The Carolina Renaissance Festival is a 25 acre renaissance themed amusement park. The festival is set in a fictional storybook village of "Fairhaven". The open air village and artisan marketplace contain permanent cottages and bungalows based on 16th century European architecture. Sixteen outdoor stages are used for comedy theater, dance, and circus-like entertainments. Featured, live-action shows include knights on horseback (who joust three times daily); presentations of the art of falconry; and live swimming mermaids. The festival is held annually on Saturdays and Sundays in October and November. An average of 195,000 visitors a year attend the festival during its Fall season.
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152-413: A variety of physiological effects on stress and anxiety , vasoregulation, thermoregulation , growth and metabolism, metamorphosis and reproduction in various species, and are all released as prohormones . Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) is a releasing hormone found mainly in the paraventricular nucleus of the mammalian hypothalamus that regulates the release of corticotropin (ACTH) from
171-418: A variety of traveling street performers who engage visitors in interactive performance experiences. An in-house performance company that features over 100 costumed characters that interact directly with visitors at the fair creates an authentic feel of the renaissance-era town. Professional and volunteer actors help bring the "village" to life. Individuals in the company have developed unique characters such as
190-467: Is a family of related neuropeptides in vertebrates . This family includes corticotropin-releasing hormone (also known as CRF), urotensin -I, urocortin , and sauvagine . The family can be grouped into 2 separate paralogous lineages, with urotensin-I, urocortin and sauvagine in one group and CRH forming the other group. Urocortin and sauvagine appear to represent orthologues of fish urotensin-I in mammals and amphibians, respectively. The peptides have
209-546: Is found in the teleost caudal neurosecretory system and may play a role in osmoregulation and as a corticotropin-releasing factor. Urotensin-I is released from the urophysis of fish, and produces ACTH and subsequent cortisol release in vivo. The nonhormonal portion of the prohormone is thought to be the urotensin binding protein (urophysin). Sauvagine , isolated from frog skin, has a potent hypotensive and antidiuretic effect. CRH ; UCN ; Carolina Renaissance Festival The Carolina Renaissance Festival
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#1732851243464228-463: Is one of the largest—by acreage— Renaissance fairs in America. Carolina Renaissance Festival stage shows feature live music, dance, comedy shows, and performers with circus variety skills such as juggling, aerial skills, acrobatics, and sideshow antics. Musicians perform with traditional instruments such as the harp, bagpipes, and other obscure " period " instruments. Roaming the lanes of the festival are
247-451: The pituitary gland . The paraventricular nucleus transports CRH to the anterior pituitary , stimulating adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) release via CRH type 1 receptors , thereby activating the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) and, thus, glucocorticoid release. CRH is evolutionary-related to a number of other active peptides. Urocortin acts in vitro to stimulate the secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone . Urotensin
266-408: The "Village Baker," the "Tavern Keeper," the village "Lord Mayor," and a fictional Royal family that has come to visit Fairhaven. The volunteers in the company are primarily people from surrounding communities, including Concord , Greensboro , Raleigh , and Charlotte. In addition to 16 stages of rotating, scheduled entertainers, there are three premier attractions: The jousting knights on horseback;
285-551: The 'sport of kings.' The Sea Fairies exhibit features mermaids swimming in a 3,000 gallon aquarium tank. Near the tank is a Mermaid sitting on a throne where children can have their photos taken. Over 140 vendors sell a variety of handmade arts and craft goods such as artisan jewelry and leather goods, blown glass (made during live demonstrations), candles, and custom chain mail . The festival vends an assortment of medieval themed foods, including: giant turkey legs, savory soups, stews, and chowders (served in "bread bowls"), "Steak on
304-559: The falconry demonstration; and the "Sea Fairies" mermaid exhibit. The jousts are enacted by performers from Aventail Productions; and the competition is judged with points that are awarded using a historically accurate scoring system. The victory is awarded to the true winners of each competition. The final joust of the day ends with a conflict settled by an unhorsing and ground fight to the "death". A variety of birds-of-prey are put on display highlighting their unique abilities and training that enraptured nobles long ago and made falconry
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361-472: Was inaugurated in 1994 by Jeff Siegel, owner of Royal Faires, Ltd., the parent company. Royal Faires also owns and operates the Arizona Renaissance Festival . The festival takes place on 25 acres (10 ha) of land located just north of Charlotte, North Carolina , between the towns of Huntersville and Concord . The land is leased to festival organizers by the estate of Porter Byrum . It
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