A Distant Shore (Beauty and the Beast convention)

A Distant Shore was a set of two Beauty and the Beast (TV) conventions held on the West Coast.
It generated the con zine A Distance Shore.
==Part of a Series==
Theses cons were part of an organized series of annual national Beauty and the Beast fan gatherings held in North America.
== Videotape Dispute== 
Reported in Of Love and Hope v.3:
From a fan's 1995 con report: 
==Post Convention Split==
Following the first convention, Carousels & Caverns Community, the club that organized the event, split into two groups. Serendipity, headed by D'vora Pariente who had led the marketing arm of the club and Carousels & Caverns Community. Two open letters were published to the Of Love and Hope mailing list v.3 outlining the split and the underlying dispute.
The Carousels & Caverns Community alleged that D'vora Pariente had transferred all of the convention funds to her own accounts, along with the licensed merchandise, and had failed to pay both the convention debts and the fan artists. The club had also not received any of the financial records that would allow them to help determine what debts remained. As a result, they announced they would not be liable for any debts.
D'vora Pariente responded by stating that she had personally paid the artists and had given them over $20,000 in her own money. She explained that she would not be addressing any of the other issues (such as the transfer of funds, licensed merchandise or the outstanding debts) and that she had already turned over the financial records. She then indicated she would be "taking legal action" against the club for slander.
It is unclear if the matter was ever resolved. In a later letter to the Of Love and Hope newsletter the club indicated that D'vora eventually paid all the artists except for two who were still owed $2,600. The club then offered to help raise funds to pay the artists. At the 1996 Beauty and the Beast convention "A Kingdom By The Sea", the Carousels & Caverns Community auctioned off donated costumes for that purpose.
The fallout for the unpaid artists led the 1996 "A Kingdom by the Sea" convention organizer to send the following announcement to the Of Love and Hope newsletter:
==1995==
"A Distant Shore I" was held in 1995 in Los Angeles, CA. It was subtitled The Fairy Tale Continues…. 
The convention also published a charity zine under the same name: A Distant Shore.
This con was referred to as "the sixth annual national Beauty & the Beast convention" in The Mirror Pool #3.
The guests of honor were Roy Dotrice, Edward Albert, David Greenlee, Jay Acovone, Caitlin O'Heaney, Ren Woods, K.C. Miles, Bill Calvert, Cory Danizer, John Franklin, Terri Hanauer, Ellen Geer, Ritch Brinkley, Howard Gordon, Steven Kurzfeld, Ron Koslow, Robert Sigman (President/CEO of Republic Entertainment and several representatives from the Marketing Department), David Schwartz. Ron Perlman stopped in briefly and said a few words.
A collection of photographs from the convention can be found here and additional photos, memories and videos can be found here and here. 
The 1995 Beauty and the Beast Fan Quality Awards were also handed out at this convention. 
Various contents were held, including a music video, a contest for design of the centerpiece for the banquet, a content for designing "A Distant Shore" convention T-shirt, front and back, and a contest for designing for the convention's official letterhead. A panel on "cyberfandom' was held on Saturday titled: "Fandom in Cyberspace".
Off-site tours of interest to fans were titled "Catherine and Vincent's Excellent Adventure," a nine-bus tour that included a visit to Griffith Park and tunnels where the show was filmed, driving by the Catherine Chandler's apartment building, a ride on a carousel, attending a play starring Ellen Geer, and possibly a visit to Universal Studios. 
The event was organized by members of the Carousels & Caverns Community: Mike Maloney, D'vora Pariente, Erick Jonasson, Rose Badgett, and Diane Jonasson.
From Of Love and Hope v.2:
An expanded as was placed in Of Love and Hope v.2:
The convention organizers also released an open letter to fandom addressing the Beauty and the Beast Classic Wars. Also see Beauty and the Beast: The Classic vs. Season 3 Fandom Split.
After the event Linda Moore floated the idea to pool convention photographs and create an ordering catalog. From Of Love and Hope v.2:
The catalog was published in Sept 1995 with contributions from 4 photographers and consisted of 36 pages of photos that that fans could order as reprints. It sold for $2.5 to cover printing costs.
File:surfinvinnie.jpg|convention shirt
File:distantshoretote1995-2.jpg|other side of the tote bag for 1995, artist: Jamie Murray
File:distantshoretote1995.jpg|one side of the tote bag for 1995, artist: Jamie Murray
===Art Show===
Winners as reported in Of Love and Hope #2:
===Convention Reports===
==2000==
"A Distant Shore II" was held in 2000 in Los Angeles, CA and was subtitled Remember Love. It was organized by The Carousels and Caverns Community (CCC) fan club. The archived website can be found here. Additional photos, memories and videos can be found here.[WebCite.
One of the proposed convention projects was "Distant Shore II: Remember Love Calendar Project", a 365-day Beauty and the Beast day calendar. It is unclear whether the calendar was ever published. From the online flyer: 
==References==
Category:Beauty and the Beast Conventions
Category:1995 Conventions
Category:2000 ConventionsCategory:Conventions in United States