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he First Fandom Hall of Note that there is no general access Are you filling your exercise rings? Fame Awards and the Big to the fifth floor foyer; it is reserved Why not take a brisk walk to the Heart were announced at for programme participants, Point, where you will find our the Opening Ceremony. convention staff and volunteers. wonderful Art Show, a fantastic set Remember there is still time to of exhibits, and a range of awesome First Fandom Hall of Fame: Ray volunteer at the desk in the lobby. programme items. Our art auction is Faraday Nelson. silent this year, but our friendly Art First Fandom Posthumous Hall of Show staff will tell you everything Fame: Bob Shaw, James White you need to know through the and Walt Willis. If you have any sort of mobility issue medium of interpretive dance. Sam Moskowitz Archive Award: Dr and you’re attending events in Bradford Lyau. Room 1 Screen 1 at the Odeon, go Big Heart Award: Alice Lawson. to the main Odeon foyer and ask for step free access. Staff will magically If you’re new to , you transport you to the area you need might not know that there are to go to. Allow extra time. parties every night that are open to The most beautiful (and funniest) everyone. Here are tonight’s: ever, Warhoon 28, is now on sale “for the last time” at the DC in 2021 —ECOCEM Offworld and Hodges Figgis stalls in When taking photographs of the (next to Wicklow Room 1) 8pm the Forum. This is a collection of fan beautiful views from the foyers on writing by renowned Irish fan Walt The Resurrectionist of Caligo Pre- the higher levels of the Convention Launch Party—Wicklow 2, 8pm Willis, from whom the editors of your Centre, please do not hold your humble newsletter learnt everything phone or camera over the edge of they know about Microsoft Word. the balcony, even if it’s on a lanyard or strap. When you drop it, it will There’s still time to enter the model damage both your device and the spaceship competition. Leave your head of the person below. Unless you have an access need model at the competition desk in the that prevents you from doing so, back left corner of the Forum with please use the escalators rather your name and a description of the than the lifts to get to all floors of the ship. No registration is required. We As a member of the Worldcon, you accept any model, with extra CCD. Please stand on the right and are also a member of the World walk on the left on escalators. consideration given to models using Society, which recycled materials. Judging begins makes decisions about how at 11:30am on Friday. Worldcons and the Hugos are run. The preliminary WSFS Business Instead of going to their panel in Meeting will be held at 10am on Wicklow 1, Edie Stern and Jerry Friday, in Stratocaster at Point I never knew Bram Stoker lived in Kaufman spent the hour stuck in the Square, and everyone’s welcome. lift instead. We told you to use the Dublin Castle. But it turns out that escalators, folks. [Couldn’t they Stoker had a room overlooking a rather fine yet forbidding church with have Skyped in?—Ed.] spooky architecture which is part of If you’re an early riser, remember the castle. Also, he lived there when that each morning you can meet in there was a massive outbreak of the ground floor foyer of the CCD to We are using two different buildings septicaemia in the city, and the Irish Stroll With the Stars, a gentle walk for bad blood is drochfhuil. at the Point, with no connection around the local area where you can between them. The Stratocaster and catch up with many authors, fans Don’t you think this bears just a Alhambra programme rooms are in and academics. If you’re a late riser, slight resemblance to Bram Stoker’s the Gibson Hotel, and everything remember that the Dealers’ Room best-known creation? So what with else is in the entirely separate Point closes at 6pm. the bad blood going around the city Square building which includes the at the time and the spooky Odeon cinema. Rooms shown as architecture outside his window, it ‘Room 1’, ‘Room 2’, etc. at the seems that Stoker didn't really need Odeon are really Screen 1, Screen The free pizza for staff and all that vivid an imagination. 2, etc. volunteers at Point Square is at 4:30pm each day, not 5pm. —Rob Jackson This newsletter was produced by Alison Scott, with help from Diarmuid Fanning, Jan van ’t Ent, Flick, Mike, Marianne and Steve. Illuminated drop caps by Sue Mason. Everything I know about Irish mythology, I learnt from Horslips. You can email us at [email protected].

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