Fantastic Fest 3 is playing now through Sept. 27 at the Alamo South in Austin, Texas. This film festival features about 60 science fiction, fantasy and horror movies, along with 50 filmmaker guests. “If you talk to most filmmakers and hardcore film geeks, the movies that made them love movies were the genre films they […]
The next Chiller Theatre Expo, which focuses on toys, models and film, will be held Oct. 5-7 at the Hilton in Parsippany, N.J. Guests include Elvira, Val Kilmer, Henry Winkler and Catherine Bach. For more information, visit www.chillertheatre.com.
The 5th Philippine Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, New Worlds 5, will be held Oct. 27, 2007, at the Glorietta Activity Center in — you guessed it — The Philippines. For more information, visit www.newworlds.ph.
This weekend, at Nippon2007, the 65th Worldcon, in Yokohama, Japan, it was officially announced that the 67th World Science Fiction Convention (or WorldCon) will be held in Montreal, Quebec, at the Palais des congrès de Montréal from Aug. 6- 10, 2009. The guest of honor will be Neil Gaiman (The Sandman: Book of Dreams, Good […]
The annual Great Jack O’ Lantern Blaze and Legend Weekend is coming up in October and features an elaborate display of more than 4,000 hand-carved pumpkins, and an opportunity to see the Headless Horseman make his fabled ride. (more…)
I’ve already received information for conventions in 2008. For now, I’ll post them here. But I hope to have a searchable database of events and venues ready before the end of the year. If you’d like to help speed that project along, visit the Support page.
February 21-24, 2008
Total Confusion
Mansfield, Mass
Holiday Inn
Focus: Gaming
www.totalcon.com
March 21-24, 2008
Orbital 2008
2008 British National Science Fiction Convention
London, United Kingdom
Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow
www.orbital2008.org (more…)
The Women in Games International conference will take place at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007, from 11 am to 5 pm. the keynote speaker will be Dona C. Bailey, creator of the Centipede video game, one of the first video games to incorporate artificial intelligence. She’ll be taking […]
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Haunted Amusement Park Closed Lake Shawnee Amusement Park may be haunted by spirits. www.wvva.com/News/index.php?ID=15480 World Series of Video Games The World Series of Video Games (WSVG) Presented by Intel will make its first-ever stop on Canadian soil this summer, at the Fan Expo Canada at the Metro Toronto Convention Center, August 24-26. www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2007/08/c4730.html New Convention […]
Aug. 10-12, 20072Pi-ConClarion Sovereign HotelWest Springfield, Mass.Guest of Honor: CE Murphypi-con.org Aug. 17-19, 2007Con-Version 23Calgary Radisson HotelCalgary, Alberta, CanadaGuest of Honor: Jack McDevittwww.con-version.org For more genre travel information, visi https://thegenretraveler.com.