Camp Sparkle - European popslash gathering

[nopseud]

Yo! This is half of the coordinating committee for a potential popslash gathering, to be held in the UK this November. The other half of the committee is pensnest.

So far, everything is very tentative, and we're planning a low-key event -- basically, a version of a sparkly-weekend-at-our-houses, only allowing for more people. Our current idea is for something between a general get-together and a proper con -- footage, food and drink, but also some panels, competitions, fandom pimping, and other more con-like things if people are interested. The focus would be Nsync/BSB, but other popslash or bandslash fans would be very welcome. Bring footage! Pimp to everyone!

Our favoured (for price) option at the moment it to rent a Youth Hostel Association hostel for our exclusive use for a weekend in November this year, possibly this place, which is in central England near Milton Keynes. It's only a mile and a half from MK train station, and it has a couple of pubs nearby. Hiring the hostel for two nights at a weekend would cost somewhere around £600 -- this is a fixed price, regardless of how many people come. So for 20-30 people, the cost for accommodation only for the whole weekend would be approximately £30-20. On top of that would be food. A YHA place is likely to be pretty basic, but by doing the catering ourselves and just charging cost for food and drink, this is the cheapest way we've come up with to hold the gathering. There maybe be other options available for food (such as a meal at a pub, or having some meals catered by the YHA staff), but we haven't priced those yet.

THIS PLAN IS NOT FINAL. It's just a starting point. Any final plan would depend primarily on how many people would like to take part. The Milton Keynes YA would be good for numbers between 20 and 30 -- for more or less, we'd need to rethink the venue. To get a rough idea of interest and the kind of thing we can plan for, we'd be grateful if people could fill in the poll below, and also pimp the gathering to other potentially interested folks.

[Poll #707551]

Any other suggestions or comments would be very welcome.

Thanks to turps33 for letting us hijack her comm.

Comments

[nopseud]

Pen, do you want to give the hostel a call tomorrow and check available dates, get a firmer price, and maybe an idea of how much they would charge extra for meals? I'd do it myself, but I think I might put them off letting us use the place, as all I can do at the moment is whisper menacingly. :-)

[pensnest]

I will do that very thing. We don't want you arrested for lewd phone calls...