Events

All of the programming at Windycon is special, but there are a lot of things going on over at the Main Stage that we’d like to make sure that you know about.

On Friday at 7:00 PM, we start off with our Opening Ceremonies. This is a great chance to meet the Chairs, meet our great guests, and hear a bit about our plans for the weekend. Right after that at 8:00 PM, we’re looking forward to Mike Brotherton and Christian Ready’s slide show with the latest from the Webb Space Telescope which we expect to be amazing, because the data that’s coming in is something to be seen. At 9:00 PM, Moebius Theatre returns to the Windycon stage with the world premiere of a new play by Charles W. Ott III, Nowheresville. It’s a romantic comedy set…somewhere. This is the first new play from Moebius in some time and we’re looking forward to it!

The Main Stage is packed full on Saturday. Among the many things going on there, you’ll want to see Mike Brotherton’s presentation on the Dark Side of Astronomy, where he discusses the things that astronomers don’t get to see directly. Later in the afternoon, we’ll have concerts by returning Windycon favorite, Tom Smith (the world’s fastest filker), and music guests, The Faithful Sidekicks. We’re delighted to have Eric and Jen Distad as our guests this year as they bring us their original approach to (mostly) humorous geek comedy rock. If you haven’t seen them before, you’re in for a treat.

But we don’t stop when we break for dinner! At 7:00 PM on Saturday, we’ll have the first of two shows from the Wanderverse, a live-action improvisational sketch comedy RPG where you are an essential NPC. (That’s non-player character, if you’re not familiar with the abbreviation. The “essential” part means that the adventurers should not kill you if they’d like to succeed.) As audience members, you get to interact with their Digital Participation Software to directly influence the outcome of the heroes’ journey. And following that show, at 9:00 PM, the Klingon Pop Warrior will host our foray into Klingon Karaoke. Come on down and sing!

Don’t drink too much on Saturday night, because you’ll want to wake up in the morning on Sunday to catch Christian Ready’s updated tour of the universe at 11:00 AM. There’s so much going on here, we’ve programmed him for 90 minutes instead of the usual hour. But the universe is big. Really big.

And at 1:00 PM, we’ll have the second show from the Wanderverse, which—being improvisational—will be entirely different from the first. Except for the cast. They keep the cast…

All good things must come to an end, so at 3:00 PM, it’ll be time for Closing Ceremonies. There will be one last chance to see our guests, the presentation of awards, and some information on the plans for Windycon 51 from our incoming Chair.

We’ll look forward to seeing you!