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Art Auction Stuff Friday's auction is cancelled. If there are a minimum of 20 pieces of art with 7 bids by Saturday at 11AM there will be an auction at noon. Lists will be posted. The bidding for the Sunday Noon Auction will close at 7PM Saturday. Lists will be posted. Bidding for the FINAL Sunday Auction closes at 3PM on Sunday!! The final auction will be held shortly afterward. Buyers can pick up on Monday from 9 AM to 3PM. Anonymous Tai Chi will meet in Truffles on Friday and Sunday at 8:30 AM; this is a room change. Shotokan Karate Demo Saturday 8:30-9:45 am, Regency C Participants: Dr. Keith Kato, Kenn Bates A karate workshop. Come dressed in loose clothing and ready to move. This is a non-contact workshop. Tom Whitmore
Fermilab Trip departs from Hyatt West Tower Friday at 1:00pm (we think). See information desk for registration info. Writers of the Future Fri at 7pm in the Buckingham Room will be shortened so that Making Movies from Books may start at 7:45pm. Panelists: Roger Christian, two time Acadamy Award Winner, John Flynn, Brad Linaweaver, Laura Brodian Kelly-Freas, Frank Kelly Freas. Anonymous The Masquerade office is located in the Hyatt, East Tower, room 476. All contestants and volunteers must check in before 9 pm on Friday. Office hours for Friday are 11 am until 9 pm. Photographers wanting to shoot using available light during the show must register for a reserved seat. This can be done in either the Masquerade office or the press office. The Masquerade volunteers’ meeting will take place on Friday at 9 pm in the Masquerade office. The contestants’ meeting will be held in the Crystal room at the Fairmont Hotel at 1 pm on Saturday. Nancy E. Mildebrandt - Director Donate Blood When was the last time you saved someone’s life? What? You haven’t ever done so? Here’s your chance. Donate blood Friday, in the Wrigley Room (Hyatt West Tower), between noon and 6:00 pm, and you will help save a life. This is an important issue to me. I have a sister, who at 27, just had open heart surgery to remove a golfball-sized tumor. If it were not for the platelets she received from an unknown donor, she may not have recovered. You will see me out there giving my pint for the pint she received. And the private party for all the donors is an added plus for donating as well! Sandra Childress Would you like to be a part of this year’s Hugo Award Ceremony on Saturday night? We need people in costume to escort the presenters and winners on and off stage. Your participation could add a lot to this year’s ceremony. Please contact Team Hugo in Hyatt room 512 or you may spot us in the halls. Just look for the Team Hugo hats. Team Hugo Carol Lynn and Grace Geraldine "SF, Roleplaying Games and the Coming of Age" Seminar panel, Friday 8:30 am, room unknown. (Watch for flyers — we’re still scouting for a location.) Is it Gaming’s turn to be recognized as a legitimate art form, as science fiction and fantasy have? Sponsored by Aetherco, hosted by Chris Adams. Chris Adams Come Play With Us! LARP, roleplaying miniature, card, boardgames, Swissôtel, 3rd floor.
Ongoing — Card Demo and various Cheapass Games, LARP, 1st Peace Conference Fri. 8pm. and more! Anonymous The Prometheus Award ceremony will be held Friday 4:00PM-5:00PM in the Fairmont Hotel Crystal Room. The Prometheus Award is sponsored by the Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) to honor the best libertarian SF novel of the past year (1999). Finalists for the Award are Gregory Benford, James Hogan, Ken MacLeod, Neal Stephenson, and Vernor Vinge. In addition, the LFS sponsors the Hall Of Fame award which will be awarded at the ceremony. Finalists are Hans Christian Andersen, Poul Anderson, James Hogan, Sinclair Lewis and L. Neil Smith. Fred Moulton Held in Room 3161, as follows: Evening Chanting at 5 pm Friday through Sunday, followed immediately by Recitation of the Sutra from 5:10 pm to 5:25 pm. Sharon Price Try it at a Hyatt Hyatt rule #1: "Remove Saran Wrap before entering guest’s room." Autographing will take place at the back of Columbus Hall and Grand Ballroom E - F. Autographing by the following people will be at the back of Columbus Hall: Harry Turtledove –
10-11:15 All other authors are in the Grand Ballroom. Kathryn
Daugherty, Program Ops
Two children’s childcare memberships available, $150 each. Contact James Hay at the Swissôtel room #1205 or via the Voodoo Message Board. WSFA Meeting. The Washington Science Fiction Association will be holding a short First Friday meeting at 9 p.m. in the Bucconeer Davy Jones’s Locker Party Suite (Room 2676) in the Hyatt Regency East Tower. We will be making an important announcement. The meeting is open to all Chicon members. At 9:30, there will be a wake for long-time WSFA member Joe Mayhew, who died on June 10th. Registration wishes to tell Karen Cramer Shea and Kenneth Carl Simon: we have your driver’s licenses. Please pick them up! [Photo ID required... -ed.] At the Farscape panel on Friday at 1pm (Fairmont 2nd floor, Embassy), we will be giving away hundreds of free Farscape t-shirts and hats. Craig E. Engler Joshua Merts and Cory Doctorow will be signing books at 2pm at Larry Smith’s table in the dealers’ room and giving away T-shirts to the first seven buyers. A reading at 5:30pm will be in the San Francisco Room at the Hyatt. Sundays 1:00pm reading will have signed copies given away. Anonymous Sign-up is open in Skyway 268 in the Hyatt (not the Fairmont). We are are happy to thank eMerchandise.com for their generous donation to our gophers/ volunteers. Anonymous Eating As a Way Of Life Gossip/News: Extended hours for the Urban Market for the duration of Chicon until at least 10 pm. And the Urban Café was open for dinner at 9pm last night. Wasn’t too crowded, either! Anonymous The House of Blues was practically empty Thursday night. The food was great, service was good, and no waiting! Rose Arias The Szechewan Restaurant on North Michigan is closed for Renovation. Brian Burley
The Fix-It Team is located in the Hong Kong Room, Hyatt Ballroom level, behind the escalator. Telephone number is 4914 and hours are 8 am to 10 pm Friday and 8 am to 7 pm Saturday through Monday. Warm fuzzies, drinks and time to prepare for their item are available to program participants in the Toronto Room, Hyatt Ballroom level, next to the escalator. Hours are 8 am to 6:45 pm Friday through Sunday and 8 am to 2 pm Monday. Anonymous It Don’t Mean a Thing... Swing Dance Instructor (Informal) wanted by Alice Medenwald, (312) 565-7427, or shimmy by the Chancellor Room, 3rd floor, Fairmont. Alice Medenwald, Events Division Go Down The Escalator and Turn Left Cooger and Dark’s Live Stage in Wacker Hall will be starting a bit late, more like 3pm instead of noon. Do you have a talent to show off? There are still open slots for 30-minute acts. If your talent only fills 5 minutes, then the "Open Mike Extravaganza" on Sunday from 2:00-4:00 is for you. Either way, come see the man behind the mixing board. The Decibel Wrangler Behind the Mixing Board BUILD BETTER BRAINS SEVEN WAYS Intellectually fortified, stuffed with nutrients for the mind. Try Ben Bova’s breakfast creation, the ultimate cereal for the modern thinker: FYBERBOOKS Fan Concourse Docent Tours and Events The Fan Concourse offers docent-led tours of the exhibits. Get the real explanation of what all that strange stuff is. Space is limited for most tours. Sign up in advance at the Fan Lounge in Columbus Hall. Meet in front of the exhibit.
History of Worldcons Tours: 2:30 p.m. Friday: Roger "Teddy Bear" Sims, co-chairman of Detention, the 17th Worldcon in 1959, leads a tour of the History of Worldcons exhibit. Come and see what fanac looked like in the '50s, marvel at the slimness of the program books and the sparseness of the programs, and explore how Worldcon has evolved with someone who was there to see it. 1 p.m. Saturday: Bruce Pelz - co-chairman of L.A.con I, the 30th Worldcon in 1972, one of fandom's premier collectors, and the curator of the History of Worldcons exhibit - leads a tour of the exhibit. Come and hear the secrets of the smofs and see what happens if you get bitten by the Kolektin Bug. 4 p.m. Sunday: Author and fan Jack Chalker leads a tour of the History of Worldcons exhibit. A longtime Worldcon goer, and the man who coined the word smof, Jack knows where all the bodies are buried. Come and hear the stories he digs up. The Faces of Fandom Tour, 1 p.m. Friday: What's it take to be a Big Name Fan? Bruce Pelz, creator of the exhibit, leads a tour, with commentary, of the Fan Portrait Gallery. Find out who these people are and why their mugs deserve to be up there. Planet Chicago: The Terraformed City Tour, 1 p.m. Saturday: Chicago native Neil Rest takes you on a two- and three-dimensional tour to explore why Chicago is one of the world's most science-fictional cities. Slime printing and other lost arts of fandom, 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Dick and Leah Zeldes Smith conduct a demo of the archaic art of the hectograph (or Jell-O printer), the mimeograph and other methods by which fans used to communicate in the days before the Internet. This is a hands-on demonstration — don't wear white! (No sign-up required.) Dick & Leah Zeldes Smith |
This is the web version of the daily newsletter of the Chicago World Science Fiction Convention (Chicon). Editor : Chaz Boston Baden Other Editors: Colleen Crosby, Shawn Crosby, Steve Davies Editor-in-training Michael Nelson