define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); Grand Valley Renaissance Festival http://www.gvren.org Official website of Grand Valley State Unversity's student-organized and run Renaissance Festival Mon, 06 Oct 2025 03:02:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 http://www.gvren.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-IMG_0867-32x32.jpg Grand Valley Renaissance Festival http://www.gvren.org 32 32 Festival 2025 http://www.gvren.org/2025/09/13/festival-2025/ http://www.gvren.org/2025/09/13/festival-2025/#respond Sat, 13 Sep 2025 22:44:33 +0000 http://www.gvren.org/?p=909 The 29th Annual GVSU Renaissance Festival was October 4-5, 2025 on GVSU’s main campus in Allendale. Thank you to everyone who joined us!

For additional information, please see the official event page on Facebook.

A group of college students and their faculty advisor posed in Renaissance costume and street clothes in front of a hand-made jail cell outside in the sunshine
GVRen Cast photo – Saturday, October 4, 2025

Saturday, October 4, 2025

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Sunday, October 5, 2025

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Photos courtesy of Erin M. Klitzke.

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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
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  • 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
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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
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Photos by Jennifer Willard, Michael Van Hese, and Erin Klitzke

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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
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