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Welcome

At promptly 6 o'clock, Pansy Nott takes the stage to welcome all attendees. She goes over the schedule for the evening and explains the mission of the chairty, as well as what the charity has done with funds raised at last year's gala.

After finishing her speech, the orchestra strikes up, and Pansy encourages mingling before dinner is served.

Dinner

A four course meal appears intermittently over the half hour. When guests arrive, they select certain specifications on a card at their placesetting, including for vegetarian and/or vegan options and allergies.

Formal Dancing

As the last course--dessert--is served, the orchestra shifts to music more encouraging of formal dancing, allowing those who took the lessons to show off their period-inspired moves. The music is a blend of authentic period music and modern music stylized in different periods.

• Suraya Issawi
Author of three highly successful novels which explore family and relationships through multi-generational stories. Her books span over a thousand years of history and multiple countries, family drama, friendships and how some things never change.


• Erin Harris
Medieval author whose series of novels chronicling the Hogwarts' founders lives and loves caused a ripple of controversy through historian circles, with much debate over the historical accuracy and dramatic license Harris took.


• Ikenna Jaimeson
Ikenna is an author of Nigerian and British descent, acclaimed for his rich descriptions which seem to spring life off the page in a riot of colour and sound. His recently published second novel, The Deepening Beat, explores the rich landscape of multicultural life in Victorian Britain and the early years of Colonial Nigeria, exploring the realities of both muggle industrialisation's affect on Wizarding Britain and the changing landscape of Igbo life in Nigeria with the coming of white rule.


• C. T. Carrington
Author of a dozen Regency and Victorian era romance novels that stay true to the human experience and explore the socio-economic impact on relationships of all sorts. Although not present, C.T. Carrington has sent their agent to sell pre-signed, authenticated books to benefit the charity.

Book Signing

At half past seven, although the orchestra continues, Pansy annouces that the guest authors are set up and ready for the meet and greet book signings. If guests did not bring their own book to be signed, there are books available for purchase, with proceeds to the charity. There is no extra charge for a signature, though the authors each set their own standards for anything extra, like photographs.

• Cade Dupree
Author of the wildly popular Rowland Hazard series, set in the late Victorian era and featuring the clever servant of a detective who solves the mysteries while the detective gets all the credit.


• Nadia Makavana
As the first in her family born outside her homeland of India, Nadia brings rich culture to her historical romance novels, which often focus on arranged political marriages and how the most unexpected people can impact a nation. Nadia is notorious for unexpected, messy endings, insisting that life doesn't always tie things up in neat bows, so why should her books?


• Lesley Wells
A self-described science-fiction and history nerd, Lesley Wells has an affinity for writing time travel novels in which the protagonists have no way home and must live out their lives in the past, often entrenching themselves in the political upheaval of the time and unapologetically including racially and sexually diverse characters.


• Tashiro Akimi
Adopted at age five from Japan, Tashiro experienced a near-complete cultural erasure. Upon coming of age, they went on a journey to the country of their birth, reconnecting with their culture and drawing inspiration for a series of novels which explore the purity of Japanese culture while the country was cut off from the rest of the world. Although written in Japanese, Tashiro translated the novels to English, and they've received something of a cult following.

Concert

At half past 8, the book signing ends, and Pansy announces the start of the concert. The Purple Pixies kick off the event, though showcases also include performances by Violet Nott, Wes Carlisle, and Coira Montague. The gala officially ends at ten o'clock, but the concert continues until midnight.