I will be at Convolution in the SF Bay Area, Nov 1-3. I’d really love to see the Goblin King’s Masked Ball happen.
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I’m Kimmi Allbee, and I’m Chairwoman of this really amazing convention- Convolution 2013. We’re a new sci-fi/fantasy genre con, taking place in the San Francisco Bay Area on November 1-3rd. Last year was our inaugural event, and we had unexpected success. This, our second year, is shaping up to be more of the same-I have a hard time not gushing when I speak of how awesome it’s going to be.
Our Guests of Honor include Brian Froud & Wendy Froud, who’s work you’d recognize from films like “Labyrinth”, and “The Dark Crystal”, Wendy & Richard Pini, celebrating 35 years of their brilliant ElfQuest comic book series, and Richard Kadrey, author of the dark fantasy series “Sandman Slim”, which was recently announced as being developed for a new television series. Featured Guests include Toby Froud, puppeteer and filmmaker, and Ivan Van Norman, RPG game creator, and one of the finalists from TBS’ “King of the Nerds” TV series. We’re also closing the weekend with a private screening of the Cabal Cut of Clive Barker’s epic horror film “Nightbreed”, which was just announced at SDCC as being picked up for a new DVD release with the all-new, reworked scenes that were cut from the original release, bringing it back in line with Clive’s original vision for the film. Russell Cherrington, the man behind this film being made will join us, along with Craig Sheffer, star of Nightbreed, who played Boone.
When I first bid to chair this year’s convention, I had a dream, and it’s been amazing to watch that dream become a real thing, and to get to share it with all the people who are so excited for it to happen. We’re also working our collective butts off to make it be a bigger, more amazing thing than it could have been on it’s own, by running a Kickstarter campaign for Saturday night’s dance, The Goblin King’s Masked Ball.
We’ll have live music performances from singer and cellist Unwoman, and from the trio of amazing performers who make up Tricky Pixie- Alexander James Adams, SJ Tucker, and Betsy Tinney. We’ll have local DJs spinning atmospheric music, and live performers from The Vespertine Circus. The whole evening is themed after the iconic dream sequence in the film “Labyrinth”, and we want everyone to don a fancy costume and mask, and come to the ball as your brightest dream, or your darkest nightmare, and revel for Halloween weekend in style and decadence.
We currently have 52 backers, with $4,944.00 pledged of our $12,500.00 goal, and we’re not quite halfway done- we have 17 days left. We’re at 39% funded-and this is a fantastic thing. In the next week, you’ll see more updates as we add new performers, and unveil some extra reward level items to titillate new backers. We’ve gotten endless support from all of our wonderful Guests of Honor, and Featured Guests, and it just keeps coming, which is both humbling, and invigorating, as it repeatedly shows me that my dream is something that I can share, and have it become bigger than it was when it just lived in my head.
Please, go give it a look. There has been so much work, from so many people, going into making this project a success that I cannot possibly ask for more from any of them-but I can ask for more from you. Even if it’s just $5, one less latte for the week-every little bit helps, and every little bit adds up to become part of a greater whole. And then, you’ll have thrown a little bit of positivity out into the world, knowing you helped make a dream come true.
