From heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid Wed Jun 10 00:52:36 2009 From: heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid (Heidi Tandy) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:52:36 -0400 Subject: Hotel room block only open for a few more days! Message-ID: <5913e6f80906091752o3abf893cy9a11659b97128014@...> As of June 16, the PARC55 can raise the hotel rates, or start charging for 3rd and 4th people in a room on newly made reservations because our room block will be closed. If you want to get a room for 165+tax for up to four people in a room, make your reservation this week! Heidi for Team Azkatraz On Jun 9, 2009 8:46 PM, "Keith" wrote: OK, so I know it's last minute... but I can't get the presenter discount code to work in the online registration. It says "The discount code you have entered is not valid." and stays at $165. Has it changed perhaps? Or expired?... ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] From heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid Sun Jun 28 16:00:50 2009 From: heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid (Heidi Tandy) Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:50 -0400 Subject: Quidditch & the Masters of Potter Administration at Azkatraz Message-ID: <5913e6f80906280900pf63c7adta3b79468ba875f77@...> The feasts are sellouts. HBP is a sellout. The Art Dungeons are pretty much full. The tables at the Craft Faire will be fully stocked. We have tickets still remaining for Wrock Around the Rock, which benefits the HP Alliance and Amnesty Intl., - http://www.tinyurl.com/WrockAz - but it's selling pretty well. We've filled - and overfilled - the schedule with amazing programming sessions, Wrock bands, fanfic readings, author signings and more. But there are two aspects of Azkatraz that are surprisingly under-booked: Quidditch and the Masters of Potter Administration. Our Quidditch tournament takes place from about 10 AM until around 3 PM at Golden Gate Park (with a lunch break from noon til about 1:30, and there's still space on seven of the Fog Bowl Tournament teams - but only people who sign up before 11:59 PM on Monday, June 29 will be able to get personalized t-shirts. So head over to the website at https://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Register/IdentityConfirmation.aspx?e=f819871c-99ce-45a7-9c71-28234ff6a033 and modify your registration to join the Alcatraz Birdmen, Chinatown Dragons, Embarcadero Earthquakes, Folsom Falcons, Lombard Street Zig-Zags, Presidio Pelicans or Sea Cliff Serpents. You can check out each team's logo here [http://www.hp2009.org/?q=node/99#logos] or learn more about the Fog Bowl here [http://www.hp2009.org/?q=node/99]. Then, on Monday, the Masters of Potter Administration programming track [http://www.hp2009.org/?q=node/13] will be taking place over at ZEUM a few blocks from the Parc55 Hotel. The MPA track includes breakfast, a lunchtime Q&A with the MPA speaker of your choice, a cocktail reception, and six hours of specialty programming focused on business and legal issues related to the Harry Potter industry and fandom. The MPA - including the meals - will cost $130 without a registration, $100 with a regular registration, and $75 for Merlin Circle sponsors. Among the presenters will be Time Magazine's book critic Lev Grossman, Robin Burgener, creator of the 20Q and the 20Q Snitch, Fred von Lohmann and Corynne McSherry of the Electronic Freedom Foundation (eff.org), Elizabeth Bland, Exhibition Coordinator at the National Library of Medicine, Denise Paolucci & Mark Smith, founders of Dreamwidth, and Dr. Henry Jenkins, who starts with U.S.C.'s Annenberg School in the fall. Check out the MPA schedule here [http://www.hp2009.org/?q=node/13#schedule] And don't forget that you only have a few days left to register online, or modify your registration to include tickets to Wrock Around the Rock, Rupert Grint's new film Cherrybomb, Dessert with Chris Rankin, or an Azkatraz t-shirt at pre-event prices. We'll see you next month in San Francisco! Gwen & Heidi on behalf of Team Azkatraz http://www.hp2009.org http://www.hpef.net