Those of you who have been curious about Can-Con (whether about the convention last year or the one planned for September this year) soon will have their curiosity rewarded.

Next Sunday, Jan. 30, the Ottawa Science Fiction Society (OSFS) will have a number of members of Can-Con’s organizing committee come to show and describe the events of last ( Read more... )

There is a convention known as FutureCon starting tomorrow (31 Dec.) in Toronto.

What does that have to do with Can-Con? Just this: there will be a Chocolate-Tasting party to promote Can-Con held tomorrow evening in the Con Suite. For more precise details, please consult your FutureCon Pocket Programme.

Hostess Shelley has promised fascinating ( Read more... )

With apologies to all who expected a meeting of the 2011 organizing committee on 5 Oct.; it was postponed. The latest information is that it will be delayed till sometime next week.

Simply put, Real Life has gotten in the way. We found someone to join the committee, but his available hours and those of (a couple of) us on the committee do not ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening, a number of us (including popelaksmi, kallisti, dewline, Tsivia, meloncolliepoet and yours truly) met to plan next year’s edition of Can-Con, the Little Con that Could. While we were lucky to get as far as we did, luck will not always suffice. Hence the planning for next year’s edition of the convention is now underway.

Some things now made definite include:

• The name ( Read more... )

The convention may be over (as of Sunday), but suffice to say that it was awesome and (as the contemporary idiom still goes) totally rocked!

For me the con started on Friday with popelaksmi picking me up to corral supplies for the Con Suite. The run-up had been going on for weeks, and the concerns over it - after all, this con has been on hiatus for nine ( Read more... )

Hello, all.

May I present a short list of some proposed discussions and workshops that are to be included in the upcoming Can-Con convention in Ottawa. This is not a complete list; if someone has a suggestion (and/or would like to help lead the discussion as a panelist) this is your last chance to speak up and let us know!

The list of proposed ( Read more... )