Category: <span>Behind the Scenes</span>

Category: Behind the Scenes

Giving TeaseDay

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From the Desk of BurlyCon President Miss AuroraBoobRealis

The Board has been busy for the last eight months searching for the next Executive Director of BurlyCon. And today I have the deep pleasure of announcing, our search is over!  BurlyCon’s next Executive Director is…. Twirlisha Devine AND Iva Handfull! Yes you read that right, the Board fell in love with both of them. Their knowledge, skills and energies are a wonderful compliment and we are over the moon …

Preserving Our Legacy

How the Burlesque Legends Archive is Letting Burlesque Legends Record Their Stories Iva Handfull is the Director of Online Programming for BurlyCon, a non-profit that’s a community-oriented, professional growth and educational organization for burlesque performers, fans, and aficionados. Interviewed by Vixen Valentine, Director of Communication for BurlyCon Where did the idea of The Legend Archives come from?  I believe the idea bloomed in everyone, we all talk about a place to hear legends’ …

Now Introducing the Legends Archive

We’re kicking off a whole month dedicated to our new program: Legends Archive. What’s the Legends Archive? So glad you asked! Imagine a mini-documentary where one burlesque legend talks about their time as a burlesque performer. The Legends Archive is exactly like that! BurlyCon is working with different interviewers (Lola Martinet, Jett Adore, to name a few) who meet up with the burlesque legend they’re interviewing. The interviewer will help …

Lola Love Letter From the Board

As announced earlier this year, Lola Love is ending her reign as the Executive Director at BurlyCon, and we will miss her influence, insight, and skill as an organizing force. Burlesque pioneer, innovator, and founder of Hawaii’s Pretty Peacock Productions, Lola brought a calm “get it done early” ideal to BurlyCon in 2013, as the Director of Programming. Lola brought passion and commitment to her involvement, leveraging her resources and …

We’re Hiring!

“All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change.” Octavia Butler  Our brilliant Executive Director Lola Love, who has brought this organization onto a new, expanded path, is moving on at the end of this year to pursue new endeavors. Which means, sparkly people, that we are hiring a new Executive Director! This stipend-based position is open for an Executive Director to …

Welcome 2018 Directors!

BurlyCon announces the 2018 Directors. Seattle, WA – BurlyCon, the only education focused burlesque convention in the US, is heading into its eleventh year in Seattle, WA. They are excited to announce the Directors who will be working throughout the year to help put on the convention. Indigo Blue, the mastermind behind BurlyCon continues in her role as Executive Director. Lola Love has accepted the role of Deputy Director along …

BurlyCon Welcomes Lola Love as Deputy Director

Seattle, WA – BurlyCon Burlesque Convention is thrilled and delighted to announce exciting changes in its organizational staffing for 2018. In BurlyCon’s 11th year of rocking the burlesque community’s educational world, we have taken important new steps to solidify the staff running the convention. “On behalf of the Board of Directors I am thrilled that Lola Love has accepted the job of Deputy Director of BurlyCon. Lola is a 6-year veteran …

Guest of Honor, 2017 BurlyCon Legend

This year marks BurlyCon’s 10 year anniversary and we are celebrating in a big way, and this year’s Guest of Honor is a big part of that! We are overjoyed to announce that the #BurlyConX Legend marks the return of our first ever Guest of Honor, Toni Elling! That’s right, when you join us in November, you will get to spend a bit of your convention with The Satin Doll …