50th Aniversary of Doctor Who Event

I know, I know, it's about time! I've had so much to do these past months since the event. I've started my senior year of school, gone on college visits, worked on summer homework, worked on my etsy shop. So much stuff going on!!
However, I've saved this post for my 50th blog post!

On July 27th I hosted my first event, 50th Anniversary of  Doctor Who. Took me about three days to set up and only three hours to tear down. But like any large event, you didn't do it all on your own. I had help from Tyrus(who sadly got sick on the second set up day), Mother Hen, Tyrus' sister, and my mother. Planning and organizing event take up so much time and aren't has easy as they seem!

 

 

 

The event was held at my church so I was able to spend that much time on it. I decorated almost every inch of the church that I could. Indiana Time and Bananas in Indiana came over the night before and helped us with the finishing touches. Indiana Tim even build and brought a TARDIS! If you don't know what that is, it is a time machine that is bigger on the inside.

I moved a million miles per hour the entire event. I arrived easily and hid the boxes and wrote up the clues before it started. Then we had people showing up and hour earlier that were not expected. I kept running around showing people where to go, where to put things, plans for today, and so on. I don't think I actually slowed down until the last couple hours!
The news said it was going to rain and rain it did. Muggy and wet beginning to the event but it didn't rain the entire time. It a tally was beautiful weather after everyone left! We had 10 traditional Doctor Who themed letterboxes hidden on the property. There isn't a lot of trees or hiding spots at the church so everything was hidden pretty close to the building. This issue with this is that everyone started snatching up the boxes! An announcement was made to leave the boxes be until people got clues. I had three sets of clues printed and out for people to find the boxes. However, no matter how many times I repeated myself, people kept asking when I was going to give out clues. Having all of the boxes in a small area I didn't want everyone to flood to them so I only had three sets. I announced that all the clues were out. People still asked. Oh well.

 

We had tons of food. I made many announcements online to those attending to check to see if anything they were bringing contained peanuts so they can be put on a separate table. I am allergic to peanuts. No one brought peanuts, which was nice.

 

We had a trivia PowerPoint and music running for the beginning which was pretty cool. Later we played some episodes of Doctor Who. There were many people there who didn't know anything about Doctor Who and some who did. We even had people dress up!

The only scheduled event we has was the raffle. I got many donations from all over for the event raffle. Logbooks, gift cards, Doctor Who stuff, and a lot of other cool stuff. I wrapped everything up so that no one knew what they were getting. However, in order to participate in the raffle you had to bring a can good for my church's food pantry. Each person could get one ticket per item on the list that they brought, for up to 3 items. It was an awesome turn out! We raised 152 items to donate to the food pantry!

 

 

 

The closer we got to 6 p.m. more and more people left. In the last hourish I got to sit down and stamp the mound of travelers and trade sig stamps and finally calm down! The event turned out better than I thought it would. We had a great turn out and a lot of people came. I had a great time planning and hosting this event. I think I'll wait until I'm done with college before I host another!
When I got, home low and behold my letterboxing bag had cooties in it! That was quiet the surprise!
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who carved and donated stamps for the traditional series. Thanks to everyone who donated items for the raffle and to everyone who helps set up and tear down. Special thanks to Indiana Tim for bring the TARDIS and of course, thanks to everyone who came!

 

 

 

teehee! I ended up with the 1st Doctor's face on my hand!

 

Check out more photo from the event on my "Event" tab on my blog!

~Catchow




*Notes to attendees:
The event series "Doctor Who: Then and Now" is listed as a Traditional series, not as event boxes. I listed them this way because they are traditional boxes and will be planted permanently; you had to have clues to find them in order; and I based it off a letterboxer who has been hosting events for years.