A History of the Faire...

  
     
 

Begun in 1963 in Agoura, near Malibu, to create “living history” for schoolchildren and their families, the Original Renaissance Pleasure Faire has grown into an annual interactive playground and gallery for over 200,000 participants and guests. It has given birth to an industry nationwide and this year is more fun and exciting than ever.

  
     
 
This Southern California Faire has traveled a bit since Agoura.  The Glen Helen Pavilion provided two different settings in Devore (in San Bernadino County) where the Faire spent many years. Shortly after the turn of the Century, the Faire moved back to Los Angeles County, to its current home at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area, a United States Army Corps of Engineers' Facility and a unit of County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation System in Irwindale, CA.
  
     
 
Since its inception, more than 5 million people from around the world have visited Southern California’s Renaissance Pleasure Faire, averaging approximately 20,000 each weekend.
  
     
     
 

The Renaissance, to be “reborn”, a time when individuals celebrated the awakening of a new idea, when light was let into darkness.  The Renaissance Pleasure Faire celebrates the “spirit” of this period of history ~ where people have the willingness to try anything and everything.

 

We offer the public an opportunity to experience a true Renaissance of our Renaissance, one that was introduced more than 50 years ago.  The faire provides you a cornucopia of diversity where we are unified in inviting our guests to enjoy an environment we have created to escape from the stresses and demands of the modern day.   We embrace cutting edge performances, artisans, flavors and culinary delights from the past and the future…………these are the things, which propel us into advanced forward thinking.

We are historically based with a twist of modern fusion.

We are 51 years strong;

 

The Renaissance Pleasure Faire.

  

 
 
 
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The Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area is a United States Army Corps of Engineers’ Facility and a unit of the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation System
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