News: Haunt Convention Announcements

0:07 Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Philip on the HN Show. We bring you the haunt news, information, and education you need to prepare for Halloween. On Tuesdays, we bring you a roundup of news from haunts worldwide. Read more about these stories and so much more in our free weekly newsletter. Subscribe at the link in the show notes, and as always for the news roundup, I'm passing it off to Darryl. The seminar lineup has been announced for trans World's Halloween and Attractions Show in Saint Louis, Missouri, taking place March seventh through tenth. These educational presentations and workshops are hosted by top industry professionals and cover many facets of the industry, from makeup to safety, to business and more.

0:56 Highlights include the Haunted Attraction Association Presentations AOS Safety Seminar on Thursday March seventh from nine thirty am to one thirty pm and Covering Your Assets, Protecting your Show Emergency Action Plants and Safety Checks on Thursday March seventh from four to fifteen pm to five fifteen pm. Check back regularly on their website. For updates and additions. Tickets for seminars are on sale now. Individual classes range from fifty five to seventy five dollars pre sale and sixty five to seventy five on site, and seminar packages start at two hundred and fifty for five seminars or five hundred and fifty dollars for a seminar superpass. Trans World's Halloween and Attraction Show is also announced its Saturday Night costume party theme. This year's party theme will be Dia de las Muertos Party with the Dead. Join your fellow grave ghouls and rancid revenants for an evening of undead entertainment as everyone looks forward to the upcoming season of Screams with eager anticipation. Experience a live DJ, psych jam music from Basement of the Dead, dancing, cash bars, appetizers, and more. Tickets are on sale now for forty five in advance sixty on site. Applications are now being accepted to be a house host at this year's Spooky Swap Meet in Los Angeles, California. House hosts will be assigned one of the Heritage Square Museum's historic manners to decorate exterior only in the spirit of Halloween, where guests will trick or treat throughout all three days of the event.

2:23 Both haunters and businesses with the resources to decorate a house are welcome to apply. If selected as a decorator, the haunter and business will be given a booth space adjacent to their assigned house to sell any Halloween inventory they are ready to part with. Designs and plans for each house will be approved by creative producer and professional haunt designer John Cook. The Spooky Swap Meet will take place April twenty six through twenty eight. Learn more on their official website or by following the links at our show notes. Creep it Real OC from Santa Ana, California, announce their twenty twenty four event line up. Their flagship creepit reeal ocill return to the Heritage Museum of Orange County on September fourteenth and fifteenth. Come back for creepit Real Festive on November twenty second and twenty third for spooky Holiday fun. Vendor applications will open in February and attendee tickets will go on sale in the spring. Visit their official website in the coming months for more Information hont Con and Indie Horror Show is coming to Daytona Beach, Florida for three days of frightful fun and February ninth through eleventh of twenty twenty four. This annual convention features educational seminars, networking opportunities, and trade show floor with the latest products and services for haunted attractions. This year, hont Con has broadened its horizons to encompass not only the haunted attraction industry, but also the indie film and immersive events sectors. The event will host four private screenings of independent horror films, as well as educational programming focused on the horror

3:53 film industry. Other seminars and workshops will focus on haunt and immersive entertainment topics including makeup, set design, scare acting, social media, and more. For even more spooky fund the Ultimate Haunt Tour will take place on Thursday, February eighth, taking guests to four Florida haunts, Seagreen's Haunted Museum, Sir Henry's Haunted Trail, Mortem Manor, Haunted Attraction, and crush Brow Park. Haunt Con tickets are on sale now starting at thirty dollars for general admission. Sixty for general admission plus Indie Horror Movie Pass, and one hundred and ninety five for VIP admission plus the Indie Horror Movie Pass. New membership tiers are coming to the Haunted Attraction Association for twenty twenty four. Haunters and industry members may sign up for one of six membership tiers individual Home Haunt or Charity Haunt, Small Attraction, large attraction, vendor, or multi Attraction. A full breakdown of benefits can be found at the haa's official website. The HAA Board of Directors recently approved revised by Laws. The new version has several changes, including the It now provides for the HAA members to approve changes in the future, changing the membership tiers, and adds a section of temporary suspension of a director in advance of a removal. You can read the full version of the HAA Bylaws by following the links in our show notes. A critically acclaimed Scissor Hands, a Musical tribute, has four final performances January eleventh, twelfth, and fourteenth at the Bourbon Room in Hollywood, California. Experience this joyful,

5:26 hilarious and touching jukebox musical production as Edward, Kim and Peig reimagine the beloved tale of Tim Burton's Edward Scissor Hands, featuring music from Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Scissor Sisters, Billie Eilish, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Florence and the Machine, and more. Scissor Hands and Musical Tribute is a unique full evening experience. Doors open ninety minutes before showtime for guests to come and enjoy a curated dinner menu in full bar and then experience the performance. Tickets are still available starting in fifty five dollars for general admission and seventy five dollars for VIP admission. Please note all tickets have a two drink and food minimum. Tickets for the January eleventh performance will include an exclusive after party hosted by Lance Bass and DJ Ryan Kenny. The Zombie Joe's Underground Theater Group in North Hollywood, California, is kicking off their thirty second season January twentieth to twenty second with three nights of brand new plays as part of their twenty first annual Fifty Hour Drive By Theater Festival. Prepare for an hour of original works based off of unique prompt all written, directed and performed in a speedy two days. Who needs sleep when You've got plays to perform? Tickets are on sale now starting at twenty dollars in advance and twenty five at the door.

6:40 Field of Screams in Mountville, Pennsylvania spread holiday cheer this season by giving away one hundred and fifty Christmas trees to local families. The hunt first hell The Christmas Tree giveaway ten years ago. The last few years have been rough for a lot of people with COVID and things like that, so we thought it was an appropriate time to kick this back in gear and re establish it this year and just give back to the community this year again. Co owner Field of Screams, Jim Shop said. The trees, raging in height from five to nine feet, were given out on a first come, first served basis just before Christmas. The Haunted Attraction Network's Philip Heernandez appeared in December as Haunterres Toolbox Masterclass. He discussed ways to improve your Haunted attraction in twenty twenty four. Listen to the full podcast on hant Topic Radio or sign up for a Handress Toolbox membership to access each month's live session, past recordings, and more. Some upcoming events this January through March include the Helloween and Party Expo January twenty third through twenty fifth in Las Vegas, Nevada, hont Con February ninth through eleventh in Daytona Beach, Florida, and trans World's Halloween and Attraction Show March seventh through tenth in Saint Louis, Missouri. And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode was produced by me Philip Hernandez, with reporting by Daryl Plunky, post production by David Swope. This news update is a production of the Haunted Attraction Network and you can sign up to our weekly newsletter at Hantattractionnetwork dot com. Support for this episode comes from Gantum Lighty and controls. Until next time, Haunters Stay Scary. This is a Haunted Attraction

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