Bristol Renaissance Faire
Kenosha, WI · Arts & Culture
- When
- July 10 – September 6, 2027
- Where
- Bristol Renaissance Faire grounds · Kenosha · WI
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
The Bristol Renaissance Faire re-creates a 16th-century English village on 30 acres just off I-94, with jousting, costumed performers, and craft vendors across nine weekends each summer. It has run since 1982 and draws visitors from both Chicago and Milwaukee.
The history within reach
The Bristol Renaissance Faire re-creates a 16th-century English village on 30 acres just off I-94, with jousting, costumed performers, and craft vendors across nine weekends each summer.
A Scottish-Australian faith healer named John Alexander Dowie laid out this town on a grid in 1900 and ran it as his own church's property, with doctors, tobacco, alcohol, oysters and pork all forbidden.
Thomas Jeffery started mass-producing a car called the Rambler in Kenosha in 1902, when almost nobody was mass-producing cars at all.
- Kenosha unrest shootings8.9 mi
Kyle Rittenhouse, seventeen, came from Illinois with a rifle among armed men saying they were protecting property.
- Orson Welles9.1 mi
Born in Kenosha to a wealthy inventor and a concert pianist, orphaned at fifteen, and a national scandal at twenty-three when his War of the Worlds broadcast convinced listeners the Martians had landed in New Jersey.