IRF is moved, long live ACRF ?

[vakkotaur]

Last year was the last Iowa Renaissance Festival in the Amana Colonies on Labor Day weekend. The IRF organizer is moving it to early May and has something planned for Des Moines on Labor Day weekend and the next couple weekends.

But it seems there will be a faire in the Amana Colonies that weekend after all. Another faire organizer, who used to do A Renaissance Affaire in Osceola, IA got so many requests from folks in the area to keep something there that he's doing just that. Evidently contracts have been signed and this isn't a pipe dream and the Amana Colonies Renaissance Festival will actually happen this year.

It will be interesting to see how the result compares to IRF that was there previous years. I expect differences in attitude to show. I would not be at all surprised to find this year's event more enjoyable as I think this organizer is more looking at having fun and making or at least not losing money, while the earlier organizer left a feeling of trying to make as much money as he could and hoping there was (just) enough to fun for that to happen.

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[rillaspins.livejournal.com]

I guess Clann Tartan is negotiating for 3rd weekend, so I should be there that weekend. It's supposed to be a Scottish weekend. This is the website that Tinker sent the board. http://www.dmrenfaire.com/

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I really hope that that faire is better than I have come to expect from that particular organizer. Neither jmaynard nor I have any plans to attend it. We likely will give the new version of the Amana faire a try, since we both have better expectations about it.

[temperlj.livejournal.com]

What was up with the slander/libel threat and the organizer (A Renaissance Affaire in Osceola, IA) at the ATF board?
Yeah, that was a little over the top

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

The ARA thread in The Pub (http://atthefaire.com/cgi-bin/ib31/ikonboard.cgi?s=68d4309c5214a185531230b46aa0932f;act=ST;f=33;t=17;st=510) shows some of the exchanges between the ARA organizer and the operator of the web site. I'm not sure of all the details, but it isn't the first time the web site owner burned bridges with folks, not realizing perhaps, that many would decide he and not the organizer(s) were the poorer actor(s) in the exchange. It did not help when the site owner posted what was pretty much tirade on the front page of the site which called the organizer either untrustworthy or an outright liar.

The entire exchange was unpleasant and the ARA/ACRF organizer tends to show his temper sooner and more fully than he ought, but the web site owner came across as excessively derogatory and belligerent. The web site owner did much the same in his treatment of Siouxland, claiming he was being helpful but if so it was truly in the worst way. With all that and the web site owner's association with the IRF/DMRF organizer and a certain performance group that takes the royal attitude too far, I'm not at all surprised the ARA/ACRF organizer fired a shot across his bow.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I should add that between the two exchanges, one with people I know rather well, I am not inclined to find the web site owner credible. His loss of credibility is a self-inflicted wound.