 Presently owned by Renaissance Entertainment Productions (REP), it is a commercial reenactment of a 1580s market faire at Port Deptford, a waterfront town in Elizabethan era England.The Faire is generally open from the first weekend of April through the weekend before Memorial Day.Created by Ron Patterson and Phyllis Patterson, the radio station KPFK,  and the nonprofit organization Living History Center (LHC), the first Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California (RPFS) was first staged at Agoura Hills in the spring of 1963.