For the last 15 years, Escapade has maintained a scholarship program that is funded by generous attendee contributions and the con com. It has assisted more than 20 attendees who, for financial reasons, might not otherwise have been able to attend Escapade. The scholarship program represents two of many great ideals of slash fandom: community and support.

This year, to acknowledge and remember a fannish hostess, one of Escapade’s star ambassadors, and dear friend who embodied both of these ideals, we will endow the Sandy Herrold Memorial Escapade Scholarship.

We have invited greensilver to be the first recipient of the Sandy Herrold scholarship.

As always, the general scholarship fund will support any attendees (regardless of vidder status) until every dollar of the fund is used up.

We have not received nominees for non-vidder scholarship recipients! If you know a fan who A) would like to attend Escapade, B) can’t make the finances of attending a weekend-long convention make sense, and C) would be willing to volunteer 5 hours on site (bonus points if they would be willing to co-moderate panels), please nominate this person by sending us an email (info@escapadecon.net). Include name, contact information, a link to their website if they write/vid/art, and why you think they would be good scholarship recipients. We will do our best to decide and get information out to potential recipients as quickly as possible.

Past recipients of the Escapade Scholarship include:

• Anne (Limlaith)
• Cereta
• Dorinda
• Maygra de Rhema
• Merry Lynne
• Nonie Rider
• Taz
• Te
• Valentin

Your Financial Contributions.
If you would like to contribute to the scholarship fund (100% of your contribution will go directly to recipient expenses) you can contribute by Paypal or by check to Escapade, P.O. Box 1753, Goleta, CA 93116. Any amount, from $10 to $200 helps!