The event will be held on Sunday, March 31st, 2013 from 10 am–2 pm. If you know of a non-profit that we should be contacting please let us know. We hope to provide a variety of organizations table space to communicate with our membership. Please contact us with ideas.

Please feel free to contact special events at specialevents@norwescon.org for additional information. Thank you!

Game Masters who sign up to host 12 or more hours of games over the weekend will be granted Pro Game Master status, giving you access to everything our other Norwescon Pros get! Plus, sign up to run games before November 15, 2012, and your name will be printed in all publications where we announce the scheduled games.

For more information and for our online registration form, please head over to our gaming page!

Gaming

Both open and scheduled gaming will be returning for Norwescon 36, and we’re looking for Game Masters to run sessions during scheduled gaming! Old or new, card, figurine, RPG, serious, silly, horrific, mysterious…. Just use the GM Registration Form, give us the details, and we’ll start building the schedule.

Gaming is also looking for volunteers to help out in the scheduled gaming room throughout the convention. We open gaming early on day one and run all four days, so we have lots of volunteer opportunities. Just drop us a line to let us know you’re interested!

Panels and Panelists

Our Programming department is also currently accepting applications for panelists and ideas for panels. Please read over our Becoming a Panelist page, then drop us a line through the contact link at the bottom to introduce yourself, tell us about your areas of interest, and apply for the panelist pool!

That’s all for now. Look for an announcement of concom meeting dates within the next couple weeks!

Masquerade

Norwescon 35′s Masquerade had many amazing entries. Kudos go out to everyone who participated–we look forward to seeing your work in the future. Many thanks also to the staff and volunteers behind the scenes who worked hard to put on a great show. Thanks!

Art Show

Norwescon’s Art Show was a hotbed of activity with a small bidding war happening right before close. The sold stamps almost dried out. Our Judges worked hard to decide who should be honored this year. The art quality was some of the best that we have had. But, after much hair pulling, wrestling in the aisles and clipboard swings the honorees are:

Judges Choice:

People’s Choice Awards

Many thanks to Norwescon’s Art Show members who voted for their favorite artists in many different categories. The judges were forced to make tie breaking decisions in two categories, Fantasy and Horror.

We would also like to congratulate Leanne Dunn for receiving this year’s NWC Raising Artist Scholarship for “Vulture Girl”. The scholarship will be applied to her education at the Northwest College of Art.

A big thanks to our judges Don Lackey, Caroline Westra, and Mac Oros for their hard work and interesting wrestling moves.

Single Pattern Contest

This year’s Single Pattern Contest used the Butterick B5646 pattern.

Volunteers

Finally, four volunteers (one per day, plus a fourth for overall productivity and great attitude) won memberships to Norwescon 36. Congratulations to Michael McSweeney, Ray Seredin, Shaylee Bell, and Conde Holt!

He brings with him his patented retro swing through fannish favorites all night long. This will be totally old skool; close confidant Keith Johnson says the enigmatic DJ promises all the things you came to expect from his 20 years of dances. The hits, the special mixes, the surprises, the talking–it’s all there! Yes, including the infamous “Experiment in Terror.”

When pressed for details, TOX2MUCH would only say, “Ladies and Gentlemen, take your positions please! The Istan bull is time warping Major Tom something good. Dare to be stupid because we can (can). Never trust a Star Trekkin’ Klingon, it’ll make ya wanna shout!”

Babelfish was unable to provide a proper translation.

Cthulhu Tech RPG, Poo The Card Game, Nuts!, The Impossible Machine, Hecho, Cambria, Hibernia, Globalization, The Target, Betrayal at the House on the Hill, Cutthroat Caverns, Cleopatra, 7 Wonders, Dominion, Mansions of Madness, Elder Sign, Dominant Species, Kingsburg, Stoneage, Battlelore, and Memoir ’44.

As you can see we are starting to see some action lined up for the spring. I’ve set up a registration form on the Norwescon Website for game registration, if you are interested in running games sign up through that portal. — If you know anyone who runs miniature war games, I was told people were disappointed to not see many over the last few years.

If you are interested in being on Gaming staff for this year let me know. I will be investigating expanding offerings and spaces are changing, more on that later.

Thanks,
Alan Bond
Scheduled Games Head for Norwescon 35

If you have questions or comments, please contact Special Events.