.... devoted to Costume, its uses, and its creation - in all their myriad forms.

A gathering of professional and amateur costumers for the purposes of networking, knowledge-sharing, and just plain gabbing about costumes.

Combining the qualities of a costumers' convention and a fashion (or theatre) institute, this three-day event strives to bring you the best in instructors and suppliers available in the Portland (OR) area as well as a rollicking good time with other costumers and costume aficianados.

While we are planning on having numerous activities, we are still in site-search mode and will be doing the 'real' planning when we have secured a venue and know what resources we have available. As to the date, that is also unsettled and will have a lot to do with what site we use.

If we use a college/university/etc, the event will be in the summer so we can have dorm rooms for residence rooms. (And these places are already set up as teaching sites! They have A/V equipment, sufficient plug-ins, etc

If a hotel is chosen, the dates open up but the set-up possibilities may be less. The trade-off - residence rooms are a no-brainer....

We also plan to have representatives from a wide variety of re-enactment and "live" (LARP) F/SF groups and costume-, textile-, and embellishment-related guilds.

Join us!