Festival 2016

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Our 21st annual festival in 2016 featured a memorial for longtime treasurer Brian Haskin, who passed away from cancer in August 2016. A scholarship has been set up in his memory at GVSU, and artwork by festival alumna Kristie Good of Haskin hangs in one of the meeting rooms at Kirkhof Center.

Mass “Happy Unicorn” to clear the jail, October 2016

Festival 2018

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Our 23rd annual festival was held on Saturday, September 22 and Sunday, September 23, 2018 in Allendale, MI, on the main campus of Grand Valley State University.

  • Cast on Saturday
  • Alumni on Saturday
  • Cast and alumni on Sunday
  • Silly cast on Saturday
  • Grant in jail
  • Pirate, napping on the job.
  • Sunday morning as the sun comes up
  • Silly alumni on Saturday

Duke’s Ball 2019

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GVSU Renaissance Festival’s annual Duke’s Ball event for 2019 was held on March 21, 2019 as part of GVSU’s week long Multicultural Festival. The event is typically LIB 100 approved and offers renaissance dance, talks,displays, and sometimes a little bit of arts and crafts for those who attend.

Introduction and Opening for Duke’s Ball 2019 from GVSU Renaissance Festival’s Executive Board
Erika’s talk from Duke’s Ball 2019
GVSU Renaissance Festival’s cast (and some guests) perform Sellinger’s Round, a traditional dance from the European Renaissance

Entertainment Schedule for 2017 Festival

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We hope to see you on Saturday, September 23, 2017 and Sunday, September 24, 2017.  Festival is rain or shine — either way, we’ll be glad to see you!

In addition to the events below, we will also feature….

  • The Norsemen doing demonstrations all day both days
  • The Duchess’s Tea
  • Croquet with the Court
  • Raffle (must be present to win – raffles each day)

Saturday

Clock Tower Stage Tavern Stage List
10:00 AM Faire Opens
10:30 AM Corvus Cohort
11:00 AM Green Show
11:30 AM Bell Book and Canto
12 noon Sitara’s Storytelling Swords of Valor
12:30 PM Court
1:00 PM
1:30 PM Robyn the Bard
2:00 PM Her Majesty’s Royal Guard
2:30 PM Green Show
3:00 PM Sitara’s Storytelling Swords of Valor
3:30 PM Bell Book and Canto
4:00 PM Corvus Cohort
4:30 PM Cast and Alumni Pictures
5:00 PM Her Majesty’s Royal Guard
5:30 PM Robyn the Bard
6:00 PM Sitara’s Storytelling
6:30 PM Green Show
7:00 PM Faire Closes

 

Sunday

Clock Tower Stage Tavern Stage List
10:00 AM Faire Opens
10:30 AM Corvus Cohort
11:00 AM Green Show
11:30 AM Bell Book and Canto
12 noon Sitara’s Storytelling Swords of Valor
12:30 PM Court
1:00 PM Her Majesty’s Royal Guard
1:30 PM Robyn the Bard
2:00 PM Sitara’s Storytelling
2:30 PM Green Show Corvus Cohort
3:00 PM Bell Book and Canto
3:30 PM Cast and Alumni Pictures
4:00 PM Robyn the Bard Her Majesty’s Royal Guard
4:30 PM Green Show
5:00 PM Faire Closes