Ascendio 2012: A Harry Potter Fandom Event

The second Ascendio Newsletter was posted today, and it includes updates about making hotel reservations online and how to volunteer, organize a meet-up, propose a programming session. We also announced Mark of MarkReads.net as our first special guest. Click the banner to read the newsletter, and we’re looking forward to seeing you next summer!

NEWS LETTER CONTENTS:

• Registration Update
• Calling All Artists!: Ascendio T-shirt Contest
• Find Us on Facebook!
• MarkReads at Ascendio
• Call for Formal Programming Proposals
• Birds of a Feather — Call for Fan Meet-Ups!
• Volunteer for Team Ascendio!
• Staff Spotlight — Meet the Minister of Magic, Flourish
• Local Spotlight — Loews Portofino Bay Hotel
• Other Lodging & Perks
• Ascendio across the Web

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)

Nothing like a Butterbeer for lunch! (photo by Heidi Tandy, who is lucky enough to live super close to WWoHP!)

Tickets for our exclusive, after-hours park event are now on sale! Click now to buy your ticket for Night of a Thousand Wizards 2: Ascendio Boogaloo!

If you already have a Full registration you can get a ticket for NoaTW 2 this month for $124! Also,  the next 150 people to register at the Full registration level can buy a  NoaTW 2 ticket in December for $124! As of January 2, 2012, the price  is $140 for all Full registrants.

Daypass-holders can also get their tickets now, for $140; there will be no change in the price for those with daypasses.

NoaTW  2 tickets may become available to non-registrants in February for $155  for those who wish to accompany friends and family members to NoaTW 2 without registering for Ascendio. We cannot guarantee ticket  availability at that point, though.

*costume policy applies

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It’s not a word cloud! It’s a word hat, made up of the most popular words in the Ascendio formal programming session summaries. We’re asking all the presenters to please click the button below to repost this - and include your session summaries (and times, and rooms) so everyone knows where to find you at Ascendio next month because O_O formal programming starts a month from today!

You can find the Programming Session grids here:
  Thursday Quill Track |  Friday  |  Saturday  &  Sunday

There are so many different wonderful presentations planned for this year’s event that it’s going to be tough to figure out which sessions to attend, so we’ve created an Ascendio scheduling app using Guidebook; download yours here - it’s free!

And don’t forget about all our after-hours Meetups (Avengers! Sherlock! Hogwarts Houses! Cosplayers! Educators! Doll collectors! And many more!) and events like Night of a Thousand Wizards 2, where we return to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and get to hang out until 1 AM after all the Muggles have gone home (and no stadium presentations by Universal this time - instead, we go right into the park).

If you haven’t registered yet, there’s still time; online registration is open through June 25 and Day Passes will be available on-site.

See you next month at HPEF’s eighth - and final - Harry Potter fan extravaganza!

We’ll be onsite at Universal tomorrow for our walkthrough and final site visit - if you bump into someone in the Park on Thursday in a purple Ascendio t-shirt, say hiand ask her if she has a pin for you!