Tag: the harry potter alliance
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Archive Releases: Rocking Out Against Voldemedia
This Bandcamp Friday, the Wizrocklopedia is excited to rerelease a classic wizard rock compilation, Rocking Out Against Voldemedia! Originally compiled by The Harry Potter Alliance, the album features Harry and the Potters, The Whomping Willows, Roonil Wazlib, the Owl Post & more! If you can throw a few sickles toward our Bandcamp download code fund when downloading this compilation, please…
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#YesAllWitches – How One Wizard Rocker Wants to Empower the Fandom
When Steph Anderson (our favorite pink-haired awesome Auror) presented at the Harry Potter Alliance’s inaugural Granger Leadership Academy in 2014, she didn’t know that her catchy slogan would become a fandom movement. After learning about the premise of the first-ever GLA conference, she says, “I basically forced myself upon the HPA and badgered them until…
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The HP Alliance Wants YOU to Help Wizard Rock the Vote!
The Harry Potter Alliance has once again kicked off one of their most popular and successful campaigns in Wizard Rock The Vote! The goal of the campaign is to help get out information on voting – how to register, where to register, and excite voters on exercising their civic duty to help shape their future.…
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Album Review: Wizards and Muggles Rock For Social Justice Vol. 3
Wizard rock and charity compilations go together like Snape and greasy hair. Over the past 8 years, the wizard rock community has released dozens of EPs and albums to help raise money for various organizations. One of the first comps to come out was the original Wizards and Muggles Rock for Social Justice, and last…
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HPA FTW!
Dear friends, Five years ago a sweaty dude named Andrew Slack came to one of our shows with an idea would profoundly change the way Harry Potter fans could interact with the magical world created by JK Rowling. No, he wasn’t proposing a theme park. Instead, he wanted to take a cue from the books…
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Question Tuesday
The HPA is participating in the Chase Challenge on Facebook for a chance to win $250,000. (Details on how to vote are below.) What causes would you like this money to help, if (when?) the HPA wins? I know we all have causes near to our heart, but I also believe in timeliness. At the…
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Live Potterwatch Broadcast Today with DatM and Other Rad People!
What: Live Potterwatch broadcast for Accio Books! When: Today, March 19 at 4pm EST Where: SayAHA! Livestream Channel Who: Brian Malfoy, Maureen Johnson, Charlie is Cool Like, and more! We’re nearly three weeks into the second annual Accio Books! campaign, and we are PUMPED! The books just keep coming in. And guess what? This week’s…
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Helping Haiti Heal! Wow!
Okay, I’d like to start this with one big fat WOW! For those of you who weren’t privy to the onslaught of tweeting yesterday or who were unable to make it to the Helping Haiti Heal event organized by the HP Alliance, you missed out! But you don’t have to stay out of the loop!…
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Weekly Wrock Wrap Up
Welcome to this week’s Wrock Wrap Up! Don’t forget to keep us updated on your Wrock news! General Into the Pensieve is now on Twitter. Follow them @intothepensieve. The Whomping Willows Street Team needs your help to find venues that the band can return to year after year. For more information check out the band’s…
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Light Through Darkness
Live episode of Potterwatch tonight (Wed, January 13) at 8:30 pm EST with the theme of light through darkness!! In these dark January days where the winter blues can make us feel as though we’ve suffered a dementor attack, it is as they say, far, far better to light even the smallest candle than it…