Generalizing, not everybody's targeted here.
So the Northern faire is gone...and that's a bit sad, but not really. I mean, there's a lot of other faires in the area, and it's not like you couldn't see it coming. Of Course attendance is going to drop off when you stop interacting with any members of the crowd not in dress. And well, I can't really really say I'm all that sorry. Maybe it's time to shake things up amongst the crowd of ren workers who had become so settled that they forgot why the faire (and them for that matter) existed in the first place. It didn't start as a clique-ey place for people with period costumes and guilds. It started as something fun and entertaining for modern clothes/tacky costumes/and period dress alike. Where no one felt out of place for not having the correct pattern on their bodice or for wearing purple.
Obviously, things evolve. And human behavior dictates it to evolve toward the clique-ey, snobby, exclusive ways. And excluding the people not willing to spend the exobitant amounts of money, of not able to take weekends off to work the faire, not able to master the Ren speech (some that I heard was a big joke...but I found it entertaining, and fitting to something happening in this era.) will inevitably kill the spirit of the faire.
Kill the spirit, Kill the thing.
So now they all must move on. I am not as affected, because there's always the new Novoto faire, and the Sacramento, and countless others in the Northern Cali area that are smaller, and a bit more welcoming.
Perhaps it is a good time for those that are guilty of causing the closeure to look at themselves and figure out just why they wanted to be there in the first place. Were they there to have fun? Or, were they there because it was one of the last places where they could fit in and make fun of those who didn't?
I find that the end of something causes people to look back and figure out why it ended. Hopefully, it will be for the best, and those people can go on to the smaller faires as new actors and new people and make those faires better.
Of course, I should add here at the end that not every person that worked the Northern faire was that way, nor is every person at the smaller faires not that way. I was just observing the general decline of things. There was this one guy that I met there through Leanna, and he was really nice. And it seemed like he loved what he was doing (sometimes he was hawking porkchops, sometimes he was smelling a rose stem...LOL) and he also seemed to love all the people around him, and to want to interact with everybody. I think he was the spirit of what the faire should be.
That's all.
Oh, and also...from what I've seen of the Northern faire, they may be closing now...but they'll prolly be back at a new location in 2005.
That's really all.
Obviously, things evolve. And human behavior dictates it to evolve toward the clique-ey, snobby, exclusive ways. And excluding the people not willing to spend the exobitant amounts of money, of not able to take weekends off to work the faire, not able to master the Ren speech (some that I heard was a big joke...but I found it entertaining, and fitting to something happening in this era.) will inevitably kill the spirit of the faire.
Kill the spirit, Kill the thing.
So now they all must move on. I am not as affected, because there's always the new Novoto faire, and the Sacramento, and countless others in the Northern Cali area that are smaller, and a bit more welcoming.
Perhaps it is a good time for those that are guilty of causing the closeure to look at themselves and figure out just why they wanted to be there in the first place. Were they there to have fun? Or, were they there because it was one of the last places where they could fit in and make fun of those who didn't?
I find that the end of something causes people to look back and figure out why it ended. Hopefully, it will be for the best, and those people can go on to the smaller faires as new actors and new people and make those faires better.
Of course, I should add here at the end that not every person that worked the Northern faire was that way, nor is every person at the smaller faires not that way. I was just observing the general decline of things. There was this one guy that I met there through Leanna, and he was really nice. And it seemed like he loved what he was doing (sometimes he was hawking porkchops, sometimes he was smelling a rose stem...LOL) and he also seemed to love all the people around him, and to want to interact with everybody. I think he was the spirit of what the faire should be.
That's all.
Oh, and also...from what I've seen of the Northern faire, they may be closing now...but they'll prolly be back at a new location in 2005.
That's really all.