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Progress Report Renovation PROGRESS REPORT TWO | SEPtember 2010 LATEST NEWS Promotions by Kimm Antell, Division Head Hotel & Suite Bookings to Open in 2011 We are continuing to post to Facebook, LiveJournal and Twitter. If you have an account, The next progress report, coming out at the end of 2010, will have you can join or follow us by doing a search for more information about our hotels, including booking information RenovationSF. It would really help us if you sent and suite rates. Hotel bookings and suite bookings will be opening our fan page to your friends or retweeted some in early 2011, after giving plenty of time for all members to have of our posts. We need more online visibility. received their PR either electronically or in the mail. During Memorial Day weekend, we were represented at 4 conventions: Balticon, Important Things to Remember BayCon, ConQuesT and Wiscon. We were also • Renovation runs from Wednesday to Sunday. well represented at Reconstruction, Aussiecon • Membership rates increase 1 October 2010. 4, Westercon, Readercon, Bubonicon and Fencon. We hope that you were able to stop by and say hello. If you are going to Membership Rates Are Going Up! be at a convention in the year leading up to Renovation and you would like to help us out Renovation’s rates will be going up on October 1, 2010. by volunteering to throw a party or sit at a fan Adult Attending memberships will be $180. Family memberships (which table, please don’t hesitate to let us know. We include two adults and any number of children 16 and under) are going up to are always looking for volunteers to help us at $460. The Child and Young Adult rates will remain the same ($75 for children conventions. 16 and under; $100 for young adults aged 17 through 21.) We printed some bookmarks with Boris Vallejo’s (and Julie Bell’s) wonderful art and Beat the rate increase and purchase your Renovation membership they are available at several bookstores in (or upgrade from Supporting) today! Don’t forget Renovation’s California as well as Grassroots Books in installment plan. Lock in the current rate and pay only $30 a quarter Reno, NV. If you you know of a bookstore that ($60 for Family memberships), although final payments must be would display our bookmarks, please e-mail received by May 31, 2011. Check out page 17 and Renovation’s website me at [email protected] with your www.renovationsf.org/register.php for more information. name, address and amount of bookmarks. I will send them to you so you can take them to the Membership Rates bookstore with our heartfelt thanks. On that MEMBERSHIP TYPE THROUGH SEPT 30, 2010 AS OF Oct 1, 2010 note, if you belong to a local group that might be interested in attending Renovation, we Attending (adult) $160 $180 would love to send them some bookmarks or other neat materials we have planned. Please Young Adult (17–21) $100 $100 pass along my e-mail address to the president of the group and tell them to drop me a line. Child (16 and under) * $75 $75 Lastly, we have limited edition trading cards! Our first three cards were revealed at Aussiecon 4. They are Charles N. Brown, Kid-in-Tow (6 and under) * free free Tim Powers and Boris Vallejo. I hope you got all three because they are limited edition. Family ** $430 $460 Our next trading cards will be for all three members of Tricky Pixie. Ellen Asher, and Bill Supporting $50 $50 Willingham. They will be given out at LosCon and Orycon, so be sure to stop by our table or * Child memberships include about eight hours (the exact amount isn’t finalized yet) of party. They are available for all supporting and professional child care; Kid-in-Tow includes no child care. attending members so if you know someone ** Young adults, aged 17 through 21, may be included in a Family membership for the additional cost of $25 for each young adult. who wants a complete set, make sure they get a membership now. B Renovation Progress REPORT TWO Table of Contents Chair’s Message: The Vision Thing ���������������������������� 1 Renovation Staff List ���������������������������������������������������� 2 Chair's Message: Bill Willingham �������������������������������������������������������������������� 3 Comics & Graphic Novels ���������������������������������������������4 The Vision Thing Facilities Overview ���������������������������������������������������������� 5 Patty Wells, Chair of Renovation Member Services Division ������������������������������������������� 5 Exhibits Division ���������������������������������������������������������������6 I am not a writer by trade, and when I run into situations where I need to write Art @ Renovation �������������������������������������������������������������6 clearly, it makes me nervous and my brain cells leak out my ears. I asked our Pubs Publications Division �������������������������������������������������������7 Head to remind me what all I should cover for this PR; I was hoping for inspiration Program ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������8 and got a brief hit of sheer terror instead. Mind you, sheer terror that you won’t Writers’ Workshops ���������������������������������������������������������8 produce a great Worldcon is kind of a natural state for a chair. But when Meschke Events .....................................................................................9 said the word vision, it added that extra frisson of fear. Charles Nikki Brown ����������������������������������������������������� 10 You see, I’ve always been the behind the scenes lady—facilities, ops, 2011 Hugo Base Design Competition ���������������������12 program, you name it. I am more used to making sure your hotel booking was Passalong Funding ����������������������������������������������������������12 straightened out than going for vision. Meschke added a phrase that made it a Reno Sights ������������������������������������������������������������������������13 lot easier for me to get beyond sheer terror and to being able to make a sensible Renovation Facilities Photos ����������������������������������� 14 point: what do we want to accomplish? Reno & Tahoe Photos �����������������������������������������������������15 And that’s much easier. I have spent my adult life in fandom and raised three Memberships ��������������������������������������������������������������������17 children in it. I know what we want to accomplish, and I suspect it is what almost Membership Demographics ������������������������������������ 19 all fans reading this want too. We want to bring together a community and New Members Since PR 1 ������������������������������������������� 20 meet members of our karass that we didn’t know previously. We love our world because we all participate and are the better for it. And we want to experience something glorious, something to make a memory we will take with us always. Renovation For me it has been talks, space exhibits, costume presentations, or watching my The 69th World Science Fiction Convention awestruck daughters help Ray Bradbury with his autographing. Knowing that Reno, Nevada USA August 17–21, 2011 your piece of creativity inspired someone else’s favorite memory is one of the [email protected] • www.renovationsf.org things that makes us different and one of the things that makes our community GUESTS OF HONor so valuable. Ellen Asher Renovation is going to add to your collection of memories. We have superb Charles N. Brown ( in memoriam ) people running the Masquerade and Hugo ceremonies, but we have two Tim Powers other Worldcon nights. We are going to offer an opening night (Wednesday — Boris Vallejo remember, we are a Wednesday to Sunday Worldcon) dedicated to the music that fans are interested in, and a second night that highlights the artistic side SpECIAL GUESTS of the community. These evenings are a great way to help celebrate all the arts Tricky Pixie in our community. Much more on this will come out as our plans mature. If your Bill Willingham talents lie in these areas, please take this opportunity to volunteer. We want each of your Worldcon evenings to be glorious. Front Image: They Came From The Stars by Boris Vallejo ©2007 We also want to do our bit to help future Worldcons and will participate in the traditional pass along funds. Postal Memberships should be mailed to: Help us create a Worldcon full of wonderful members and wonderful Renovation memories by volunteering your talents. Pass the word along on what we’re doing PO Box 13278 Portland, OR 97213-0278 through social media and word of mouth. And join us in Reno. We’re looking forward to meeting you there. Reno Convention Fandom, Inc. (RCFI) is an Oregon-based nonprofit corporation. “World Science Fiction Society,” “WSFS,” “World Science Fiction Conventions,” “Worldcon,” “NASFiC’,” the stylized depiction of the Hugo Award rocket, and “Hugo Award’” are service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society. © 2010 by Reno Convention Fandom, Inc. All rights returned to the respective writers and artists. Renovation Progress REPORT two 1 RENovATioN STAFF LiST as of August 20, 2010 CHAIR: PattyW ells SERVICES: Melissa Mormon Program Area Leads: Deputy Division Head: Laura Domitz Academic: Kim Kofmel Volunteer Coordination: Sharon Pierce, Anime: Tim Szczesuil Melanie Herz Costuming: Pierre and Sandy Pettinger Handicapped Access: Sally Woerhle Fan: James Bacon OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN: Deputy: Judith Herman Graphic Novels: Sean Wells Staff: W. A. (Bill) Thomasson Science: Helen Umberger
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