Informal Activities!
With the con less than two weeks away, it's time to talk about NON-PANEL ACTIVITIES for a minute. As awesome as our panels are going to be, they're only going to take up four hours of each day. So here is some detail about some of the other options for whiling away your time in our little beige paradise.
Let's start with a note about "informal" activities (room parties, alterna-panels, Apples to Apples tournaments, etc.): feel free to plan them! Feel free to use the Dreamwidth comm to plan them! As long as what you're planning is legal, won't get us in trouble with the hotel, and doesn't directly interfere with official activities (meaning it does not require the space or equipment that is reserved for those activities), GO FOR IT. This is your con, we want you to spend your time doing things you enjoy. If you're using the comm to plan an informal activity, we recommend you use the "informal events" tag to help your fellow partiers find it.
Aside from that, here's the scoop on some of the activities we have planned:
ONGOING ACTIVITIES (to take place in the Catterall room)
The Catterall will be open for general hanging-out from 8 a.m. – midnight on both Saturday and Sunday, with the exception of the vidshow/dance party on Saturday night and the Jupiter Ascending watch party Sunday night.
The con library
The idea behind the con library is to provide a repository for fic, vids, and whatever else you feel like sharing for your fellow fen to enjoy throughout the con. However, the con library is only as bitchin' as you care to make it, so print up your fic, burn your vids to disc, print out your fanart, burn CDs or DVDs of other media you'd like to share (pimp your fandoms!), whatever strikes your fancy.
Whatever con library items are left on the table after 3 pm on Sunday will be free to a good home, so if you want to hold on to your own contributions, please make sure you remove them from the table before that deadline. Also, this is obviously a fabulous and good-natured group, but large numbers of people and sleep deprivation being what they are, PLEASE don't contribute anything to the con library that you couldn't bear to lose if it were to be misplaced.
The craft table
Our craft table actually tends to be MULTIPLE tables, festooned with glitter and glue and images of attractive people and various other tools to create your great fannish work of art. If you have items of a crafty nature (glitter, glue, images of attractive people, etc.) that you would be willing and able to share to help populate the table, please feel free to bring them!
The swap table
More precisely, this is the "giving stuff away" table, but that doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Got any fannish goodies lying around (old DVDs, zines, books, etc.) that you're willing to give away to a good home? Bring them to the swap table and make another fan's day!
PLEASE NOTE: Any items left on the swap table after the conclusion of the con will be thrown away/recycled.
OTHER GROUP ACTIVITIES
Trick viewing, Friday, 8 – 9:30 pm. Friday night we'll be watching Trick (1999), a silly movie about two dudes who eye each other up on the subway, decide they wanna bang, and then spend the rest of the night wandering around New York City in search of a place to do it. Popcorn and soda provided, heckling the movie characters to get a room welcome.
Rec My Fandom panel, Saturday, 4 – 5:30 pm
Got a fandom that EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD ALSO LOVE? You get five minutes to rec it in whatever way you like: visual aids, interpretive dance, elegiac poem, whatever! We will not be able to provide audiovisual equipment for this panel (IMHO, it's more fun without it anyway!), but anything else goes. There will be a sign-up sheet available throughout the rest of the con, though if you are inspired at the last minute and we've still got time left in the schedule, feel free to volunteer during the panel itself.
Dance partay, Saturday, 9ish – 11ish pm (after the vidshow)
Because a party can't be truly bitchin' without daaaaaaaaaancing. Grab a drink from the bar and get down to a badass mix of music via fanvids, put together by Rhea314. Dance if you wanna dance, sit and watch if you wanna sit and watch, dance and watch at the same time if you think you're that coordinated.
Also: if you'd like, we encourage you to wear something that makes you happy for the vidshow/dance party! Wear something fancy, something funky, something sexy; wear a costume, wear your pajamas, wear jeans, wear the same thing you've been wearing all day—whatever makes you feel good.
Fannish Charades, Sunday, 4 – 5 pm
Basically like Fannish Pictionary but with more vigorous humping of walls. Think you can act out "a coffeshop AU in space" in such a way that someone in a roomful of fen can figure out what the hell you're trying to communicate? Then fannish charades is the place for you! It's gonna be good times.
Jupiter Ascending viewing, Sunday, 7:00 - 9:30 pm
We love dogs. We've always loved dogs. Watching this movie in a room full of people who can truly appreciate the melodrama of SPACE and the appeal of a Space Angel Werewolf Boyfriend in the form of Channing Tatum is an experience not to be missed!