Special Events

We’re looking forward to a lot of fun at WindyCon this year.

Start at Opening Ceremonies at 7:00 p.m. on Friday where you'll get a chance to meet our guests and get an introduction to what's happening this weekend.

Right after that, at 7:30 p.m., we'll be bringing you a special audio-visual presentation from our Artist Guests of Honour Phil and Kaja Foglio's Girl Genius with "Revenge of the Weasel Queen."

At 8:30 p.m., our Toastmaster Christian Ready will make the first of several presentations of photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope. If you've seen Christian before, you know what to expect.  If not, you're in for a new treat.  Each presentation is different, so you'll want to see them all.

Then at 9:30 p.m. you can head over to the Filk Room to hear our Filk Guest of Honour Tom Smith singing some of our favourite songs in a unique performance as he'll be backed up by Toyboat's heavy rock sound.  You may have heard Tom before, but you've never heard him like this!

 

On Saturday, you can catch our Masquerade at 8:00 p.m.  You'll find more information about that elsewhere.

And after our costumers strut their stuff, you'll be entertained while you wait for the 9:45 p.m. Masquerade award ceremony by as many of Tom's songs as he can squeeze into the time available.  Did we mention that he's the World’s Fastest Filker?

At 10:00 p.m., we'll have our Steampunk Dance.  Come on down, in costume or not, and dance the night away!

 

On Sunday, we'll have the Zeppelin Races starting at 11:00 a.m.  You can bring your own vessel (either rigid or soft-framed) or use one of ours.  But it's not just a simple race.  You'll want to rig a rescue hook on your zeppelin, because your mission is to rescue a stranded balloon by hooking the attached ribbon loop and towing it to the finish line.  It's harder than it looks!

Finally, at 2:00 p.m., come by Closing Ceremonies where you can say goodbye to our guests, find out who won what during the course of the con, and learn a bit about what we've got planned for 2010.