Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:55:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Our Calendar of Upcoming Events
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Here, once again, is the contents of our calendar of upcoming events.
As always, it's available at http://www.wsfa.org/calendar.htm,
mirrored at http://keithlynch.net/wsfa/calendar.htm. It contains
links to external web pages for nearly every person, event, or
location mentioned. I recommend viewing it at least once a week or
so. Please inform me of any other events which you think would be of
interest to WSFAns. Please also inform me of any errors, omissions,
broken links, etc. Thanks.
Note the three interesting free talks coming up tomorrow and the
day after.
WSFA's List of
Upcoming Cons & Events
2004
Wednesday, April 14th: Life in the Universe lecture
"New Strategies for Detecting Life in the Universe" Free
lecture at the National Air and Space Museum at 8 pm.
Thursday, April 15th: "13.7 Billion Years" at LoC
"13.7 Billion Years: A History of the Cosmos". Free Lecture by
Yervant Terzian at the Library of Congress, Madison Building,
West Dining Room, 6th Floor, at 11:30 am.
Thursday, April 15th: Dialog on Extraterrestrial Life
"Is the Universe Lively or Lonely? The Quest for Worlds and
Life Beyond Our Solar System" free dialog at the AAAS
auditorium at 1200 New York Avenue, NW, near the Metro Center
Station, at 6 pm.
Friday, April 16th: WSFA Third Friday Meeting
Regular WSFA meeting (at the Ginters' as usual). Newcomers
welcome. Email me for directions.
April 23 - 25: Book Sale at Arlington Library
Used book sale at Arlington (Virginia) Public Library.
Saturday, April 24th: Sheree R. Thomas signing
Sheree R. Thomas, Jill Robinson, and Tony Medina discuss and
sign their latest anthology, Dark Matter: Reading the Bones at
2 pm at Karibu Bookstore, Prince George's Plaza, Hyattsville,
Maryland, near the Prince George's Plaza Metro station on the
Green Line.
Sunday, April 25th: Life Extension Society Meeting
The local cryonics and life extension group will hold an open
meeting at 2 PM at Mark Mugler's home, 48 Adams St. NW,
Washington DC.
April 30 - May 2: Malice Domestic
A mystery convention in Arlington Virginia.
Friday, April 30th: Fifth Friday
WSFA often has a party on months with a fifth Friday. Stay
tuned for details.
Friday, May 7th: WSFA First Friday Meeting
Regular WSFA meeting (at the Gillilands' as usual). Newcomers
welcome. We will be holding our annual elections. Email me for
directions.
Friday, May 14th: Bruce Sterling signs at Olsson's
At 7 pm Bruce Sterling signs his new book The Zenith Angle at
Olsson's Books and Records at 2111 Wilson Blvd., Arlington,
adjacent to the Courthouse Metro station on the Orange line
(use the "Colonial Village" exit).
Friday, May 21st: WSFA Third Friday Meeting
Regular WSFA meeting. At the Madigans, not the Ginters.
May 28 - 31: Balticon 38
The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) brings you another
Balticon!
Thursday, June 3rd: DC Transhumanist Dinner
7 pm at Hamburger Hamlet in Crystal City.
Friday, June 4th: WSFA First Friday Meeting
Regular WSFA meeting (at the Gillilands' as usual). Newcomers
welcome. Email me for directions.
Tuesday, June 8th: Transit of Venus
The planet Venus gets between us and the sun, for the first
time in 122 years. Visible at sunrise. Use eye protection.
June 11 - 13: Conterpoint 2004
A filk convention in Rockville Maryland.
Wednesday, June 16th: Bloomsday Centennial
One hundred years since the events of James Joyce's Ulysses.
Monday, June 21st: History is rewound
History is rewound to February 1987, to undo a terrible
disaster, according to John Cramer's novel Einstein's Bridge.
September 2 - 6: 62nd World SF Convention: Noreascon 4
Back to Boston.
October 15 - 17: Capclave 2004
WSFA is putting on a convention! At Tysons Corner, VA.
December 3 - 5: SMOFcon
WSFA is hosting 2004's SMOFcon, in Washington DC.
2005
August 4 - 8: 63rd World SF Convention: Interaction
Glasgow, once more with ceiling.
September 1 - 5: CascadiaCon
The 2005 NASFiC, near Seattle.
October 14 - 16: Capclave 2005
WSFA is putting on a convention! At Tysons Corner, VA. (Date
and location subject to change.)
2006
August 23 - 27: 64th World SF Convention: L.A.con IV
Anaheim California, same place as the 1996 Worldcon and the
1999 NASFiC.
2008
Friday, February 29th: Datclave II
Location TBA. WSFA hosts Datclave whenever a February has a
fifth Friday. The previous one was in 1980.
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