Eclecticon -- November 7, 8, 9, 2003
The Ramada Hotel, Routes 1 & 9 South, Newark, New Jersey
It's our tenth year!
Eclecticon is the East Coast's premier and longest-running media fanzine con, focusing on fanfiction and the varied fandoms that inspire it. Our host hotel is comfy, cozy, and convenient to all major highways, is easily accessible by public transportation, and features frequent free shuttle service to and from Newark International Airport.
Activities begin Friday at noon. Feel like talking? Participate in
programming from four tracks of panels or any of our independent discussion groups, seminars, or specialized workshops. Feeling competitive? Sign up for our Trivia Contest, play Name That Soundtrack (winners receive free memberships to Eclecticon 2004), or be creative in our Write the Caption Contest. Feeling generous? Bid on our charity auction items. Empty your pockets in our overflowing dealers' rooms, or relax for a while in the video room or the con suite.
If these activities make you work up an appetite, well, our con suite is famous, and with good reason. We provide mass quantities of hot and cold munchies, hot soup, and hot and cold soft drinks (and chocolate!) to all members throughout the weekend, all to the accompaniment of the best fan music videos!
The convention charity is Mylestone Equine Rescue, which rescues horses and ponies who might otherwise be sold to animal-food processors, and gives them a good home. We will again be collecting donations of non-perishable food items for local food banks and accepting cash donations for same.
Both dealers' rooms are completely sold out. For editors who cannot attend, or for attendees who don't feel like staying behind a dealer table all weekend, we offer the services of our Orphan Zine table. For more information, contact Anne Collins Smith at gnomones@aol.com.
Gophers, programming suggestions, panelists, workshop hosts and
participants are needed and heartily welcomed!
Membership rates:
Full membership: $40 until 10/26/03; $50 at the door
One and two-day memberships will also be available at the door:
Friday: $20 Friday/Saturday: $45
Saturday: $25 Saturday/Sunday: $45
Sunday: $20
Supporting and apocryphal memberships are $10 at all times and include all convention publications. Pet memberships are also $10, and include the appropriate per treats or toys. Please make all checks payable to Eclecticon.
For more information contact the con chair at Eclecticon, PO Box 3165, Bayonne, NJ 07002-0298,
or e-mail to Eclecticon.Kathy@verizon.net
or check the official website at
<http://members.aol.com/JRD803/eclecticon.htm>
P.S. Yes, there will be STargate programming and zines at this con <G>
The Ramada Hotel, Routes 1 & 9 South, Newark, New Jersey
It's our tenth year!
Eclecticon is the East Coast's premier and longest-running media fanzine con, focusing on fanfiction and the varied fandoms that inspire it. Our host hotel is comfy, cozy, and convenient to all major highways, is easily accessible by public transportation, and features frequent free shuttle service to and from Newark International Airport.
Activities begin Friday at noon. Feel like talking? Participate in
programming from four tracks of panels or any of our independent discussion groups, seminars, or specialized workshops. Feeling competitive? Sign up for our Trivia Contest, play Name That Soundtrack (winners receive free memberships to Eclecticon 2004), or be creative in our Write the Caption Contest. Feeling generous? Bid on our charity auction items. Empty your pockets in our overflowing dealers' rooms, or relax for a while in the video room or the con suite.
If these activities make you work up an appetite, well, our con suite is famous, and with good reason. We provide mass quantities of hot and cold munchies, hot soup, and hot and cold soft drinks (and chocolate!) to all members throughout the weekend, all to the accompaniment of the best fan music videos!
The convention charity is Mylestone Equine Rescue, which rescues horses and ponies who might otherwise be sold to animal-food processors, and gives them a good home. We will again be collecting donations of non-perishable food items for local food banks and accepting cash donations for same.
Both dealers' rooms are completely sold out. For editors who cannot attend, or for attendees who don't feel like staying behind a dealer table all weekend, we offer the services of our Orphan Zine table. For more information, contact Anne Collins Smith at gnomones@aol.com.
Gophers, programming suggestions, panelists, workshop hosts and
participants are needed and heartily welcomed!
Membership rates:
Full membership: $40 until 10/26/03; $50 at the door
One and two-day memberships will also be available at the door:
Friday: $20 Friday/Saturday: $45
Saturday: $25 Saturday/Sunday: $45
Sunday: $20
Supporting and apocryphal memberships are $10 at all times and include all convention publications. Pet memberships are also $10, and include the appropriate per treats or toys. Please make all checks payable to Eclecticon.
For more information contact the con chair at Eclecticon, PO Box 3165, Bayonne, NJ 07002-0298,
or e-mail to Eclecticon.Kathy@verizon.net
or check the official website at
<http://members.aol.com/JRD803/eclecticon.htm>
P.S. Yes, there will be STargate programming and zines at this con <G>