Recorded on July 13 starting at about 7:55 AM. Thanks so much to all the Quidditch players and fans who came out just after sunrise the morning after Night of a Thousand Wizards!
You can also click here to see the interviews & some Quidditch!
Most of Team Ascendio are finally traveling home today – but a few, including HPEF president Bekki are staying in Orlando just a little while longer. Thanks so much to ALL of you who participated at Ascendio – the attendees, presenters, special guests, volunteers, Aurors, all the staff at the awesome Loews Portofino Bay Hotel & Loews Royal Pacific Resort (especially Bonnie and Deborah), Jeff from Teamwork, Jake and the team at Swank Audio Visuals, the awesome Alex and Family Art who created our Patronuses (Patroni?), DJ Alex, Universal Orlando Resort & the team at the WWoHP, the HP Alliance, the International Quidditch Association,MuggleNet.com and everyone who followed our FB posts, tweets and blog posts. OH! And Fox 35 WOFL - we’ll link to Friday’s tv appearances from hp2012.org soon.
Remember – you can purchase recordings of many of our programming sessions, as well as Wands By Wands By Wizards, at our Learning Center; we’ll have video from many of the sessions on YouTube soon.
We’ll have thousands of photos, more con reports, recordings, previews of interviews by @Hansi Oppenheimer and so much more over the next few days, too! If you’d like us to link to your con report on a blog, tumblr, lj, Facebook or elsewhere, please post a link in the comments!
We miss all of you so much already! And does anyone have an image or vid clip we can use for a pic or gif of “WE LOVE EVERYONE AT THIS CON!”? Send it to pr@hp2012.org if you do!
Afshan Azad & Chris Rankin at the WWoHP (courtesy of Jill Staniec)
We’re just kicking off Day 2 at Ascendio and it’s been an absolute blast so far. We’ve had some amazing presentations, totally awesome times with Team StarKid, loving Chris Rankin & Afshan Azad and their support of the fandom.
Today we’ve got even more presentations including: Chris Rankin’s thesis on the Fandom – “After the Saga,” MarkReads, and Lev Grossman talking about his unpublished interview with J.K.Rowling; our Keynote Luncheon; the Ascendio Film Wizardry Film Festival; the To the Manor Ball; WandsXWandsXWizards; a fashion show; and so much more!
Click here to see the schedule
Don’t forget to stop by the Vendor rooms today. It’s open at 9 a.m. until 7 p.m.
Saturday Newsletter_
Orlando’s Fox 35 will be joining us on Friday morning at a little before 8 AM! Yes, that’s early, especially after Night of a Thousand Wizards 2, but if you’re interested in coming down to the Quidditch Pitch in your costume , we’d love to have you join us! Registrants, friends and family are all invited – and we’re planning a little Quidditch scrimmage to start the morning off right!
If you have a Twitter account and either unlimited sms/text messaging, or a high volume account, we strongly recommend that you get the @HPEF Twitter posts sent to your phone throughout Ascendio. We’ll be posting updates, news, room changes, new meetups, reminders and so much more from our @HPEF account, so it’s the best way for you to stay connected at the Portofino Bay Resort (or in the Parks).
Ascendio is only a few days away – and some of the staff is already on-site, getting ready for Registration, the Common Room, Wrock, StarKid, Night of a Thousand Wizards, our plays and musicals, and of course, our programming sessions!
And we’re sure you’re all getting into a magical mood, too!
A few details have been finalized in the last few days:
Family Art will also be on-site on Saturday before (and possibly during) the To the Manor Ball, where they’ll photograph you in your finery – and if you’re interested in “casting” your Patronus, they’ll capture it on film for you, too!
With an assortment of printing options ranging from tiles to canvas there is something for every witch and wizard.
You can head over to the Family Art Studio in the Portofino Bay Harbor any time, whether you’re staying at the hotel or not. With an variety of printing options, they can bring your magical wishes to life.
They can also do underwater photography – and capture the way you look while riding a broom!
What? You haven’t seen the Harry Potter film spoof “Harvey Putter and the Ridiculous Premise” yet? The film, which had its world premiere at Infinitus 2010, will be shown again at Ascendio on Friday, July 13th at 8 p.m. in Venetian IV.
It stars Bryce Cone, Sunny Williams and Joe Scheibelhut. For fans by fans, the film also features Kiran Shah (“Lord of the Rings”, “Chronicles of Narnia), MuggleNet webmaster Emerson Spartz, and music by Wizard Rock bands such as The Remus Lupins, Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls, and Draco and the Malfoys.
The story revolves around celebrity bad boy wizard Harvey Putter, who discovers through his Snogwarts headmaster, Professor Mumblemore, that they are all merely fictitious characters in a best-selling children’s book series. Harvey and his best friends–“poor witch trash” kid Rod Cheesely and bossy Hernia Grunger–are tasked with collecting seven magical books known as “Hortexts” in order to escape the book world before the final chapter.
HPRP star Sunny Williams will be on hand to introduce the film and answer any questions. Read More…
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