Connotations is a multimedia, multi-fandom slash con that's running October 2008. We're running at the Park Hotel, Tynemouth from 2pm Friday 25th September to whenever they throw us out on Sunday 27th September. Registration is now OPEN!
The con is still six months away, but it's never too early to start planning, right? In that spirit, the usual events are all plannned, and we're always glad to hear from you!
Panels
Please feel free to suggest potential panels from now or at any time up to when we start voting in late August.
As always, absolutely any topic is fair game for the convention, from fandom specific to the most metatastic. Technical to absurd. The things that bug you, the things you don't get, the things you wish we'd talk about. It's all good :-)
The Pimp Session
This will run as usual, with the sign up sheet near Reg Desk at the convention. AV, powerpoint, mime, puppet theatre and stick figures with explanatory notes have all been utilised, although some of the most successful have merely involved reading aloud from the source material... Plan for no more than five minutes to convince us all why your fandom is the best thing since Tyler fell in love with El Blanco :-)
Vidshow
The vidshow has been really good each year we've run it, and we're hoping to see even more entries this time :-)
We will be posting to remind everyone what the deal is, but basically, we'd like vids in electronic format; avi is fab, but we haven't yet found something we couldn't play. Any fandom, slash focussed. We would like them by August 31st at the very latest. Please direct your questions to Claire (moonlettuce at livejournal dot com).
The Zine
We welcome slash stories (and mixed threesomes and moresomes ;-) in the zine. The deadline is July 31st. Same deal as always: slash stories, any fandom except rps (sorry!). No chan either -- both for legal reasons. As always, please, no domestic discipline -- it's a squick for us both and while we have no issue with anyone writing or reading it, one of us has to read everything that goes into the zine. Anything else is fair game.
Stories can be any length; and should be submitted as a text, Word or Open Office document. We can take other formats, just let us know. Stories should be sent to temaris at livejournal dot com, by July 31st. If this is a problem, please get in touch in good time and we can probably work something out.
We're still in the early stages of planning, but right now, the dates for 2009 look something like this:
- 1st February 2009: Zine stories for Smutty Days 2008 timed out.
- 31st July 2009: last date for initial receipt of zine stories
- 15th August: panel poll opens
- 15th August 2009: last date for artwork for the zine
- 1st September: Panel poll closes
- 20th September: last date for registering by post
- 24th September 2009: last date for registering by email
This may change as we get closer to the time, but for now should be considered as accurate as we're going to get at this early stage! If you're interested in submitting stories, artwork or anything else for the con zine, please have a look at the zines page for more information.
Updates and information usually go first to the Yahoogroups mailing list (details on the 'Contacts' page), and our LiveJournal community Connotations, so do check there before sending emails! Please join, and feel free to chat, ask questions or lurk!