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Costume College 2026 — Los Angeles, CA

Name: Costume College 2026 — Los Angeles, CA
Start: 2026-07-30T17:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-08-04T00:00:00-07:00
Location: 6101 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045

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In 11 days · Thu, Jul 30 – Tue, Aug 4, 2026

Thu 5:00 PM PDT – Tue 12:00 AM PDT

6101 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045

“They built a school for it. Four days of workshops…”

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About

Most people learn to sew a costume from YouTube tutorials and sheer stubbornness. The people who run Costume College decided that costuming deserved something more: an actual school.

Costume College is an annual four-day educational convention produced by the Costumer's Guild West, dedicated to the craft of historical costuming, fantasy construction, and theatrical wear. Not a competition. Not a vendor hall. A conference where the sessions are taught by master costumers, the curriculum runs from corset-making to Regency silhouettes to full armor builds, and the attendees wear their finest work to a formal Gala on Saturday night.

The Gala is the heart of it: hundreds of people in period and fantasy costumes, assembled in a hotel ballroom, celebrating what they have built with their hands. There is no red carpet. The craftsmanship is the event.

Costume College draws serious makers — people who treat costuming as a discipline, not a hobby. If you have ever wanted to understand why a Victorian sleeve hangs the way it does, or how screen-accurate armor is fabricated from thermoplastics, this is the four days that will change how you make things.

July 30 – August 3, 2026 · Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Hotel, 6101 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles · Registration required

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The Transformers: The Movie 40th Anniversary Celebration of Life Concert — SDCC 2026

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Half the fun is that you already know every line, and so does the person on the blanket next to you. Somewhere around "as if," a whole plaza says it at once, and a 1995 movie stops being a movie and becomes a communal recital under the summer dark. Clueless has aged into something sturdier than its own premise -- the satire lands sharper than the nostalgia, the craft more deliberate than it looked the first time -- and outdoors, with a crowd that knows the beats, that shared recognition is the point. Ivy Station sits where Washington meets National, steps from the Expo Line, in a stretch of Culver City that reinvented itself fast over the last decade. The plaza is the neighborhood's living room now, and a film night here reads less like a special occasion than a confirmation: this is what we do here when the evenings turn warm. Bring a blanket or a low chair. The screen goes up at dusk and it is free to attend, no registration required. July 25, 2026, Ivy Station, 8800 Washington Blvd, Culver City. Come for the lines you already have memorized; stay because nobody wants to be the first one to leave.

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In 13 days · Aug 1 – Aug 2 U.S. Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN

Fifty thousand people who all learned to care about this in different decades, in the same building, at the same time - that is the part no title belt can print on a poster, and it is the reason to make the trip. The championships and the storyline payoffs are the official product; the room is the real one. U.S. Bank Stadium turns into a wrestling colosseum for SummerSlam weekend. The main cards run championship bouts, months-long storyline payoffs, and the kind of spectacle that turns a casual observer into a lifelong fan in a single evening. The energy inside a 50,000-seat indoor stadium for wrestling does not resemble any other live event - the crowd is emotionally committed, the narratives are operatic, the production is theatrical. Saturday builds the stakes. Sunday delivers the payoffs. Fan signings and WWE activations run across downtown Minneapolis all weekend. If you have been curious about professional wrestling but never crossed the threshold, this is the entry point. Stadium-scale WWE operates on a different level than a TV taping - the storytelling lands harder when you are surrounded by 50,000 people who have followed these characters for years. For existing fans, SummerSlam is the Super Bowl equivalent: title changes, shocking turns, and moments replayed for decades. A few things worth knowing. Book flights and hotels four to six months out; Minneapolis hotel inventory within five miles of the stadium disappears fast for major events. Lower bowl sections 100-120 give the best proximity and sightlines. The fan events begin Friday before the main Saturday card, and two-night packages are the best value if you can attend both. U.S. Bank Stadium connects directly to downtown's Skyway system, putting pre- and post-show dining and nightlife within walking range, and the North Loop nearby fills with breweries, restaurants, and bars full of wrestling fans all weekend. Minneapolis has hosted the Super Bowl and NCAA Final Four - the hospitality infrastructure is built for major-event crowds, and WWE weekend turns downtown into a reunion for fans arriving from across the Midwest. Professional wrestling is one of America's most underestimated cultural exports - 80 years of mythology and the largest dedicated live entertainment fanbase in the country - and SummerSlam is its championship game. Plan two nights: one to arrive and explore, one to stand inside one of the loudest rooms in American sports entertainment. August 1-2, 2026 at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. Tickets on Ticketmaster.

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