South Eastern Laser Enthusiast's Meeting (SELEM)
It's hard to believe it, but this year will be our 7th annual SELEM. As always, it will be held in The Newton-Conover Auditorium in Newton, North Carolina. This year the dates are Friday, August 16th through Sunday, August 18th.
Registration will be $60 per laserist, and that will get you admission to the event plus one SELEM polo shirt. Your family and guests may attend with you for free, and you may pre-order extra shirts for you or your guests for $20 each. You can send your registration fee (or payments for extra shirts) to me via paypal at: adburns@sc.rr.com, or you can mail a check or money order to me at:
Adam Burns
102 Nightingale MNR
Charleston, SC 29418
Everyone will need to sign a liability waiver (including guests) prior to entering the auditorium. Mature children are welcome to attend with parental supervision, but remember that this is an at-risk event; your guests are your responsibility. Also, no weapons of any kind (concealed or otherwise) are allowed at the event.
Load-in and setup will be on Thursday, August 15th, from noon until 5 PM. We could really use some help with the load-in this year, especially with the audio gear! Mario has agreed to bring those huge folded-horn subwoofers again, but we will need some assistance moving them. If you'd like to volunteer for that, reply in this thread please!
SELEM officially begins on Friday, Augst 16th at 10 AM. As always, we'll run until midnight on Friday and Saturday, but Sunday we will need to start shutting down around 5 PM so we can be out of the auditorium no later than 8 PM.
Suggested locations for lodging are The Trotthouse Inn Bed & Breakfast (less than 1 block from the venue) or the Holiday Inn Express in Conover (around 5 miles from the venue). Rooms at the Trotthouse run $90 per night for us, which is ~ $15 less than they normally charge. (They give a discount for anyone using the auditorium.) A standard room at the Holiday Inn is $79, or you can get a suite for $99, and these are also discounted from the normal rates. Call the Trotthouse at (828) 465-0404, or call the Holiday Inn Express at (828)-465-7070. Either way, mention you are with the "SELEM LASER GROUP" to get the discounted rates.
NOTE: Rooms fill up fast. Don't wait until the last minute to book a room or you might end up having to drive 20 miles down I-40 to find a place to stay. (The other Holiday Inn hotel in Hickory is closed for renovations and will not be available this year.)
The plan for the auditorium is the same as last year: 3 to 5 solid-state RGB projectors on-stage facing the audience for beams and atmospheric shows (still need to determine exactly which projectors, but I think we'll use Aaron's and Brad's again, just like last year), with DZ's dual-head graphics projector mounted in the balcony (and fed with Jeff's 6 watt Coherent whitelight) facing towards the stage to display on the large screen in front of the curtain. We will have a control station at the back of the auditorium (near the sound booth) where people can connect to the projectors for either beam or graphics show presentations.
We will have the cafeteria area available for "Club-SELEM" again this year, and unlike last year we should have access to the cafeteria for the duration of SELEM, so we can set up in there on Thursday at the same time we're setting up in the auditorium. As before we will have a DJ station in there, but this time we will also set up a master control station near the back where anyone can plug-in their controller and run all the projectors in the room if they want. We will probably have a DMX control station back there as well to run some of the moving-head lighting fixtures along with the beam rails. (Really hoping to have both of Flecom's Mobo-laser rails in there as well as the X-pod system from X-laser set up as well.)
We will also have the upstairs classroom set aside for our use for special presentations. And of course, the backstage area will be available for the buy-and-sell tables and the "ion laser work room". The gallery/lobby area can be used for discussions, relaxing and/or other demonstrations as needed.
Things that still need to be discussed:
1) Logo design for this year's SELEM shirt - Design is done; shirt order completed
2) List of shows people want to run in the auditorium - DZ IS HEADING THIS UP; TALK TO HIM IF YOU HAVE SHOWS TO RUN
3) List of presenters for classroom area - Have Dan Goldsmith and Bill Benner scheduled so far
4) ILDA LSO class on Monday after SELEM Greg Makhov will be teaching the class. Sign up on ILDA website.
5) Which beam projectors will be used in the auditorium this year - CURRENT PLAN IS TO USE SAME ONES AS LAST YEAR; 3 FROM AARON AND 2 FROM BRAD
The event is (EDIT) just a few days away at this point. Hotel rooms are filling up fast... Also, the shirt order has already been submitted, so if you haven't already signed up by now you probably won't get a shirt! (The shirt order has to be sent off about 3 weeks before SELEM starts so they'll be done in time.) And if you've got any questions, comments, or suggestions, now is the time to post them!
Adam
List of people who have registered:
Buffo
Bradfo69
Swamidog
Displaser
DZ
Hakzaw1
Dkumpula
ShawnB
BradleyJay
Boom
Telmnstr
Icecruncher
Chexmex
Hitekvoop
Araugh
X-Laser
Lazerjock
DrFlick
SaltyRobot
Polishedball
Flecom
Cfavreau
Platinum
RGB-gas
James
Dchammonds
Daedal
Lazerman121
Lulighttech
JohnYayas
Jeff
Mariomaster
CountFunkula
DrEvil
Imagelight
Ragdoll
Allthatwhichis
Whitcher88
SoulFeast
Bungy
DrLava
Laserock
Laserlackey
Mixedgas
Kyle