[Deptheads] Gamex Charity Event
Tim
Tim at StuGIII.com
Thu Feb 23 13:47:00 PST 2012
You won't have to take one of the LARP rooms.... conversely, knowing
this far in advance, we could schedule the LARP events around your event
so the conflict are minimal or non existent.
On 2/23/2012 12:09 PM, Kryssie wrote:
> Reasoning for Friday Night: If people *really* want to go, it will
> attract them to a) pre-register and b) get a full con pass. Also, if I
> do it Saturday or Sunday, the 8pm-Midnight is prime RPG/LARP gaming
> time. Not interested in competing with those events ('specially if I
> need to steal one of Ryan's rooms). I *really* thought about it and I
> really think Friday is a good option to *bring people* to the convention.
>
> The other goal is to bring in celebrities--hence why KNTR will be
> helping with the one in September; it's Nathan Fillion's charity and
> there is a chance he'll be able to be there for it. It is the other
> reason I'm very interested in *celebrity* charities. I also am limited
> on space, which is why $15 seemed a good "donation" amount for
> entrance (plus: Good Cause!). I'll think a little more on this as the
> price isn't set in stone.
>
> I'm not convinced Friday isn't the best night, however.
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Victor B <fhoenix88 at yahoo.com
> <mailto:fhoenix88 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
> 1. Fantastic idea.
> 2. Saturday or sunday night isbetter. Saturday night because we
> have the most people there on day badges as well as full con and
> it is saturday night and sunday becaue people party and stay up
> late on sunday night because it is last night of the con. Friday
> on los angeles is many people dribing to con and getting there
> later than they expected after work. They are tired, dealt with
> traffic and several get there around 6-8 (after work). Friday
> works for phoenix comicon because they start thursday night and
> the next night the "party like a time lord" dr. who costume
> contest, masquerade and ball. They also have a steampunk fashion
> show, steampunk 101 poanels, and a steampunk ball. They use every
> night.
> 3. Comicon (phoenix, new york, or san diego) are about fandom,
> media guests, movies and comics. We both know many people that
> plan all year for the costume contests, ball, dressing up for fun,
> and partying. San Diego has over 135,000 attendees and phoenix is
> now up to 45,000. Fandom first, comics second, art and cosplay 3rd
> and gaming 4th....Gaming cons like strategicon are gaming 1st,
> 2nd, 3rd and other stuff 4th.
> This means we have to make any non-gaming event sparkle....a bonus
> event of our con that "you don't want to miss".
> It has to attract and draw not just those looking forward to
> dancing and costuming but also those people on the bubble about
> dancing and costuming at our con....several people would love to
> have a dance and party at our con and socialize and cut loose at
> it..as long as it doesn't interfere with their gaming.
> Remember--this is new for majority of strategicon goers. Some cons
> do this all the time but not us. We are jumping into the shallow
> end of the swimming pool first.
> Here is one hurdle--$15 is probably too much to ask from our con
> goers. A day-only person bought their badge, paid $15 to park, and
> now has to pay $15 for the masquerade. As a destination event it
> costs them over $50 for a 4 hour masquerade.
> We can ask any price but you want a a price people will gladly
> donate to charity without groaning about paying that on top of
> what they paid to get into the con, park, hotel, etc...$10 is good
> price if you provide food and drink with the music. I can get some
> steampunk jewelry and googles and we can pile it all together with
> other donated items for the winner of a raffle. Each person
> donating $10 to get in gets a ticket put in the raffle $5 per
> additional raffle ticket you want. I can talk to you about the
> donations since some have conditions involiving displaying/wearing
> etc.and telling people where it is from. Same as celebs do now to
> get free stuff.
>
> The masquerade should be so cool that people walk out of it and go
> thru other areas and people ask them where they got steampunk
> cupcake or where the dancing is at and saying "Dude...you should
> check out the masquerade".
> Kudos to you. A charity event is awesome idea. For another
> convention I did before last thanksgiving I had the entry fee 4
> canned goods. Fo the D&D back to basics 70's charity event I gave
> re-rolls for canned goods (you couldn't re-roll a re-roll but
> otherwise feel free to throw in a canned goods to re-roll because
> the dice have gone bad for your character). I plan to do an event
> at Gateway...but that is another topic.
> I will help you out. Work out what you want and how you want it
> and message me how I can help you. And I will help you do set up
> at convention. Just remember to come get me and lock me in (ask
> tim and frank about that..hehe).
> V
>
> *From:* Kryssie <phantom.hopscotch at gmail.com
> <mailto:phantom.hopscotch at gmail.com>>
> *To:* deptheads at strategicon.net <mailto:deptheads at strategicon.net>
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:39 AM
>
> *Subject:* [Deptheads] Gamex Charity Event
>
> Due to a bunch of other things going on in my life, I missed my
> own self-imposed deadline for a proposal to the hotel for space
> for a charity "ball." If Tim or Eric A would let me know who I
> need to talk to regarding space donation, that'd be great. :D
> Worst case, I will commandeer the largest LARP room I can find.
> Anyway, here's what's going on and if any of you lovely folks
> would like to help me with this, PLEASE DO! :D
>
> *What:* A Gaslight Masquerade
> *When:* Gamex - Friday, May 25, 2012
> *Time:* 8pm-Midnight
> *What:* A charity event, sponsored by (Charity name still pending).
>
> Basically, this is a 4 hour event in which I would like to offer
> the guests "Things of Interest" that go along with our con theme
> (Steampunk). TL and I are working on contacting the League of
> STEAM to make a guest appearance for this event (and hopefully do
> something fun!), and I'm going to fire off an e-mail to Captain
> Brown of Abney Park to see if they're available and interested in
> coming. Now, I realize we won't have access to a *great* sound
> system, but maybe they'd be interested in playing... I don't know
> and you never know until you ask.
>
> What I really need help with is planning things to do during that
> four hour period. I was quite the sheltered child and never went
> to a high school dance (it was verbotten!), so no idea what takes
> place at them other than, ya know, dancing. Ideally, I'd like to
> have the costume contest during this event. It *is* required to
> dress in costume for it and it's an additional $15 charge (which
> goes 100% to the charity, so it's tax deductible).
>
> If anyone's been to the Phoenix ComiCon (unfortunately, the same
> weekend as Gamex), they do the Geek Ball there for Kids Need to
> Read. KNTR is actually going to help me plan for the one in
> September (and be there for it!), but I'd like to do a test run,
> so to speak, for Gamex. Since the Geek Ball is exclusive to the
> Phoenix ComiCon, ours needs to be different in some way. Theming
> it to the con was different enough for them.
>
> So, I think that's the long and short of it. Discuss!
>
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