Thank you a lot for coming to PoleCon 2024 BACK within the DMV!
This is my ninth, stay PoleCon as CEO/proprietor, the thirteenth total stay occasion since its founding, and it simply retains rising!
From one attendee: “This year was just as amazing as last year, if not even more so! So glad that it will be in MD again next year too! So many great workshops and just a great place to see friends across the pole community and make more friends as well!”
PoleCon 2024 formally had ~1,425 folks attend, together with attendees, exhibitors, and workshop leaders over the course of the weekend; not everyone seems to be on the conference all at one time and never all of us are in a single place on a regular basis. This is a slight improve from final yr and featured attendees coming from as distant as New Zealand!
We added extra distributors this yr, some enjoyable crafting workshops, and X-POLE introduced their unimaginable aerial rig, debuting a flying pole playground.
Showcases
We reprised 20 distinctive showcases highlighting the range of pole all through the weekend.
Black Girls Pole Showcase on Friday evening stays the biggest showcase with probably the most stay attendance.
This yr we additionally continued our multi-camera livestream, that includes all showcases free/pay-what-you-can on our YouTube channel. At one level we had greater than 1,000 folks concurrently watching the livestream! Unfortunately, YouTube has blocked the replay on most of the days attributable to copyright points.
We might be posting particular person HD movies on our YouTube channel per common as soon as we obtain them from our superb videographer. Any video that doesn’t seem is due to music copyright points on that platform NOT as a result of we censored it OR as a result of a performer has requested their video not be posted.
People from all walks of life, all gender expressions, all colours, all shapes, and all sizes carried out on our stage and had a good time!
PoleCon actually is a household affair, and a number of other generations of pole dancers and pole dance fanatics got here to participate in some facet of the Convention. This yr we even had just a few parent-child duets which have been particularly emotional.
Survey and Next Year
Per final yr, after I assessment survey responses (happening now!) I could make some changes to points of the occasion transferring ahead. I’ll write one other weblog to clarify the adjustments so y’all are ready.
Where are we going for 2025?
After touring from place-to-place since its founding, I’m blissful to report that PoleCon has discovered a house on the Maryland Live! Hotel and Casino for the foreseeable future.
We might be returning the identical weekend May 29-June 1 in 2025.
AND
To present extra alternatives for extra folks to be concerned within the occasion, PoleCon is debuting PoleCon: West! September 5-7, 2025, on the Hyatt Regency Denver in Denver, Colorado.
The occasion might be barely smaller as we check to see how operating two large-scale, convention-style occasions goes. It will comply with the identical primary PoleCon format with showcases, a vendor space, and workshops. We will function some new showcases at this occasion.
More details about find out how to be part of each occasions might be coming within the subsequent few months.
From an attendee: “I feel protecting PoleCon in MD was an awesome option to proceed bettering the expertise, and I’m so thrilled the West Coast will get an opportunity to expertise this superb occasion as properly. Thank you for offering a weekend of enjoyable, progress, and inspiration for all Pole folks (: “
Keep tagging #polecon2024 in your recollections and we’ll hold sharing them!
Thank you for believing in PoleCon and locally all of us love and assist.
Colleen Jolly is an entrepreneur and a pole dance fanatic. She has been poling for 12 years, is the CEO of PoleCon and the Executive Director of the IPIA. She teaches pole, lyra, floorwork, and mobility on-line and in-person within the DC metro space. She has been energetic in management roles in a number of worldwide companies over the previous 20 years and can be an award-winning pole dancer, artist, author, and speaker. She is licensed in a number of motion modalities and wrote the e book “Mobility for Pole” to assist pole dancers transfer higher.