Get ConTessa To GenCon!
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Hi!
This is Mandy Morbid, I'm a gamer, you might know me from the web series I Hit It With My Axe. I'm running this fundraiser for Stacy Dellorfano who runs ConTessa so she can get ConTessa to GenCon again in 2017. (I'm using Zak's account for this because I only use my stage name online for stafety reasons.)
Here's the blurb from ConTessa's website:
"We use an innovative convention-within-a-convention program that allows us to run an entire track of tabletop roleplaying games, card games, board games, panels, workshops, and LARPS at pre-existing conventions. While all our events are run by women, they're open in attendance and participation to all genders. We support an open, inclusive, and save environment for everyone in the LGTBQ+ spectrum, and often have men helping out at many of our events!" "ConTessa's goals have been to build diversity within the tabletop gaming industry and hobby by introducing visible and active women-led events to the convention circuit." ConTessa won a gold Ennie in 2015 and they were nominated for the prestigious Diana Jones Award this year.
Stacy has been running this organization--including games, tournaments, designers workshops and panels--all on her own lately while trying to support herself making games and other freelance projects. She is, in a word, swamped. If we want to keep something as great and important as ConTessa running we're going to have to step up and help Stacy out.
ConTessa has been an important force in bringing real on-the-ground change to gaming spaces over the last few years and getting to the biggest event in gaming allows ConTessa to reach out to an audience that's impossible to reach otherwise. The specific funds donated here will go to getting Stacy to GenCon, to paying for a place for ther to stay while there, and to printing up the merchandise that will help keep ConTessa up and running for the next convention.
Every time ConTessa's runs an event, women and gamers of all kinds come forward to thank the organization for bringing them closer to games and to what they want to do with them. By donating you can know you contributed in a real, measurable way to changing the face of the hobby.
This is Mandy Morbid, I'm a gamer, you might know me from the web series I Hit It With My Axe. I'm running this fundraiser for Stacy Dellorfano who runs ConTessa so she can get ConTessa to GenCon again in 2017. (I'm using Zak's account for this because I only use my stage name online for stafety reasons.)
Here's the blurb from ConTessa's website:
"We use an innovative convention-within-a-convention program that allows us to run an entire track of tabletop roleplaying games, card games, board games, panels, workshops, and LARPS at pre-existing conventions. While all our events are run by women, they're open in attendance and participation to all genders. We support an open, inclusive, and save environment for everyone in the LGTBQ+ spectrum, and often have men helping out at many of our events!" "ConTessa's goals have been to build diversity within the tabletop gaming industry and hobby by introducing visible and active women-led events to the convention circuit." ConTessa won a gold Ennie in 2015 and they were nominated for the prestigious Diana Jones Award this year.
Stacy has been running this organization--including games, tournaments, designers workshops and panels--all on her own lately while trying to support herself making games and other freelance projects. She is, in a word, swamped. If we want to keep something as great and important as ConTessa running we're going to have to step up and help Stacy out.
ConTessa has been an important force in bringing real on-the-ground change to gaming spaces over the last few years and getting to the biggest event in gaming allows ConTessa to reach out to an audience that's impossible to reach otherwise. The specific funds donated here will go to getting Stacy to GenCon, to paying for a place for ther to stay while there, and to printing up the merchandise that will help keep ConTessa up and running for the next convention.
Every time ConTessa's runs an event, women and gamers of all kinds come forward to thank the organization for bringing them closer to games and to what they want to do with them. By donating you can know you contributed in a real, measurable way to changing the face of the hobby.
Organizer and beneficiary
zachary smith
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA
Stacy Dellorfano
Beneficiary