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If you’ve played 2009′s “Ghostbusters: The Video Game,” you’re aware of the haunted artifacts that you need to collect. Just consider this the real version. You’ll go around the Cahaba Grand and look for the items listed below. Once you find them, whip out your trusty smartphone and scan the QR code. The link will take you to a website where you’ll hear a brief story about each item. Take a photo of yourself with it, then continue on. When you find them all, come back to the ALGB table and prove it.

There are two prizes:

1. If you’re the first regular festival attendee to find all the items, you will win your choice of a shirt from the Alabama Ghostbusters online shirt store. You pick, we pay and have it shipped to you. You’ll also get a certificate acknowledging your accomplishment.
2. If you’re a GB franchise member, you will win the “Spores, Molds and Fungus” award Saturday night at the private GB-only dinner.

The scavenger hunt happens only on Saturday, May 25, and you must find all the items and claim your victory by 6 p.m.

We’re not showing you the photos of the items because we want to make it a little bit harder, but here is a list of what you’ll be looking for. You can always reference the video game artifacts online to help a little, though. Good luck!

• Summoner Bell
• Stay Puft Figure
• Asmodeus’ Hotline
• 3-Toed Jenkins’ Midnight Goose
• Ali El-Baluu’s Irksome Rug
• Possessed Bell-Bottom Jeans
• Broccoli Queen Autobiography
• Swiss Death Clock
• The Unruly Beard of V. Belascu
• Singing Slime
• Cruel Oven
• The Skull of Ivo Shandor
• Phantom Flush Toilet
• Ghostbusters DVD
• Traffic Cone
• Reluctant Reading Lamp
• Wheel of Alabaster Wretch

Friday

Ernie Hudson Q&A
5:30 p.m. – Main Stage

• Join moderator Robin Shelby as she hosts a Q&A with original Ghostbuster, Winston Zeddemore himself, Ernie Hudson!

Saturday

Mass Hysteria!
1 p.m. – Main Stage

• Join Ernie Hudson, Robin Shelby and the Alabama Ghostbusters for a Q&A about all things Ghostbusters. This will be a live recording for the ALGB podcast, so come with questions for our guests!
  

Who you gonna call?
2:30 p.m. – Room 3

• The Alabama Ghostbusters, that’s who. Join the ALGB as they discuss their organization, charitable work and their new web series.

Sunday

Web Films, the New Frontier?
1 p.m. – Room 3

• Join our panelists as they discuss the opportunities and challenges of producing their own films for the web (Adam Schwartz, ALGB member and series director will be on the panel).

I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost
2:30 p.m. – Main Stage

• Join Robin Shelby for a Q&A about all things Ghostbusters and beyond.

If you have signed up, but cannot make it to APF/MH, please let us know so we can remove you from the list and possibly add someone who is attending.

To celebrate our upcoming Mass Hysteria event at Alabama Phoenix Festival, we now have MH logo shirts and buttons available! Larger sizes are available upon request. Get these before the event because they’ll be gone after it!

http://alabamagb.spreadshirt.com

As part of the festivities for Mass Hysteria, there will be awards handed out at the dinner that Saturday night. Here is the list so you can start preparing your props and outfits for APF!

“Who’s the Stiff?”
Best solo costume

“Keymaster & Gatekeeper”
Best couple costume
If you can get your significant other to indulge in your geekiness , you should be rewarded.

“You can keep the five bucks!”
Best inexpensive prop
We always celebrate the elaborate and expensive props, so it’s time to celebrate the MacGyvers of the prop builders.

“Egon’s Guinea Pig”
Best custom prop

“Spores, Molds and Fungus”
Be the first to collect ALL the haunted artifacts in the scavenger hunt.

“Ramblin’ Man”
Goes to whoever can best explain how the Ghostbusters’ equipment could work.
This would be excellent for competition, especially when explaining things for our kids’ track. Named in honor of the Alabama Ghostbusters’ own Kyle Stevens.

The awards are currently being designed, and we’ll unveil them closer to the event!

The Mass Hysteria dinner will take place Saturday, May 25, 2013, at 8 p.m. CDT. We’ll have the dinner at Fox and Hound, and it’s extremely easy to find. If you’re staying at the host hotel, the Hilton Perimeter Park, walk left as you go out the front door, go down the hill and you’re there! If you’re not staying at the Hilton, then click here for directions. You can view the menu on the website (the food is awesome!).

Right now we’re booked for 50 people, and we’re not terribly far from that number for sign-ups. We need to give them a more accurate head count closer to time, so please sign up if you plan on joining us for dinner with our special guests.

We just wanted to let you know that everything is coming along smoothly! We’ll hopefully have details on the dinner with Ernie and Robin soon. We’re scouting out the location next week and can hopefully reserve it.

Don’t forget to sign up! If you’re a GB franchise member anywhere, we’ll have some SWAG for you as our “thank you” for attending. However, we need to know you’re coming, so get to it!

Two of our honorary members mark their return to Birmingham as Ernie Hudson (“Winston Zeddemore”) and Robin Shelby (“Slimer”) will appear at Alabama Phoenix Festival, May 24-26, 2013!

With over 100 film and television credits on his resume, Ernie Hudson has always been a unique screen presence, capable of inhabiting any role. Hudson is strongly identified with his starring role as Warden Leo Glynn on the critically acclaimed HBO series “Oz.” For his portrayal of the fair-minded warden, Hudson won the International Press Academy Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Drama Series. Hudson just wrapped the highly prestigious original TNT film “The Ron Clark Story” starring opposite Matthew Perry. During this same year, Hudson starred in a wide variety of films including the award-winning HBO film “Lackawanna Blues,” “Miss Hotchiss’ Charm School,” and “Miss Congeniality 2” reprising his role as FBI Asst. Director Harry McDonald. Hudson also starred in the ABC series “10-8” as Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes. Hudson is especially proud of his portrayal of simple-minded handyman Solomon in the box-office smash “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle.”

On the opposite side of the spectrum, Hudson remains a beloved icon as Winston Zeddemore, one of the original Ghostbusters.

Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, a career as a performer seemed like an unlikely path for young Ernie Hudson, who was already married with a young son when he enrolled at Wayne State University as a Speech and English major. Hudson’s early ambition was to be a writer, and for a time served as the resident playwright at Detroit’s Concept East, the oldest black theater company in the country. Later, he founded Actors Ensemble Theater, where he and other black performers staged and appeared in their own original works. After attending Wayne State, Hudson accepted a full writing/acting scholarship to the prestigious Master of Fine Arts Program at Yale University. This led to a number of regional theater roles and critical acclaim, and his feature film debut in “Leadbelly.”

Hudson earned roles in feature films like “The Main Event” with Barbra Streisand, “The Jazz Singer” with Neil Diamond, and television projects like Abby Mann’s acclaimed mini-series “King” and the highly-rated “Roots II.” In 1983, Hudson was anointed as original Ghostbuster Winston Zeddemore and his star was born. Hudson subsequently starred in films such as “Weeds” with Nick Nolte, “Leviathan,” “Sugar Hill,” “The Cowboy Way,” “Speechless,” “The Basketball Diaries” opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, “Congo,” and “The Crow” opposite the late Brandon Lee.

When he’s not working, Hudson likes to spend time relaxing at home with his wife and family and remains committed to developing all facets of his creativity, including his writing.

Robin worked on the visual effects team that brought “Ghostbusters 2″ to life. In fact, she was the actress in the costume portraying “Slimer” in GB2! Robin Shelby can also be seen in such films as “Beverly Hills Cop III,” “Willow” and “3 Wise Women,” as well as the upcoming independent film “Democracy at Work.” On TV you may have seen her in shows such as “Cybill” and “The Home Court.” She is also the creator, producer and star of the exciting new comedy web series “Far from the Tree.”

APF 2013 will also be the debut of Mass Hysteria, a large gathering of Ghostheads from all around the Southeast! There will be awards, a dinner with our guests and all kinds of activities for fans of all ages! Keep checking the MH site for plans!

There are more details to come, but rest assured Ernie and Robin will be part of panels and ALGB and Mass Hysteria activities. Please come on out, meet our dear friends and have a great time at APF!