#54 GUESTS OF HONORMINICON NAOMI KRITZER DAVE DEVRIES FEATURED ARTIST TOM FLEMING HOTEL MAP PROGRAMMING 1 PROGRAMMING 2 MAIN STAGE PARK 2 PARK 1 TEEN BAR & GREEN ROOM KLATSCH ROOM 223 224 225 226-227 228 229 230 231 227 SIGNINGS TERRACE FOYER ART SHOW PROGRAMMING 3 DEALERS TERRACE 1-3 ORCHARD ROOM FREEBIES REGISTRATION SECOND FLOOR ICE ELEVATORS VOLUNTEERS QUIET ACTIVITY AREA FILM ROOM TERRACE 4 BOZO BUS MUSIC TRIBUNE SCIENCE COURTYARD 1-3 COURTYARD 4 COURTYARD 5-6 RUMPUS ROOM SUMMER ROOM FLEA MARKET & FAN TABLES DOVER RESTAURANT WEST LOBBY GAMING ENTRANCE UPPER ATRIUM READINGS MAIN FLOOR SPRING ROOM ELEVATORS CODE OF CONDUCT WINTER ROOM POOL GAMING SPA LOWER ATRIUM FP LOBBY ATM ESK D SENSORY FRIENDLY AUTUMN ROOM MAIN DOVER SEASONS GIFT SHOP & FRONT ENTRANCE ENTRANCE ENTRANCE Registration .......................................... 2 Volunteering ........................................ 2 Policies.................................................. 2 Code of Conduct ................................ 3 GUEST OF HONOR Naomi Kritzer .............. 4 GUEST OF HONOR Dave DeVries .............. 4 FEATURED ARTIST Tom Fleming .............. 5 Programming Schedule ...............16-21 Art Show................................................ 7 Bar ......................................................... 6 Bozo Bus Tribune .................................. 8 Cinema Obscura (Film Room) Info & Schedule ............................10-11 Consuite ............................................... 6 Dealer’s Room...................................... 7 GPS Charity Auction ............................ 6 Gaming ................................................ 7 Green Room ......................................... 6 Klatsches .............................................. 6 Music Info & Schedule .................12-13 Parties ................................................... 9 Rumpus Room: The Kids’ Place Info & Schedule ............................14-15 Science Room...................................... 8 Sensory Friendly Space ....................... 8 Quiet Activity Area .............................. 7 Teen Room ........................................... 8 MNstf Info and Events ........................ 22 Convention Committee .................... 23 Pie ....................................................... 25 In Memoriam........................................ 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS MINICON 54 1 Help and Information: Ask at the registration/ REGISTRATION volunteers/info desk while they’re open, or Registration is located on the 2nd floor, near after hours at the consuite or bar. Also look the programming rooms, during the following for department heads or wandering concom hours: members. Friday .................10:00am - 10:00pm Saturday ................9:30am - 8:00pm VOLUNTEERING Did you know that Minicon is an all-volunteer Sunday ..................9:30am - 4:00pm convention? We don’t sell tickets, we offer Lost badges: If you find a badge, please memberships (priced to cover con expenses). bring it to the registration table. If you have As members of a community, we all pitch in lost yours, please check there. You can get a and help out. It turns out that volunteering is replacement for $1.00. also a great way to make new friends, connect Registering for Minicon 55: The form to with old ones, and generally have a great preregister can be found in your registration time at the convention. We’ll have 1-2 hour packet or at the Registration table. It will never volunteer shifts available (depending on the be cheaper! The at-con rates are: department), but will also have short one-off tasks like sign-making or errand-running. Learn Adult - $40.00 more at the Volunteers Table, conveniently Student (ages 13-20) - $15.00 located in the Registration area. Kid (ages 6-12) - $10.00 We’ll be trying something new this year, using Child (ages 5 and under) - Free the Discord message service as a way to Supporting Membership - $15.00 contact Gofers, Badgers, and other volunteers in real time. If you want to join in this grand If you pre-registered this year, you received a experiment, the Volunteers Desk Staff can form that’s already filled out when you picked help you sign up at the con. If you are familiar up your badge. Update any incorrect fields, with Discord already, we’d love to have your fill in any blank ones, seal it in an envelope help at the Volunteers table! with your payment, and put it in the box at the registration table. Need help or information after hours? Ask at the bar in rooms 226/227 EMERGENCIES overlooking the atrium. In case of an emergency threatening life or POLICIES limb, please call 911! Minicon occurs in a hotel, which is part of a city, county, state, and country. All rules and laws imposed by these larger entities apply, even though being at a con may make you feel out of this world. Weapons: Prop weapons or costume pieces must be secured and pose no danger to others. We reserve the right to prohibit any such items from our function rooms. Smoking: Minnesota is smokefree in all public places. Designated smoking areas are outside. Please direct specific questions to the hotel. 2 MINICON 54 MINICON 54 CODE OF CONDUCT Minn-stf acknowledges that interpersonal If you tell someone to stop something you relationships in social settings are complex. see as harassing behavior and they don’t, Not everyone likes everyone else, and you may tell us. If you don’t feel comfortable not everyone agrees with everyone else. telling someone to stop harassing behaviour, Disagreements, friction, and vigorous debate you may also tell us. We want to make sure are expected. However, interactions that everyone is heard so that together we can become hostile or coercive do not have any make Minicon a healthy, fun, enjoyable part in a healthy social environment and Mnstf experience for everyone. commits to addressing problem behaviors. Harassment is difficult to define, and attempts Code of Conduct Responders at an exact definition are subject to rules- lawyering, so we won’t attempt to do that. can be reached at: However, repeated unwelcome behaviors are mostly likely to be construed as harassment. If someone asks you not to touch them, not to 612-213-9620 talk to them, or not to refer to them in a way that they find objectionable, and you persist in doing so, you may be harassing them. HOW’S YOUR SQUEE? Actions that are sufficiently egregious (assault, Minicon is a place to get your squee on. truly hateful language, and comparable It’s a time for strange friends and friendly actions) fall under this policy, even if only strangers, marvels and wonders, interesting one occurrence has been noted. In the end, conversations, fascinating objects, and lots of harassment is judged primarily by the person fun. Few things destroy fun faster than having who feels harassed, and actions are more someone not take “no” for an answer. Here’s important than intent. the thing: you have the right to say “no.” No Decongestant 4 to a conversation, no to an activity, no to a With beverage, no to anything that interferes with Arcana your own, personal squee. The ability to say yes to fun includes the ability to say no to not- Sept 27-29, fun. But sometimes...sometimes people don’t 2 0 19 respect your “no,” and sometimes, you feel D e co n g e sta n t is M N S tF 's as if you can’t say “no” directly to the person o th e r co n in 2 0 19! harshing your squee. In those cases, we will It's a relax ing w eeken d w ith ab o u t 3/4 o f a track o f trylight to help. program m ing, p lu s th is y ear, believ ed d ead after 2 0 17, A R C A N A 's s p ir it & p r o g r a m m in g w ill r is e a g a in a t If you need help with a problem where Decongestan t 4, featu ring a seco n d track o f p ro g ram m ing someonean d is violating our Code of Conduct film s w ith the themS c a r ye S c ie n c e F ic tio. n (see opposite), or not taking your “no” for W e'll h av e a teen ro o m , 2 4h gam ing , a w ell-sto cked co nan su ite, answer, PLEASE feel free to call us at (612) o n e o r tw o o rgan ized m eals, m u sic, a craft sw ap , an d 213-9620, and we will try to help. This phone is w h atev er else y o u b ring to it. answered all day and most of the night. If we It's at th e H ilto n B loo m ing to n , 390 0 A m erican B lvd W est (by F r a n c e A v e ).It w ill b e o u r fo u r th y e a r in th is fa n ta s ticdon’t h o te l. answer, leave a voice mail message, or text, and we will respond as soon as we can. Register! We will work with you to find a solution that P re-reg at m n stf.org/d eco n gestan t4 by S ep t 9. O r m ail letsin youth e go back to full-on squee. form on the w ebsite, or send the usual to M inn-stf, PO B ox 8297, M inneapolis M N 5540 8. Pre-reg $50 ($40 if need be), $ 10 u n d er 2 1, free u n d er 13. M o re d etails at: m nstf.org/decongestant4 MINICON 54 3 Guest of Honor Author Guest of Honor Artist NAOMI KRITZER DAVE DEVRIES Bio written by Richard Snyder Bio written by Richard Snyder An old school Dave DeVries is online denizen an internationally since back in the recognized award days of dial-up, winning illustrator. In Naomi has had 1998, after working for a colorful and many genre specific storied life. Over clients, he created the years, she has his viral project, The Monster Engine, which played various asks the question, “What would a child’s musical instruments drawing look like if painted by a professional and lived amongst illustrator?” The results are startling the denizens of a transformations of flat childlike imagery into few foreign lands.