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Holiday Inn St. John's Conference Centre, 180 Portugal Cove Road, St. John's, NL, Canada
Local Author Guest and a Voice Actor Guest making a virtual appearance
Costume Contests and more prizes as well!
Relaxed weekend for geeks to be geeks about the things they geek about with other geeks
What's New
Costume Contest Sunday,
Non-Competitive Costume Contest Saturday
We've moved to the Holiday Inn St. John's Conference Centre with all its amenities and East Side Mario's Restaurant
Day pass 15, weekend 25, child weekend (ages 6 to 12) 10
Ages 5 and under free
Four-person day 55, four-person weekend 90
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Cardhalla is a charity event that has been held at Gen Con since 1999. During the convention, a city is constructed out of donated trading card game cards. Near the end of the convention attendees are invited to throw coins at the city to destroy it. The thrown coins are collected and donated to charity. The motto is: "Build. Donate. Destroy."
The name is a portmanteau of "card" and the Norse city of Valhalla.
Let's do our own version of it - there is a seed of 1,000 Magic cards ready to build with. Build all day Saturday and until 1pm Sunday. Add your own cards if you want and greater things can be created. Then later on Sunday everyone is invited to destroy the cards by throwing coins at it. All coins (and bills if you want to throw them) collected will be donated to a charity everyone can vote on to choose.
Accessibility/Quiet Hour: 10a-11a
A talk about the history of winter flying in Newfoundland and Labrador and how two aviators helped make it possible.
Have you ever wanted to ask a question about the Netflix series Hilda, or see someone talk about it during a panel? Then this is the panel for you.
How to accept and learn about Autism in the sci-fi community how you can help and make people on the spectrum feel welcome and learning about Autistic characters in media.
Discussing LEGO as an adult hobby, focusing on how to get started with your own designs and collecting sets.
For those who want to write fantasy that falls on the darker side, the grim and gritty plotlines that pull no punches while playing with the hearts of readers. This workshop will help those who aspire to be like Anne Bishop or Holly Black to figure out how to balance the drama (and trauma) with the focus and control needed to keep readers on the edge of their seats. (16+)
Cartoon trivia will be testing everything fans know about cartoons! We’ll have general trivia, guess the character, and guess the theme song. (Cartoons included will be from 90s - present day)
A Q&A about all things worldbuilding with authors Lauralana Dunne, Amanda Labonté, and Kelley Power.
Join some of the students of Hope's Peak Academy for a Despair filled Cosplay Q&A Panel! Get the chance to ask some of your favourite students some questions, and stick around for some skits and games! (Ages 10+)
You've heard of Sasquatch, haven't you? And his cousin the Yeti? You've definitely heard of the Loch Ness Monster! But can you say the same for Chupacabra? Mothman? The Jersey Devil? Come explore the famous and obscure as we talk about legends, myths and eye witness accounts of creatures that don't exist. Or do they? (Parental Advisory: Some content may not be suitable for young children)
Children's picture book writer, Stephen W. Martin (Charlotte and the Rock - Penguin Random House, and Fluffy Mcwhiskers Cuteness explosion! - Simon and Shuster) will reveal the best way to choose an idea, how to write a catchy query letter to capture an editor's attention and finally take you through the process of obtaining an agent. (Presented remotely with a Q&A and local moderator)
A chance for any cosplayers and under to show off their costumes in a friendly, non-competitive environment! Meet in the lobby at 4PM. Parade will pass through the hall and the upstairs vendor room, then downstairs into the downstairs vendor room, then back up to the lobby again. (4p-430p)
Workshop aimed to demonstrate and showcase the differences between Eastern Japanese (i.e Kendo) and Western (i.e Italian longsword) sword arts. Small lessons in both! (This event runs from 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM)
Do you like old, cheesy, cult-classic horror movies? Or, do you like to make fun of them? Come finish off the day with us while we explore 3 of the silliest and worst [or best] horror movies of our past. Movie line-up for the night includes: Attack of The Killer Tomatoes (1978), The Stuff (1985), and Ghoulies (1984). (This event runs from 7PM- 12AM)
Charity tournament by Digimon TCG NL for the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society. (This event runs from 10AM - 1PM)
Cardhalla is a charity event that has been held at Gen Con since 1999. During the convention, a city is constructed out of donated trading card game cards. Near the end of the convention attendees are invited to throw coins at the city to destroy it. The thrown coins are collected and donated to charity. The motto is: "Build. Donate. Destroy."
The name is a portmanteau of "card" and the Norse city of Valhalla.
Let's do our own version of it - there is a seed of 1,000 Magic cards ready to build with. Build all day Saturday and until 1pm Sunday. Add your own cards if you want and greater things can be created. Then later on Sunday everyone is invited to destroy the cards by throwing coins at it. All coins (and bills if you want to throw them) collected will be donated to a charity everyone can vote on to choose.
Writers Amanda Labonté and Heather Reilly answer questions about their sometimes similar, sometimes opposite approaches to story creation.
Will discuss all the series of the Star Trek franchise and pick odd and interesting tidbits from each.
Delving into the connections between early mockumentaries and found footage horror movies, and how they both impact films of today. (CW: talks of animal abuse) (Parental Advisory: Some content may not be suitable for young children)
It's time to topple this house of cards! Toss coins to knock over as many as you can. (Collected coins to be donated to charity). Located at the bottom of the main staircase.(From 1pm until it is done.)
Tiffany is an American voice actress and script writer who is known for her work Neon Genesis Evangelion, in which she voiced the character Asuka Langley Soryu. (Presented remotely with a local moderator)
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Holiday Inn St. John's Conference Centre
180 Portugal Cove Road, St. John's, NL, Canada
