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It’s down to the wire for last minute holiday presents. I wanted to remind you about some of the best deals on discount tickets.
Many promoters are making gift giving easy and getting the anticipation of Faire started early. I’ve seen notes from Bristol, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, Georgia, and California faires advertising their Holiday offerings. Sometimes the savings are as much 50% off regular ticket prices. Be sure to check the website of your favorite Faire to see if they’re running a Holiday discount ticket special.
The best way to find out what your favorite Faire is planning is by signing up for their newsletter. That’s how I know about all the ticket discounts. You’ll get news of upcoming events, discount coupons available only to subscribers, special appearance announcements, and other things.
If your Faire isn’t offering discounts, try what a friend does. Lady Alicia told me, “I give friends tickets to the Faire for Christmas. I just make up a little gift certificate and then take advantage of the Buy-One-Get-One on donate canned food day. I leave the ticket at the Will Call booth in their name. They love it!!!”
December 16th, 2009
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We first introduced you to RESCU Foundation as part of the Have You Met series in May 2008. It’s an organization that we here at FaireNews take great pleasure in supporting.
This past week, notes from RESCU Foundation’s annual meeting were posted on their MySpace page. Lots of good information was included but one thing stood out to me.
During the April 2008 interview with RESCU Board Member Brande Watson, we discussed the newly created Advocacy Program. She called it the wave of the future and the stats are proving her correct. According to the post, in excess of $1,000,000 has been negotiated off of medical bills since the programs inception 2 years ago.
Way to go, RESCU Advocacy Volunteers!
PS. The other day I was playing with Wordle.net, a new-to-me visualization tool. It creates a word picture based on how often the words are used in text. I created the following for the “Have You Met RESCU Foundation” article referenced above.
What do you think?
October 27th, 2009
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That’s been the topic of conversation several times last week, both at FaireNews.com and on Twitter (@FaireNews). It’s a difficult subject because Faires and Festivals are independently run by promoters all over the country. Some promoters own more than one Faire—Mid-America, for example, owns Minnesota Renaissance Festival, Bay Area (FL) Renaissance Festival, Michigan Renaissance Festival, and a couple of others.
There are several resources that we use here at FaireNews and I thought I’d share them with you.
• RenaissanceFestival.com Faire Directory – Their directory is great if you’re trying to find all the Faires in or near a certain area because the default view is a map of the United States.
• The Directorie – One of the options in the Directorie is a list of Faires by date. This is great if you’re trying to find out the dates of a certain event. They also have a list of Faires by location, sorted in State/City order.
• RenFaire.com Faires by State – An extensive list of Faires and Festivals, grouped by State, and including on the months of operation on the home page.
• RenFestUSA.com – Another extensive list of events sorted by location or month. This website includes other types of events where period costumes can be found, such as Celtic Faires, Dickens Faires, and Pirate events.
The thing to remember about all these sites is that they’re only going to be as accurate as the data submitted and the input done. For the most part, we use these resources to find events in a certain location or by month. The best sites include a link to the Faire & Festival home pages. If the promoter has kept things up to date, that’s where you find the most current information.
Good luck finding Faires to visit and one of these days … we’ll see you at Faire!!
October 26th, 2009
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