 
 democratically run Faire which many think re-captures the “old time” 
 authentic Faire feeling. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/05/18624541.php
SUMMARY:Faire: An American Renaissance
LOCATION:Uptown Nightclub\n1928 Telegraph Avenue\nOakland, CA\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/05/18624541.php
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