Official 2011 NADWCon pendant available!
Designed by The Morpheus Company, the 2011 NADWCon pendant is now available! Cast in bronze or  silver, this pendant features our clever little Ankh Morpork convention logo. It is approximately one inch in diameter, and is available as either a pin or pendant.
 
This is a high quality piece of fine jewelry and will be made to order with very few available for sale during the convention. The pre-ordering time for this little beauty is ending soon, as the jewelers need time to cast them. Order now while you still can!

For more information, visit our website. - http://www.nadwcon.org/Merchandise.html

A Night in Quirm
There are still seats available at our Gala Banquet! Sunday Night is going to be an evening to remember, we have great food, wonderful guests, and some excellent entertainment planned for you. Time is running out, get your banquet tickets now!
For more information, visit our website. - http://www.nadwcon.org/GalaBanquet.html

There’s more to the Discworld than just partying (not that that’s a bad thing).
If you’re not praying to Bilious, the Oh God of Hangovers, come out and play at our workshops or debate the finer and funnier points of Discworld at one of our panels.

Our Programming Director, Denise Connell, is enlisting fun loving people to offer panels, workshops, games, game shows, arts & crafts and various Morpork Mob activies.  Some of these will be lead by our Honored Guests (see website).

Would you like to make a make a Sock Mac Feegle, go hat-to-hat against Granny Weatherwax in a Discworld quiz, watch Discworld movies or play game shows hosted by C.M.O.T Dibbler and Moist Von Lipwig.  Crivens! Come on down!

Attendees can try their hand at running Ankh Morpork (a brand new Discworld game being introduced at this convention), enter our Thud! tournament, compete in one of our game shows or show off their costumes. Find fame, make friends and win prizes. Above all, have fun.

Other programming items will include.

Panels and Round Robins on such topics as
* Discworld science & technology (with a left turn into Steampunk)
* Nanny Sutra: Sex, Food & Discworld
* The Discworld Beastiary
* The Women of Discworld
* Calling All Igors - a writing panel
* L-space & Beyond: Discworld Around the Web
* A Good Omens movie talk by Terry & friends
* Extra, Extra: Hear what it’s like to be work on the set of a Discworld movie
* An Artist’s Panel with Stephen Player & friends
* Bringing Roundworld to Discworld: featuring the folks who make the fabulous Discworld artifacts.
* Performances of Wyrd Sisters
* Talks by the Thieves Guild
* Costuming workshops
* The infamous Seamstress Guild parties (every night in a different city!)
* Cheese tastings (unless the Feegles get there first)
* Dress up parties

We also plan to commit Morris Dancing and paint a face or two.  

To see our growing list of Program Events, visit: http://www.nadwcon.org/Programs.html

Denise (known to previous convention goers as Mrs. Palm, the lady behind the fabulous Seamstress Guild party that opened the 2009 convention) is seeking volunteers to assist with programming. Do you have suggestions for workshops, panels, games or other ideas for programming at NADWCon? Can you offer a workshop, serve on a panel or run a game? Can you moderate a panel?  If so, contact her directly at programming@nadwcon.org
This is a great way to meet people, including our Honored and Very Special Guests.

For a look behind the scenes and a chance to put in your two cents as we build our program, visit Denise’s convention blog, It Bodes: Adventures in Discworld Programming.

You can also follow our Discworld adventures on Twitter via @nadwcon and @ItBodes, among others.  The subject hashtags are #nadwcon and #discworld


THE MOST EPIC-EST SHORT FILM EVER MADE!
Troll Bridge is an epic short film based on a fable written by Terry Pratchett.  Set in the phenomenally successful Discworld series, Troll Bridge is about the world’s last Barbarian hero (now at the age of 87) embarking on a suicide mission to battle a bridge troll in mortal combat.
Troll Bridge aims to be the largest scale short film in history.  Using resources garnered over eight solid years of dedication, love, sweat, and tears – Troll Bridge has already begun exceeding expectations as to what should be anticipated from a short form production, and now, they need your help!
If you are part of a community, or have an active social media profile, please take the time to let your members, audience, or friends and family know about this project.  Word of mouth is our best way of raising awareness of this film – and in that regard your help is invaluable!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/snowgumfilms/terry-pratchetts-troll-bridge


Looking for something to hang on the walls that’s not a mime?
We’re pleased to announce that art by Melvyn Grant of Where Is My Cow fame will be featured at our art show! You will also see works by other discworld artists such as Doug Andersen, Jill Bauman, Lissanne Lake and Peter Scanlan. We are also fortunate to have some original art being made specifically for our convention by one of our honored guests. Stephen Player, illustrator of The Wee Free Men and other great Discworld works, is creating the cover art to our convention program book! Be sure to bother him for an autograph!

In addition to art, we’ve got some new vendors in our dealers’ area for your shopping pleasure. Do you find yourself in dire need of a hoop skirt, tunic, corset, or maybe just a cravat? Then you will be very pleased to know that Ravenworks, the clothier for the well dressed time traveller, will be making their wares available to you. It is also a great place to pick up that last minute item for your Maskerade costume!

You can also show your undead solidarity by checking out the tables that will be run by The Zombie Rights Campaign. Showing the dead some support may be a good idea, after all they do outnumber us.

Seamstress Guild Parties: When the kids are away, the adults will play!
It's official, folks! Our three Seamstress Guild parties, one for each night of NADWCon, will be held in Genua, Uberwald and Quirm.

The ladies and gentlemen of the guild will decorate the con's party suites differently each night and costume accordingly. Guests may come as they are or dress to impress.  

Produced again by Denise, hosted by our fabulous Guild members, and directed by talented Wisconsin native, Missy Hanes, these are parties you won’t want to miss.

Information on Seamstress Guild activities at NADWCon and lots more can be found on the Guild’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Seamstress-Guild-NADWCon-2011/

The parties this year will begin every night at 9 pm and go on until The Watch clears the streets.   This year the parties are for adults only. We will serve both alcohol and non-alcoholic drinks and trolls will card guests at the door.

See you at SpringCon!
In the Minneapolis area? Look for NADWCon members at Springcon Comic Book Days Celebration (May 21-22) at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds Grandstand!

Volunteers needed
Straight from our forum boards (nadwcon.9.forumer.com):

If you are attending the North American Discworld Convention and have any sense of rhythm whatsoever, there will be a couple of opportunities for you to participate. In
particular:

* "All the Little Angels" (a marching song, if you're not familiar with "Night Watch") for which the ability to march in time--mostly--is the only requirement.

* Possibly a very elaborate filk. For this one all the parts will be recorded, so singing loud but not necessarily well, in front of a crowd, will be the key.

If interested, contact info@lookoutmountainbookstore.com

Join Us
The NADWCon 2011 Committee will be holding their final meeting for staff and volunteers on June 4th at the Concourse Hotel. If you are in the Madison area and want to help us out you are welcome to join the party. Just contact us at info@nadwcon.org for more information and to let us know you are coming.

That’s not it, but that is all for now. We have to keep a few things to ourselves our you wont be surprised! Just one more newsletter left and then we will see all of you in Madison!

Vivian Obarski - Online Coodinator
Denise Connell - Progam Director
Jon Lemerond - Vice Chair