Speaking of popular series past and present, does anyone know of a fan group in Ottawa - however informal - devoted to The X-Files? Farscape?

Could this particular event be one of interest to local fandom?

Or this one, perhaps?

Ladies, gents, respected others:

The Ottawa SF Society is going to have an informal supper meeting at Colonnade Pizza West, 1463 Merivale Road on Oct. 25th, 6 PM.

Anyone interested from any of the local fandoms - Trekkers, Browncoats, Whovians, Galacticans, anyone I've not mentioned - is welcome to join us! Please RSVP to Sheila Brown at "

In case you're in the neighbourhood and you're interested?

The Can-Con 2012 Reading Club's latest meeting!

You might be interested in this.

Star Trek: Triton. A fanfilm operation starting up in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, organized by one Jason Marshall. They're looking for talent on several fronts, looks like...

Derek Kunsken, our head of programming with Can-Con 2012, presented panel and event suggestions at last night's Organizing Committee meeting. All 68 will be posted to the website for comment Real Soon Now.

I was there for that meeting, the list was extensive, and we look forward to hearing back from you about it!

Quoth Elizabeth Buchan-Kimmerly from the CAN-CON Facebook group:

The Organizing Committee for CAN-CON 2012 will be meeting at 318 Clemow Ave. on Saturday July 7 at 7 PM.

Agenda includes:

• Volunteers and Volunteering (we really hope those who are interested in volunteering can make it)
• A presentation on the current status of Program Tracks.
• Reports on the ( Read more... )

• In support of CAN-CON 2012, the Ottawa Science Fiction Convention Hayden Trenholm and Matt Moore will be offering two half-day workshops: one on Dialogue and the other on Character Development. These workshops follow a very successful winter workshop on writing science fiction, fantasy and horror.
• The Dialogue Workshop will run from 9am-12pm on ( Read more... )

Who'd be interested in a party organized around the landing of Curiosity?

Further news: apparently the hopefully-joyous event is expected to happen at 1:30 AM EST.

The CAN-CON ConComm has a little something set up for tomorrow. Some discussion of a couple of homegrown short stories.

Details here.