Update on POA IMAX NYC
A quick update on the June 5 showing of POA at the LOEWS IMAX in the Lincoln Center area of NYC, which TLC is pleased to be organizing - we've already sold over 210 tickets (and about 150 bags of popcorn) - but since the theater holds 600, we're not terribly worried about running out of seats. We still don't haveContinued...
Witching Hour Announces Special Guests
Harry Potter fan event The Witching Hour announced two special guests, Nancy Farmer and Rose Earhart, set to attend and present at the show, being held 6-10 October 2005 in Salem, Massachusetts.
Farmer is an award-winning author, former chemistry teacher and insect pathology technician who grew up in a quirkyContinued...
Alivans Supplying SNL Potter skit
Wandmakers Alivans are reporting to several HP sites that Saturday Night Live ordered a batch of wands for use on this Saturday's show. Apparently a Harry Potter skit is in order! The guest is actress Lindsay Lohan, and the musical guest is hip-hop artist Usher.
Convention Alley Posts Programming Schedule
ConventionAlley, the conference that will take place on July 30 to August 1 in Ottawa, Canada, has posted its programming schedule.
Accio: A conference for UK fans
Accio, the first Harry Potter-themed conference in the UK, has opened registration for their conference, which will be July 29 through July 31 of 2005, and will take place at the University of Reading. Extensive information, including registration, available at the site.
Fandom Plans POA Get-Togethers
It seems that our post yesterday about seeing POA with other HP fans at an IMAX theater on Saturday, June 5 is inspirational - the comments section for that post is speckled with plans for get-togethers in Atlanta, Northern California and Washington State, among other places.
The Witching Hour is organizing line partiesContinued...
Join Us at the NYC IMAX for PoA on June 5!
As the release date for Prisoner of Azkaban approaches, Harry Potter fans all over the world are making plans to get together to see the film.
And since there's a huge number of Harry Potter fans in and around the New York area (including TLC's Melissa Anelli and, for that weekend at least, HeidiContinued...
Sneak Preview in Australia on June 6?
Maureen in Australia reports that Roadshow Pictures in Australia (the Down Under distributors of the series) are planning a special premiere event for PoA in Sydney, Australia on Sunday June 6th – that's four days before the movie opens in cinemas around that country. We'll keep you posted if weContinued...
April Fools Fever Sweeps Fandom
Attention: April Fools Fever is sweeping the Harry Potter fandom. Websites currently caught up in the fun are HPANA (which seems to have had a corporate merger with CNN to make it PNN), The Sugar Quill (where the Weasley twins have set up their dragon-skin, gangsta-style joke shop), Chris Rankin.com (Smock HeadsContinued...
Waylett, Phelpses and Wright Present FiFi Award
HP cast members Jamie Waylett (Crabbe), James and Oliver Phelps (the Weasley twins) and Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) were presenters at the 2004 UK FiFi Awards on March 29 at the Dorchester Hotel in London. The Fragrance Foundation's annual awards honor outstanding fragrances and this year wasContinued...
Interview With James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Matthew Lewis, and Devon Murray
TLC reader Crystal recently attended Celebrity Autograph Expo, where she had the opportunity to interview James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Devon Murray, and Matthew Lewis - read to find out what they enjoy about filming, their scariest 'fan' moments, real life (JamesContinued...
The Witching Hour Announces Guests
The Witching Hour, the HPEF-sponsored sequel to Nimbus - 2003 announced some of its keynote speakers, including Holly Black, author of the best-selling Spiderwick Chronicles series, and Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program, Prof. Henry Jenkins. Black will give a speech entitled Moral Twilight:Continued...
Lecture on Harry Potter & Medicine in Australia
Glenn Bowes, the Head of Pediatrics at Melbourne University in Australia, is presenting a lecture for nursing and medical students entitled Harry Potter: Implications for Child and Adolescent Health on Tuesday, March 23 from six to seven p.m. We don't know if it's open to the non-medical publicContinued...
Convention Alley Announces Guest Speakers
The guest speakers for this year's Convention Alley have been announced: Steve Vander Ark and Dr. Judith Robertson.
Dr. Robertson is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is author of the book "Teaching About Genocide and Intolerance," and was recently awardedContinued...
Convention Alley Registration
The Harry Potter convention Convention Alley - "panels, presentations and discussion of the J. K. Rowling series that has given us so much food for thought in the past few years" - is open for registration. To read the convention FAQ, please visit their registration page.