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escapade_teamNow is the time to check out the available time slots on the Escapade panel schedule and submit your write-in ideas to claim your spot! Sign-ups will still be available at the con, but only if the open slots don’t fill first!
Go here and click on the tab to Sign Up for Available Slots:
https://escapadecon.net/schedule/
escapade_teamThe final panel schedule is posted! Here’s the link:
http://escapadecon.net/schedule
(as in previous years, there is a tab for each day, and text descriptions below the grid layout)
If you want to take advantage of any of the open time slots for alt programming or video, send an email to info@escapadecon.net with your preferred time slot and one backup, and give us a title and description of what they plan to do. Note: all programming in convention space must be open to all registered attendees.
Time slots are “first come, first served”, and we’ll do our best to keep the schedule updated as slots are taken.
escapade_teamSwap Table
Fannish Swap Meet, or I used to love it, now it’s your turn!
What to bring for the Swap Table: Fannish items that you have too many of or have no further need for. Bring them and let another fan give them a good home. Attendees (your fellow fans) love things like genre magazines, old fanzines, action figures, used but still good dvd sets, etc, etc…
What not to bring: VHS tapes — we can’t recycle them, either. We sympathize with not wanting to throw them out, but that’s what will happen to them.
Het (m/f) romance. We get an overabundance, and can’t store it so we’re trying to rebalance the slash swap meet back toward the slash side of things.
Remainders of your self-published book. We don’t want to recycle these, either.
Raffle
We love getting donations for the raffle! What do we want, you ask? Anything new or nearly new that a fellow fan would love: dvd sets, tech stuff, custom fannish items, m/m books–use your imagination!
Con Suite
Please remember that the con suite food is a special treat, provided in great part by generous individual fans. It’s intended to be supplemental snacks between panels, and not a replacement for purchasing your own meals. If you eat your meals from the convention suite, we run out of food very quickly and then others who expected their snack don’t have anything. While we do our best to offer options that appeal to a wide number of people, for those with dietary limitations, consider volunteering to bring and help prepare something that would suit your needs. That is, after all, how some of the salad and vegetable options came to be.
escapade_teamVolunteers Needed! After all these years, we'd like to claim that Escapade runs like a well-oiled machine. But the truth is that the convention wouldn't run at all without the dedicated effort of dozens of fans. Volunteering at Escapade is a way to meet people, to have a lot of fun, and to make the convention your own. In return for their efforts, everyone who contributes five or more volunteer hours will be automatically registered for next year's convention, and receive a $10 credit. There's a space on the registration page to indicate that you'd like to volunteer, or you can directly contact the department heads below to offer your services. Check out the Volunteer page to see what opportunities you might want: https://escapadecon.net/volunteer/ Or email Misti at misti@escapadecon.net ~~~~~ Rides and Roommates! Do you have a room for two but no roommate? Or are you looking for someone with space in their room for one more? Are you driving in and hoping to find a passenger to share gas expense, or looking for a ride to the con? We won't do your match making for you, but if you post about your need on the Escapade Chat Yahoo list or on one of our social media sites, the odds are good you'll find a match.
escapade_teamArt Show 2016 Call for Entries! Escapade Art Show registration is now open! https://escapadecon.net/programming/art-show/ The Escapade Art Show wants YOU to submit something this year! The people who attend the convention are a talented group with a wide variety of interests - let's celebrate our talents and fannish loves! On-line registration is open until Monday, February 22, 2016. Please help us test out the new system! For those last-minute inspirations, walk-in submissions will be accepted Friday afternoon during art check-in. Need some ideas? * Artistic abilities peaked in elementary school? Glitter and construction paper are an under-rated medium! If you had a good time making it, then it belongs in the show! * Are you a crafter? Clay sculpture, jewelry, dolls - you name it, we want to see it! All art is valued! * Are you a cook? Baked goods and preserves with a fannish connection are welcome! * Not willing to part with the fabulous thing you just made? That's OK! The art show welcomes art for display only. * Not enough time before the con? Offer your services to make something for the highest bidder! Just give us a piece of paper explaining what sort of commissions you're willing to offer (art, vid, gif, etc). We would be ecstatic to auction off a vidder, er, I mean auction off a vidder's services. ~~~~~ Panels, panels everywhere! Now we need more mods! We have collated the initial list of panels, based on voting by members like you. Several of the most popular panels need one or more mods to sign on, in order to make it on to the final schedule. Check out the panel cut here, and then email us to let us know which you'd like to moderate or co-moderate. Panel cut link: https://escapadecon.net/programming/panels/panel-cut/ ~~~~~ Vid Show Deadline Just to give all the vidders a little breathing room, the deadline has been extended to February 6, midnight PST. Remember that the vidshow details can be found here: https://escapadecon.net/programming/songvid-show/ ~~~~~ The Escapade Scholarship Drive 1. Contribute to the Scholarship Fund The Escapade scholarship works because it's like the rest of Escapade: you make it work. Your contributions have supported many attendees over the years, from maintainers of fannish archives, lists, and communities to fanfic writers and vidders. Scholarships introduce new fans to Escapade, and bring back long-time attendees who may have fallen on hard times. Please donate to the fund. You can contribute by Paypal (to info@escapadecon.net), by check (made out to Escapade; send to 264 Santa Monica Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93109), or by pledge via email to info@escapadecon.net (You must be an attendee to pledge; you can pay when you arrive at registration.) Any amount you can give, from $10 to $10,000, helps tremendously. It helps attendees who couldn't otherwise make it; it helps programming, because scholarship recipients volunteer and co-moderate panels; it helps your karma. As always, 100% of your contributions go directly to recipient expenses like airfare, hotel, and food expenses, if needed. 2. Nominate a Potential Scholarship Recipient Now it's time to check the registration list at the web site, and consider who isn't on it. Are they skipping due to unforeseen financial stresses? It's time to think about a fan who has never been to Escapade but who you know might love it. In the same way you create the scholarship fund through donations, you create the scholarship recipients through nominating people. Go to the Escapade website: https://escapadecon.net/programming/escapade-scholarship/ and share a little about the scholarship nominee. We will do the rest, and announce scholarship recipients at the con.
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