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Are you getting excited yet? We are very excited! Here’s some of the new(ish) things to look forward to this year.

Returning for its second year - the quiet room. This is a room open during consuite hours for people to lay down, sit, or relax in a quiet area.

Here for the first time ever at In-Person Escapade and present for the second time if you count the Online Con, we’ll have a 24/7 vid stream room on the Escapade Discord. The online crowd loved it so much, we had to bring it out to the In-Person event. We’ll have fan vids playing all time just for your.

New to Escapade this year is the Night Market! Come Thursday Night to pick up your badge, and shop around a little. People vending at the Night Market will have early access to the room to set up and register early as an extra perk.

Also, are you local? Planning on driving to Escapade but not spending the night at the hotel?

Please let us know in advance! We can get you the discounted parking rate ($20 per day) instead of the new rate ($60 per day).

See you soon, friends!

-Escapade ConCom

escapade_team

Hey there Escapader!

It’s poll time. Ba dum pa! We have two polls for you to go through and take real quick. Each should only take a few minutes.

The first poll is on what preferences are for watching the vidshow. Your responses will help determine the venues used for loud room/quiet room and AV equipment rental.

Vid Show Preferences Survey: https://forms.gle/kW9Zu1xbkidFL8119

The second poll is the Wayback and Wildcard Poll. The Wayback panel possibilities include several panels from ten years ago. Please vote now and the top two will be voted on during the Escapade 35 Welcome Panel to see which panel makes it to the final schedule. The Wildcard panel gives YOU the option to suggest a panel topic for something new and exciting that didn’t make it onto the final schedule.

Wildcard and Wayback Panel Survey: https://forms.gle/yrE9UBr7NPe5M6Pt5

Thanks for voting! Stay tuned for more announcements pending.

-Escapade Con Com

https://escapadecon.net/polls-polls-polls/

escapade_team

Hello, friends!

We have great news for you further down, but first, important hotel stuff! The bad news is that the hotel broke our group code for several days. Any reservations made during that time won’t count toward our contracted total. If we don’t reach our total, it could mean big fines for the con.

The good news is, it’s fairly easy for us to change your room to the group rate: all we need is the first and last name your reservation was booked under, and we can arrange for the hotel to switch you over.

Even if our rate may seem higher than the rate you booked, we confirmed with the hotel that it’s probably not. We negotiated some incredible concessions for our rate:

All reservations (including ours) have $16 per night added to them upon check-in. This is a hospitality tax implemented by the city of L.A. and is not reflected in the website rates. However, reservations booked through our group rate will have this secret extra charge removed upon check out. So please add $16 per night to the rate you reserved when comparing it to our group rate.
Many of you were concerned about the high deposit for incidentals pre-authorized on your credit or debit card last year. We initially negotiated a $250 cap on this for the whole stay, but now the hotel has agreed to waive the deposit entirely for rooms booked under our group code this year.
Regular parking cost at the hotel is going up this year to $60 per night. For rooms booked under our rate this year, it’s only $20 per night. If you’re planning on bringing a car, you’ll want your room booked under our rate. (Fair warning, part of the deal to get the deposit waived means you’ll pay the parking bill upfront as a separate charge from the room.)
Rooms booked under our group code are cancellable until the night before the convention. Other rates generally don’t have this benefit.

If you want your reservation under the group rate, you can reply to this email with the name used to reserve the room and we’ll take care of it for you.

You can also simply cancel your reservation and re-book online now that our group code CESRCG is working again. However, you may have difficulty if you try to call directly, since the rep likely handles many hotels and won’t have been briefed on the specifics of our situation. The best way is to either handle it online, or let us handle it on your behalf.

The GREAT News:

After our last email, we received a huge outpouring of support. We’re awed, we’re humbled, and we’re so, so grateful. Some of you are sponsoring new attendees, some are sharing their love for Escapade on Discord, tumblr, and Blue Sky, and many of you donated. Thank you so much. You may make the difference between whether Escapade survives or not.

More great news!

Agatha All Along and Wicked streaming on Sundays before the convention!

Umber will be hosting showings of Agatha All Along on Sundays, 1/5/25, 1/12/25, and 1/19/25, at 2pm PST (5pm EST). Each showing will be around 2.5 hours.

Kosmi link: https://kosmi.gg/xp51uu

Umber will be hosting a showing of Wicked on Sunday, 1/26/25, at 2pm PST (5pm EST).

Kosmi link: https://kosmi.gg/xp51uu

Join her to check out these popular new fandoms before the convention!

And even more great news:

The vidshow deadline has been extended to 1/23/25. You now have a couple more weeks to procrastinate. ^_^

Thank you all for your patience, your kindness, and your generosity. We’re working hard to make this year’s Escapade more fun than ever. We hope to see all of you soon, if not in 2025, then in 2026!

-Escapade Con Com

https://escapadecon.net/a-little-bad-news-and-a-lot-of-good-news/

escapade_team

Dear Escapade family: we need your help.

Many of you can’t make it this year. Our registered attendance is currently in the 60s. Not only does this make us all really, really sad - it could also be catastrophic for Escapade.

Bottom line: we've got to get our attendance up above 100, or the future of the convention is at stake. So we’re reaching out to you, our Escapade family, and asking for help.

Things you can do:

Reserve your room

Less than half of our contracted room nights have been reserved. We’ll end up having to pay a huge penalty if we can’t meet our commitment.

So if you intend to attend and just haven’t reserved your room yet, please do so. This link will pre-fill a three night stay (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, checking out on Sunday) with our group code and can be edited with your choice of dates. If you go to the website directly, please make sure to use our group code: CESRCG. The reservation should be fully cancelable, and you don’t need to pay in advance.

Come early and stay late!

Consider including an extra night in your trip, especially Thursday night. We’ll be running a new event on Thursday evening, The Night Market, and you won’t want to miss it! Staying through Monday lets you hang out at the Dead Dog party and sleep it off afterward.
Invite everyone you know

Please invite your friends to Escapade. If every person currently registered brought just one other person, we'd be set.

The Press Kit can help with spreading the word, but just talking about how much you love the convention on other Discords is a great way to get people interested, too. Some things I’ve said about it:

"Escapade is my favorite convention! I love how warm and friendly everyone is."

"It’s a classic hospitality con with a fantastic con suite."

"The panels are different from any other convention, way more interesting and interactive."

Reach out to individuals and spread the word on social media. It costs nothing and it helps tremendously.
Donate money

If you have the financial resources to help, purchasing rooms or donating towards the purchase of extra room nights helps not only the convention, but the many scholarship applicants. It’s like doubling your effect!
Donate your skills and time

Another great way to contribute is by offering fannish items and services to the auction. If you’ve never missed a deadline on an exchange; if you can write fic, create vids, make art, record podfics, or have some other skill you’re willing to share, please reach out to us!
Donate and get access!

Finally, if you’re one of the many who tragically can’t attend in-person this year, a contribution of $20 or more will get you access to the Escapade 35 Discord when it becomes active. We'd love to see you, and every little bit helps.

In any other year, we wouldn't be on our knees, banging the bell. This is serious.

But it's also doable. With your help, we can not only ensure that Escapade 35 is fun (and solvent!) but also that we have Escapades for decades to come.

Thank you so much for your help. Please let us know if you have any questions or if we can help you help the con.

https://escapadecon.net/escapade-needs-your-help/

escapade_team

Hey there, Slumber Party Pals,

We’ve got two big pieces of news for you. First up, the panel ballot has been extended to 12/27 11:59pm PST. Please get in your votes by then and we’ll close the ballots for scheduling.

Vote here: https://escapadecon.net/panels/panel-voting/

Second, for all you folks that want to tell people about Escapade but don’t know how, we’ve put together a kit for you here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hZ3HCHsUeBHARPg6NYj0YXi-y20c0GB2?usp=sharing

We’ve got flyers, pictures, and a handy guide for ways to tell people about us and things you can post about us to websites like discord, bluesky, dreamwidth, facebook, etc. Please don’t let the hard work we put into these go to waste! Share them wherever fannish folk may lurk.

Got questions? Reach out to us any time at info@escapadecon.net

Much love,

Escapade Con Com

https://escapadecon.net/spread-the-word/

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