Last week’s episode of Potterwatch, “Light Through Darkness” is now available for download on our Itunes feed. If you missed the show last night, or just want to listen again, the podcast is a great way to listen again.

We covered a lot in last night’s show, including….

–Why January can be a difficult time of year
–The earthquake in Haiti: How we can cope, and how we can help
–Fair Trade: What it is and why it helps
–A special project related to Emma Watson and Fair Trade
–Flashback: Rwanda Candle Lighting - Bringing light into dark memories (watch the video!)
–Livestream Challenge for our next show on January 23rd (bring someone to listen with you)

We’d love to hear what you thought about the show - good and constructive - so feel free to leave us a comment here with any feedback.

We’ll see you all for Late Night Snack with Andrew Slack on Monday at 9:45pm, and then again on January 27thd for the next live episode of Potterwatch.

Join us for our first show of 2010 this Wednesday!

Throughout this year, we’ll have a live Potterwatch every other Wednesday at 8:30pm EST. We kick off this week by continuing our discussion about stress management and Breaking Out of the Muggle Mindset. We’ll also have a Pledge2Protect update and some news about another new HPA project!

You can listen by by going to the Livestream page on Wednesday night. If you can’t make it to the live show, you can also download the podcast version through the Potterwatch feed in Itunes.

Looking forward to talking to you all Wednesday night!

Hey everyone, tonight’s live DA meeting is now online!

The July 13th DA meeting was hosted by Andrew Slack and Karen Bernstein. Our hosts took questions and discussion ideas from the USTREAM chat, spotlighting the Harry Potter Alliance’s What Would Dumbledore Do? campaign.

Ideas and events discussed during the meeting included:

-  Looking back at Harry and Dumbledore from Order of the Phoenix, and looking forward to the film adaptation
-  A summary the What Would Dumbledore Do? Movie Challenge
-  How to avoid spoiling the story when discussing the WWDD campaign
-  Twitter Takeover! Tweet-and-Retweeting before and after the movie. For details, click on “Twitter Challenge” at whatwoulddumbledoredo.org
-  The HPA in the media: Mashable and Canada.com among those discussing the HPA and WWDD
-  What we can blog, vlog, tweet, and post to show our loyalty to Dumbledore’s spirit
-  Where to share all your awesome WWDD pictures and experiences? Go to thehpalliance.ning.com
-  How we can follow Albus Dumbledore and other visionaries who have used love to defeat injustice
-  Chat evaluations of Andrew’s caffeine intake
-  Snogging stories with Andrew and Karen, inspired by the upcoming Harry-and-Ginny on-screen lip-lock

Direct Download

The recording of last night’s DA Meeting is up! Make sure you tune in tonight on the UStream channel at 8:30pm Eastern for more about the WWDD Twitter Challenge and what you can do on movie night!

Sunday’s live DA meeting on July 12 was hosted by Andrew Slack and Karen Bernstein and included discussions with and questions from the USTREAM audience. This meeting’s excitement focused on the Harry Potter Alliance’s current project: What Would Dumbledore Do?

The many ideas and events discussed included:

-          What is the Harry Potter Alliance’s current, unprecedented, world-wide campaign that combines literature and activism? It’s called What Would Dumbledore Do? (WWDD), and it comes in three parts: Movie Challenge, Twitter Challenge, and the Doctrine.
-          Who will be wearing nametags this week?
-          Tips for approaching people safely and with respect
-          Recording and sharing your WWDD experiences
-          The 36-hour Epic Try: A Twitter Takeover! Visit whatwoulddumbledoredo.org and click on “Twitter Challenge” to get all the details and start Retweeting.
-          How to find or start a local HPA chapter?  Go to the HPA mainpage and click on “Chapters”
-          Adding “HP the Musical” to the to-do list
-          How to send show ideas to Oprah, Ellen, and the Today Show
-          What’s the goal of WWDD?
-          How the Harry Potter Alliance and What Would Dumbledore Do? campaign is working as a connection to all social justice issues around the world
-          Questions on Tweeting, Retweeting, contacting Oprah, Ellen, and the Today Show? Send these and other general inquiries to dumbledore@thehpalliance.org

Direct Download here

Hey everybody, apologies for the lateness. We had some technical difficulties with our podcasting service. And without further ado:

At our live DA meeting on June 10, Andrew Slack, Hope Mullinax, and Karen Bernstein had a fabulous discussion with each other and the listeners in the USTREAM chat about the Harrry Potter Alliance’s What Would Dumbledore Do? campaign, which was launched at LeakyCon 2009.

Among the many ideas and actions discussed were:

-Why is it important to think about what Dumbledore taught us?
-What is What Would Dumbledore Do? and how long will this campaign last?
-How to harness the media blitz surrounding the movies to bring attention to important causes and events that might otherwise go unreported or under reported
-How Dumbledore moved from an inspirational, untouchable “God-like” character to a more relatable human being in the later books and what we can learn from this transformation
-How we can all be true to the spirit of Albus Dumbledore
-Harry’s hero complex and how our human experience can help us when working on difficult issues like genocide and poverty
-The differences between a wizarding mindset and the muggle mindset when it comes to issues of social justice and social action
-The impact of death and grief on our own lives
- How can you get involved? Blog on the Common Room, post a video response to the WWDD video on the Harry Potter Alliance’s YouTube channel, or contact dumbledore@thehpalliance.org for other ways to get involved.
-The USTREAM chat room discusses bacon, and Andrew, Karen and Hope call Paul DeGeorge and wish him a happy 30th birthday.

Direct Download link: http://media.libsyn.com/media/hpapotterwatch/06_10_09_DA_Meeting_WWDD01.mp3

Today, July 21 2008 the HP Alliance invites the entire Harry Potter fandom to celebrate the ONE year anniversary of Deathly Hallows with our new official podcast: Potterwatch, introduced by Jim Dale!

Eleven days later, July 31st, we’ll be inviting everyone to celebrate the ELEVENTH year anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone!

ONE and ELEVEN are incredibly symbolic years for Harry: when he turned one he was sent out of the Wizarding World and into the Muggle World. When he turned eleven he was invited back from the Muggle World and into the Wizarding World. And since July 21 to July 31 is ELEVEN DAYS the HP Alliance is launching the ELEVEN DAYS of Breaking out of the Muggle Mindset!

How the Eleven Days Work
Every day from July 21 to Harry’s birthday on July 31 the HPA main page will have a simple exercise to help each of us tap into the magic of our creativity – away from the Muggle Minded world of Privet Drive and into the magic and mystery that Harry discovered at Hogwarts. We’ll also be discussing each activity from each day in our forums section.

Day One: Celebrating DH Day
We are SOOOOO EXCITED to introduce the Official Podcast of the HPA!

Today’s activity is to listen to this podcast. The podcast gives a good introduction to these Eleven Days of celebrating this momentous anniversary - and then go to the discussion on our forum section to share what YOU were doing when you received Deathly Hallows one year ago!

So enjoy and HAPPY BIRTHDAY Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter, and let’s remember the words of Jo Rowling: “we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” Together as members of Dumbledore’s Army for the real world let’s come together over these next eleven days and learn how to imagine better.

To Subscribe:
Although the HPA’s Potterwatch is not (yet) in the iTunes Store, you can still subscribe to Potterwatch through iTunes! Go to Advanced -> Subscribe to Podcast and enter this URL: http://hpapotterwatch.libsyn.com/rss

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