Costume College Time Travelers' Gala

The 2009 Time-Travellers' Gala

The Time Traveler's Gala is a dress up dinner-dance held on Saturday night of Costume College in the ballroom. This is the one official chance during the run of College to get dressed up. Come in costume, come in modern evening clothes, match the theme, or come in something completely from your imagination. Costumes are not required, but encouraged; we only request that you make it rated PG.

"Party at the Parthenon – A Roman/Grecian Revival" was our theme for the Time Traveller’s Gala in 2008. The food is always terrific, the music a groovy mix, and the decorations extravagant.

The ballroom doors open at 6:30 p.m. and dinner is served at 7:00 p.m., with dancing after dinner. Our music ranges from relaxing classical and New Age during dinner, to upbeat modern/alternative music for danicng until 12:00 a.m.

The Time-Travellers' Gala is open to the general public as well as to Costume College members. If you have friends who will not be not attending Costume College, invite them to the Gala. The food is great, the entertainment awesome, and the company couldn't be better. Everyone trots out their best and newest outfits to see and to be seen. It can be a great "first taste" that gives people a sense of what the College has to offer.

Prices are as follows: for CGW members and members of Sister Organizations: $75, for non-members: $85.

Please remember that we do not sell Gala tickets at Costume College, but you may be able to find tickets for sale by private parties during College if you decide at the last minute to attend (not guaranteed). Go to our Information desk and they can help you find tickets for our fun evening. If you have tickets to sell, you can also go to the Information Desk and they will guide you through the process of selling your tickets to another Costume College attendee.

If you have questions, contact Gala Mistress Colleen Crosby.

Photos from past Time-Travellers' Galas: these are only samples...

	Dancing the "Time Warp" at the 2004 Gala
	The banquet hall decorations for the 2003 Time-Travellers' Gala
	a "Conga" line at the 2006 Gala
	Even Beauty has to rest from the dancing, sometimes. The 2006 Gala was exhilirating and tiring, too!
	Everyone has a good time at the Gala. From 2006.
	At the 2003 Gala
	The Wait Staff at the Gala is terrific.
	Our "Boys on the Bandstand" - the DJ's themselves. Thanks to them we have music, we have thrills, we have excitement, we have lift-off!

Gala Red Carpet Arrival

Have you ever wondered how it feels to walk down that Red Carpet at the Oscars? Photographers everywhere are vying for your attention so they can get the perfect ‘shot’ of you in all your finery (for the evening news? the tabloids? your own photo album?). Your arrival at the Gala is very much like that. We attempt to offer a bit of organization for all concerned. We have received several wonderful suggestions for improving things and we hope they will make your experience even better than ever.

The Red Carpet Arrival Area is a room designated for picture taking with reasonably decent lighting so we can see all of your magnificent handiwork. The room itself will be broken up into 2 separate areas. The Photographer Area is open to everyone that wants to take pictures of folks in costume. (Since space is a little tight, we ask that the Photographers are courteous and share the space available so everybody can get their shots.) The Model Area is open to anyone who wants to have their photo taken. We look forward to seeing all your beautiful creations as you arrive for the Time Traveler’s Gala.

For those of you who might not be attending the Gala but want to see the lovely outfits, we welcome you to find a space in the Hotel Lobby where you can view the fun. We will try to have chairs available for you. The times for the Red Carpet Arrival Area will be in your packet when you arrive for College and also posted at the Registration / Information desk.

So, bring your best outfit and lots of flash bulbs, . . . uh, . . . memory sticks and batteries!!! Yea, that’s it!!

-Annie Mitschek, Coordinator - (626) 390-9196

Photos from Costume College 2008

At the “Red Carpet” event this year’s Costume College, we had a guest photographer who graciously agreed to post all her photos on the web for the enjoyment of Costume College aficionados and attendees. She also took candid photos in the halls and the Marketplace.

We invite you to visit them and download or order prints at http://picasaweb.google.com/MediaByMeryl.

If there are any people who would like their photos removed from the collection, please let us know and they will be removed. We have, you will notice, not put names on the photos, so please refer to them by number.

So, go to http://picasaweb.google.com/MediaByMeryl, take a look at all the spectacular outfits, plan to outdo them (or yourself!) next year. Enjoy! And we’ll see you at the Red Carpet again next year.

Our guest photographer is not charging for her photos, but leaves it to individuals to acquire copies from the web service.

Apropos of that, however, please note the following: Meryl wrote: “I was checking out the Terms and Conditions set by one of the 4 printing facilities connected to Picasa (Snapfish, owned by Microsoft who owns Corbis Stock Photos in this case) and look what I found buried way down the list, after letter H:

I. ‘Copyright … as a condition to your Membership, you hereby grant Snapfish a perpetual, universal, non-exclusive, royalty-free right to copy, display, modify, transmit, make derivative works of, and distribute your Content …’”

VERY IMPORTANT - ATTENTION ATTENDEES:
YOUR PHOTOGRAPH MAY BE TAKEN
AT THE COSTUME COLLEGE® EVENT

As is customary at many of our events, photographs of participants and their guests are taken and posted on the Web. We believe that the use of these photographs enhances the overall event experience by the participants. This practice will occur at COSTUME COLLEGE®. Under the circumstances there is a real possibility that your photograph may be taken by us or attendees and thereafter posted on the web. By attending COSTUME COLLEGE®, you give your consent to the posting of such photographs by us or others and waive all rights and claims with respect to the posting of such photographs.

Here are some photos from the 2007 Red Carpet

	a Victorian lady in a blue ball gown
	an Edwardian lady and her escort in Scottish formal attire
	a lady from the 1830's, the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign
	fantasy fairy wings with a Victorian corset
	a couple from 1914
	a real "babe" from the 1940's. You don't have to wear seven yards of skirt to be glamorous!