The webpage is always being updated so keep checking in!!

It's that time of year again folks!!

This weekend some of us are headed down to Portland to be at the Portland
Pirate Fest and be part of the number count for the World Record of the most
pirates in one spot.
http://www.portlandpiratefestival.com/

But we have also begun planning out the BCRF contribution to the Fort
Langley Hallowe'en Eerie Nights Of Fright.
http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/bc/langley/ne.aspx
This year we are taking the Crew of The Jade Dragon and throwing them
forward in time.  Our 1500s Pirates will be taken from their place in
history and repositioned as pirates in the 1700s and relocated to Port
Royal.  The dark dennison of the infamous Port Royal should challenge our
Crew to survive.  The story is being written as you read this and the
Murrayville Players are preparing to turn the upper portion of the Fort into
a Vampire heaven. 
If you'd like to act, perform and/or volunteer for the BCRF Pirate story
please read the posting on Craigslist at:
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/bnc/tlg/1373214723.html
Or send an email to casting@bcrenfest.com

Once more we have had requests for weddings and parties as well as invites
to take part in other events, so who knows what is in store for us in the
near future. We shall keep you up to date in the appearances that are
public.

BCRF lost it's property for 2010.  The farm at AldorAcres has been a
wonderful location to work from and we had plans to return there but
unfortunately we will not be able to.  The lovely older couple who run and
own the property have called us to say that their health is not doing well
and they have to let some parts of their life go, including hosting the
renfest.  They are happy to write a reference letter for us and are happy to
attend our next festivities but can not host anymore.  So heads up, boys and
girls, BCRF is looking again.  Our goal is to stay on the same weekend we
were on for this year (2009) but will be changing property.  If you are one
of those wonderful folk who have been listing us on the internet or in your
community please just hold off on location news until we can confirm the
location.  Thanks folks.

The Jade Dragon and the Village of Steller's Grove have their own web
addresses. 
The Jade Dragon crew can be found through:
www.jadedragonpirates.com
And the village has it's own domain at:
www.stellersgrove.com
Right now they both forward to myspaces (the pirates have their own and the
village defaults to the BCRF one) but keep checking in and see what will
develop.
Also note some new Jade Dragon Crew email addresses.
If you'd like to get the crew of the Jade Dragon out for a gig or simply say
hi we have three new addresses.
The general address is: info@jadedragonpirates.com
Charity can be reached through: charity@jadedragonpirates.com
And Cobbs at: cobbs@jadedragonpirates.com
Steller's Grove addresses coming soon.  For anything in general or you don't
know who to send to or there is no address for your fav character please
always use the 'info@' addresses and we will make sure it gets to the right
person and in the right direction.

We are still putting a call out to all who have shot video and/or took
photos.  We would love to get copies of your images for promo use and to
provide to the performers who volunteered their time and energy.  If you
have video or photos please let us know via: info@bcrenfest.com  Make sure
you let us know what your credit needs to read and that your photos are full
size and your video is in a usable format.  Formats like quicktime set to
the highest quality is fine as most of our performers (as well as ourselves)
edit the video to go up on YouTube or MySpace.  The highest quality you can
get will also make it usable on Television screens and therefore a nice
piece of promo. 

We are also asking people to keep their eyes open for copies of any of the
papers we did interviews with and/or footage of newscasts and/or BTV on
City. 

Feel free to keep in touch with our members/actors/performers/organisers.
Christina Twitters ( http://www.twitter.com/carrhunger ) as do many of the
team.  Ed Appleby (our Cobbs and online comic strip artist - edappleby),
Shannon (Our handmaiden - Shannoon), Kyla (AD and our Irish wench -
Kyla_Dawn) and many more are involved with Twitter.  You can find them in
the people we follow on carrhunger's Twitter.  If you have Twitter pop on
and check in on us.

Videos are always being added to the youtube page so if you want to check it
out please visit:  http://www.youtube.com/bcrenfest

Our myspace at: http://www.myspace.com/bcrenfest  has many of our performers
and command team in the friends section.  Feel free to go 'friend happy'.

If you wanted to volunteer this year but was unable to but would like to do
so for 2010 then do feel free to let us know via: info@bcrenfest.com or
staff@bcrenfest.com and we will archive your email for future reference.  We
may not have our dates set for 2010 but we do do other things in between and
sometimes we could use a few volunteers for those as well.
Same goes for villagers, stage shows and interested storyline cast actors.
It is never too early to let us know you exist.  Please make sure you put
BCRF or BC Renfest in the title so hopefully the spam blocker will leave
your email alone. 

For the 2010 Renfest we are hoping to bring back the bus.  Between costs and
finding a driver with the right license (who is free or reasonably priced)
the bus had failed for 2009.  Sorry folks. We tried. We are keeping our eyes
open beginning now for all possibilities for 2010.

Thank you to all of you who sent emails to us telling us what services they
do use.  Do continue to send those emails to info@bcrenfest.com so we can
use them to find more support and access to certain services.

If there is a free listing on the net or in a publication that we haven't
found yet and had ourselves listed?  Does a listing on a page look like it
wasn't posted by us and the info is questionable or different from our
webpage?  Please feel free to let us know so that we can post or correct the
posting.  Please send an email to:
info@bcrenfest.com
and we'll post and/or correct the listing.  Once more please include BCRF in
the title.
If you've found us on the net please let us know where you have found us so
we can visit the page as well.

Do you have spare fabric, paint, wood and various items we could use to help
create the site, banners and costumes?  Do you want to find a home for that
extra yardage of fabric that you don't know why someone gave it to you, that
sheet that doesn't match the décor, the left over half gallon of paint you
used for the bedroom.  Donate it to us.  An email to: info@bcrenfest.com may
just remedy some of your clutter.  Remember.. Add BCRF to your title and it
won't get tossed in the spam trash.

Hope to see you all on the 12th of September.

Until next time.
Christina
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Live the Revelry
info@bcrenfest.com
http://www.bcrenfest.com
Café press stores:
Pirate theme:  http://www.cafepress.com/bctlap
BCRF crest:  http://www.cafepress.com/bcrf
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