Scholarship Announcement

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Introducing the Sandy Herrold Memorial Escapade Scholarship.

For many years now, Escapade has maintained a scholarship program that is funded by generous attendee contributions and the con com. It has assisted more than 20 attendees who, for financial reasons, might not otherwise have been able to attend Escapade. The scholarship program represents two of many great ideals of slash fandom: community and support. This year, to
acknowledge and remember a fannish hostess and dear friend who embodied both of these ideals, we will endow the Sandy Herrold Memorial Escapade Scholarship. It will support at least one vidder.

Sandy loved vidding. She loved watching vids, making vids, critiquing vids, and the entire art of the process. She loved the vid community. To honor her contributions to that community, the Herrold Scholarship will assist a vidder.

It’s up to you to nominate potential scholarship recipients. If you know a vidder who:

A) would like to attend Escapade,

B) can’t make the finances of attending a weekend-long convention make sense, and

C) would be willing to volunteer 5 hours on site (bonus points if they would be willing to co-moderate panels)

Please nominate this person by sending us an email (info@escapadecon.net). Include name, contact information, and why you think they would be a good scholarship recipient.

If your nominee plans to submit vids for Escapade’s Saturday night premiere show, let us know that too.

As always, the general scholarship fund will support any attendees (vidders or non-vidders) as funds are available. If you know someone for whom requirements A, B, and C above would work, please use this opportunity to Nominate that person as well. Nominees this year can be people who have attended Escapade in the past, or people who have never attended but would like to.

The nomination period is open now, and will remain open until December 18. We will announce all scholarship recipients by Christmas, to give attendees as much time as possible to make their travel arrangements.

Mirrored from Escapade 2012.

Scholarship Fund Drive

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The Escapade Scholarship Drive

It’s that time of year again, when we make the call for donations to the Escapade scholarship fund.

The Escapade scholarship program has subsidized a number of fans over the years, people who couldn’t have made it without a little extra help in the finances area. The program works because it’s like the rest of Escapade: you make it work. Over the years your contributions have brought new fans to Escapade. Your contributions have brought fans who maintain archives and lists and communities. And of course your contributions have brought fanfic writers to the con. This year, among other potential recipients, your contributions will bring a vidder.

We have established the Sandy Herrold Memorial Scholarship. This is our first dedicated scholarship, and it is named for a woman who contributed great passion, enthusiasm, and mentoring to all kinds of fans. Because Sandy was such a big creator and promoter of vidding, it seems right and proper that the recipient of her scholarship also be a vidder with passion and enthusiasm.

As always, 100% of your contributions will go directly to recipient expenses (things like airfare, hotel, and meals). As always, we will divide up scholarship funds based on nominees’ needs and how we can help as many people as possible.

As always, this program rests on your generosity. If you would like to contribute to the scholarship fund, you can donate by Paypal or by check (made out to Escapade, P.O. Box 1753, Goleta, CA 93116).

Any amount you can give, from $1 to $1,000, helps tremendously. It helps attendees who couldn’t otherwise make it; it helps programming, because scholarship recipients are required to volunteer and co-moderate panels; it helps your karma.

We have said elsewhere that the scholarship program represents two of many great ideals of slash fandom: community and support. Your donations represent another ideal of this community: generosity.

 

We thank you.

The Con Com

Mirrored from Escapade 2012.