Our Festival present to you this year is CTHULHUPALOOZA!

A halfday long event including a screening of The Call of Cthulhu silent film by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, a Rock Band contest with sanity-blasting prizes including a chance to perform “Shhh….” with the band during the great big rock show. It’s all happening at The Rio Theatre in Vancouver BC.

More info forthcoming here and at http://www.cthulhupalooza.com

CALL FOR SPONSORS

We’re pleased to be presenting Cthulhupalooza as a fundraiser with partial proceeds to Child’s Play charity (http://www.childsplaycharity. org/) and BC Children’s Hospital. Child’s Play is a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 40 hospitals worldwide including BC Children’s Hospital.

Currently, we are asking for sponsors to provide prizes for the contest, to help us advertise, and in general to promote exposure for the event and all things nerdy and Lovecraftian. For prizes, we will gladly accept stock, gift certificates, webstore credit, and the like.

In exchange for your sponsorship we will gladly advertise your company on our posters, website and of course, a big thank you at the show. If you have a video ad we would be happy to show it before the film. For more information please do not hesitate to contact Toren at 604-737-4283/ thickets@uniserve.com

Help spread the word!

A theatre showing Lovecraft films and music videos! Rock Band on the big screen! A giant-sized performance by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets! It’s going to be awesome!

All we need is an audience! And you can help. For starters, please come. And bring friends. But even better, if you frequent message boards or have a website, maybe you can colour it a little green, and proudly display one of these web-ready banners (and if you can link it to cthulhupalooza.com, even better!)

FULL ASSORTMENT OF BANNERS AND LINK CODE (HTML AND UBB) at
http://cthulhupalooza.protoncharging.com/2008/10/help-spread-the-word/

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

How cool would it be to be a part of the Cthulhupalooza dream team? Not only will you be able to brag to your friends that you were “tentacles on” for this once-in-a-lifetime event, but you’ll get a special limited edition “volunteer” Cthulhupalooza T-shirt and some food too!

Here’s what we need:

People to put up posters and disseminate flyers.
Drivers.
Ticket Takers
Rock Band Score Tallypersons
Rock Band Signup/Registration Staff
Technical Support for Rock Band games
General Production Assistants/Go-Fers
People Who Can Lift and Carry Things.

Some before the event date, some during the event, and some after!

Email Toren at thickets@uniserve.com and he’ll prep your special outfit!

The rules and scoring for the Rock Band contest is up now! Finally!

The focus on this contest is fun and raising money and awareness for Child’s Play, which means then that we wanted to find some balance between challenge and laid back. Please have a look, and feel free to contact us if you’d like to compete - bands must have tickets, but since the ticket system isn’t up, anybody wanting to get a jump on things can contact us to get the ball rolling.

See http://cthulhupalooza.protoncharging.com/rock-band-contest/ for more info

Cthulhupalooza update:

ROCK BAND CONTEST

Check out the guidelines for the contest - contest is open to all ticket holders, and contest registry can happen prior to ticket purchase, but will need to be confirmed before the day-of-event.

http://cthulhupalooza.protoncharging.co ... d-contest/

PRIZES!

We’ve got some great stuff in store for prizes, such as;

Rock Band kits from Harmonix!
Prize packs from Rue Morgue Magazine!
Prize packs from Jones Soda!
Plush Cthulhus & games from Toy Vault!
DVD sets from Time Life!
And More!


TICKETS!
In Vancouver?
Tickets are available now @ Neptoons, Red Cat Records, RX Comics, Lucky’s, Pulp Fiction, and The Rio Theatre.
(Available soon at Elfsar Collectibles, High Life, Scratch Records, and more!)

Also if you would like to pay via PayPal just email me at thickets@uniserve.com

If you're thinking of putting a Rock Band team together for Cthulhupalooza - and you really should! - we recommend you register as soon as possible. You should choose 3 songs for the first round, 2 songs for the second and a song for the final round. Six songs altogether. We are offering all downloadable content but in order to make sure we have it for you you must register by emailing cthulhupalooza@gmail.com!

We have the extremely limited edition Cthulhupalooza T-Shirts available for sale at Elfsar Collection in Yaletown and RX Comics in East Van. Shirts and buttons are also available online at the official The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets eBay store: http://stores.ebay.com/Dead-Space-God

In other news, here is the revised list of ticket outlets - alphabetically!

Elfsar Collection
Highlife Records
Lucky's Comics
Neptoon Records
Pulp Fiction Books (both locations)
Red Cat Records
The Rio Theatre
RX Comics
Scrape Records
Scratch Records
Strategies Games
Zulu Records

I hope I didn't forget anyone. You can still get tickets via PayPal by sending $16 to thickets@uniserve.com.

OVER $1500 IN PRIZES

1st prize:
Rock Band Bundle from Harmonix (Xbox); Rock Band accessories, provided by Kerberos Productions; Great Cthulhu Horrorclix Statue from Elfsar $100 value; Plush Cthulhu from Toy Vault; Rue Morgue Prize Pack; $50 tattoo gift certificate from The Fall; Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series DVD set from Time-Life; Cthulhu fiction book + game books from Chaosium; Zooloretto board game from Drexoll; PLUS the chance to sing "Shhh...." with The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets!

2nd prize
$50 tattoo gift certificate from The Fall; Hellboy Seed of Destruction limited HC & PVC figure set; Cthulhu books from Chaosium; plush Cthulhu from Toy Vault; Rue Morgue prize pack;

3rd prize
$50 tattoo gift certificate from The Fall; Hellboy Seed of Destruction limited HC & PVC figure set, Toy Vault plush cthulhu; Rue Morgue prize pack, Cthulhu books from Chaosium; Zooloretto game from Drexoll Games

Raffle
Rock Band Bundle from Harmonix; Complete Real Ghostbusters DVD animated series box set from Time-Life; Plush Cthulhu from Toy Vault; Hellboy Seed of Destruction limited HC & PVC figure set from Elfsar Collection; Rue Morgue Prize Pack; $50 tattoo gift certificate from The Fall; Cthulhu fiction book + game book from Chaosium, Zooloretto game from Drexoll Games.

Subject to change - especially ADDITIONS!

Movie madness (literally, movies to drive you mad)

To this point, the only film we’ve mentioned to Cthulhupalooza has been The HP Lovecraft Historical Society - The Call of Cthulhu. This is because, this was the only film we were certain we would be showing - but now, as scheduling solidifies, we’re happy to outline some of the other great cinematics we’ll be showing (showtimes subject to the chaos of the day);

Trailer Park - A selection of suitably entertaining “coming soons”
My Necronomicon - A short film that succinctly demonstrates the hazards of esoteric research.
Special Surprise - As yet untitled (it’s probably titled, but we’re not sure what that title is yet), Sponsor Elfsar Comics is proud to share this short film produced in conjunction with some notable patrons.
Dangerous Welcome - A special showing of this Captain Nemo animated short. And you think you left these behind in the 80s. NO!

Also, The Rio will be following Cthulhupalooza with a special screening of the Josh Gilbert documentary, AKA Tommy Chong - more info on that soon and what it means to attendees of Cthulhupalooza!

http://www.cthulhupalooza.com

UPDATE:
1. We've got about 250 guests so make sure you get a ticket before they're all gone, and avoid paying more at the door by buying your ticket in advance. We are close to a dozen bands registered. To make sure your team gets in on time email cthulhupalooza@gmail.com to register NOW!
Rules: http://cthulhupalooza.protoncharging.co ... d-contest/

2. More prizes have come in over the past week from our amazing and fantastical sponsors such as Fantasy Flight Games, Grindhouse Video, Time Life, Harmonix, Elfsar Collection and on and on it goes. At this rate it's pretty clear that even first round contestants are going to walk away with something nice for themselves!

3. If you can't come to the event but you'd still like to support Child's Play, we are taking donations on their behalf. Go to cthulhupalooza.com and click on the DONATE button.