Confluence
Off to Confluence tomorrow, a science fiction convention in Pittsburgh, which I gather especially caters to the literary crowd and, thanks to the work and determination of Randy Hoffman, has a particularly good filk track. Urban Tapestry has a concert at the con tomorrow night at 10:00. We're also hosting a children's concert on Saturday morning, so we hope that many of the filkers attending the con will come out and join us in singing to the kids!
The Filk Guest of Honour is Chris Conway from England and it will be a treat to attend his 90 minute concert on Saturday night. Really looking forward to it. Looks like lots of filkers from across the continent are making their way to Confluence, too, so the music should be excellent.
I've never been to Confluence before and I really don't know what to expect. I hear the con is strongly slanted toward writers so I don't know how much programming I'll be going to. I imagine I will spend a lot of time attending the filk programming. Hmmm, I should take some cross-stitch with me to do while listening to concerts, though I know I won't be able to take needles or scissors on the plane (do they allow you to keep small scissors or needles in your check-in luggage if you don't carry them with you?). I read an article this week that said that one airline told a reporter that on an average day they take 133 pairs of scissors away from passengers boarding airplanes.
Happy journeys, too, to those of you heading off to Comic-Con in San Diego this weekend! That sounds like a good time, too. I hear Comic-Con tends to attract about 70,000 people. Whoa. I find it hard to imagine going to a con that big. I think the biggest con I've been to had about 4,000 to 5,000 people and I found that overwhelming. The average filkcon brings in about 100 to 200 people and that number is just fine :).
The Filk Guest of Honour is Chris Conway from England and it will be a treat to attend his 90 minute concert on Saturday night. Really looking forward to it. Looks like lots of filkers from across the continent are making their way to Confluence, too, so the music should be excellent.
I've never been to Confluence before and I really don't know what to expect. I hear the con is strongly slanted toward writers so I don't know how much programming I'll be going to. I imagine I will spend a lot of time attending the filk programming. Hmmm, I should take some cross-stitch with me to do while listening to concerts, though I know I won't be able to take needles or scissors on the plane (do they allow you to keep small scissors or needles in your check-in luggage if you don't carry them with you?). I read an article this week that said that one airline told a reporter that on an average day they take 133 pairs of scissors away from passengers boarding airplanes.
Happy journeys, too, to those of you heading off to Comic-Con in San Diego this weekend! That sounds like a good time, too. I hear Comic-Con tends to attract about 70,000 people. Whoa. I find it hard to imagine going to a con that big. I think the biggest con I've been to had about 4,000 to 5,000 people and I found that overwhelming. The average filkcon brings in about 100 to 200 people and that number is just fine :).