Jeff DeLuzio has another great video summarizing some of the best of SFContario 2. Soundtrack is Peggi Warner-Lalonde singing Janis Ian’s “Welcome Home”.
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Canvention 32 site selection
I’d like to invite everyone to participate in the site selection vote for Canvention 32. There are two bids, for VCON 37 in Vancouver and When Words Collide 2 in Calgary. This vote will be held at the annual general meeting of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Society, to be held at SFContario 2 on Saturday at 9 AM in the Gardenview room (of the Ramada Plaza Hotel). Bid representatives will be at the meeting to answer questions. Please have a look at the bid presentations on the SFContario website and help choose the site of next year’s Canadian national science fiction convention.
pre-order your t-shirt!
fuzzies and airships and what?
Check out the art Steve Stiles has done for t-shirts at SFContario 2! You can pre-order a t-shirt on our website and pick it up at the con.
photographer wanted
We’ve been asked to photograph and video the Aurora Award ceremony, and the CSFFA general meeting earlier that morning. We can use an extra hand to cover this. If you’d like to help us with this, please contact us at auroras2011@sfcontario.ca.
Toronto Public Library budget public consultation
The Toronto Public Libraries need your support.
Reductions to library service are currently being proposed. These cuts would include reduced open hours in branches across the city, and fewer new titles and copies of books, audio books, DVDs and magazines.
The Library Board needs to hear from you on how these cuts would impact you, your family, and your community. Please join Library staff at a public meeting to find out more about the potential reductions and to provide your comments.
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Lillian H. Smith Branch, 239 College St (at Huron)
Join us to support the libraries as an important foundation of Canadian culture.
Charity donation to Regent Park Focus
SFContario donation to Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Project, 28 October 2011; photo by Claire Beaumier
Alex, Marah, Debra, and Claire attended a gathering of students, instructors, and supporters of Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre (aka just “Focus”) to present a donation of $649 raised at the SFContario 1 charity auction last year. Debra Yeung from SFContario dealt with Adonis Huggins of Focus to arrange this donation.
Focus is a community organization serving an east downtown area, not far from the SFContario venue, centered around the Regent Park public housing neighborhood. The organization offers training for young people in media production projects, many of whom have little access to more traditional extracurricular activities.
SFContario 2 will be raising money again for Focus at this year’s charity auction on Sunday, November 20 at 2:00 PM in the main ballroom at the convention. If you can, bring a item or three for the auction, things that will interest science fiction fans, and bring your wallets so that you can get some cool stuff and make donations to this good cause.
charity donation presentation at Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Project
Join us in celebrating 20 years of making media with youth in Regent Park
From 6:30 to 9:00 pm Friday, October 28, Focus officially kicks off the anniversary celebration with a public party at 246 Sackville Green to honour the organization’s many partners, sponsors, donors, volunteers, alumni, and other distinguished guests. At this event we plan to acknowledge the support of SFContario.
For more information please see information attached and let us know if you plan on attending any of the events above.
Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre
38 Regent Street (Lower Level)
Toronto, Ontario M5A 3N7
Tel: 416-863-1074
www.regentparkfocus.com
www.regentpark.tv
hotel selling out
The Ramada Plaza Toronto is just about sold out for the weekend of SFContario 2. If you would like to stay at the hotel, try to register today!
We are looking at an overflow hotel, information to be provided shortly.
Registration increase tonight, voting ends tonight!
Last reminder that the registration rate for SFContario 2 increases tonight. The attending membership rate increases to $65 at 3 AM Eastern time. This will also be the rate at the door. You may register online at http://2011.sfcontario.ca/site/index.php/membership/register-online . You may alternately download a paper registration form and mail it in, but it must be postmarked today, 17 October, so in the mailbox by 5 PM.
Also, voting in the Aurora Awards closes tonight at 11:59 PM Pacific time, 2:59 AM Eastern time. You may vote online at http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/Membership/ . You must register at this URL first before you can vote. Registering with CSFFA is free, but there is a manual validation step by the Aurora Award administrator, so don’t leave this to the last minute; get this in before 9 PM Pacific/Midnight Eastern. Members of SFContario vote for free, others pay CSFFA a $5.50 voting fee. You don’t have to vote in every category, you can just vote in categories you are familiar with. There is information on the CSFFA site about all the nominees (click the plus signs in the website menu). The more people who vote, the stronger the awards are, so vote if you are able.
Three days left for Aurora voting
Our second-last reminder: Voting for the Aurora Awards ends at 11:59 PM Pacific time on October 17 (that is 2:59 AM Eastern on October 18), so there is just over two-and-a-half days left. You can go to http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/Membership/ to register and then vote in the Aurora Awards. Aurora voting is free to SFContario members. If you are leaving this to the last minute, you’ll want to be registered with the CSFFA, the sponsoring organization for the Auroras, by 9 PM Pacific time on Monday to ensure that you will be able to vote. (The voting fee is $5.50 for people who are not members of SFContario.) Wider participation makes for a better award, so be sure to vote!
