Long Beach Geeks

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Take a step back in time - the Renaissance Faire!! Jousting, Shopping, Food, and Shakespeare!

The Southern California Renaissance Faire runs every weekend from April 5, 2025 through May 18, 2025.

This year I will be hosting a group on April 26, 2025.

Join us in yesteryear, a time that was simpler, easier, and crazier than we remember. Costumes welcome, but not required. Don’t have a costume? Rent one on site. Lots of Activities and Events for the family! Don’t have a family? Come anyways - lots of events and activities for groups of all ages (even if by yourself).

Even though I am hosting the group, many people have many interests. Closer to the meet date, I will post the meeting schedule and locations. This will allow individuals to decide what they would like to do and/or go to the shows they would like to see. I am generally easy to find, as I wander around the Faire carrying a large pink plastic butterfly on a stick.

Activities include shopping areas, a food court, Ren Quest (for the gamers in the group), kids kingdom (if you choose to bring children), NC-17 stage (no children allowed), pub crawls, family shows (Broon, Clan Tynker), Bawdy shows (Washing Well Wenches), Period Activities (knife throwing, axe throwing, archery, fencing etc.), Rides (human powered, but quite fund!), and Maze, Crafts, and of course Jousting.

Do not forget to purchase your tickets at http://renfair.com/socal/. Warning! Parking is NOT included.

This event will be cross posted a few groups including: Westside Geeks and Nerds, Long Beach Geeks, Single in LA, Culture, Cuisine, Cocktails, Coffee & Convos = Community, 40 plus, Fabulous Fifties, Two Feet Adventures, Make Pour Choices, More To Explore, I just moved to LA, Art!Art!Art!, Fork and Cork, Jewish Meeting place, SSC, Random Rainbow, I wanted to do that.

Adrian Tchaikovksy's Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.

Who will inherit this new Earth?

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age -- a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?

Bring your favorite card or board games and play a few games with your fellow geeks! Game player slots are first come, first serve, but don't worry if you're a little late, there will be several board games available to play.

We are open to new places to try. However, we are out to support our local businesses. Currently we are at Hof's Hut.

If you have a request, please feel free to post it here in case a fellow geek happens to have a copy of that game. If you'd like to demo a game, we'd encourage that as well.

We only request if you are bringing a game old or new that you are able to teach it to the group.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

[SIDE NOTE] This venue is indoors. Masks are optional, though if you are experiencing covid-19 symptoms you're encouraged to stay home.

This adult epic fantasy debut from Sarah Rees Brennan puts the reader in the villain's shoes, for an adventure that is both "brilliant" (Holly Black) and "supremely satisfying" (Leigh Bardugo). Expect a rogue's gallery of villains including an axe wielding maid, a shining knight with dark moods, a homicidal bodyguard, and a playboy spymaster with a golden heart and a filthy reputation.
When her whole life collapsed, Rae still had books. Dying, she seizes a second chance at living: a magical bargain that lets her enter the world of her favorite fantasy series.
She wakes in a castle on the edge of a hellish chasm, in a kingdom on the brink of war. Home to dangerous monsters, scheming courtiers and her favourite fictional character: the Once and Forever Emperor. He’s impossibly alluring, as only fiction can be. And in this fantasy world, she discovers she's not the heroine, but the villainess in the Emperor's tale.
So be it. The wicked are better dressed, with better one-liners, even if they're doomed to bad ends. She assembles the wildly disparate villains of the story under her evil leadership, plotting to change their fate. But as the body count rises and the Emperor's fury increases, it seems Rae and her allies may not survive to see the final page.