Courtesy Jeff Mach
A couple of posts ago, I talked about the first weekend of the Midsummer Magick Renaissance Faire of Southern Connecticut. Well, I talked about the first weekend and only hinted about the second and third ones.
This article is all about the second one, July 24-25, the Time Traveller’s Weekend. Usually I would try to write something clever about an event, but I think the Facebook invite says it better than I ever could:
It's usually a pretty good thing, being an imitation Medieval village in Connecticut. The Black Plague seldom occurs, feudalism only lasts three weeks, and if you can handle what happens when by hundreds of 20th-century Americans attempt what they believe is an 8th-century British accent, then life is good…until now.
Invasion! Invasion! INVASION!
Courtesy Jeff MachThey're everywhere! The second weekend of the Midsummer Magick Faire is now throwing itself open in grand invitation. This event's put on by people who are a part of Wicked Faire, Dracula's Ball, the Steampunk World's Fair, and others. Steampunks, goths, scifi folk, and unusual people of all sorts have been making incursions into Faires for years...it's about time a Faire RUN by those people INVITES THEM TO COME!
Join us for the Time Traveller’s Parade!
Challenge our knights to laser battles!
Enjoy our spacious Invisible Airship!
Be delighted by anachronistic performers of all sorts!
Gather for the Multidimensional Revel & Ball!
Enjoy the “Why Is There No Tea?” Tea Party!
There will be fun, games, lots of opportunities for truly fantastic photos--and, of course, all the delights and pleasures of our full-scale Faire! And you get it all for the Faire’s ordinary price of admission--$15 daytime, and $5 more if you want to stay for that night's concerts and shows.
But wait—that’s not even the best part. From 11 on Saturday to 6:30 on Sunday, the Steampunks are invading as well! I’m thinking this may be the first ever actual Steampunk event in Connecticut, am I right?
From the Facebook invite:
Want to come and be part of a Steampunk Parade, and hang out with your fellow Steampunks, at the Midsummer Magick Faire’s Time Traveller’s Invasion? Want to get $2 off at the door by wearing Steamy attire? We'll march through the fair grounds in our steampunk finest and end back at the picnic area to share a lunch together!
Dressing to theme is optional, but as you can see, greatly encouraged, whether it be neo-Victorian or Ren inspired. I’m working on my costume right now. Or really, I’m working on getting my Steampunk-aficionado friend Bill to help me work on my costume.
And just in from Jeff Mach, whose unbelievable enthusiasm for this project I can’t even express: “world-famous cartoonist” Jamie Hatton has signed on to be one of the ringmasters!
You may know Jamie from his Web comic In His Likeness and if you are a con-goer, I’m sure you’ve seen him out and about. What will the talented Mr. Hatton be doing at the festivities? Well, I asked him:
As a firmly planted member of mundania, who better than to interact with the denizons of the Midsummer Magick Faire than myself? Not everyone can verbally spar with the village idiot, wield a lightsaber in a jousting battle, and out breakdance the town leper! I'm not entirely sure I can do those things either, but for some reason I'm willing to try.
So, if you are lost in time, then you are obligated to find me at Midsummers and we will see if we can get your papers all straightened out. If not, we'll find a pub to get drunk in until we don't care.
Um, what, you ask? Only one way to find out. Come out to the Time Traveller’s Weekend and see for yourself. I plan on spending pretty much the full three weekends there.
Courtesy Jeff Mach
But before you go, remember there is still another weekend of the Midsummer Magick Renaissance Faire that I haven’t discussed yet. How could there be more? Just leave it up to Jeff Mach.
So coming soon: the final installment of my Midsummer Magick Renaissance Faire series: Down The Crooked Fairy Lane: A Midsummer Magick Faerie Festival.
Merry Meet!
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