Who wants to fight through Black Friday crowds at 5:00 a.m.? Shopping for your Infinitus registration and add-ons will be much easier. And to make it even sweeter, we're offering a $10 gift certificate for use at the Infinitus merchandise table when you buy a regular or Merlin's Circle registration on Black Friday (November 27, 2010).
And just to stay in the holiday mood, from noon (Eastern time) on November 24 through December 31, 2009, you will get a $5 gift certificate for use at the Infinitus merchandise table when you buy a regular registration, upgrade to Merlin's Circle or add on a keynote luncheon.
So this holiday season, pick up an Infinitus registration for yourself or a friend - or treat a friend to lunch next July!
Questions? Email us at info@infinitus2010.org or comment to this post.
See you next July!
Registration is Open!
We are currently offering an early bird registration price for $165.00 until midnight of September 7th, 2009. After that, registration will be $180.00 until March 31, 2010. It will then increase to $200.00 pending availability.
Please note that your registration will include two Feasts, common room access, pickup Quidditch (if you sign the release), fanfic readings, gallery and vendor room access, various wrock events and all Formal Programming except Keynote Luncheons. Additional ticketed items will be available as the year goes on, and will be registration system once they are announced through this website and The Infinitus newsletter, The Infinitum.
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gwendolyngrace and I went right from Azkatraz to Comic-Con, where we were on the Harry Potter panel Sunday afternoon with fellow Azkatrazians Leslie Combemale from ArtInsights, Melissa Anelli from The Leaky Cauldron, Dr. Henry Jenkins of USC and Lev Grossman from Time Magazine, so we are just getting over our jetlag and con-drop right about now. We wanted to send special thanks to all the presenters, volunteers, auction-bidders, raffle-ticket-buyers, those who served warrants and those who were arrested, the bands and performers, the cosplayers, trivia contest participants, life-sized chess pieces, craft fairers, dancers, moshers, artists, round-table hosts, authors, vidders and every attendee, because each of you made Azkatraz happen.
If you haven't already looked at the wonderful photos at our flickr pool, please do so - and upload your own pics, too! Don't forget to tag them with the AZKATRAZ tag, as well as whatever event or activity you photographed.
Team Infinitus is already getting ready for their event at Universal, home to the upcoming Wizarding World of Harry Potter - it's only 350 days away! - and more information is coming soon to the website, their facebook group,
hpef_news and the HPEF twitter, as well as the Infinitus newsletter - if you were signed up for the Azkatraz one, you're automatically subscribed to the Infinitus one as well (and unsub instructions will be in the next email). Your answers to the following questions will help make Infinitus the best HPEF event yet! Please copy the code below and paste it into a comment. All comments will be screened, although they will be shared with and read by the Azkatraz and Infinitus con-teams; you can post anonymously through August 15 (although we will turn off anon posting after that to minimize spam-infections).
Thanks in advance for participating in the survey, and again, thank you all so much for making Azkatraz fantastic.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 87
For Azkatraz participants - we're curious about your pre-Az con experiences
This will be my first con of any type!
20 (23.5%)
This will be my first Harry Potter-centric con! 14 (16.5%)
I've been to one HP con before Azkatraz 11 (12.9%)
I've been to more than one HP con before Azkatraz 29 (34.1%)
I haven't been to an HP con, per se, but I have been to a big HP event, like POAIMAX or the Mugglenet Book Release events in Chicago 2 (2.4%)
I won't be making to Azkatraz in person, but I am doing azkatrazathome 9 (10.6%)
Something else I will discuss in the comments. 0 (0.0%)
What day(s) will you be at Azkatraz
I'll be in San Francisco on Wednesday, and around the Parc55 10 (13.3%)
Thursday 45 (60.0%)
Friday 56 (74.7%)
Saturday 61 (81.3%)
Sunday 60 (80.0%)
Monday 56 (74.7%)
Tuesday 42 (56.0%)
I'll still be hanging around on Wednesday! 15 (20.0%)
Are you coming to Comic Con afterwards?
Yes, for all four (five!) days. 6 (7.2%)
Yes, for at least one day. 2 (2.4%)
No, not this year. 73 (88.0%)
I'm going to miss Azkatraz, but I will be at Comic Con. 2 (2.4%)
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azkatraz from the LJ Spotlight, welcome, and we hope to see you in San Francisco this week! This is the comm for news about and relating to HPEF's azkatraz event, scheduled to take place in San Francisco, California from July 18 - 21, 2009 at the Parc55 Hotel at 55 Cyril Magnin Street. If you're planning to attend or just interested in learning more about the event, you can also join
kickin_azkatraz, our "community" community, especially for chatter about the event. This community is solely for news, updated and postings by the con team, so you cannot "join" it but you can watch it on your friends list by clicking here.
Azkatraz welcomes Harry Potter fans, ages 14 and up, for almost a week of discussions, meet-ups, fanfic readings, fanart gallery showings, presentations, round-tables, wizard rock, charitable projects, celebrations, booksignings and, of course, Muggle Quidditch.
To learn more about Azkatraz, look through the comm - all our "admin" posts are here, and our "community" livejournal is at
kickin_azkatraz - or visit our website at http://www.hp2009.org - and if you can't make it to San Francisco this week, come join us at Infinitus 2010 at Universal Studios Orlando, home of the brand new Wizarding World of Harry Potter; find out more at infinitus2010Questions? Post a comment or email us via our userinfo page here on LiveJournal - and we hope to see you soon!
ArtInsights releases new "Witches and Wizards of Harry Potter" limited edition sets with specially selected images of actors featured in the movie series, and offers 2 new worldwide exclusive Mary GrandPre images from the deluxe edition covers, Order of the Pheonix "12 Grimmauld Place", and Deathly Hallows "Escape from Gringotts".
The art will be premiered at Azkatraz 2009 on July 16th, will be shown at Comic-Con International July 22nd through 26th, and will feature special certificates made especially by Warner Brothers only available during these events. This release also coincides with a new charity partnership with Kids Need To Read. Starting with these new releases, the charity will receive 10% of the profits of all Harry Potter fine art sold through ArtInsights Gallery.
Specs:
Witches and Wizards of Harry Potter
Edition count of 700 each
9 images at $45 each, exclusive complete sets at $430 for 10 images, which includes the bonus piece, "Luna Lovegood".
Price increase to $480 for the set will take place on July 27th.
Hermione Granger || Luna Lovegood
"12 Grimmauld Place" and "Escape from Gringotts"
regular paper edition, edition size 500, for $425 each
Artist Proofs as giclees on canvas, edition of 50, $800 each
--1/3 of the APs have been presold.
10% of all profits to benefit Kids Need To Read Charity.
Call ArtInsights at 703-478-0778, visit their website at www.artinsights.com,
or visit them at booth #1317, under the name of their friends, "Heroic Fine Art",
with whom they are sharing a booth. You can also pick up postcards and swag for Infinitus at the booth from Wednesday night on, and catch Leslie from ArtInsights, along with HPEF's Gwendolyn Grace and Heidi on the Harry Potter panel at ComicCon on Sunday afternoon.
Weekend Pass (including the Ball) - $130
Single-day Pass for Sat/Sun/Mon - $45 per day
Master of Potter Administration including breakfast, lunch and cocktail reception on Monday - $130 without a registration, $100 with a regular registration, and $75 for Merlin Circle sponsors
Dessert with Chris Rankin - $75
Sunday Keynote Luncheon with Eddie Newquist of the HP Museum Exhibit - $65
Sunday or Monday breakfast - $35
Fog Bowl/Quidditch competition - $35 (includes pizza and a team shirt)
Azkatraz Film Festival featuring Cherrybomb - $15
Photos with Chris Rankin - $30
All of the above will be available on-site until at least the day before each event; photos with Chris will be available throughout Azkatraz. Email info @ hp2009.org (without the spaces) if you have any questions, and click on the link to REGISTRATION at the top of the page to purchase a new registration, or modify an existing one.
And remember, you can get into LeakyMug, play pickup Quidditch, visit the Vendor Room on Friday or Saturday, come to the Pre-Event Mixer on Friday night or visit the Common Room and Common Room Annex on Friday with any single-day or Full/Weekend registration.
See you soon - but while we wait through the next few days, take our poll!
Poll #1428897
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 33
Can you believe that Azkatraz is this week?!?
Yes! And I am all packed and ready to go! 2 (6.1%)
Yes! I am counting the hours! 10 (30.3%)
YES! But I am not totally ready yet! 25 (75.8%)
OMG YES but luckily I have a working time turner so I can get some extra hours in, so I can finish my costume(s)! 3 (9.1%)
Yes, and I am ready to get to San Francisco and see people and do amazing things! 12 (36.4%)
If you can't make it to San Francisco, you can still be con-ish at home, thanks to
azkatrazathome
- Mood: excited
Remember these things:
1. Formal Programming Prefects get a guaranteed seat at the programming panels and sessions where they are Prefecting - it's mostly time-keeping and letting AV know if there are any AV issues during the session.
2. The Security Team shirts were designed by
lizardspotsto the website</a>, learn more, sign up, and help out!So...
How many of you will be in San Fran in under 100 hours?!?!?!?
- Mood: excited
We’re heartbroken. Please understand that IMAX and WB did everything in their power to try to make this happen for us. The problem did not lie with them in any way, and it came right down to the wire with the negotiation process. When push came to shove, however, Paramount simply refused to work out a deal.
We are as upset and angry as you are surely feeling right now. But! The important thing to remember is that we will STILL have a “Half-Blood Prince” showing - all together, all united by our love of the story.
We hedged our bets a couple weeks ago and purchased tickets to the regular screen's 11:30 PM show. This means that we'll move forward with our plans for the line party, starting around 9:30 PM, and the doors will open a few minutes after 11:00 PM. You can still pick up your tickets at the Azkatraz Booking Office, which will be in the Embarcadero on the 3rd floor Thursday from noon to 6 pm, and at the Metreon itself beginning at 10:00 PM until about 11:15. If your travel plans preclude you getting to the theatre before 11, please write to the registrar and we will determine whether we can resell your tickets. For those of you picking them up, you will also receive a small refund (the difference between the IMAX price and the regular admission price) at that time.
Furthermore, IMAX is so cool that they have given us some consolation gifts and a few special prizes, which we'll be using as door prizes for the line party. So come ready to test your knowledge of Potter and your luck! Ten people will win a pair of complimentary IMAX tickets that they can use anywhere in the U.S. once the IMAX prints are released nationwide.
Meanwhile, if you simply can't contain your indignation at the way Paramount has forced IMAX and WB to disappoint us, we will also have letters prepared - addressed and pre-printed - for you to take, add your own comments, sign, and send to the appropriate office at their studios, to let them know just how this powerful bloc of fans responds to having our hopes dashed like this. Please take them when you get your tickets - and help us make the fans' voices be heard so that next time something like this comes up, we won't get the same treatment.
But for now, let’s put this unfortunate outcome behind us, and focus on the important fact that we can make plans! We can get excited for the movie! We will all see it together!
You know what else usually cheers me up? Shopping! And Barnes & Noble has graciously extended the bookfair (# 581066) through Friday, July 10, so that you can use it to purchase paperback copies of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” among other titles, for the Prisoners’ Literature Project, or for yourselves! Still need an airplane book? Go to Barnes & Noble and give them the flyer or the bookfair # 581066 to get your purchase applied to the HPEF bookfair and help a worthy charity supply incarcerated prisoners with quality reading material. Dictionaries, best-sellers, and other titles are also very welcome and in demand for the Project. Go here: bookfair page for more information about the bookfair and the Prisoners’ Literature Project.
Look for a new Informant before the end of the week, and we’ll see you in 10 days!
Thanks for your patience!
And the website is back up. This LJ and our Twitter will always be available when the site is down - and since Registration is hosted on a separate server, even if the website goes down you can still register and add additional items here.
See you in a few weeks!
We will also be screening “We Are Wizards,” a documentary on Wizard Rock and HP fandom that enjoyed limited release around the country last year, and a reprise edition of the Convict Theatre vid collection.
The Zeum theatre only seats 200, so purchase your film festival ticket for $15 by modifying your registration, or when you create a new registration. If there are any tickets left, they will be available for purchase when you check in, or at the Zeum box office on Monday morning.
Because of the content and language in Cherrybomb, only those over the age of 17, or those accompanied by a parent or guardian, may attend that portion of the Azkatraz Film Festival; since the theater is small, only those holding a single-day, Weekend, Full or Merlin's Circle registration can purchase a ticket to Cherrybomb.
Schedule:
1:00 PM – Cherrybomb
2:30 PM – We Are Wizards
4:15 PM: Convict Theatre Vidding Show
On Monday, July 20, we will be offering a special one-day program track focused on the impact of the Harry Potter phenomenon on business and law; this track will take place off-site at ZEUM. The special registration for the MPA includes breakfast at the Parc55 on Monday morning, with a presentation by Susan Gunelius, author of Harry Potter: the Story of a Global Business Phenomenon, lunch with special guests, and a networking reception at the end of the day's program, three amazing panels and your choice of three breakout sessions from our list of at least a dozen fantastic Q&As, micro-panels and presentations.
While the Luncheon and Cocktail Reception are open only to Merlin's Circle registrants, if you have a Full Registration, a No-Feasts Weekend Pass, a Vendor Pass or a Merlin's Circle registration, you can attend one MPA session of your choice (taking Fire Marshall limitations into consideration) - and you can add on an MPA registration at the Registration Desk at Azkatraz through July 18. Those who hold a Monday registration cannot attend MPA programming without upgrading to the MPA ticket.
The list of presenters includes Robin Burgener and Tanis Stoliar of the 20Q Project, Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine's book editor and tech writer, Fred Von Lohmann and Corynne McSherry of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, of Dreamwidth StudiosDenise Paolucci & Mark Smith, Elizabeth Bland, Exhibition Coordinator at the National Library of Medicine, Aaron Schwabach and Julie Cromer-Young of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and of course Henry Jenkins, who is transitioning from MIT to USC, and MPA Chair Monique Trottier, formerly of Raincoast Books.
The PDF of all programming at ZEUM is available here; the list of programming sessions can be found here.
Add a Masters of Potter Administration to your Azkatraz agenda; you can add it to a new registration, or an existing one. If you have any questions, please email us at info @ hp2009.org.
We've posted our current list of all Find Your Flock events at Azkatraz, including a lot Snape-centric events, ship meet-ups, site-specific activites and more.
Check out the schedule and summaries here!
If you aren't on the schedule yet, or if there's an error in your listing, please contact Kerry asap. We can only include Flocks in the program if we have your information confirmed by June 16, 2009.
Just a reminder about Quidditch - if you want to play in the Fog Bowl Tournament on Friday at Beach Chalet at Golden Gate Park, please sign up by June 22 - we need to order everyone's personalized shirts that week!
More information is at the website, but here's some of the highlights:
1. We're playing at the Beach Chalet Fields at Golden Gate Park - there's a very Hogwarts-ish feel on the field, between the trees, the rocks and, of course, the fog.
2. We'll be providing bus transportation between the Parc55 and the field all day, so you can get to your game easily; there's also parking spaces if you prefer to drive.
3. The fee to play in the tournament is $35, and includes a personalized team t-shirt, a pizza lunch, hydrating beverages and all the fun, fantastic, Quidditch play you could want! If there is space available we will still take sign-ups through July 16, and you'll get a team shirt, but it won't be personalized.
4. The teams are:
o Alcatraz Birdmen
o Chinatown Dragons
o Embarcadero Earthquakes
o Folsom Falcons
o Lombard Street Zig-Zags
o Nob Hill Knight Owls
o Presidio Pelicans
o Sea Cliff Serpents
5. Yes, you'll have to sign a liability waiver whether you play pickup Quidditch, or are on one of the Tournament teams; you can read them here.
6. Yes, you can request to be on a team with your friends, or with team-mates from a past con tournament. Just make sure you all select the same teams as your first and second picks when you sign up.
7. Sign up by modifying your registration here.
Let us know if you have any questions!
As many of you have heard by now, there is a rumor that the release date for “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” in IMAX has been pushed back two weeks until July 29th. IMAX has not itself confirmed this yet.
Obviously, the Azkatraz screening of the film in IMAX may be affected by this news. Please rest assured that we are working with IMAX and exploring all of our options to make this an event to remember. We realize that Azkatraz is just over a month away but the Azkatraz team has only learned this news at the same time as all of you as well so please bear with us as we try to work this out.
Please feel free to email us at info@hp2009.org.
Now that the Event and Programming schedules are online, we're opening sign-ups for fanfic readings and portfolio showings, as well as space in the drabble/drawble booth and time slots for music video karaoke and the film production studio at ZEUM.
To sign up, cut & paste the form here into a email - put DRABBLE, DRAWBLE, PORTFOLIO, READING or ZEUM in the subject - and send it to creativity @ hp2009.org (without the spaces)
You'll be serving time during one of the slots listed below. If you wish to be listed in the program and have one of your preferred choices on the schedule, you must sign up by June 8; we will be taking sign-ups for open slots throughout Azkatraz, but you won't be listed on the daily schedule or the website if you don't sign up by July 4.
- Friday, July 17 3:00pm to 8:00pm for the booths, 3:00 pm to midnight for the readings
- Saturday, July 18 10:00am to 8:00pm
- Sunday, July 19 10:00am to 8:00pm
- Monday, July 20 10:00am to 8:00pm
One of the last pieces of the Azkatraz puzzle has been set into place.
At our Sunday Keynote Luncheon at noon, we will be hosting Eddie Newquist , president of Branded Entertainment at Exhibitgroup/Giltspur, the creative and innovative company behind HARRY POTTER: THE EXHIBITION, which is now open at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, and which will shortly begin a world tour.
Eddie will speak about the curatorial process behind the creation of the exhibit, and the fascinating items found inside.
With more than 25 years of experience in branded entertainment, Eddie has worked for Universal Studios on the creative development of high-profile attractions such as Twister, Jurassic Park, WaterWorld, Terminator 2-3D and Universal’s CityWalk, and his exhibition work and films have been hosted by the Museum of Science and Industry in
Chicago, Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Eddie is also an industry innovator, holding three patents for the development of advanced show systems and for the design of high-capacity entertainment experiences.
Tickets to this Keynote Luncheon are $60, and can be added to a new registration, or by modifying an existing reservation, here. As of June 5, only about sixty tickets are still available.
- Mood: excited
We have good news and bad news regarding registration prices:
1. The good news is, we've eliminated the price increases to $190 and $200 that were supposed to go into effect this month,and at the door because...
2. We're going to have to stop selling full registrations and Merlin's Circle as of June 15, because we are going to sell out of tickets for the Welcome and Leaving Feasts. That's of the bad yet also good news.
However, since we know that there are still people who want to attend each day of Azkatraz, we are offering an All Weekend Pass for $130. This is a full registration WITHOUT the Welcome or Leaving Feasts. This price will be available as of June 2, 2009, through the close of online registration, and on Friday and Saturday at the door.
Of course, you can still add breakfasts, lunches, tickets for Wrock Around the Rock and the Masters of Potter Administration track. At this point, we may be closing registration on June 30, but we are trying to keep it open into the first week of July.
We have also OPENED the "Weekend Pass" Registration - get all the benefit of a Full Registration with two important exceptions: The Welcome and Leaving meals are NOT INCLUDED at this level. If you have been waiting to purchase registration for the full weekend (including the Friday Pre-Con day) but did not want to purchase the meals that come with it, you can now register for the Weekend Pass. This level is $130 and you can choose to add Wrock, the MPA, or other optional items to the pass.
While you're there, why not order your t-shirt? Shirts are $12 on pre-order and will be $16 on-site. Specify your size (ladies' shaped tees also available).
We are STILL waiting (along with IMAX, impatiently!) to find out about the movie showtimes for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Once we have a definite showtime, we will let everyone know. If the showtime makes it impossible for you to use your movie tickets, we will offer a limited period during which you can cancel the tickets at no penalty.
Also, June 15 is the official cut-off for the hotel block. This does not necessarily mean that you will be unable to book your room; however, the hotel will no longer be obligated to extend our rate if you book after the 15th. Rooms at that point will be on a rate and availability basis, and remember, San Francisco hotel rooms are expensive! Be sure that you lock in the Azkatraz rate of $165 for up to 4 people in your room - book before June 15!
Finally, it is still in beta, but we now have a lovely interactive Google Calendar at the website! Many thanks to our hard-working Mary Ellen and Sara who helped input (almost) all the activities. You can download it to your PDA or smartphone and personalize the things you want to be sure not to miss. We will continue to complete and update this calendar right up into July.
Stay tuned for more exciting news from the Azkatrazi staff!
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