Kick off spooky season early at Pensacola Para Con. From panels with skilled ghost hunters and celebrities to costume design and FX make-up demonstrations, Pensacola Para Con has every part a horror lover or paranormal fanatic may ask for.
Based in 2010 by psychic medium, Ericka Boussarhane, Pensacola Para Con is a conference for anybody within the obscure. Boussarhane observed an absence of conventions and area of interest actions for folks within the Pensacola space; so, she got down to create one herself.
“Pensacola had a number of anime conventions, Fandom Con and Sukoshi-Con. I needed to create a multi-genre conference that was reasonably priced for native households. I needed my friends and the celebrities to be accessible to everybody irrespective of their monetary state of affairs,” Boussarhane defined.
This 12 months’s Para Con is way anticipated. Hosted on September 23 and 24 on the Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds, the conference is returning for its first 12 months after a brief hiatus. In 2017, Boussarhane developed some well being points and was compelled to place the conference on maintain. After a profitable kidney transplant, she is bringing the conference again this 12 months. “Over time, I obtained many emails asking to convey Para Con again. On the time, solely a hand full of individuals even knew I used to be sick and was silently battling with polycystic kidney illness. After my transplant, I really feel so renewed. Pensacola Para Con is again,” Boussarhane mentioned.
Pensacola Para Con is returning full swing with all the spook-centric actions that friends of earlier years have grown to know and love. For these within the horror facet of issues, there can be author’s panels, costuming panels FX make-up demonstrations and movie panels to study from. There can be a wide range of distributors and artists on the occasion for shopping and procuring alternatives. Attendees will get to listen to from a wide range of ghost hunters and paranormal specialists, in addition to get to satisfy some celebrities and notable figures within the paranormal discipline.
One notable movie star visitor who can be in attendance this 12 months is the Tennessee Wraith Chasers, as seen on the Journey Channel’s Haunted Cities and Haunted Stay, plus Vacation spot America’s Ghost Asylum and Haunted Cities. Different movie star friends embrace, The Second Sight Paranormal Investigations and Forensic Companies crew, paranormal radio host Kat Hobson, actresses Teance Blackburn, Elesia Marie and Tam Taylor, thriller authors Shaun S. Fitzgerald and Shane Ahalt Sr. in addition to FX Make-up artist Eric Dupre.
Along with all of the enjoyable occurring on the Fairgrounds, Pensacola Para Con will even embrace a wide range of off-site occasions that conference attendees are inspired to take part in. On Friday and Saturday evening, there can be ghost investigations on the Pensacola Victorian Mattress & Breakfast, the place friends may have an opportunity to affix a crew of ghost-hunters with skilled ghost-hunting gear. Friends may even decide to remain in a haunted room in a single day… in the event that they dare. The off-site occasion on Sunday can be a ghost investigation at Pensacola’s notably-haunted Seville Quarter. This occasion will embrace a ghost hunt and tales of paranormal encounters shared over dinner. Off-site occasions are a further value and may be bought when shopping for attendance tickets at pensacolaparacon.com/tickets.
By buying a ticket to Para Con, you’re additionally serving to to help the work of an area charity. Annually, the conference companions with the Ronald McDonald Home Charities (RMHC) to donate a portion of occasion the proceeds.
“We at all times convey the friends to satisfy the employees and households at RMHC. Now we have additionally made a financial donation to the nonprofit after every conference,” Boussarhane defined. “As a former daycare proprietor, I’ve seen how these households are sometimes affected, and RMHC gives such a wanted service to our group.”
Boussarhane hopes that the group will come collectively not solely to help an excellent trigger, but additionally to benefit from the firm of others with comparable pursuits. “We began out within the lots of [of attendees] and grew to the hundreds through the years. Now we have loved the group conference and fandom unity through the years. “We sit up for seeing lots of previous faces and new faces alike,” she mentioned.
Pensacola Para Con can be held on the Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds at 6655 Cellular Freeway in Pensacola. Distributors, friends and sponsors are nonetheless being accepted. For tickets and full occasion particulars, go to pensacolaparacon.com.
