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neadodsI've signed up for the Jane Austen thing. There is a strong sense of foreboding - both the workshop and the tour I want the most have been sold out, and I have to leave before the Lizzie Bennett Diaries panel - but I figured that I had a strong sense of foreboding before 221BCon, and how wrong I was then!
And there's no time to lose. Not only are half the tours sold out (not just the Sherlock Holmes one), but there are only 60 memberships left before cutoff - and this a month before early registration ends!
You have to pick some of your panels before you go too, the "breakout sessions." I hope that this doesn't mean you can't quietly panel-hop; I was really conflicted on a couple of those choices.
Extras I've signed up for:
Sherlock Holmes Tour (waitlist)
Bonnet making workshop (waitlist)
Wrist cuff knitting workshop (in place of bonnets; will be dropped if I get a slot)
Regency dance class
Tea & Fashion show
Pre-determined breakout sessions I've signed up for:
Mr. Darcy Improves on Acquaintance - what readers of the time would have immediately understood about Darcy's politics and world view based on his name and home county. (Waffled hard between that and reading the papers of 1813)
Entertaining Mr. Darcy - food, party menus, table settings, with handouts with sample recipes and games.
Will You Dance - seeing how adaptations of P&P interpret "through the lens of their own time and place" illustrated with film clips of the Netherfield Ball. (Waffled between that and another one on food, but that one seemed to focus on kitchens, and at this point I probably know as much about the kitchens and tools as the presenter. So I decided to opt for the "look at the pretty dresses" version.)
The Bingley Sisters - apparently a pair of actresses playing the sisters answer questions about Regency pastimes and entertainments.
Money-wise, I saw some really low web special prices for the flight - even with taxes, the flight should be half of what I put in the thumbnail budget, huzzah! There's a caveat, though: *IF* the prices stay this low long enough for the Little VISA to realize that I gave it a sizeable payment on Saturday. I would love to confine all the Austen expenses to the con kitty and the grins-and-giggles card. That would keep this set of expenses out of the main budget entirely.
And there's no time to lose. Not only are half the tours sold out (not just the Sherlock Holmes one), but there are only 60 memberships left before cutoff - and this a month before early registration ends!
You have to pick some of your panels before you go too, the "breakout sessions." I hope that this doesn't mean you can't quietly panel-hop; I was really conflicted on a couple of those choices.
Extras I've signed up for:
Sherlock Holmes Tour (waitlist)
Bonnet making workshop (waitlist)
Wrist cuff knitting workshop (in place of bonnets; will be dropped if I get a slot)
Regency dance class
Tea & Fashion show
Pre-determined breakout sessions I've signed up for:
Mr. Darcy Improves on Acquaintance - what readers of the time would have immediately understood about Darcy's politics and world view based on his name and home county. (Waffled hard between that and reading the papers of 1813)
Entertaining Mr. Darcy - food, party menus, table settings, with handouts with sample recipes and games.
Will You Dance - seeing how adaptations of P&P interpret "through the lens of their own time and place" illustrated with film clips of the Netherfield Ball. (Waffled between that and another one on food, but that one seemed to focus on kitchens, and at this point I probably know as much about the kitchens and tools as the presenter. So I decided to opt for the "look at the pretty dresses" version.)
The Bingley Sisters - apparently a pair of actresses playing the sisters answer questions about Regency pastimes and entertainments.
Money-wise, I saw some really low web special prices for the flight - even with taxes, the flight should be half of what I put in the thumbnail budget, huzzah! There's a caveat, though: *IF* the prices stay this low long enough for the Little VISA to realize that I gave it a sizeable payment on Saturday. I would love to confine all the Austen expenses to the con kitty and the grins-and-giggles card. That would keep this set of expenses out of the main budget entirely.
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Date: 2013-06-18 04:21 am (UTC)I'd've signed up for every dance item on the list in hopes of learning some new to me. The pretty dresses would have been just the bonus.
IIRC, it was the PBS version of Emma (starring Romola Garai) that used a dance tune called "Mr. Issac's Maggot" as a leitmotiv throughout, and in the ball scene finale the MC called for it to be danced. The dancers proceeded to perform -- another dance entirely. ("Dublin Bay," perhaps?) It was a nice enough dance, with some of the same figures, but "Mr. Issac's" is prettier to watch & no more difficult to do than whatever it was they did. I've never managed to figure that one out.
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Date: 2013-06-18 02:41 pm (UTC)If you get a chance, you should watch the BBC's "Having a Ball: Pride & Prejudice" program from this year -- they recreate the Netherfield Ball using different experts -- dancing, food, clothes, makeup, etc.
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