HPEF Issues Open Call for 2006 Bids

[Gwen]

For immediate release

December 9, 2003

HP Education Fanon, Inc., the organization behind
Nimbus - 2003 and its sequel, The Witching Hour,
issues an open call for bids to host a 2006 event.

HP Education Fanon, HPEF for short, is an educational
organization whose primary mission is to provide
educational symposia on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter
novels for fans, as well as scholars of the novels.
HPEF's first event, Nimbus  2003, took place in
Orlando, Florida July 17 - 20, 2003; six hundred
attendees enjoyed presentations by more than eighty
speakers, including Judith Krug, director of the
Office for Intellectual Freedom at the American
Library Association. Its second event, The Witching
Hour, will be held October 6-11, 2005, in Salem,
Massachusetts.

For their third event, HPEF strongly desires a
location west of the Rockies. Because of Internal
Revenue Service considerations (since HPEF is a
501(c)3 non-profit entity), HPEF prefers locations
within the United States for 2006 as well. Potential
bid teams should contact the Board of Directors at
HPEF @ yahoogroups.com (no spaces) with: the name(s)
of the Committees Executive Chair(s), contact
information for that person(s), and the proposed
location of the event (if known) as soon as they have
determined they wish to bid. Please use the subject
line, Interest in 2006 Bid in your email.

It should be noted that a team is already working on a
bid for Las Vegas for 2006. This team is considered a
strong candidate for the event, but by no means are
other teams barred from putting together an entry.
Anyone interested in contacting the Las Vegas team to
help or volunteer may contact their Executive Chair,
Deb McLain, at debmclain @ yahoo.com, no spaces. 

The deadline for submissions of bids for the 2006
event will be February 15, 2004.