Broadstairs Bacchanalia

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Hello All!

Below is the proposed con programme with approximate and flexible timings. We've kept a few things same as last year as things worked quite well. Please let us know if you are happy with the programme or if you would like some changes...

Thursday evening:

Pre-con dinner for anyone arriving early and wishing to join us.



Friday:

12.00 Broadstairs Bacchanalia Welcome Luncheon at Kat’s – Please bring something to share (shops nearby)

13.00 Switching with Dark Fic: Do Unto Others as You Would Not Have Done Unto You by kat_lair

14.00 How Low Purple Can You Go? Writing exorcism of purple prose, let’s get it all out ladies.

15.00 Harry Potter Quiz! With a special prize…

17.00 Delectable Tea at Kat’s courtesy of kat_lair & pushkin666, please inform us of any dietary restrictions

19.00 Drinks and Merriment at The Chapel, a local pub/café/second-hand bookshop and all around excellent place to chill out. A round of Slash http://slashcg.com/ ; a distinct possibility.


 
Saturday:

11.00 Writing Workshop, fanfic v. original fic & publishing by moth2fic

12.00 Dark Side of Fandom by zellieh

13.00 Luncheon, again please contribute

14.00 Fandom Scrabble

15.00 Returns and Reboots: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly by pushkin666

16.00 Tea and Words, fandom/trope lucky dip

19.00 Official Con Dinner – Get your gladrags on! Suggested place Siam Kitchen (Thai Cuisine) – SAME PLACE AS LAST YEAR, LET US KNOW IF YOU WANT SOMETHING DIFFERENT...

21.00 Merriment

• Cocktails


• Vid Show


• New/Small Fandom Pimps


• Fandom Pictionary

Sunday:

11.00 Writing Exercises

13.00 Last Con Meal possibly on the beach if the weather favours us, followed by Morelli’s world-famous ice-cream.

Afternoon/evening: Further hang-outs, shared meal, or not if people have had quite enough of socialising!


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Dearest all,

Below is the first go at timey-wimey-tabling the Broadstairs Bacchanalia Programme. I say timey-wimey because all times are approximate. Rest assured that despite my love for lists and order I shall refrain from cracking the whip re timings too much! Flexibility and fun! I wanted to try and fit all the 'formal' activities into the time everyone is here, hope it isn't too crammed.

Please let me know your thoughts on this and any changes you think would make the whole thing even better. I want to ensure that this is something everyone can enjoy.

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Thursday evening:

Pre-con dinner for anyone arriving early and wishing to join us.



Friday:

13.00 Broadstairs Bacchanalia Welcome Luncheon at Kat’s – Please bring something to share (shops nearby) followed by general socialising until everyone has arrived

15.30 Fandom Talks (and talks and talks and talks!): Short presentations on fannish matters followed by discussion

• Behind the Scenes of AO3 and Organisation of Transformative Works by moth2fic


• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Fans, Creators and Mainstream Media by pushkin666


• So Bad It’s Funny: Bad Fic, Bad Writing, Good Laughs by zellieh

18.00 Delectable Dinner at Kat’s courtesy of kat_lair & pushkin666

20.00 Drinks and Merriment at The Chapel, a local pub/café/second-hand bookshop and all around excellent place to chill out. A round of Slash a distinct possibility.



 
Saturday:

10.00 Clichés, Tropes and Kinks Oh My: Short presentations on recurring themes in canon and fanon followed by discussion

• Zombie Apocalypse Now by dreamersdare


• Writing BDSM & Kink by kat_lair & pushkin666


• Partners for Life! Appeal of the Buddy Cop Genre by margaret_r


• Super! Heroism and Humanity Beyond the Norm by dreamersdare

12.30 Luncheon, again please contribute

13.30 Fandom Writes (and writes and writes and writes!): Chance to discuss the pain and joy of writing, and to have a go!

• Finding Inspiration by thesmallhobbit


• Approaching Writing by zellieh


• There Are Voices In My Head – Getting Into Character by pushkin666


• How to Survive Co-Authoring by kat_lair and pushkin666


• All talks interspersed by writing exercises and challenges

18.30 Official Con Dinner – Get your gladrags on! Suggested place Siam Kitchen (Thai Cuisine) – please let us know if you’re happy with this

20.00 Merriment: Vid Show interspersed by New/Small Fandom Pimps at the Broadstairs house

• Fully Into Almost Human by thesmallhobbit


• Dance, Food and Comedy: The Inexplicable Lure of British TV RPS by kat_lair and pushkin666


• Hockey RPS by zellieh


• Feeling Grimm Yet? by kat_lair

Sunday:

10.00 Fannish Roundtable – the floor is open! Time for further fannish discussion and activities.

13.00 Last Con Meal possibly on the beach if the weather favours us, followed by Morelli’s world-famous ice-cream.

Afternoon/evening: Further hang-outs, shared meal (or not if people have had quite enough of socialising!)

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Dearest Fellow Fen

Broadstairs Bacchanalia planning is heating up! I have been drafting a programme and a timey-wimey-table of activities. However, currently there are still many gaps! This is where you come in! We will need your ideas and initiative for activities/talks to make our weekend extra special and full of stuff that YOU want to do and talk about!

Here we have some general points that we very much welcome your comments and contributions on.

Timing: When are you arriving and when are you leaving? Far as I can tell at least some people will be here from Thu onwards so a pre-con dinner for the early birds is planned. It would be helpful to know what time people have to leave also so that we don’t include anything too special on Sunday afternoon.

Food: At the moment, the rough plan is to have picnic type ‘everyone contributes something’ type of lunches on most days, perhaps with the exception of Sunday when we were hoping to tempt people to sample Broadstair’s lovely fish and chips, and Morelli’s ice-cream. Friday’s dinner would be provided by yours truly and pushkin666. Saturday’s official con dinner would take place in a local restaurant. With the above in mind, please let us know if this broadly speaking sounds like a good plan, and if you have any specific dietary restrictions/allergies we should take into consideration.

Talks/Activities: This is the big one! We have some ideas but they certainly aren’t enough to fill an entire weekend so we very much need your help. Please comment with your ideas. Would you be willing to give a short talk (prompt discussion about) a fannish topic? Do you want to pimp a small fandom? Run a writing workshop? Let us know! To give you a flavour of what we have planned so far (in no particular order)…

• Behind the Scenes of AO3 and Organisation of Transformative Works by moth2fic


• Zombie Apocalypse Now by dreamersdare


• Writing BDSM & Kink by kat_lair & pushkin666


• Small Fandom Pimp: Dance, Food and Comedy - The Inexplicable Lure of British TV RPS by kat_lair and pushkin666


• Small Fandom Pimp: Feeling Grimm Yet? by kat_lair


• Writing workshop – short writing exercises to get the creative juices flowing


• Vid Show - Please recommend your favourite fanvids to include!


• YOUR TALK/ACTIVITY HERE!!

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