What is Norwescon?
Norwescon is one of the largest regional Science Fiction conventions in the United States. While maintaining a primarily literary focus, Norwescon is large enough to provide a venue for many of the other aspects of Science Fiction and the interests of its fans such as anime, costuming, art, and much, much more.
Norwescon is the host convention for the prestigious Philip K. Dick Award, given to a distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during the award year in the U.S.A.
Finally Norwescon is a lot of fun.
Where things are...
So you ask “Where is the cloakroom?” Well, let me tell you. Below is a list of where things are within the convention. If you have any questions, please stop by the convention office in room 7106 and we’ll be glad to help you.
Maps
- Main level of the hotel meeting rooms. Includes the Olympic rooms and the Grand and Northwest Ballrooms.
- Upper level meeting rooms. Includes the Evergreen and Cascade rooms.
| Cloakroom/Lost and Found | Room 7101 (In Wing 7 near the Olympic Meeting Rooms) |
| Norwescon Office | Room 7106 |
| Security/Dispatch | Room 7108 |
| Volunteers | Olympic 2 |
| Hospitality | Olympic 3 |
| Green Room | Cascade 1 & 2 |
| Dealers’ Room | Northwest Ballroom 1-3 |
| Art Show | Grand Ballroom 1 |
| Artist Alley | Past Wing 7 in Hallway |
| Gaming | Cascade 11 &12 |
For those interested in past Norwescons, we provide archived versions of our pages for Norwescon:
Norwescon 29
Norwescon 28
Norwescon 27
Norwescon 26
Norwescon 25
Norwescon 24
Norwescon 23
Norwescon 22 (Post Con Report in pdf)
Norwescon (Unofficial) History
30 YEARS OF NORWESCON HISTORY
We hope you enjoyed our 30th Anniversary Celebration and history display. Norwescon is getting older, and we believe it is important to remember our roots and the milestones along the way. We hope you enjoyed the history article in the program book, and found it interesting and informative! We would like to extend a special thank you to Carolyn Palms who was our first historian.
The History Display was set up in Olympic 2, quiet hospitality. There was a display of badges, badge holders, volunteer tokens, t-shirts, fanzines, flyers, cups and more. We even had the tiny, little Norwescon 1 Program Book, which is smaller than our current pocket programs! We had program books from years past in a display in the lobby, and extras for the taking at the history display – which you seemed to like, as about 50 books were taken. We should have brought more!
We had two types of picture displays – paper and electronic. People gathered around the PC monitor sharing ooohs and aaahs and playing “remember when”. The albums were scattered on tables around the room.
Several Norwescon members submitted “favorite memory” stories which we printed out and taped on the walls. We are always looking for stories to add to the memory book. If you have a story you would like to share send it to Michael Citrak at mcitrak (at) comcast (dot) net.
The 30th Anniversary celebration continued throughout the con with many special touches. We had:
- Pearl embossing on the program book cover in keeping with the traditional 30th anniversary symbol of pearls.
- “30 Years of Norwescon” souvenir bags.
- A special category in the masquerade.
- Play money in the casino commemorating our various hotels.
- “30 Years of Norwescon Stories” panel on Friday.
- Special goodies for the Volunteers, including a “pearl” for each year volunteered.
We would like to thank:
- Jordan Orr for building two beautiful table-top display cases!
- Rory Clark for the computer and photo displays!
- Elizabeth Thomas-Rodolf, Daniel Pawtowski, Don Glover, John Andrews, and many others for the photos!
- Carolyn Palms, Beth Dockins, Jim Cox and many others for the T-shirts!
- Tracy Knoedler for the 30th Celebration Souvenir bags.
- You for sharing your ideas and input over the years! Keep it coming!
We had our first history display at Norwescon 25, and hope to have the next one at Norwescon 35 – which means, of course, that it will become a tradition. The goal for the next 5 years is to get all of those old photos scanned!