Avistrum Academy of Sorcery » Sage Moon http://avistrum.org Bringing Magic to Witches and Wizards in the New World Since 1697 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:29:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Starfest 2007 Wrap-up http://avistrum.org/pensieve/2007/04/23/starfest-2007-wrap-up http://avistrum.org/pensieve/2007/04/23/starfest-2007-wrap-up#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:36:06 +0000 Prof. Aberfoyle http://avistrum.org/pensieve/2007/04/23/starfest-2007-wrap-up Thanks very much to everyone who visited our room at StarFest 2007! Lady Viola Fey really enjoyed all of the Death Day cards. Read on for winners of our contests, plus a special edition of the Morning Oracle!

Morning Oracle – Starfest Edition

Fans who came by during the weekend were able to pick up a special edition the Morning Oracle. In addition to news of a peace treaty with the Galactic Empire, readers could find out about the PREvention of Transfiguration ENhanced Deception (PRETEND) Act, the attack on Timmernak, and the arrival of Avistrum’s new Quidditch coach, Vittoria d’Medici.

Wizard Jeopardy

Wizard Jeopardy, hosted by the Marauders, was a great success, with more than 100 audience members in attendance. We distributed a number of door prizes as well as our main prize, a free weekend pass to Starfest 2008. Patrick Brownson was the winner of our Jeopardy game after two tiebreaker questions. Our runners-up received an Alivan’s wand and a Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie poster. We also gave away 50 “mourning armbands” for Sirius Black for our fans to wear at the movie premiere. We would like to thank Sage Moon and Starfest for donating all of our prizes for the event.

New Head Boy, Head Girl, and Prefects!

After the Wizard Jeopardy contest, Headmaster Dowling showed up to announce the elevation of Trent Voertigern and Audrey “Trouble” Deserand to Head Boy and Head Girl. He also awarded Prefect badges to Enigmus‘s Susan Jevoli, Lobostro‘s Emmaline Roffignac, and Colubrae‘s Lucas Zeiapher. Congratulations to all of them for superb work during the last year!

Quidditch Contest

New Quidditch coach Vittoria d’Medici refereed over 60 matches, played on the PlayStation 2, to crown winners for our Quidditch Tournament. Saturday’s winner was Kore-Rhi Drakenwulf of Enigmus, but Opus 2006 winner Andrew Harcrow of Parador reclaimed his crown with a win on Sunday. Each day’s winner claimed a Nimbus 2000 replica broom, courtesy of Starfest.

Art Contest

Our art contest was won by Parador’s Bella Byrne, who submitted a hand-made wand for the competition. She won a free pass to Starfest 2008. Second place went to Susan Jevoli, winning a Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie poster for her painting of Renfield. Third place, an Alivan’s wand, went to Emmaline Roffignac for her watercolor of an ankh. Well done!

]]> http://avistrum.org/pensieve/2007/04/23/starfest-2007-wrap-up/feed 0 Thanks for Joining Us at StarFest 2006 http://avistrum.org/pensieve/2006/04/25/thanks-starfest2006 http://avistrum.org/pensieve/2006/04/25/thanks-starfest2006#comments Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:49:27 +0000 Prof. Aberfoyle http://avistrum.org/pensieve/2006/04/25/thanks-starfest2006 We would like to thank the hundreds of people who came by and visited us at StarFest, at both our table on Friday and Saturday, as well as the room we had all day Sunday! We hope you enjoyed Wizard Jeopardy hosted by the Marauders on Saturday, and the Potions and Practical Magic lessons on Sunday. Our thanks to Madam Grasella Moffat, a distinguished Avistrum alumna, who was our guest Potions lecturer for the weekend. We would also like to thank Mistress Craefter for her terrific lessons on origami and defensive symbols.

Our Wizard Jeopardy winner, Debbie, received two all-weekend passes to StarFest 2007. Brandi, our runner-up, won a beautiful mahogany wand courtesy of Alivan’s Fine Wandmakers, and Sarah, our second runner-up, won an assortment of Harry Potter merchandise from Sage Moon, including a Gryffindor scarf, a candy-filled cauldron, and a poster!

Our winners in the art contest won the same prizes. Paul, our winner, submitted a beautiful hand-crafted wand. Kate, our runner-up, gave us a terrific sketch of Headmaster Dowling in his office, and Bella submitted a colored drawing of herself in Professor Kobiyashi‘s Charms class at OPUS 2005.

The Quidditch Tournament on PlayStation 2 was won by Adam with a score of 570, who got some great stuff from Sage Moon. Our runner-up, T.J., scored 540 and received a bagful of sci-fi freebies from StarFest.

We had a great time, and we hope you did, too! If you missed out, you still have three weeks to register for our all-weekend term at OPUS 2006!

]]> http://avistrum.org/pensieve/2006/04/25/thanks-starfest2006/feed 0 Art Contest Rules for Starfest 2006 http://avistrum.org/pensieve/2006/03/23/art-contest-sf2006 http://avistrum.org/pensieve/2006/03/23/art-contest-sf2006#comments Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:24:09 +0000 Prof. Aberfoyle http://avistrum.org/pensieve/2006/03/23/art-contest-sf2006 Are you an artist who loves Avistrum? Then submit your piece(s) for our art contest at Starfest 2006! Here are the rules:

Submissions are due by 6 p.m. Saturday, April 22, 2006 at the Avistrum Fan table. Artwork can be mailed. Submissions by mail must arrive by Thursday, April 20th to:

Avistrum Academy of Sorcery
P.O. Box 470722
Aurora, CO 80047-0722

Prizes:

All submissions must be Avistrum related only.

Winning submissions become the sole property of Avistrum, LLC and will not be returned. All other submissions must be picked up in person by 5 p.m. Sunday, April, 23, or they also become the sole property of Avistrum, LLC. Mail-in submissions cannot be
returned. It is strongly suggested that mail-in submissions be copies.

Please include name, address, phone, email and this signed waiver with each submission. Only original artwork will be accepted. Artwork can be in any medium. Plagiarists will be subjected to an Unforgivable Curse of the faculty’s discretion.

Sage Moon Gift Certificate holders can claim their prizes by going online to sagemoon.com.

]]> http://avistrum.org/pensieve/2006/03/23/art-contest-sf2006/feed 1 Terrific Turnout at Borders http://avistrum.org/pensieve/2005/07/16/terrific-turnout-at-borders http://avistrum.org/pensieve/2005/07/16/terrific-turnout-at-borders#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2005 07:11:19 +0000 Prof. Aberfoyle http://avistrum.org/?p=42 Thank you very much to everyone who joined us at Borders for the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince release party! We sorted over 240 new students, and had over 100 entries to participate in Wizard Jeopardy.

Congratulations to our winner, Jessica, who chose as her prize a double-sided movie poster for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, courtesy of Sage Moon. Our runner up, Tricia, walked away with a very handsome 11″ holly wand from Alivan’s. Our third contestant, Anjali, won one of Alivan’s new Phantom Phlyer brooms. All of our contestants also won some other terrific prizes from Sage Moon.

Overall turnout for the Borders event was around 1000 people. We hope most of you who were there are reading this, and welcome to the Avistrum community! We will try and post pictures from the event soon!

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