Schedule for Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday
Program and Participants: A Word from the Programming Chair
The driving philosophy behind my efforts at programming has been the costumer as Artist and as part of an artistic community. To this end Costume-Con 23 is offering the retrospectives, integrating the showing of the ICG Archives into programming, and presenting introductions to other organizations, venues, and experiences that involve a greater view of costuming. We have also pulled together a large and wonderful group of volunteers to share their ideas and experience.
My joy has been being able to organize these several days with panels, demos and talks that I wish to attend. My disappointment is that I will not be able to go to every event myself. I hope we have put together a program of sessions that will intrigue and inspire us all. Enjoy!
Dana MacDermott
Programming, CC23
Friday Programs:
- ICG Annual Meeting
- Archives Video Show (In the last year, much of the International Costumers’ Guild’s Archives of Masquerades have been transferred from degrading tapes onto DVD’s. The various times the Archives “show” is scheduled will be showings of Masquerades from earlier years. No panel, no discussions. Feel free to drop in whenever you have a spare moment and look back on earlier Costume-Cons.): Carl Mami (3 hours)
- Goth & Fetish Costume (Curious? Come find out what, where, who, why, how and whatever.): Trystan L. Bass, Dany Slone, Andrew Trembley
- Patterning with Computer: What is Out There? (What are the computer programs that can produce a personal pattern? What can they do?): Pierre E. Pettinger, Jr., Sandy Pettinger (Canceled)
- Selecting Music (What kind of music works for the sound for a Masquerade entry? How do you choose sound that enhances the presentation of your costume?): Henry Osier, Trudy M. Leonard, Elainna Carter
- Designing for the Folio (What works, and how to go about designing for the Future Fashion Folio.): Karen Schnaubelt, Alison Kondo, Pierre E. Pettinger, Jr.
- Working with Foam (Techniques for working with polyurethane (soft) foam.): Daren Bost, Kent Elofson‡
- Retrospectives (There are five Retrospectives being offered. Each session is a glimpse into the way the featured Costumer works. Not only a history of their work, in their sessions they will discuss their development, influences, and how they function. These events are a way of recognizing Costumers as the Artists they are. The sessions will likely be as diverse as their styles.): Jwlhyfer de Winter‡
- Equipping Your Sewing Room: Machines, Hints and More (What do you want to put in that all important space? What do you need and how can you set up to make your time there fruitful and enjoyable.): Liz Gerds, Andrea Schewe
- Quilting in Costuming (You quilt? How can you use the techniques in costuming? You don’t quilt? How can you do something like it for your costumes?): JoAnn Abbott, Karen Heim, Lisa Ashton, Jacqueline M. Ward
- Entering Your First Masquerade – How to Do It and What to Expect (What to anticipate back stage and on stage. Preparation and basic tips to speed you up the learning curve as painlessly as possible.): Betsy R. Marks, Carole Parker, Byron Connell, Jennifer Wylie, Dany Slone
- Making a Paper Tape Dummy (A Demonstration of how to make a personal dummy of your own body. You have heard of the duct tape dummy. The do-it-yourself paper tape dummy has advantages over the duct tape dummy of being pinnable and holding its three dimensional shape.): Marty Gear‡
- Documentation – How to Research and Present (Do you want to build a historical costume, enter a historical Masquerade, or do a recreation costume and you are not quite sure how to do the research or create the documentation? Come to this panel and discover it isn’t so mysterious or difficult.): Byron Connell, Karen Heim, Trudy M. Leonard, Deb Salisbury
- Applying a Style: Unifying a Group of Costumes (How do you make that group of costumes look like they belong together?): Gail Wolfenden-Steib, Karen Schnaubelt, Deborah K. Jones
- Archives Video Show (See above for description)
- Tri-Destiny in Concert
- Stargate: Utah (Friday Night Social)
Saturday Programs:
- Costuming from Home Depot (Not all costumes are made from fabric. Places like Home Depot can be a source for creative solutions to costuming problems and for materials to build interesting and different costumes and accessories.): Anne Davenport, Michael Bruno, Tanya Cline, Kent Elofson‡, Cathy Veater
- Wings (Everyone wants to do wings. There is almost no end to the variations and techniques that can be used. Find out how they have been done, and how they might be done.): Kevin Roche, Bruce MacDermott, Jodie Smalley, Jacqueline M. Ward, Rhiannon Jones
- Photography and Costumes: Taking and Posing (What are the special problems and techniques in Costume Photography? How can you get that costume documented, and looking its best?): Richard Man, Karisu, Jeanine Swick
- Working with Fabrics from Hell (Find out how to handle those nasty machine-eating, slithering, fraying or otherwise intransigent fabrics.): Trudy M. Leonard, Sandy Pettinger
- Doll Costuming (The ins and outs of costuming dolls – probably some on building dolls to put the costumes on, as well.): Ann Catelli, Kent Elofson‡, Trudy M. Leonard, Andrea Schewe
- Bustle Draping (Approaches to creating the elegant draped fabric known as the bustle.): Michael Bruno, Deb Salisbury
- Retrospective (See above for description): Ricky Dick, Karen Schnaubelt
- Tell us about the Costume Journal: how can we help? (There is a new undertaking to produce Heart of Costuming, a multi-volume, ongoing series of journals on contemporary works in Costuming and Cosplay. This journal will feature top-quality costuming and cosplay photography from a variety of noted photographers in the field, along with interviews and articles related to conventions, costume-making, presentation, etc. Find out more from its creators.): Richard Man, Karisu
- Silicon Valley CC26 Bid
- Archives Video Show (See above for description)
- Tell us about Castle Blood (Castle Blood is the Ricky and Karen Schnaubelt haunted house that has taken the scary tradition to a full Theatrical Environment in the weeks preceding Halloween. Find out what it is like to see and to participate.): Marty Gear, Carl Mami, Elaine Mami, Caitlin Dick
- Transformation Costumes (Start with one costume and have it metamorphose on stage. How do they do that? How can you do that?): Kevin Roche, Gail Wolfenden-Steib, Julie Zetterberg
- Movement in Costuming (How you move in costume is in part determined by the costume, and is in part a choice. You may walk and sit and stand and dance determined by historical style, or choose to use your movement as an indicator of character.): Pippin Sardo, Daren Bost, Fiona K. Leonard Brown, Tanya Cline
- Tell us about the SCA (Everything you ever wanted to know about the Society for Creative Anachronism.): JoAnn Abbott, Jennifer Tifft, Jeff Boylan
- Costuming for and with Children (Children are not just small adults. They have their own desires and limitations. Sometimes you create costumes for them, and sometimes you want to use a child in a presentation costume. This panel should discuss techniques and pitfalls, ideas and experiences from the viewpoints both of those who have created and those who have been created for.): Wren Sauerland, Caitlin Dick, Karisu, Betsy R. Marks
- Chain Mail and Other Armor (About armor and how to create it for your costumes.): Jeff Boylan, Tanya Cline, Jodie Smalley
- Retrospective (See above for description): Deborah K. Jones
- Introduction to Beads (This will show you the basics of beads, how they are made, and a beginning of how to work with them: an informative session, with lots of show and tell.): Lisa Ashton
- Handling hoops: Functioning in Historical or Fantasy Costumes (Janet Wilson Anderson teaches how to work and show off in hoop skirts.): Janet Wilson Anderson
- Planning Costume/Themed Events (From a period dance to an Alien banquet to a reenactment, how do you put together a successful costumed event?): Jwlhyfer de Winter‡, Fiona K. Leonard Brown, Trystan L. Bass
- Intro to Patterning (An introduction to the technique of patterning to create your costume/clothing. Patterning uses a more mathematical and conceptual approach to developing the structure of a pattern.): Andrea Schewe
- Choosing Fabric for Historical Costumes (Darla Kruger discusses making appropriate fabric choices for your Historical costume.): Darla Kruger
- Tell us about Costume College (Costume College is Costumer’s Guild West’s annual educational forum which features extensive classes on Costume History, and Costume Methodology. Find out about it from a panel deeply involved in organization and participation.): Darla Kruger, Sarah Holt, Liz Gerds
- Tell us about the Science Fiction Museum (In June of 2004, the Science Fiction Museum (SFM) opened in Seattle with a series of special events. The Museum is very aware of the Costuming community, and there was a strong costumed presence. The Museum itself has numerous media costumes, props and costume related displays in the collection. Find out about the Museum and what it offers.): David-Glenn Anderson, Dana MacDermott‡, Julie Zetterberg
- Simplicity’s Patterns for Period Costumes (Andrea Schewe, the representative from Simplicity, will discuss the line of period costume patterns and what you can do to enhance their construction and accuracy. Expect inside information and the kind of discussion that can only be done by someone who knows the behind the scenes reality.): Andrea Schewe
- Identifying and Working with Materials (fibers) (What is that fabric? How to tell and why it matters.): Frances Burns
- Archives Video Show (See above for description)
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Masquerade
Sunday Programs:
- Twisted Historicals (Take a historical and tweak it. A solid background in historical dress is elevated to the sublime or ridiculous with a large dollop of creativity and/or perversity. Some of the twisted Historicals are among the most memorable costumes to have appeared on a Masquerade stage.): Dorothy Truslow, Elaine Mami, Karen Heim, Gail Wolfenden-Steib, Trudy M. Leonard, Trystan L. Bass
- Making Your Living in a Costume-related Field (Is there a way to make your hobby your profession? A panel of those who have managed and those who have tried will talk about the ideas, the efforts, the successes and the pitfalls.): Ricky Dick, Gail Wolfenden-Steib, Fiona K. Leonard Brown, Deb Salisbury
- Intro to Draping and Fitting (An introduction to the technique of draping to create and fit your costume/clothing. How do you determine what to do to your fabric to end up with that design and a good fit? Draping is the hands on tactile method of developing your pattern. Fitting gives you the finished look you are trying to achieve on a specific body.): Frances Burns
- Future Fashion Show & Single Pattern Competition
- Presentation with Impact (Once you get beyond the basic Masquerade walk on, how do you create a Masquerade entry that not only shows off the costume(s), but makes an impression on the audience and the Judges?): Ricky Dick, Fiona K. Leonard Brown, Dana MacDermott‡, Julie Zetterberg
- Advanced Thrift Store Costuming (How to excel at finding bargain sources for your costume needs. Experts at this fine skill will share their methods and discoveries.): Tanya Cline, Jwlhyfer de Winter‡
- Cross-Dressing (Problems and pleasures, reasons and tales: dressing men as women and women as men.): Karisu, Dany Slone, Kevin Roche, Henry Osier
- LOTR (You saw the film (30 times?), now make and wear the costumes. Lord of the Ring Costumes. About the Originals, about the ones people are making and wearing.): Kent Elofson‡, Deborah K. Jones, Jennifer Wylie, Rhiannon Jones, Trystan L. Bass
- Costume Horror Stories (Costumers share their stories about creating costumes, what can go wrong (likely in graphic detail), and how sometimes it can be made right, after all. This is guaranteed to be an entertaining, informative and perhaps cautionary session.): Ricky Dick, Marty Gear‡, Daren Bost, Jennifer Tifft
- Retrospective (See above for description): Janet Wilson Anderson
- Tell us about Anime/Manga Costuming/Cosplay (This area of Costuming is active and full of enthusiastic dynamic young practitioners. We are just beginning to break down the barriers that have kept the communities isolated from each other. What are they doing, how are they doing it, and how can we get to play with them?): Karisu, Lina Johnson, JoAnn Abbott
- Accessorizing your SF costume (What and how can you add to a Science Fiction Costume to make it ‘complete’?): Trystan L. Bass, Kevin Roche, Julie Zetterberg
- Retrospective (See above for description): Jacqueline M. Ward
- Meet the Up and Coming Costumers (Best Novice winners from various conventions, and other new faces you can expect to see a lot more of in the future. Who are they, what have they done and what are they doing next?): Lina Johnson, Jodie Smalley, Caitlin Dick, Dany Slone
- Media Costuming (Costuming based on Film and Television.): Michael Bruno, Anne Davenport, Jennifer Wylie
- Costuming from Illustration or Animation (How to transform a 2D illustration or Animation into a 3D wearable costume.): Rebecca Sauerland, Sandy Pettinger, Jennifer Tifft
- Archives Video Show (See above for description)
- Historical Masquerade
Monday Programs:
- Embellishments: 3-D paints, Dye Paints, Applique, Beading, etc. (How do you add surface decoration to costumes: choices, methods, techniques, trade offs, etc.): Jacqueline M. Ward, Elaine Mami, Carole Parker, Lisa Ashton
- Working with Wigs (How do you make wigs do what you want, from historical styles to Anime wild.): Darla Kruger, Christine Rost
- Tell us about Burning Man (Every year in the Black rock Desert in Nevada, a group now exceeding 35,000 spends a week in a hostile and striking environment immersed in Art installations. Costumes and Costuming play a significant role in the event. Find out more about the Culture, the Art and the Burning Man costumes.): Bruce MacDermott, Dana MacDermott‡, Jodie Smalley
- Design: Scale and Focus (Understanding scale and focus helps create costumes that have the effect and impact you want on stage, or up close. Make choices that will strengthen the design of your costume/costumes.): Jwlhyfer de Winter‡, Gail Wolfenden-Steib
- Aesthete/reform – Nouveau (Alison Kondo tells us about Aesthete clothing and the reform dress Movement. Her emphasis is on the European.): Alison Kondo
- Judging Workshop, Part 1 (A two part workshop covering how Judging is done for the Masquerades: the mechanics, the philosophies, ethics, what to look for, how to do it. An excellent opportunity if you want to understand Judging as a contestant, to take steps towards becoming a Judge, or to improve your Judging skills.): Andrew Trembley, Pierre E. Pettinger, Jr., Janet Wilson Anderson
- Archives Video Show (See above for description)
- Closing Ceremonies
- Masks: Material Choices and Basic How-to’s (What to use, what to consider and how to do it.): Michael Bruno, Jeff Boylan, Vandy Vandervort
- Judging Workshop, Part 2 (A two part workshop covering how Judging is done for the Masquerades: the mechanics, the philosophies, ethics, what to look for, how to do it. An excellent opportunity if you want to understand Judging as a contestant, to take steps towards becoming a Judge, or to improve your Judging skills.): Andrew Trembley, Pierre E. Pettinger, Jr., Janet Wilson Anderson
