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It’s National Coffee Day! How many cups did you need to wake up the morning after Night of a Thousand Wizards at Infinitus?
(photo credit: Jenn Racek. Taken at Infinitus 2010)
Ascendio 2012: A Harry Potter Fandom Event
Love Harry Potter? Get your con on! Ascendio is the Harry Potter convention taking place July 12-15, 2012 at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando® – just moments away from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter! Brought to you by HPEF, which previously put on Infinitus 2010, Azkatraz 2009, Lumos 2006 & more!
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Gryffindor Common Room Rejects in the Infinitus Common Room performing “Something Is Gone,” a Remus/Sirius song.
Apparently GCR2 will be releasing a Remus/Sirius EP in the next year, so Remus/Sirius slashers, keep an eye out for that!
Infinitus Common Room - Gryffindor Common Room Rejects - Something Is Gone (via selfwindingwriter)
Blast from the past.. and a look to the future! Gryffindor Common Room Rejects will be playing at Ascendio’s Wrock Day on Thursday, July 12!
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@UORNews is looking for photos of people at Hogwarts Castle on their twitterfeed. If you share yours from our 2010 Night of a Thousand Wizards, can you share it with @hpef too?
Flashback to The Whomping Willows covering Harry and Draco are in Love at Infinitus! Catch them at Ascendio July 2012!
(Source: hp2012.org)
Blibbering Humdingers performing Then I Died at Infinitus. Catch them at Ascendio in July!
If you’re interested in helping out with Ascendio, there’s something terrific for you to do in Orlando in July. Remember, you need a registration for the day(s) that you want to volunteer, except that everyoneis invited to help out on Wednesday when we stuff registration packs, to work the door at the To the Manor Ball, and on Sunday for the Auction and Raffle. Some of the areas where you can help include:
- Security (you get a cool t-shirt!)
- Programming Prefects (essentially room monitors for Formal Programming sessions)
- Common Room staff (help monitor our Common Room… and enjoy the festivities at the same time!)
- Registration desk
- Meet & Greet desk (love to give directions/explain things to people? This is for you!)
- Decorations (on site, this includes decorating before the ball, and more!)
Click here fill out the Volunteer Form and be placed in our Database; we’ll get in touch with you and put you on a team within a day or two. Ascendio is run entirely by volunteers. From the board and senior staff to the on-site volunteers, HPEF events wouldn’t be what they are without help and commitment from its attendees. By volunteering, you can help shape Ascendio, meet fellow fans before the symposium, and gain an insider’s viewpoint to event planning.
Plus, we’re having a reception or two for our volunteers, and if you help out onsite, you’re cordially invited!
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We’re getting nostalgic for Infinitus! Check out our album on Facebook, where we are celebrating some of the most awesome costumes from Infinitus 2010. Have an awesome costume pic? Photo reply!
Norberta will be at Ascendio!
The dragon who captivated Infinitus attendees and starred in hundreds of photos, videos and cosplay moments will be at Ascendio, guarding the Portofino Bay courtyard!
Plan to come by and say hello! She’ll pose for as many photos as you wish!
(Source: hp2012.org)
So back in 2009, HPEF’s Aziza interviewed Darren Criss and Nick Lang in the aftermath of their acoustic, in-the-round performance at Azkatraz and the lead-up to their premiere of A Very Potter Sequel at Infinitus. Click to watch the first part of the video, then follow the links to the rest of it - YouTube made us split it into smaller portions, much like AVPM itself.
And check out StarKid’s plans for our next con, Ascendio, taking place in Orlando from July 12 - 15 this summer! We can’t wait to see them again - and we hope to see you there, too!
Lauren Fairweather performs I’m Going to Hogwarts at Infinitus. She’s coming to Ascendio, too!
(Source: hp2012.org)
Fwiw, tweets #2005 - 2012 by @HPEF will use a virtual time turner to look back at the HPEF cons of each of those years, so check them out, and RT if you attended The Witching Hour, Lumos, Prophecy, Portus, Azkatraz or Infinitus (tweet #2004 was about Nimbus because we RT-ed something from the amazing Lena Gabrielle as #2003).
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Hi from HPEF, the team behind awesome Harry Potter fancons (Infinitus, Azkatraz, Portus, Prophecy, Lumos, The Witching Hour and Nimbus - 2003)! We’re hosting ASCENDIO, our next (and final) HP fancon in Orlando in July at Universal Orlando’s Portofino Bay Resort, and a private event called Night of a Thousand Wizards 2 at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter on July 12.
The WWoHP, Ascendio and Universal Orlando are magical, and we’d love to see you there! Ticket & event info is here, our amazing YA novelist reading/signing schedule is here, and our special StarKid Totally Awesome reg pack details are here, so check them out.
But before we get everything started in Florida, we have a few things from cons past and present that we’d love to give away, including an Infinitus umbrella signed by Christian Coulson (Tom Riddle in Chamber of Secrets) and a bunch of Team StarKid, including Darren Criss, Lauren Lopez, Brian Holden and Jamie Lynn Beatty - Joe Moses, who’ll be back for two JMOMS shows at Ascendio.
Chris Rankin (Percy Weasley) and Afshan Azad (Padma Patil) have offered to sign it too, if the winner wants - it’s your choice!
We’re also giving away an Ascendio Swag Bag. Actually, it’s four bags - the official con tote in Hogwarts House colors - and we’re adding a con t-shirt, stickers, Craft Faire surprises and more!
How do you win?
You may reblog this post up to two times a day until midnight Eastern US time on June 25; we’ll do the drawing on June 26 or 27, depending on how many we have to count through.
Likes DO NOT COUNT.
The winners will be chosen by a random number generator. They will have 48 hours to confirm with their address. The first number wins the umbrella, the second number wins the Ascendio Swag Bag (to be shipped after July 17).
We will ship anywhere in the world, except to countries barred by the UN embargo from getting shipments from the US. If you’re attending Ascendio, we’ll give you your prize at the event. The same individual cannot win both versions of the giveaway.
You do not have to be following us, but it’s appreciated! If you are following us and win, you’ll get an extra gift from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in addition to your prize!
Any questions, please just ask here on tumblr. We’d prefer if you’d send an ask with your name on it so we can reply privately and not clog up people’s dashes.
Who cannot win?
Anyone who signed the umbrella, and any HPEF Board Members and Ascendio senior staff. But we appreciate your signal boosts! If someone who’s ineligible reblogs this, and wins either package, we will choose the reblogger at the next number.
What if I know people who’d love to win this, but aren’t on Tumblr?
They can get a new tumblr account and start reblogging this!
And we’ll have a Swag Bag giveaway on Twitter soon, too.
