Schedule for Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday
Friday Program Schedule:
- G Street Fabrics Field Trip (4 hours)
- BATIKING PANEL: Deborah “Deb” Jones discusses the techniques of Batiking (wax resist dyeing) and shows samples of this skill. (2 hours)
- COSTUME SLIDE SHOW: Drew Sanders and Kathy Sanders present a history of costume in slides. (2 hours)
- PUPPETS AND FOAM RUBBER: Animal X demonstrates techniques for working with foam rubber, and shows how they can be applied to puppets as well as costumes. (2 hours)
- WELCOME NOVICES: If Costume Con is all new to you, then you’ll want to attend this panel in which D. Jeannette Holloman‡, CC-9 Co-Chair, Bobby Gear‡, CC-9 Programs Director, and other experienced Costume-Con goers give you an idea of what to expect during the next three days.
Saturday Program Schedule:
- LIFE MASK WORKSHOP: Robert Beech conducts a workshop in making plaster life masks. The workshop will be limited to 15 participants who will make life masks of themselves and finally be able to see themselves as others see them. (4 hours, $5.00 fee)
- TALK WITH THE TECHIES: Sue Kulinyi‡, the CC-9 lighting director, and other members of the Permanent Floating Worldcon Technical Crew would like to discuss how they can assist in making your costumes and presentations look even better, and what you can do to help them help you.
- HIGH TECH ELECTRONICS: Gary Anderson‡ and Breighton “Rusty” Dawe lead a discussion on the latest in High Tech Electronics and how it can be applied (safely) to costuming and presentations. Handouts may be expected.
- BEADING WORKSHOP: Alys Hay, Dianne Dawe and Eleanor Farrell lead a hands-on workshop on beading techniques. Please bring as many of the following items if you have them with you: Embroidery Hoop, Beading Thread, Scissors, Scrap Cotton to bead on, Ruler, Pencil, and Beads, either bugle or seed. A handout will be provided and workshop materials may be purchased at a nominal cost. (2 hours)
- CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING – SEWING; MAKING A POUCH: Children will select a pattern, cut, and hand sew a pouch using materials provided. Pouches may then be decorated using trim and glitz.
- BASIC STAGE MAKE-UP: Kevin Roche and Richard Hill discuss and demonstrate the basic techniques of stage make-up and answer your questions as to “Why does it have to be so heavy?”
- HISTORIC DANCE INSTRUCTION: CC-9 Master of the Dance, Ken Reed will provide instruction for those wishing to brush up or learn the steps of the pattern dances that will be featured during the historic dance this evening. (2 hours)
- SEQUINS & GLITZ, OH MY!: Pat Hammer, Pierre E. Pettinger, Jr., Jacqueline M. Ward, and Janet Wilson Anderson (all of whom have a slight familiarity with glitz) present useful techniques as well as a discussion of those materials that can really make your costume sparkle.
- CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING – FACE PAINTING: Participants will be shown the rudiments of face painting using simple (non-messy) make-up. They can paint their own or each other’s faces.
- WIGS FOR ALL OCCASIONS: Victoria Ridenour and Barb Schofield lead a discussion on the care and feeding of wigs and hairpieces.
- RECREATION COSTUMES: ReCreation Costumes are those designed by others (such as movie, dance, comics, or book covers). Bobby Gear‡, Patti Gill‡, Pam Osborne‡, and Angelique Trouvere share with you their experiences in this demanding art.
- PRACTICAL ELECTRONICS: John Youden with the able assistance of Alys Hay, Julie Neff and Randy Neff teach the participants how to assemble a simple LED flasher circuit. Materials will be provided, and the assembled flashers may be purchased at cost after the panel. (1.5 hours)
- CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING – Lunch: Children can stay in the room and eat lunch. Crayons and coloring books will be provided by the con, but lunch is the responsibility of the parents or guardians.
- CORSETS & HOOPS: “How do they get that shape?” Diane Kovalcin, Victoria Ridenour and Animal X discuss what it takes to achieve the “proper” silhouette (both yours and the garment’s).
- WORKING IN GROUPS: Denice Girardeau and Kelly Turner‡ lead a discussion (and possibly a demonstration using members of the audience) of the best way to get bunches of people on and off stage effectively.
- GLUES FOR ALL REASONS: If your experience with adhesives begins and ends with library paste, then you need to join Gary Anderson‡ and Janet Wilson Anderson’s guided tour of today’s “sticky stuff”. You’ll learn what’s best to use on various materials, and what not to use on yourself.
- CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING – COSTUME & PRESENTATION FOR CHILDREN AND PARENTS: The first part of the panel will be an overview of Historical Children’s Costuming with illustrations. The rest of the panel will be a discussion of the problems involved with getting kids into costumes and then across a masquerade stage safely and sanely.
- HISTORIC INTERPRETATION WORKSHOP: Sue Cooke and Animal X along with Deborah K. Jones (Director of the CC-10 Historic Masquerade) and Pat Kennedy‡ (Director of the CC-11 Historic Masquerade) discuss “whither the historic interpretation costume?” for those of us who are not so crazy as to do a “from the skin out” accurate historic reproduction. (2 hours)
- Fairy Tale Theater Hall Costume Judging [Rules and entries unavailable]
- PRACTICAL HELP WITH POSING & PRESENTATIONS: This is your chance to try out the stage before the masquerades, and to get help and tips with your presentation or with posing in general. Bonnie Bashore, Deborah Feaster‡, Elizabeth Mayberry, G. Robert Moyer‡, Sandy Pettinger, and Brenda Waddel will be your counselors here at Costume Camp, and during the first hour, some of the children may be joining you for a look at the “mysterious world of the stage”, so share your sandbox and play nice. (3 hours)
- COMFORTABLE HISTORICALS: Historical costumes do not need to be uncomfortable, and if they are constructed properly, they won’t be. Kathryn Condon, Rob Himmelsbach, Catherine Keegan and Jennifer Ketcham will help you to make historicals you can live in.
- PATTERN DRAFTING: If you always wondered how to turn flat paper into curved fabric pieces, then you need to join Adrian Butterfield‡, Diane Kovalcin, and Victoria Ridenour for an initiation into the wonders of Pattern Drafting.
- CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING – BACKSTAGE WITH THE TECHS: This is a parent chaperoned guided tour of the “mysteries” of stage workings for the inquisitive (or nervous) youngster.
- FEATHERWORK PANEL: Julie Neff, Pierre E. Pettinger, Jr. and Kathy Sanders will provide tips and techniques for working with feathers (the big showy kind).
- FABRIC PAINTING: Looking for something different to do with your fabrics? Amanda Allen‡, Nea Dodson, Sharon Palmer, Kevin Roche and Carol Salemi will show you how many different types of paints can produce a world of special effects when applied to fabrics.
- CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING – MASK MAKING: This will be a hands-on workshop in which the participants will make a simple mask of folded paper and decorate it with fabric, sequins and trim.
- PHOTOGRAPHY PANEL: Will Burnham, Linda Sweeting, Ken Warren and John Upton (professional photographers all) will spend an hour discussing various techniques that they use to capture your costume to best advantage.
- MAKING ERTÉ COSTUMES: Julia Ann Hyll shares with you her tips on recreating the costumes of Erté.
- FABRIC DYEING WORKSHOP: Animal X conducts a workshop on the intricacies of dyeing your own fabrics. (2 hours)
- CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING – GUIDED TOUR OF THE EXHIBITS AND DEALER ROOM: The children (who have been having ALL the fun), now get a guided tour of the exhibits. Don’t you wish that you had a child at the con so that you could go along?
- PATCHWORK DEMONSTRATION: With more and more costumers getting into quilting, we thought that it would be appropriate to have a panel on patchwork. Kathy Richardson was kind enough to agree to run one for us.
- M/C WORKSHOP: Did you ever think you might want to M/C a masquerade? Now is your chance to try. Steve Carter and Pat Kennedy‡ will host the “Open Mic” time and offer friendly advice on the care and feeding of audience and costumer (egos) alike.
- MILLINERY PANEL: Wendy Ross, who has run the Millinery Department at G Street discusses what it takes to truly top off a costume.
- APPLIQUE & TREPUNTO: Applique is when you stitch something on top of something else. Trepunto is when you stuff it first. That’s all I know about it, but Kathy Richardson will teach you a lot more about both techniques.
- HISTORIC DANCING: Ken Reed, who spent the morning teaching us “how to” now leads us in showing “how well” we learned what he taught.
Sunday Program Schedule:
- DRAPING, START TO FINISH: Sharon Landrum and Faith Baker won’t tell me what they’ve planned except that they intend to start with whole cloth and wear what they create to the fashion show. You’re invited to come along. (2 hours)
- TRANSPORTING COSTUMES: Eleanor Farrell, Deborah K. Jones and Philip Mercier, all of whom know whereof they speak, will share with you their tips on how to get those BIG costumes into those little overhead luggage compartments.
- WHAT THE JUDGES LIKE TO SEE: Having worked both sides of the footlights, Patti Gill‡, George Paczolt, Kathy Sanders and Drew Sanders will tell you what costume judges look for.
- BLACKWORK DEMO: Rob Himmelsbach charted The Starship Enterprise for blackwork and is threatening to do the same with a Klingon ship. He also does more traditional patterns, and if you come to this panel, he’ll teach you how to do this too.
- EMBROIDERY… ALL KINDS: If there is something that Lisa Ashton, Laurel Cunningham-Hill, Pat Hammer, or Valerie Mercier don’t know about embroidery, chances are that someone in the audience will. If you are interested in this kind of stitchery, you’ll be most welcome.
- LEATHERWORK: Tim Bray, Adrian Butterfield‡, Judith Gaines and Lloyd Philips discuss how leatherwork should be done. (Steers need not attend.)
- COSTUME SLIDE SHOW: Carol Salemi claims to be able to show you ten years of costuming in just two hours. (2 hours)
- Adrian Butterfield‡, Carolyn-Kayta Martz‡, George Paczolt and Animal X (oh boy, what a combination) will tell you everything that you need to know about doing from the skin out, drop dead historically accurate costumes.
- FANGS AND TEETH (Fangs for the memories?): Signe Merrifield, a practicing prosthetic dentist, will show you how professionals make fangs and teeth, then Marty Gear‡ will discuss a lower tech approach to the problem.
- HEADPIECES: There are as many different ways of making headpieces as people doing them, but Sally Fink, Pat Hammer and Jacqueline M. Ward have had lots of experience that they would like to share.
- APPLIANCES AND PROSTHETICS: Robert Beech, who led us through the joys of life mask making, now shows us how to use what we’ve built as the basis for appliances. Signe Merrifield discusses actual prosthetics and how they differ from the latex variety.
- CORSETS WITHOUT BONING: ‘Nea Dodson wouldn’t compete these “corsets” for historical accuracy but maintains that you can obtain the look without the discomfort by following her techniques.
- Filking, Dancing & Distraction Pool
Monday Program Schedule:
- WEAPONS ARE TOOLS, USE THEM THAT WAY: Eric “Cobra” Blackburn, T.J. Glenn, and any other weapons masters who wander by discuss how to display and use weapons so you don’t look silly.
- CC-10 AND CC-11 PROMO: These are the people who get to do this whole bit the next two years. come see them tell you how they are going to do it better and try to persuade you to give them your last dollars for a membership.
- ICG Annual Meeting
