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. >______________________________________________________________________ > >Add your event to this list by sending a note to WSFA's Webmaster. > >----------------------- > > WSFA Home (frames) | WSFA Home (no frames) > >----------------------- > >This page was created 28 February, 1997. This page was last updated 7 >June, 2004. >