Most conventions are annual events. At many of the larger cons are rff members indulging their passion for fun, creative dress, and dialog with like-minded readers.
At these cons meet members of several organizations that share the goals and mission of Reading for the Future, including RFF. They meet amid the fun to arrange collaborative activities and projects.
These members are often panelists and workshop presenters at these conventions. These members include authors and artists of the very genre that spawns the cons.
These members show teachers and homeschoolers and parents and librarians how to motivate children to read the books, which books are judged the better ones for such lofty purposes, and how to encourage youth to write for future youth, to pass on the sword as it were. Out of these conventions come the resources that are given freely to those who will teach and share.
OK. OK. I am NOT a sci fi writer. Just a wannabe. I am a fan. I get thrills from my association with these lofty elites of the genre, the authors who work as members of RFF. And there are quite a few. I have read books written by some of them.
To inform you readers of the upcoming conventions, I elected to make an entry to which comments could be added. Those of you who have a convention to list, comment away.
I will get the ball rolling with a comment on Rustycon in Seattle. I'll try to add more. You do the same.
Rustycon for 2011
ReplyDeleteGreater Seattle Area, Seattle, Washington, USA
Jan. 14-16, 2011
Contact: http://www.rustycon.com/contact.htm
Says the website home page:
"Rustycon has a focus on literature, science, art, costumes, and gaming. After dark, we become what might be called a relax-a-con"
Registration: http://www.rustycon.com/register.php
This year's Convention Committee is chaired by RFF member Bobbie Dufault.
3rd Conference On Middle-earth
ReplyDeleteWestford, MA, USA
26 March 2011
http://www.3rdcome.org/contact.html
Contact Info
Registration: Evelyn Ryan — registration@3rdcome.org
Snail mail
The 3rd Conference On Middle-earth
P.O.Box 2085
Albany, NY 12220-0085,
Upcoming Worldcons
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2011: Renovation, Renovation the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, Reno, Nevada, USA
Wednesday 17 August 2011 - Sunday 21 August 2011
email: info@renovationsf.org
postal: Renovation, PO Box 13278, Portland, OR 97123-0278
2012: Chicon 7, Chicon 7 the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Thursday 30 August 2012 - Monday 3 September 2012
email: info@chicon.org
postal: PO Box 13, Skokie, IL 60076
Look for education workshop(s) of the type that advances the RFF mission at WorldCon, Reno, NV.
SFContario
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Nov. 19-21, 2010
Ramada Plaza Hotel
300 Jarvis St.
Toronto, Canada
Register: http://sfcontario.ca/reg
Download registration form: http://sfcontario.ca/documents/Registration%20form.pdf
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Norwestcon
Apr. 21-24, 2011
Doubletree Hilton Seattle Airport
18740 International Boulevard
SeaTac, WA
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ConDor
www.condorcon.org
Feb. 25-27, 2011
Town and Country Resort and Convention Center
500 Hotel Circle North
San Diego, California 92108
Contact:ConDor
P.O.Box 15771
San Diego, CA 92175-5771
Guest Liaison is RFF member Val Ontell
Featured Guest: Gregory Benford
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Rustycon
www.rustycon.com
Seattle Airport Marriot
Seattle, WA
Jan. 14-16, 2011
Early registration: $40.00 until Nov 15, 2010
Register: http://www.rustycon.com/register.php
Featured Guest: Patricia Briggs
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Bubonicon 43
http://bubonicon.com/
Date not yet given:
Organizational info to be distributed in March and May 2011.
Contact:NMSF Conference
PO Box 37257
Albuquerque, NM 87176
Featured Guests: Stephen Leigh / S.L. Farrell
All info below is from the Bubonicon page on Facebook:
ReplyDeleteBubonicon is currently deciding on a theme for the convention #43, which will be in August.
http://www.bubonicon.com
General Information:
Bubonicon 43 memberships go on sale in mid-November! Bubonicon 43 Dealer Info online January 2011. Guest invitations go out in early March 2011. And Art Show rules & forms online next May! We are open to suggestions, comments and questions…
August 26-28, 2011 [date of convention]