Programming is in need of minions to staff our operations room and green room during the run of the convention. No prior experience needed. Interested parties should be willing to interact with people to provide information as needed.

Interested parties should send messages to volunteers@cc26.org.

The Fantasy and Science Fiction masquerade rules are now available on the F&SF Masquerade information page.

The Costume-Con 26 Future Fashion Folio was mailed out Wednesday, November 21, 2007. It went out at Media Mail rates, which is supposed to be 4-8 days delivery time. Copies sent out of the US were mailed International First Class. Reservations for designs are now open via email, postal mail, and an online form.

Full details are available on the Fashion Competitions page.

Convention chair Kevin Roche and bid chair Andy Trembley sponsored a prize at the GSGRA-BAC 2007 Bay Area Rodeo in the name of Costume-Con 26.

Andy and our friend Howard also shot approximately 10,000 frames of rodeo action, which we will be posting to a website probably by 21 September. We will update this news item with a link to the photo gallery once they have been posted, so our cowboy and cowgirl friends can download their pictures. We also invite Costume-Con 26 members and other visitors to view the gallery once it opens.

Thanks to everyone at the Rodeo who came to chat with us about Costume-Con this year!

The Rules and Submissions Guidelines for the Costume-Con 26 Future Fashion Folio have been modified with regards to the Single Pattern Contest. Visit the Fashion Competitions page for full details. (And in case you hadn't noticed earlier, the Video Masquerade Rules are available on the Video Masquerade page.)

Get the latest on our comfy hotel, our fabulous dealers' room, our stunning exhibits, and the eagerly-awaited Fashion Folio rules! Just click on Progress Report 2 in the menu to the left. Beware,it's so full of goodies it may take a little while to load!

Kevin Roche, our con chair, was just awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Costumers' Guild at Costume-Con 25! Check out http://www.costume.org/ for info on the ICG, and http://www.costume.org/lifetime/lifetime.html to see Kevin's illustrious forebears.

It Seams to Me, CC26 Progress Report 1.1 is available now! Look for an email in your box Real Soon Now (you're on one of our mailing lists, aren't you?) or just click the title to check out our mini Progress Report. Get the latest! You will need a copy of the free Acrobat Reader to view the PR.

We've added a large assortment of new items to our Official Merchandise shop. Check it out at http://www.cafepress.com/costumecon26

I'm pleased to announce that today I signed the hotel contract for Costume-Con 26 with the DoubleTree Hotel San Jose, well-known site of many Bay Area conventions!

Our room rates will be $92 for a standard room, 1-4 people.

Update April 25, 2007
Note: Reservations should not be made in our room block before May 1, 2007.
If you call before then they may say they do not have any rooms available at our rate. (The date has been pushed out because 2008 is a leap year, and reservations cannot be made more than 365 days before your check-out date)

Further details will be posted as we have them; once our reservation block opens we will have a room reservation page available here on www.cc26.info

Kevin Roche
Costume-Con 26 Chair

The committee is happy to announce that our Costume-Con 26 announcements and chat email groups are now open for subscription.

You can join CC26SV-info via the following link:

Click to join cc26sv-info

Click to join cc26sv-chat

Join either or both groups and make sure you stay in the loop and in the know!

• Costume-Con 25 -- the "Hell Freezes Over" Tour

Latest Websites for Costume-Con Bids

• Costume-Con 28 Bid: Milwaukee in 2010

We're pleased to announce that the first official Costume-Con 26 merchandise is now available via CafePress. It features "The Persistence of Stitchery", the logo designed for us by Kevin Roche, including a new color version designed for printing on a black t-shirt. The Costume-Con 26 shop is found at http://www.cafepress.com/costumecon26

Site selection for Costume-Con 26 took place this weekend at Costume-Con 23 in Ogden, Utah.

Our bid for CC26 in Silicon Valley, California won the vote handily; here is the ballot breakdown:
50 ballots total
48 valid ballots:
1 vote for No Preference
1 vote for Baptisttown, NJ
1 vote for Andy & Kevin's Place
45 votes for Silicon Valley, CA

Watch the site for updates; as soon as we have our DBA filed and our financial gurus are satisfied with our business plan we'll be starting registration.

Thank you to everyone who supported us during the pre-vote bid period!

Today the Articles of Incorporation for the Unconventional Foundation were filed with the California Secretary of State.

Why does this matter? If we win the bid for Costume-Con 26, it will be a project of the Unconventional Foundation, Inc.(UCF) !

Next step: we'll be working to obtain 501(c)3 non-profit status for the UCF.

Kevin

Further Confusion 2005: Furries of the Nile
Jan 13-17, 2005, at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, CA
LOEG Party Friday Night after the Concert! www.furtherconfusion.org

That's right, it's official! CC26 in Silicon Valley? has been accepted as an official bid by the Costume-Con Service Mark holders.

Voting for Costume-Con 26 will take place at CC 23 in Ogden, Utah.

Remember, you must hold at least a supporting membership in CC23 to cast a ballot in the CC26 site selection. (Supporting members may mail in their ballots).

Information on Costume-Con 23 is available at www.crossroadsutah.org.

Our signature League of Evil Genius Hall of Fame parties are already being planned for 2007. At this time, you can expect us to be holding salons at:

• Further Confusion 2007: Fur Your Eyes Only, January 18-22, 2007, at the San Jose Doubletree.
• The Eighteenth Amendment of Gallifrey One, February 16-18, 2007, at the LAX Marriott.
• Costume-Con 25, March 30-April 2, 2007, at the Holiday Inn - Southwest and Viking Conference Center in South St. Louis County.
• BayCon 2007, Memorial Day Weekend, May 25 - 28, 2007, at the San Mateo Marriott.
• Westercon 60: Gnomeward Bound, June 30th - July 3rd,, at the San Mateo Marriott.

We are also planning a presence at numerous other events, including:

• Anime Los Angeles 3, JANUARY 26 - 28, 2007, at the Airtel Plaza in Van Nuys
• San Francisco Imperial Coronation, February 23-25, at the Cathedral Hill Hotel and GiftCenter Pavilion
• San Jose Imperial Coronation, March 9-11

2008 holds our final signature League of Evil Genius Hall of Fame convention parties! At this time, you will find us holding salons at:

• Further Confusion 2008: The Fur East, January 25-27, 2008, at the San Jose Doubletree. The party will take place on Friday night.
• Gallifrey One's Nineteenth Symphony, Opus 2008, February 15-17, 2008, at the LAX Marriott.

In addition, our lab-coated-staff (ok, maybe they won't actually be wearing lab coats at these events!) will be working their more glamorous, hospitable evil on the Imperial Court circuit at the 2008 San Francisco and San Jose Coronation events.