Thanks for the wonderful time-travel experience. I wasn't expecting a real JOUST for God's sake. WOW. Next year, everyone should bring a child - what an experience!

Having never attended a Renaissance Festival let alone being a vendor I truly didn't know what to expect. I can tell you I look forward to next year, I loved this experience and you have the best insultor in the world!

Great job!

Cheers
Linda

Thanks to all who came to and helped run the 2009 BC Renaissance Festival!!

Tonya, Thanks for your comments. This is Jessie's second year with the BCRF as the Town Insulter, so there is a good chance he will be back as he has as much fun performing the role as our guests do interacting with him. We look forward to seeing you next year, and no there's nothing wrong with wanting to be a wench.

Live the Revelry!

2009 was my first Ren.Fest. I loved it!! Have to say that the village insultor was my favorite part of the day, I wish my friends had got him to insult me. I hope he's there again next year. I also plan on dressing in costume next year. One vendor grabbed me a dressed me up as a wench. I LOVED IT!! Is it wrong to want to be a wench everyday???LOL

WestCoast Airbrush is looking forward to being at the festival this year.
We have over a thousand designs for all ages, with many period correct temporary tattoos, pick your design with nine colours available.
We look forward to seeing everyone their

The BC Renaissance Festival is now on Facebook! Look for the link near the bottom of the main page of our website.

Trying to work the vacation so my husband and I can make it!!

Can't wait to see the Facebook group ^_^~

Re: On Site camping. Because the property is a farm we do not have on site camping. Please see the general info page for more info:
http://www.bcrenfest.com/storyetc.html

do you have on site camping

Hi Susan,

Thanks for posting. I'm working on a Facebook Group and will be launching it soon.

Hey, I was looking through all the ren fest groups on facebook..... didn't see one for BC.

hi guys and dolls luigi and carol and of coarse sir Josh/we had a fabulous time and wow what a great place to be just your self// joyous and friendly/// congrats in getting the same location looking forward in next season.. from luigi and carol and of coarse sir JOSH merry christmas and a happy new year

Just a short note to thank you all for the wonderful time my family had at the 2008 festival. We all had a great time and will see you at next years fair.

It was good fun. I'll need to get there early next year to see all of the events.
Huzzah!

Here is to another fun filled year! I look forward to being back again next time.

What a fabulous event! Huzzah!

Thanks again, folks, for a fab faire.

The site was a huge improvement this year (though a heck of a commute from Richmond!). We loved the jousts, the falcons, the archery, Academie Duello; and my kids especially enjoyed the sanctioned whacking of their siblings on the quarterstaff log

See you next year!

Hi "Newer"

We fully understand your concerns about transit. When we set out to start the BC Renaissance Festival, we did our research on what other Ren Faires in the US and Canada were doing, and we took surveys of local interested parties. The consensus was that most attendees did not mind a 45 minute to 1.5 hour drive from "downtown" to get to Festival grounds.

In the case of BCRF, we want to become a large permanent festival one day, and with that in mind we want to establish ourselves in a community where we may be able to acquire a permanent site of somewhere around 50-100 acres. Plots of that size are simply not available closer to Vancouver, and would be prohibitively expensive if they were.

However, we are trying to do our best to look after those who don't drive. We have made arrangements with the Navy league to run a bus from the Days Inn (King George Skytrain Station) to the festival site. Three runs out in the morning and three runs back in the evening. There is a minimum donation of $3 round trip for this service. For more info goto http://www.bcrenfest.com/storyetc.html#shuttle

...never been to a ren fest, but quite curious...however, no car, and can't find anyone interested in it that I can get a ride from.

I just wonder, can ren fest be place where public transportation is available? yes, no, and why?

Places like Vancouver, New West, Burnaby, or Richmond...

We had an "oopsie".

We were getting a lot of spam on our Guestbook, an issue which I am happy to say is now corrected. However, in the process of upgrading the Guestbook application the database got wiped out, meaning all the entries went bye-bye. I've re-created things from an older backup (the one I took just before making changes was useless for technical reasons I won't go into here.) But that means that we've lost our last few posts. Please re-post if your comments are missing. We like hearing from visitors to our festival and our site, as well as our entertainers and vendors. If you have any questions or comments for me, please email me at the link provided. Thanks.

I was intrigued by the details of your costumes and would love to know if any of you used commercial patterns or did you design them yourself? I am trying to locate a selection of Renaissance era patterns as my son & future daughter-in-law are planning their wedding & want to do a Ren style affair. Guess who gets to do all the sewing??? --- Any assistance or guidance you can give would be greatly appreciated.

It was great meeting some of your crew at the Washington Renaissance Faire in Gig Harbor, WA in August, 2007. I am hoping that we can negotiate something and I can "cross the border" and come to perform and party with you in 2008. Drop by my web site and let's start a dialogue about next year. Cheers, Red

My husband and myself have been making armour/swords/sheild for some time now as passtime for ourselves and friends would like to participate in upcoming fairs as vendor but are finding it hard to locate RF in our area(eastern Ontario) we are willing to cross the borders Quebec-U.S.A. Any info that you could share with us will be appreciated Thanks Cordialy Dolores

For up to date info join the newsletter by sending an email titled 'join BCRF newsletter' to: newsletter@bcrenfest.com For Bilbo's Birthday info please visit: http://www.bcrenfest.net/bbdaypoll.html Hope to see you all there.

Had a fantastic time! Costumes were great, music was fun, and everything else was awesome! Oh by the way do you guys have a link for your upcoming events, fundraisers and such? Talk like a pirate day BBQ was on 9/15 at the Beach and was an absolute blast! (sword fights in the sand woo hoo!) I think more people would love to know about them. P.S. Bilbo's birthday party will be on 9/22 could you tell us where and when?

I was on meet up and seen your post Enjoy Page if U like

This was my first Renfest and I had a great time! I'm proud to say that my son Quinn Middleton, played the "Daft Mute" in the very talented fiddling group "Boshomengro". Can't wait for next year!

My family and I had the best time on the Saturday!!!! :) Everyone did such an amazing job! Thanks to everyone who put this together! Sarah

We had a great time. We brought my neice and her little girlfriends, for her birthday party, it was something different and alot of fun. We all are looking forward to next year... Cheers!