Another September has almost arrived, which means I’ve reached the second anniversary of this blog! My thanks go to all you readers and tipsters who’ve made this a success.
Here’s what I have on the calendar for September so far:
Everywhere
Sept. 19: Arrrr, me hearties! This be International Talk Like a Pirate Day! So get to swashbuckling!
Connecticut
Sept. 25-26: King Arthur’s Harvest Faire
Maine
Sept. 11: Medieval Tournament
Massachusetts
Sept. 2: King Richard’s Faire Preview
Sept. 4-6, 11-12, 18-19, 25-26: King Richard’s Faire
Sept. 18: Strange Horizons Anniversary Event
Sept. 22: Author Appearance: William Gibson
Sept. 23: Author Appearance: Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Sept. 26: Author Appearance: Neil Gaiman, Karen Hesse, Grace Lin, and Jerry Spinelli
Sept. 28: Author Appearance: Charles Yu
Sept. 28: Author Appearance: James Howard Kunstler
Sept. 30: Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
New Hampshire
Sept. 24-26: JemCon (Jem and the Holograms)
Rhode Island
Sept. 11: Rhode Island Science Fiction Club Film Festival
First of all, I have some news for you Facebook junkies: now you can have the posts from this blog show up on your Facebook news feed! Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy-Events/139619329383173 or search for “New England Science Fiction and Fantasy Events”. If you Like the page, new posts will show up in the news feed shortly after I post them. The posts will appear to be written by “RSS Graffiti”; that’s the application I’m using to catch the feed. Note that if I post more than one entry in an evening, which I often do, you may see one post and then a message saying “See 1 more post from RSS Graffiti” which you’ll need to click on to see everything.
Note that the official calendar will still reside on http://nescifievents.org/. I don’t intend to create Facebook events for anything, as I believe that should be up to the actual event organizers.
You can also continue to subscribe by email, RSS feed, and LiveJournal — that’s not changing.
Anyway, on to the list of what I currently have in the calendar for August:
Connecticut:
July 31-August 1: Midsummer Magick Faire
August 20–22: 5Pi-Con
Maine:
July 31-August 1: Paranormal/Psychic Faire
Massachusetts:
August 1: Author Appearance: Tom Sniegoski
August 16: Author Appearance: Larry Doyle
New Hampshire:
August 19: Author Appearance: Tom Sniegoski and Christopher Golden (Note that Nate Kenyon was originally listed for this event as well, but the bookstore website isn’t listing his name any more, so I’m not sure what’s going on there.)
August 25: Author Appearance: Kate Kaynak
Montreal, Quebec, Canada:
August 13–15: Otakuthon 2010
Let the summer begin!
Connecticut
June 5-6, 12-13: Southern Connecticut Renaissance Festival
Maine
June 24-27: PortConMaine anime and gaming con
Massachusetts
June 1: Author Appearance: Jillian Weise
June 2: Author Appearance: Leah Cypess and Kate Milford
June 9: Artist Appearance: Joe Quinones
June 12-13, 19-20: Silver Kingdom Renaissance Festival
June 16: An Evening With James Cameron UPDATE: James Cameron dropped out and was replaced with Ken Burns
June 18: Celebrating Comic Art artist talk
June 18, 19: Can’t Stop the Serenity charity fundraiser (“Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” on Friday, “Serenity” on Saturday)
June 19-20, 26-27: New England Pirate Faire
June 23: Author Appearance: Scott Sigler
June 26: Artist Appearance: Craig Rousseau
June 26-27: Winslowshire Renaissance Festival
June 27: LAST DAY for Jim Henson’s Fantastic World museum exhibit
June 30: Deadline to apply to Viable Paradise writing workshop
Yes, it’s a terrible pun. I don’t care. Happy Star Wars Day!
This is my blog, so I’m going to give an extra special plug to the New England Steampunk Festival on May 1st, at which I will be giving a talk on “Steampunk Propmaking for Beginners” and otherwise wandering around with an airship strapped to my back. Please come support the Charles River Museum of Industry as it recovers from recent flooding.
May 1st is also Free Comic Book Day! Check with your nearest comic book shop to find out if they’ve got any big events planned. Here is a list of FCBD events in New England that have crossed my radar; this is absolutely not a complete list:
Comicopia, Boston, MA: writers Nichol Ashworth and Kevin Church and artist Ming Doyle (via Bostonist)
Larry’s Comics, Lowell, MA: artists Adam Miller, Charles Wilson III, and Tyler James (via Convention Scene)
That’s Entertainment, Worcester, MA: artists Mark McKenna, Bob Almond, Eric Merced and Mark Marderosian (via Convention Scene)
New England Comics, multiple locations, MA: there will be different guests at each location, so check the website (via Convention Scene)
Double Midnight Comics, Manchester, NH: artists Sara Richard, Dan Larson and Jeremy McHugh (via Convention Scene)
Jetpack Comics, Rochester, NH: they make a big party out of it and will have many guests and activities
Oh, and there’s some other stuff happening too:
Connecticut:
May 15: ComiCONN
Maine:
May 23: Maine Comics Arts Festival
Massachusetts:
April 28–May 2: Improv Boston’s Geek Week (comedy)
April 30-May 1: ROFLCon (Internet meme convention)
May 2: Author Leah Cypess
May 2: UMass Renaissance Festival
May 8: Karaokon (anime/karaoke event)
May 22: Spring Anime Kaiju Experience (anime con)
May 27: A Night with Julia Jones (“Twilight”)
New Hampshire:
May 15–16 and 22–23: New Hampshire Renaissance Faire
May 23: Granite State Comicon
New Jersey:
May 14–16: Steampunk World’s Fair
Here’s what’s on the calendar so far in the month of April:
Massachusetts
April 2: Author Appearance: Christopher Moore
April 2-4: Anime Boston
April 3: Opening day for Jim Henson’s Fantastic World
April 9: Edgar Allan Poe Masked Ball
April 10-11: Boston Comic Con
April 15: Cinematic Titanic Live
April 16-18: Nexus Faire II (fan convention)
April 16-19: “Jim Henson’s Fantastic World” Film Series
April 16-18 and 22-24: On This Moon (theater)
April 26: Author Appearance: Sam Weller
April 26: Author Appearance: Melissa Marr
April 30 –May 1: ROFLCon II (Internet memes)
New Hampshire
April 8: Application deadline for the Odyssey Writing Workshop
April 10-11: EconoCon XIII (gaming convention)
Rhode Island
April 7: Kickoff party for The Big Read: Edgar Allan Poe
The National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA will host the exhibit “Jim Henson’s Fantastic World” from April 3 through June 27, 2010. The show, organized by the Smithsonian Institution, The Jim Henson Legacy, and The Biography Channel, celebrates the life of Muppets creator Jim Henson and features work from throughout his career:
The exhibition features 100 original artworks, including drawings, cartoons and storyboards that illustrate Henson’s talent as a storyteller and visionary. Among the variety of exhibition objects are puppets and television and movie props, photographs of Henson and his collaborators at work and original video productions, including excerpts from Henson’s early career and experimental films.
See http://www.monh.org/Default.aspx?tabid=558 for details.
[Tip from Charley S.]
The Ladd Observatory in Providence, RI will host an “H.P. Lovecraft Tribute” to the local horror author on Sunday, March 14th at 3:00pm.
The annual presentation celebrating the unique literary contributions of horror fiction writer, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, forever of Providence, Rhode Island. The H.P. Lovecraft Tribute Service will take place on Sunday, March 14, at the Ladd Observatory, frequented by H.P. Lovecraft in his boyhood years.
See http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Physics/Ladd/ and http://fatemag.com/rosemary-ellen-guiley-newsletter-march-2010/news/ for details.
[Tip via Johnny's List of Weird Boston Events]
It’s March, and that means it will soon be Pi Day!! On March 14th (3.14, of course) you should celebrate by eating pizza pi, apple pi, or whatever other kinds of pi you enjoy.
When you’re not participating in the pi-stravaganza, here are some other events this month that may interest you:
Maine
March 9 and 10: Author Appearance: Joe Hill, “Horns”
Massachusetts
March 6 and 18: Women’s History Month Readings
(Update) March 7: North East Comic-Con
March 8: Author Appearance: Seth Grahame-Smith, “Abraham Lincoln – Vampire Hunter”
March 12-14: Intercon J (live action roleplaying convention)
March 13: Artist Appearance: James Gurney, “Dinotopia”
March 19–21: Vericon (science fiction convention)
March 26–28: ConBust (science fiction convention)
March 26–28: Penny Arcade Expo East (gaming convention)
New Hampshire
March 8: Author Appearance: Joe Hill, “Horns”
March 13: Women’s History Month Readings
March 14: Granite State Comicon
Rhode Island
(Update) March 5-7: Digital Overload (computer gaming convention)
New York
March 7: Who York with Russell Tovey
March 26–28: I-Con (science fiction convention)
Hmm, February seems to have snuck up on me. Luckily nothing was happening today (that I know of, anyway). So here’s what’s on the calendar so far!
Connecticut
Feb 24: Joe Hill author signing
Massachusetts
Feb 5-15: Boston Science Fiction Film Festival and Marathon
Feb 6: Unity Games
Feb 12–14: Boskone
Feb 12-27: Dracula stage play
Feb 15: Terry Pratchett’s “Nation” (prerecorded encore)
Feb 16: “The New Dead” Authors
Feb 18–21: Total Confusion
Feb 19: I…You…We…ROBOT Artist discussion
Feb 21, 22, 23: Joe Hill author signings
New Hampshire
Feb 13: Queen City Kamikaze
Feb 16, 17, 18, 19: Joe Hill author signings
Feb 19: Artist Appearance: Sean Murphy
Rhode Island
Feb 5-7: TempleCon
New York
Feb 12–14: Genericon
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August 31, 2010 11:34 pm | 
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