Masquerade Details!

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23
8:30PM - 11:30PM
Doors open at 8:00PM
Moscone Center South
Esplanade Ballroom

OPTIONAL ORIENTATION FOR CONTESTANTS
Saturday, February 23
11:00AM - Noon
Moscone Center South
Esplanade Ballroom

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PROGRAMS ON COSTUMING

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Ground floor, east of main lobby

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ADVANCED CONTESTANT
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
(Deadline was Feb 8th)

Space is limited. You may still check onsite for availability during the show at the Masquerade Desk in the lobby of Moscone South up until 6:00PM on Friday, Feb. 22nd, and 2:00PM on Sat, Feb. 23rd.

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RULES AND ENTRY FORM

Click to see the list of 2007 MASQUERADE WINNERS

The Fourth Annual WonderCon Masquerade

Costumes play a vital role in many of the popular arts, bringing character, setting and mood to everything from comics and movies to fantasy art and collectable toys. WonderCon is pleased to present its fourth annual costume competition, full of amazing costume creations showcased upon a stage, complete with multi-color lighting, enhanced sound, a large video screen, and plenty of audience seating. As usual, the event will feature costumes re-created from movies, comic books, fantasy, anime, and other sources, plus some completely original designs from the clever imaginations of our attendees. If you've created a costume, why not be a part of the fun and share your work on the stage, and perhaps take home a trophy or other prize?

Showtime will be 8:30 PM Saturday in the Esplanade Ballroom, the same venue as last year. The event is completely free to participate in, or to be in the audience, for anyone with a WonderCon badge, while seats and contestant slots are available. Doors will open for audience seating at 8:00 PM, and the running time will be approximately two hours. Costumes entered in the show must not have been purchased or otherwise commercially obtained, but must be of original construction or show significant modification of pre-existing materials. All genres are welcome, as are all levels of experience, from the novice to the seasoned convention costumer. The Masquerade is especially fortunate this year in that it will have this large room all to itself for Saturday rehearsing for those who want to try out the stage ahead of time.

No flash photography will be allowed in the Esplanade Ballroom, but cameras and video cameras are permitted for non-profit personal use only. There will be a Photo Op area outside of the room where contestants will pose after their presentations, and flash photography will be permitted there. Spaces in the Photo area are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Complete information and contestant rules are available at the Masquerade Desk in the main lobby of Moscone Center South. A limited number of contestant slots are available, so interested costumers should obtain the rules and sign up as soon as possible on Friday until 6:00 or until 2:00 on Saturday. No new entries will be accepted after that time. There will be an optional “Orientation for Contestants” from 11:00 AM until Noon on Saturday in the Esplanade Ballroom.

Our Master of Ceremonies will once again be the very entertaining two-time Hugo Award-winning artist and writer Phil Foglio. For many years, Phil and his wife Kaja have created, published, and contributed to a variety of comics, art, games, and other projects in the science fiction and fantasy genres through their company Studio Foglio.

If you are new to masquerades, be aware this is not a dance or party as the name might imply, but a talent show-like exhibition on an elevated stage. Some entries will be ensembles, others solo, and most will have recorded music to add elements of drama or humor. After an intermission for the guest judges to select the best entries, winners will return to the stage to receive awards. Special WonderCon trophies will be presented in a variety of categories, and representatives from some companies will be on hand to award their own prizes.

Among the companies presenting awards:

Century Guild will present a $100 cash prize or up to $250 credit in their booth at the convention for what they consider the best costume portraying the elements of Fantasy or Art Nouveau.

DC Comics will bestow a very special DC Direct collectable item to the best re-creation of a DC Comics character or characters.

Geek Monthly, the leading consumer magazine devoted to pop culture, will present to the best re-creation of a science fiction TV or movie character a free one-year, 12 issue subscription. Every issue of Geek Monthly features coverage of the latest in technology, music, film, television and the web. www.geekmonthly.com

Lucasfilm will present their very special Star Wars prize selected especially for this Masquerade from the LucasFilm Licensing Archives, bestowed to what they select as the best costume entry from the Star Wars universe.

Studio Foglio will present an award for the best webcomic-based character, with a cash prize of $250 and a bag of goodies. This is for any webcomic, not just one published by Studio Foglio.

Whether your costume is a re-creation, an original design, or from the worlds of science fiction, fantasy, anime, comic books, movies, or a world that defies classification, the WonderCon Masquerade stage is set for you!