Entertainment Updates

If you’re wondering why this is being written out-of-character, don’t. None of this site is out of character because all of this is real, of course, and I’m simply the creative director for an event company essentially run by drunken mystical creatures.

How does this show work, in simple, straight-up practical terms? Here:

The majority of our target audience tend to enjoy Renaissance Faires; the rest, otherwise, enjoy things like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, or close-knit scifi conventions, or sometimes gatherings of alternative music, non-mainstream spirituality*, or other places where people are free to, and generally prefer to, dress and act differently from in the rest of the world.

We use Renaissance Faires as our model because the people who create Wonderplace Alpha are the ones who see a Faire and see the excuse to dress as King Arthur’s Pirate Daughter not as silly, but as a more worthwhile and interesting way to spend a weekend than most things people would consider far more normal.

And at heart, what we are building is a lovely Marketplace of wondrous things, surrounded by a weekend of entering Otherspace with the rest of us.

We’re in our first year. We don’t have, and aren’t going to promise, special effects. And we’ve seen big events which make an epic saga their primary goal. It’s amazing. They’re terribly clever. We mostly know how to throw huge rumbistifications with amazing entertainment and wonderful parties; that’s our epic Saturday night.

Feel free to pop around this site for advice on what you might enjoy creating or doing for your garb, your preparations, your plans, your character or lore if you want them, your merchant booth or sponsorship participation if you want them.

We will try to attract, select, and offer you the most hypnotic actors, the most diverting merchants, the most enthralling dancers, the most bombastic rock and roll!

And most of all, we offer you a weekend to get, not away from it all, but TO it all.

The other “it” – the Universe right there underneath the boring everyday world, waiting for us to put on our raiment, make our plans, peel it back and dive in.

Let’s go! Let’s go!

LET’S GO!

* Have you hugged a Druid lately?

“In the province of the mind, what is believed to be true is true or becomes true, within limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind, there are no limits . . .”
― Robert Anton Wilson

(Visit Meredith’s primary vendor page here.)

Meredith’s aspect of the Creative Fire, like all aspects of that Fire, can’t be codified precisely in words. (And if you try to capture an artist that way, you’ll find the art squeezing away between your fingers.

Considering Visiting Or Patronizing Meredith? You Ought. Here Are A Few Of The Traits Found Among Some People Who Enjoy Her Work.

Curious. Curious George was a curious little monkey. Was he ever able to go off and sign his own book deals? Who knows? If you want to find out, you’re probably curious.

Unusual. Sure, we’re all unusual. But it does depend. You shan’t need quite as much love for the unusual enjoying those gourmet custom pizzas (which are, admittedly, not exactly ordinary themselves) as you will appreciating some of Meredith’s marvelously oogie-boogie crafts.

Slightly Woo. There is a bit of mystical element here; not as much sorcery as some, not as little bit of cantrippery as you might exect.

Excited. As with some other traits, we hope this one finds you often; but really, you have quite a lot of selection to examine. You’ll want to bring your energy!

Eclectic. Some people like everything to be exactly the same in exactly the same way. These people are not ecclectic.

Some of her Lore includes:

Bone.

Lore of bone, lore of stone,
Always inside, and not alone.

Meredith’s Bonework is ethical, careful, and has a resonance you can feel. Also, it’s reaaaaaaaally pretty.

Revifification.

Necromantic practice, strange and trackless,
Not always evil; darkling access.

Chaos Magick

“One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.”
― Phil Hine

Baking Advice

If you bake it, they will come.

Beings throughout the known Universe All of us here love Renaissance Faires and other places where the ordinary, everyday World gets to be part of a larger, more imaginative World, of greater possibilities!

Now, most Renaissance Faires have modern conveniences, accepted credit cards, and don’t tend to need to have the citizens rise up and man the catapults against immanent raids of werewolf hordes, like they did int he old days. Similarly, we aren’t going to check to make sure that all of your garments have been manufactured in Nevryone and shipped to Otherwhen from Neverwas.

But we do absolutely encourage you to come in costume, garb, fancy dress, character, persona, fursona, or pretty much whatever you’d like, within reason*.

Don’t worry that it won’t be ‘enough’ of anything. You CAN get as fancy as you want, and we all respect and admire people with fantasmic and elaborate gear!

But what makes a Wonderplace are the people, not the clothes**. So don’t worry and don’t be afraid to experiment! You’ll also have a chance to see what other people are wearing via our upcoming social media.

This is the time to:

• Scour your closets for interesting things you’ve not worn in a while
• Check the thrift shops! They have fascinating things!
• If you’ve lots of lolly, consider supporting independent creators who make clothing and costumes! Some of them are our vendors!
• Alternately, you could attempt to supplicate the Dark Demons of Clothing and sacrifice a leisure suit on an alter to Bajoombah, the Vile Bane of Polyester. We don’t recommend it. But you could.
• You can wear your everyday walkabout stuff! That’s all right as well!
• You can get your things AT the fair from our vendors! You can even talk to our vendors in advance about things they can make and hold for you.
• You could visit our sponsors. They sure wouldn’t mind.
• Yes, you can totally get your gear at Spirit. Plenty of us do. If Spirit Halloween didn’t extrude itself into your reality, we’d have to invent it. Same with Hot Topic, Spencer’s, and That Store Everyone Says Is Cringe But Everyone Secretly Really Wants To Go Into

* “Reason is in the tentacle of the beholder”, as Voltaire said.

** Nearly all of our clothing merchants have lodged a formal complaint against this ridiculous and unfounded idea.