An Important Statement From ConCom
Dear Entranced Community,
This year the Entranced Convention Committee struggled to improve, and to make our event and policies safer. We have had to overcome two members, our Chair and Volunteer Coordinator stepping down for health reasons, as well as personal crises in the lives of the remaining members. We have struggled with the hotel as they remodel and and change their space. All of this was in hopes of having the strongest, best convention we could and setting up for a new era of an Entranced ConCom that attendees can trust and believe in.
Thus, it is with feelings of anger, hurt, and sadness that we three remaining members of the Entranced ConCom must announce the immediate removal and banning of HypnoMaestro from the ConCom and that Entranced 2018 will almost certainly be the final Entranced.
On the night of Friday, June 29th, our now former Co-Chair HypnoMaestro disclosed to Lamia, during a one-on-one meeting, that he had been lying to the ConCom about obtaining and divulging the confidential contents of a complaint to an unauthorized party who was named in the complaint. Hypnomaestro stated that the unauthorized party was now blackmailing him which is why he was now telling the truth. At that time Lamia decided he must tell the remaining members of Concom and the original complainant. They were informed within 24 hours.
Where we now stand is that HypnoMaestro and the blackmailer have both been permanently banned, and our fellow Cons are aware of the situation and can decide if they would like to take their own actions. While we have removed HypnoMaestro from the ConCom, we are unable to fully remove him from all convention logistics, primarily finances, as the accounts were all set up in his name. Had we had more time, we would have canceled Entranced 2018 completely. As that is also not possible we have had to maintain an accountant/client type relationship with him until the end of con. While this is far from desirable, please know that he no longer has any decision-making powers, will not permitted at the convention, and does not have access to incident reports. Daja is now sole chair of Entranced 2018.
Furthermore, due to the state of the convention committee, the further breach of trust this signifies, and the logistics of the accounts, barring some unseen intervention, there will be no Entranced 2019.
We, the remaining three members of ConCom, apologize for all of the trust that has been broken. We must also unfortunately ask for the help of the community to make this year happen. We are in need of people who can assist with clean-up Sunday night (before the dinner in the classroom space, and at the end of the night in consuite) and Monday morning, as well as potentially during the con itself. If you can spare time, even an hour, to help, please contact [email protected] or reach out to us at con.
