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Minicon 34 Pocket Program Convention Hours Convention Hours You can find explanations of these areas in the Souvenir Book. Art Show Minneapolis Ballroom, Salon E/F Friday 2pm – 7pm Saturday 10am – 6pm Sunday 10am – 3pm Bridge (Convention Services) Duluth Room Thursday evening setup – Monday morning teardown (24 hours/day) Childcare 5th floor Exec King, most likely (look for signs) Friday 5pm – 10pm Saturday 11am – 9pm Sunday 12noon – 4pm Consuite (Hospitality) Rochester Room (non-smoking) Grand Ballroom Salon G (smoking) Presidential Suite (24th Floor/non-smoking) Smoking Lounge (23rd Floor Exec King/look for signs) Thursday evening setup – Monday morning teardown (24 hours/day) Hucksters Room Minneapolis Ballroom, Salon A/B/C Friday 10am – 6pm Saturday 10am – 6pm Sunday 10am – 3pm Post Office Ken Fletcher ’97 Fletcher Ken Third Floor, near escalators Friday 1pm – 5pm Saturday 1pm – 5pm Programming Second and Third Floors (see grid and maps) Friday 4pm – 10:30pm, with a dinner break from 6pm – 8pm Saturday 10am – 11pm, with a dinner break from 6pm – 7pm Sunday 10am – 5pm Registration Coat Room (Third Floor) Minicon 34 Thursday 8pm – 11pm (pick up preregistrations only) Friday 10am – 10pm Saturday 10am – 3pm Our profound thanks to: Childcare Convention Services Pocket Eustace Pangolin Laura Jean Fish, Head & new concom member Programming Laurie Mann Linda Deneroff Program Tom Whitmore Minicon 34 Pocket Guide 1 Convention Services Volunteers Convention Services Want to know what all of by Mike Bakula Read Me! those pretty ribbons mean? If you need help, go to the Info Desk on 3rd floor outside of Guest of Honor ribbons are white with purple ink. The people Registration; when the Info Desk is closed, the Bridge (Minicon’s wearing these are Minicon 34’s honored guests. traditional name for its headquarters) is on the third floor, in the Concom ribbons are lemon yellow with metallic purple ink, and Duluth Room. Or call XXXX at any time. they’re for the people who are responsible for Minicon this year. Summaries of some of Minicon’s convention policies follow. The If you’ve got a question about how Minicon 34 is being run this complete policies are available in the Program Book; please take year, ask someone wearing one of these. a moment to read them. Volunteer ribbons are rainbow colored with gold ink, and they’re Badge Policy for everyone who is helping make Minicon 34 happen — from • Minicon uses badges to identify our members. gophers to staff to concom to program participants. • Keep your badge with you at all times while at Minicon. Want to get a pretty rainbow ribbon yourself? Stop in at the • If you find a lost badge, please bring it to the Bridge. volunteers desk anytime when we’re open (Friday 2 – 9pm, • If you lose your badge, please come to the Bridge. Saturday 9:30am – 9pm, Sunday 9:30am – 4pm) and sign up for a • If you are irresponsible, Minicon reserves the right to revoke volunteers shift (or two) and get one of those pretty rainbow your membership. Volunteer ribbons. Volunteers can also hang out in the gopher Weapons Policy hole (open on Friday 2 – 10pm, Saturday 10am – 10pm, and • Use common sense. Sunday 10am – 4pm) and schmooze with other volunteers, and if • Actual firearms, class 3 or 4 lasers, and projectile throwing you’re a volunteer, make sure you stop by the gopher hole at toys are not permitted. about 9pm Friday and 8pm Saturday. (Trust us on this one.) • For everything else, have a sheath or other container for it, and keep it secured. • Minicon reserves the right to prohibit any prop or weapon. • You kill it, you eat it. Signage Policy • Signs may be posted only on the signboards. • Only one sign per board per event. • Signboards will be in the open area on 3rd floor, and outside the consuites on 23rd and 24th floors. There may be signboards on each of the party floors (16-24). Smoking Policy • In accordance with the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act, See you in two weeks? smoking is permitted only in designated smoking areas. The Minicon 34 postmortem will be on Saturday, • There are smoking consuites on 3rd and 23rd floors. April 17, starting at 1:30 pm and finishing by 4:30 pm. The meeting will be held in the community room in the basement of Hosmer Library, 347 East 36th Street, Minneapolis. We’ll review the convention’s strengths, weaknesses, and outcomes. This meeting is open to the public, especially people interested in helping with Minicon 35. There’s also a Minn-StF meeting on Saturday, April 17. The location will be announced on the Minn-StF Hotline (612-824-5559), and will also be available at the postmortem. A 11 am 2 10 Miniconam 34 Pocket Guide 1 pm Minicon2 pm 34 Pocket Guide3 pm 4 pm 3 Program Participants Programming At the pm Program Participants Programming Eleanor Arnason Lynn Litterer Program Prep Karyn Ashburn Linda Lounsbury Hours: Lenny Bailes Catherine Lundoff Thursday no official hours, but we’ll be setting up; Alice Bentley Betsy Lundsten stop by and take your chances Bob Berlien Hank Luttrell Friday noon to 6 Ruth Berman Marci Malinowycz Saturday 9:30 to 10 Don Blyly Jim Mann Sunday 9:30 to 4 Janice M. Bogstad Scott Marley Directors Row 2 is Program Prep. This room combines both the Seth Breidbart Elise Matthesen functions of green room and programming operations in one Steven Brust Dennis McCunney room. This is the place to go to: Nate Bucklin Jim Minz Lois McMaster Bujold Hilary Moon Murphy • Pick up your programming packet. Your packet will have Octavia E. Butler Dave Nee your individual schedule, your volunteer ribbon, a label with Dave Clement Lydia Nickerson a short version of the schedule that you can stick on the back Darlene P. Coltrain James Nicoll of your volunteer ribbon, and anything we think of between Ctein Patrick Nielsen Hayden now and then. Kara Dalkey Teresa Nielsen Hayden • Check with Programming if there’s you need to let us know Howard Davidson Debbie Notkin about. If you have a conflict with or question about a panel, Pamela Dean Ulrika O’Brien this is the place to go. Gordon R. Dickson Kris O’Higgins Linda J. Dunn Mark Olson • Check in before a panel. It’s often a good idea to show up 10 David Dyer-Bennet Priscilla Olson minutes or so before your program item begins to meet briefly Martin Easterbrook Bruce Pelz with your fellow panelists. Laurie Edison Katya Pendill Programming Hours Lise Eisenberg Michael Pins Friday 4pm to 10:30pm, with a dinner break from 6pm to 8pm Craig Finseth Nicholas Pollotta Saturday 10am to 11pm, with a dinner break from 6pm to 7pm Richard Fish Victor Raymond Sunday 10am to 5pm John M. Ford Katya Reimann Brad Foster Neil Rest Author’s Roundtables Lisa Freitag John Rezmerski Here’s your chance to spend some quality time with the author Jim Frenkel Joel Rosenberg or authors of your choice! This is a new feature at Minicon; Beth Friedman Vicki Rosenzweig whether we do it again depends on how well it goes this year. Neil Gaiman Kathy Routliffe How it works: There will be sign-up sheets at the Info Desk. Sign Gordon Garb Jeff Schalles up for an hour with the authors you choose. If you sign up for a Terry Garey Bruce Schneier slot, you are making a commitment. There are only 18 chairs in Anne Gay Jon Singer Board Room 3, so only 17 places are available for each round- Jeanne Gomoll Cally Soukup table. To encourage people to sign up for early slots, coffee and Magenta Griffith Jerry Stearns tea will be available in the room. Leigh Grossman Caroline Stevermer Linda Hafemeister Geri Sullivan Directors Row 3 Beth Hansen Amber Tatge When it is not otherwise scheduled, which is most of the time, Eric Heideman Pat Thielen Directors Row 3 is designated as a breakout room. If you’re in a Dave Howell Amy Thomson panel and the panel wants to run overtime, this is a place every- Rebecca Hubbard Michael Ward one can trundle over to to continue the conversation. Steven Vincent Johnson Bob Webber It is only available during scheduled programming hours. Christopher Jones Tom Whitmore Peg Kerr Doug Wickstrom Thank You Greg Ketter Laurel Winter The Programming department is exceedingly grateful to Linda Laurel Krahn Jane Yolen Deneroff, who both provided the database and worked with Eleanor Lang Minicon to make myriad requested changes. Russell Letson Michael Levy Minicon thanks Tor Books for the use of its Vice-Presidential Fred A. Levy Haskell Suite for Jane Yolen’s Milk-and-Cookies Storytelling, as well as Tony Lewis their supplies. Suford Lewis Sandra Lindow 4 5 8 10 pm 4 pm 5 pm 9 pm Minicon 34 Pocket Guide Minicon 34 6 Pocket Guide7 Program Descriptions Friday, 5pm - Saturday, 12am Is the story a classic or a cheat? Did the author stack the deck? Was another answer possible within the story’s own terms? And why would the author do a thing like that if he didn’t have to? Octavia E. Butler [m], David Dyer-Bennet, Peg Kerr, Mark Olson, Nicholas Pollotta 8:00 PM Opening Ceremonies Grand Ballroom Here’s where it all starts. Notables will be introduced. Silliness will transpire. Moose will be taught to speak Swedish and process insurance forms. Welcome to Minicon! Octavia E. Butler (Writer GoH), Fred A. Levy Haskell (Keynote Speaker), Dave Nee (Bookseller GoH), Teresa Nielsen Hayden (MC), Mark and Priscilla Olson (Fan GoHs), et al. (You) 9:00 PM Tour of the Art Show Art Show Guided tours of the Minicon Art Show, conducted by our friendly and artistic guides.
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