Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:22:11 -0500
From: thaughey <thaughey at acnet.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Our Calendar of Upcoming Events
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Please send me directions for the regular meeting as I'll be in town and
only went once to that house.  I'm flying to D.C. tomorrow morning..
--Tom Haughey

Keith F. Lynch wrote:

>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,
>organization, 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 to everyone who has done
>so.  Most recently Cathy Green and Sam Scheiner.
>
>                         WSFA's List of
>                     Upcoming Cons & Events
>
>                              2004
>
>Monday, June 7th: 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.  Dr.
>    William Borucki describes the Kepler Mission.
>
>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.
>
>Tuesday, June 8th: Nicholas Meyer speaks at LoC
>    Nicholas Meyer speaks on "Science Fiction as Art" at the
>    Library of Congress at the Madison Building, Dining Room A, 6th
>    floor, at 12:10 pm.  Open to the public.  No reservation needed.
>
>Friday, June 11th: Gingrich and Forstchen at Olsson's
>    Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen sign their new alternate
>    history novel Grant Comes East at Olsson's Books and Records
>    at 7 pm at Olsson's Old Town Alexandria, 106 S. Union St.,
>    703-684-0077, about a mile from the King Street Metro station
>    on the Blue and Yellow lines.
>
>June 11 - 13: Conterpoint 2004
>    A filk convention in Rockville Maryland.
>
>June 12 - 13: Used book sale
>    Used book sale will be held on the grounds of the Freeman
>    House, 131 Church St., N.E., Vienna, VA, from 9 until 4 on
>    Saturday and noon until 5 on Sunday.  For more information,
>   call 703-938-5187.
>
>Monday, June 14th: Dr. Who viewing
>    The Northern Virginia Doctor Who Viewing Society will be
>    showing "Earthshock" at the Fairfax Government Center starting
>    at 7 pm.
>
>Tuesday, June 15th: Kim Stanley Robinson at Bailey's Crossroads Borders Books
>    Kim Stanley Robinson introduces his new novel Forty Signs of
>    Rain at the Borders Bookstore at Bailey's Crossroads Virginia
>    at 7:30 pm.
>
>Tuesday, June 15th: Lissa Moore meets psychosculptor
>    Lissa Moore meets Psychosculptor Nat Hamlin (in Robert
>    Silverberg's The Second Trip).
>
>Wednesday, June 16th: Bloomsday Centennial
>    One hundred years since the events of James Joyce's Ulysses.
>
>Wednesday, June 16th: Kim Stanley Robinson at NSF
>    Kim Stanley Robinson introduces his new novel Forty Signs of
>    Rain at the National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., one
>    block south of the Ballston Metro station on the Orange Line,
>    at 1:30 pm.
>
>Friday, June 18th: WSFA Third Friday Meeting
>    Regular WSFA meeting (at the Ginters' as usual).  Newcomers
>    welcome.  Email me for directions.
>
>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.
>
>Friday, July 2nd: WSFA First Friday Meeting
>    Regular WSFA meeting (at the Gillilands' as usual).  Newcomers
>    welcome.  Email me for directions.
>
>Sunay, July 4th: Picnic
>    Another traditional Fourth of July picnic at The Fabulous
>    Bungalow in Arlington, starting at noon, to celebrate America's
>    birthday.
>
>July 9 - 11: Shore Leave 26
>    Annual, fan-run, Star-Trek-focused convention in Hunt Valley,
>    Maryland (outside of Baltimore).
>
>Monday, July 12th: Dr. Who viewing
>    The Northern Virginia Doctor Who Viewing Society will be
>    meeting at the Fairfax Government Center starting at 7 pm.
>
>Friday, July 16th: WSFA Third Friday Meeting
>    Regular WSFA meeting (at the Ginters' as usual).  Newcomers
>    welcome.  Email me for directions.
>
>Friday, July 30th: Fifth Friday
>    WSFA often has a party on months with a fifth Friday.  Stay
>    tuned for details.
>
>Saturday, July 31st: Hugo award voting deadline
>    Hugo and Retro-Hugo award voting deadline.  All members of
>    Noreascon 4 are eligible to vote.
>
>Friday, August 6th: WSFA First Friday Meeting
>    Regular WSFA meeting (at the Gillilands' as usual).  Newcomers
>    welcome.  Email me for directions.
>
>Wednesday, August 4th: China Miéville at Politics & Prose
>    China Miéville signs his new book The Iron Council at the
>    Politics & Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, one
>    mile north of the Van Ness Metro station, at 7:00 pm.
>
>Monday, August 9th: Dr. Who viewing
>    The Northern Virginia Doctor Who Viewing Society will be
>    meeting at the Fairfax Government Center starting at 7 pm.
>
>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.
>
>December 10 - 12: Philcon 2004
>    The The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society (PSFS) brings you
>    another Philcon.  In Philadelphia.
>
>                              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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