The OryConian #3
The OryCon 18 Daily Newsletter Volume 18, Issue 3, Saturday, November 9, 1996
OryCon 19
OryCon 19 will be November 7-9, 1997, back here at the Red
Lion Columbia River.
Guest of Honor: Steven Barnes
Special Musical Guest: Golden Bough
Memberships are $15 until December 31, 1996. There will be
a 1600 person membership limit again next year. You can buy
your OryCon 19 membership starting Sunday at 12 noon at
Registration.
Special for OryCon 18, people will be able to reserve a
specific badge number (first come, first serve) for $25. Soooo,
if you've coveted that 42, 666, or some other number, now's
your chance. (Numbers must be positive integers, <= 1600.)
Saturday Evening Concerts
Klamuth Room
Starting after the Variety Show ends!
Telynor - 1 hour
followed by 1/2 hour sets:
Joan Gaustad & Roy Torley
Jeffrey Hitchin
Cat Faber & Eglantine
Cecilia Eng
Last Breaking News
Mary Rosenblum is feeling better and will be able to appear
on Programming Sunday.
She will appear with Gardner Dozois on "Sex, Goats and Pick-ups". Gardner was bereft at the absence of Mary and the
goats. And the back-up plan, "Kris Rusch and the Chocolate
Pudding Wrestling" also fell through. So we are delighted to
have Mary back to help continue the tradition of quality
programming at OryCon.
Blood, Sweat and Volunteers
The Volunteer Raffle will be held at noon on Sunday at the
Volunteer Desk. We have tons of neat stuff. Anyone who has
volunteered is eligible. One ticket per hour worked.
It's not too late to volunteer!
Other programming changes:
Lisa Bothell will be added to the "Ethics of Publishing" panel
(Sun, 1 pm, Klamuth)
The Pippin Sardo Slide Show: Fashions from 1915-1925
(Sun, 3 pm, Nehalem) has been cancelled.
A Few Good Brewers Wanted
Sunday at 3 pm we want to invite home brewers to "Beer:
from the Dawn of Civilization to the Stars". Come and join
Peter Moorwood and Aaron Bodor for a discussion of this
vital subject.
OryCon Martial Arts
Over the years, a number of you have asked me about the
availability, in the Portland area, of quality martial arts
instruction. Well, it exists, the teacher's name is Steven
Plinck, and he's going to be demonstrating and teaching a
mini-workshop in his art the Indonesian art of Pentjak Silat
Serak, Sunday morning in my Tai Chi class. If you are
currently studying, or are shopping around, and have only
been exposed to Japanese, Korean, or Chinese arts, this is
very very different. Even if you aren't interested in studying,
but have an interest in seeing what an extremely high-value
martial art or artist looks like, I would suggest that you check
it out, 9:30 Sunday morning in the Riverview Room. I
repeat unless you are very lucky, or have searched far and
wide, you have never seen anything that approaches the near-magical efficiency of this man' art. I cannot recommend him
highly enough. Come and check it out!
Steven Barnes
Parties!
- 8ish pm, Room 612
- Pat Luther
- 9:15 pm, Room 610
- Colorado Springs in 1999
Westercon 52 bid
- 8:30 pm, Room 608
- Rustycon
- 9 pm, Room 607
- San Francisco in 2002
- 9 pm, Room 550
- Philadelphia in 2001
- 9 pm, Room 521
- Boston in 2001
- 9 pm, Room 418
- Spokane in 1999
Westercon 52 bid
The Daily Newsletter
The daily newsletter has been edited by Sharon Sbarsky. There
will be one more issue on Sunday. Please put any submissions
to the Daily Newsletter in the box located in the Convention
Office, by Sunday 10 am. Distribution points for the
OryConian will be at the usual places around the hotel.
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