The Programming Hat (Ascendio)

Originally posted by pinkfinity at The Programming Hat

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!

Now, please, presenters and attendees - click the button below...




Also! Please, come see ME!

On Friday I'll be on a panel on How Fandom has Shaped Social Media Spaces with Femme, Aja and Casey Fiesler from 5 - 6:30 in  Venetian IV (and which I think may be followed by an Avengers Slash meetup (speaking of fandom and social media spaces)

And on Saturday, I'm on two panels - one with my son on Introducing Harry Potter to younger readers at 9:30 in Tuscan 1, and one at 3:30 in Tuscan III with Rachael Vaugn called How To Debate Clueless And Uninformed People About Transformative Works, or, El Tango de Roxanne. Here's part of the summary: 

You see them on Twitter and tumblr and wordpress all the time... People who are convinced that they know everything about fanfiction and fanart and wrock and fan films and how they’re each a copyright violation through and through. They’re wrong, but how do you debate them?

I'm ridiculously excited about each of these sessions - and since registrations are still available (and we have this awesome hotel rate (it's about 1/3 cheaper than the Portofino's other rooms are that week)) I hope to see bunches of you there!