NEWS AND FORUMS

 

The North American Discworld Convention 2011
July 8- 11, Madison WI - http://www.nadwcon.org
 November Newsletter


Only eight months until we all gather together in Madison to celebrate all things Discworld! Hopefully this newsletter finds all of our members doing well.

Memberships:
The North American Discworld Convention 2011 is currently approaching a membership of 300! The convention committee strongly suggests you sign up now if you plan on attending the convention in Madison on July 8-11. Why? Because on Dec. 1, membership prices will increase by $10. That means, for an adult membership, registration will be $85 instead of $75. Book early, save money!

Some good news:
For those of you that are still not 100% sure if you will be attending, but are worried about the NADWCon selling out early; we are happy to say that you can make a reservation without paying the full attending price! All those who purchase a Supporting Membership - $30, will automatically have an attending membership slot reserved for them. This slot will be held until March 1st 2011, so all supporting members have until then to Upgrade their registration (pay the remaining cost of an adult membership). Bear in mind that the price of registration may have gone up by then though. This will give those unsure of their travel or financial situation extra time to get things sorted out.

Once March 1 rolls around all reserved slots that have not been upgraded will be made available for new attending members, and any new supporting memberships made after March 1 will not come with a reservation. In other words, Supporting Members who upgrade before March 1 are guaranteed an Adult Membership no matter how full we may be at the time! We appreciate your support, but we would still rather see you in person and we hope this helps.

An announcement that we feel cannot be made often enough:
Madison's Annual Art Fair on the Square will be taking place during the same weekend as the NADWCon 2011. This is a HUGE event only one block away from the convention. It has music, food, and entertainment for all ages. It is something that we think you will really enjoy checking out while you are in Madison, but bear in mind that it attracts over a quarter of a million people! We strongly suggest booking your hotel stay early.

Sleep? Never heard of it!
We’re also pleased to announce that the Seamstress’ Guild will be hosting our “After Hours Party Room” at the convention, so don’t expect to get much sleep! We are so pleased with this that we want to officially invite other guilds to also take part in our convention! Would the Thieves Guild like to host a four day Theft-O-Rama... er, I mean Scavenger Hunt? Would the guild of Assassins like to, um.... well, I am sure we can come up with something that will still result in all of us getting out of there alive. All interested guilds please contact nadwcon2011@gmail.com for more details. Don’t let the Seamstresses have all the fun!

Honored Guests:
We are very pleased to announce an addition to our list of Honored Guests since our last newsletter. Discworld artist Stephen Player will be joining us in Madison. Stephen is the talent behind the artwork you see in The Illustrated Wee Free Men, The Illustrated Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, The Discworld Mapp, and one of the covers to The Colour of Magic novel. Stephen has expressed interest in hosting an artist’s workshop at our convention and we hope you are as excited as we are about learning from such an accomplished artist!

And that’s cutting me own throat:
We also have a new addition to our Merchandise page that is already proving quite popular. With the logo of the NADWCon 2011 being an owl, some of our committee came up with a little parody that we just couldn't resist. Did C.M.O.T. Dibbler really strike a deal with the The Pink Pussycat Club to create a chain of restaurants serving food that is hard on the taste-buds but with a waitstaff that is easy on the eyes? Maybe yes, maybe no, but that doesn’t make our new “Morporks” T-shirts any less fun! Available for pre-order now, and a price that is a few dollars less than you will see at the convention!

There can be only one... thousand!
Care to have a little fun? Then you need to go to our website - http://www.nadwcon.org/ - and play our new game - Feegle Frenzy! Inspired by events that took place in Sir Terry’s latest novel “I Shall Wear Midnight”. Don’t worry if you haven't read it yet, the game will only spoil about one paragraph of the book. Feegle Frenzy is a simple, yet challenging bar room brawl between swarms of Nac Mac Feegle and one tiny constable! We hope you enjoy it, and special thanks to our Staff Artist, Ray Friesen for providing the voice talent.

We finally caught him!
The infamous Sto Plains con-man Moist Von Lipwig has been caught! Or rather a reasonable facsimile there of. We would like to congratulate Kevin O'Shea, who will be playing Moist Von Lipwig during some of our convention programs in July. Thanks goes out to all of you who volunteered for the job. We wish you all could don the golden suit, but as you should know there is only one Moist. There is still much to do come July, so we will be more than happy to accept your help elsewhere.

That is this month’s news from the NADWcon committee. We have a lot more convention tidbits being confirmed very soon, so keep any eye out for our next newsletter.
See you in Madison!

Vivian Obarski - Online Coordinator
Jon Lemerond - Vice Chair
Josh Goes - Chair