Rengypsy’s Blog
Sherwood Forest Faire has completed its fourth season as a medieval faire. Sherwood is now well over five years old as a living, breathing organism—an assembling of people, dreams, ideas, art, desires, theater, plants, animals, water, sand, history, and much, much more. Sherwood is a wonderful experiment of community based on basic principles that we [...]
I read the forums, the yahoo chats, Facebook, and other social media concerning faire, and there seems to be something different about Sherwood. Recently, a lady posted in renaissancefestival.com: “This year will be my first year for my group to visit SherwoodForest Fair, we usually just hit TRF and Scarborough but have heard so many [...]
I sat Saturday night at the edge of the Seven Sisters watching Huerta Cultures, a fantastic Austin band, set up; it had been a great volunteer day at Sherwood and the Gathering was a success. As I gazed up at the full moon overhead a tremendous feeling overcame me: Faire is organic…it is spiritual and [...]
This weekend, i spent much of the time buying and delivering items for the summer youth camp coming up at Sherwood in a month. My family joined me in delivering all the multitudes of items to Cori Roberts, our Camp Director. My wife, Hazel, met with a Sherwoodian, Paul, who has been at Sherwood since [...]
the signs have been stored. the booths emptied and locked up for the season. the tents and campers all gone…and the forest is quiet, except for the birds, frogs and occasional winds rustling through the tress. but the spirit of sherwood permeates the grounds. and the stones of the seven sisters exudes the energies of [...]
This past weekend we hosted the last Gathering before the Faire opens its gates for the third season, which runs February 11-April 1, 2012. Prior to the weekend I had had a dream that I arrived at the Gathering and there were a thousand people there. It was like Faire with hordes in costume and [...]
Sherwood, ancient in legend, engraved in the heritage and myth of western man, Robin of the Hood, Friar Tuck, Little John, Maid Marian, and the rest of the Merry Men, The eternal struggle of between the rich and the poor, between the just and the unjust, between the elites and common man, between real and [...]
Our Texas Faire community has experienced significant losses this year due to fires. Scarby had a fire that destroyed property and took the life of a kind and generous rennie, Will the Pickle Man. The Bastrop fires have burned over 1000 homes, some being those of brothers and sisters of Sherwood. Folk around Texas Renaissance [...]
We were born into a family. Our parents’ blood runs through our veins, as their parents’ and grandparents’ did before them. We feel some connection to our name, to the place where we were born, where we were raised. But, as we become older, as friends from our childhood fade into distant memories, as the [...]
I have spoken about the desire and mission of Sherwood being the development of a sense of tribe or community. It is a core value of our business and our souls. The transmission of traditions, values, mores, and rituals from generation to generation is paramount for Sherwood to be enduring. The time since we closed [...]
