From: steve_glover@hicom.lut.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
Subject: Upcoming British Isles Conventions
Date: 14 Aug 92 10:37:57 GMT
Reply-To: steve_glover@hicom.lut.ac.uk
Organization: Hicom Sevices

Well, all you happy smiling Americans, and not a few other folks are all
setting off in worldcon type directions Real Soon Now, so I thought I'd post
some details on upcoming British Isles conventions and get-togethers in the
near future...

Friday evenings, Adelphi, Leeds, West Yorkshire -- the infamous "Leeds Group".
	(fannish -- come and see the Leeds Fanzine Renaissance at first hand:
	maybe even pick up a potential Nova Winnning fanzine from M. Ashley or
	N. Richardson...)

August (not much left of)

19/8/92 BSFA Monthly Meeting, V&A pub, Marylebone station, London.
	(This is also a good place to find out where the other London Monthly
	meeting -- "The 'Ton" -- has been moved to. See Below)

28/8/92 WiGGLe (London Filk Meet) **change of venue**
	Due to 'phobic Landlord, the WiGGLe now meets at Hamilton Hall,
	Liverpool St Station (this meeting is the last friday of the month)

September

3-7/9/92 Not *that* much -- lots of interesting people all gone to Florida,
However...

1st Thursday of the Month, London Meeting, NOT at the Wellington tavern,
Waterloo Station, the landlord wants it to be a winebar... Best place for
details of the move is one of the London Meetings listed above.

5/9/92 (NB: you *have* realised these are d/m/y format?)
REMINISCON 40, Chapter Arts Centre, Market Street, Canton, Cardiff 9.30am --
5.30pm (then no doubt continuing in one of Cardiff's many alehouses)
This convention celebrates Lionel Fanthorpe's 40th anniversary as a published
author.

Events include: Brian Aldiss "An Outfitter too far", Brian Stableford "The
Redemption of the Infimal -- Science Fiction of the 'Sixties", Guy N Smith
"Horror Fiction Yesterday and Today", video presentations on Rennes-le-Chateau
and the Nova Scotia Oak Island Money Pit, as well as dramatisations and
extracts from Lionel's novels, short stories, poems, plays and musicals.

Souvenir book to include short stories by Aldiss, Fanthorpe, Stableford and
Smith.

Book Stalls: Of course...

((Souvenir badges will feature characters from  the Reverend Doctor "mighty"
Hugh John Green stories which LMF is currently working on. These characters
include Deacon Ribbit, Wulfrog the Bullfrog, Thomas the Tyrannosaur and the
Froglodytes, all drawn by Rick Seidita of New York.

Enrolment is 10 british pounds to: Patricia Fanthorpe, "Rivendell", 48 Claude
Rd, Roath, Cardiff CF2 3QA, Wales, UK. Fax +(44) 222 496832

11-13 September Contraption. University of East Anglia, Norwich. GoH Steve
Jackson. Registr'n 18 pounds attending, 9 supporting to Contraption, 4 haddon
Close, New Malden, Surrey, KT3 6DP

October

2-4/10/92 Fantasy Con XVII: Midland Hotel, New Street, Birmingham, 20 brit
pounds to register AT MOMENT, GoH Lisa Tuttle. Info from 15 Stanley Rd, Morden,
Surrey SM4 5DE UK.

2-4/10/92 Contanim'eT New Cobden Hotel, Hagley Rd, Birmingham. Anime' con. Come
and see the 10% Sturgeon's Law Leaves... 16 pounds attending, 5 supporting. to
Contaminet 92 c/o Denzil Brown, 20 Field Ridge, Shaw, Newbury, Berkshire. UK

9-11/10/92 Festival of Fantastic Films, Manchester. Charterhouse Hotel. 30
pounds, popcorn extra (this MAY be a Dave Langford joke..). 95 Meadowgate Rd,
Salford, Manchester M6 8EB

16-18 October Octocon 92. Royal Marine Hotel Dun Laoghaire (ask the taxi/bus
for "dunleary" and you'll get there...). Co Dublin, EIRE (see why I said
"british isles, now?). Orson Scott Card, Diane Duane, Katherine Kurtz, Anne
McCaffrey, Scott McMillan, Peter Morwood, James White. 13 pounds (variety
unspecified, try Sterling first) attn, 6 support, 6 u-16 attn. Octocon 92, 30
Beverley Downs, Knocklyon, Dublin 16. Phone +(353) 1 934712

24/10/92 Dangercon. Dangermouse con in Croydon (nr London) 3.50 pounds, 37
Keens Rd, Croydon CRo 1AH

30/10-1/11/92 ConCert III The 3rd Stanza (going for the hat trick). Cosy,
Edinburgh-based Media/general con with Peter Morwood and Diane Duane. Alien
Encounters, trick or treat, SF Fantasy and Horror, Masquerade party and Games.
Anime and films (translator supplied). King's Manor Hotel, Edinburgh (This
Hotel likes cons..) Attending 20.00 pounds, 10.00 Supporting. (this con could
do with your support -- honest!). Details from Jette Goldie, 97 Harrison Road,
Edinburgh EH11 1LT Scotland... +44 (31) 337 2052

November

6-8 November Novacon 22 Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham. 20 pounds until 6th Oct
then 25 pounds -- this is a good con and may hit (fire regulation imposed)
numbers limit... Must declare an interest here as my wife and I are doing
publications for these folk.  GoH Storm Constantine, contact 121 Cape Hill,
Smethwick, Warley, W. Midlands B66 4SH (this address may as well be
"registration central", 'cos you get details for Mexicon V and Glasgow in 95
worldcon bid from here too)

7-8 November Armadacon IV, Astor Hotel, the Hoe, Plymouth. 20 pounds  plus 3
saes (10pound/day) GoH's subject to committments...  Jacqueline Pearce, Adrian
Cole, Roger and Linda Garland, Mark Leville.
4 Gleneagle Ave, Mannamead,
Plymouth PL3 5HL, UK

Erkk -- longer than I thought. '93 can wait. HOWEVER, if you are going to
Magicon, PLEASE Vote for Glasgow in '95 in the site selection. Scotland has
**NEVER HAD A WORLDCON** and the site, city and country are all wonderful.

This listing brought to you as a provisional service of the British Science
Fiction Association (mail me for details) by Steve Glover, an expatriate
Irishman working in England (well, Yorkshire)...

Thanks to: MATRIX (newsletter of the BSFA -- that's me folks!)
	   Small Mammal (newsletter available at the 'ton, produced by Martin
and Margaret, 43 Saddleback Rd, Shaw, Swindon, Wilts SN5 9ST -- and faxed from
Belgium!!)
	   Ansible (newsletter available for SAE from Dave langford, 94 London
Rading, Berks, UK -- Dave's a nice guy, but ignore what he says about the BSFA,
OK? ;-)
	  Assorted con flyers picked up at the 1992 Unicon, "Scone" in Glasgow
last weekend -- next year's will be "Lunicon" and in Leeds (yippee)

Not consulted this time, but useful: Fans across the World Newsletter -- from B
Wilkinson, 17 Mimosa, 29 Avenue Rd, Tottenham, N15 5JF, UK -- VERY good for
info on European fandoms...