Balticon 57 Online Hotel Room Registration Open:
Balticon, the Maryland Regional Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention will be held at The Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202, inside the Baltimore Inner Harbor Entertainment District during Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-29, 2023. The hotel room block is now open for folks to make reservations. Staying inside the hotel means you don’t miss program items during commutes… The room rate this year is $155.00 per night (plus taxes) for either a King Bed or Double Queen room. You can make/update reservations at
https://www.balticon.org/wp57/hotel/
Speculative Poetry Workshop by Zoom:
Our monthly writer's workshop for SF and Fantasy and Speculative authors of poetry continues on schedule of held every Third Thursday of each month at 7:00 PM. Near term this means 12/15/2022. By Zoom only (only use this zoom link for Poetry Workshop, for other zoom meetings use proper links below listed with that item) at
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82344040646?pwd=eFdCQlZmL29KSVYzYUZXdE1EK3Q1UT09 Meeting ID: 823 4404 0646 Passcode: 365968
Anime Social at BSFS:
Returns on a special date/time of December 17, 2022 from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM at the BSFS Building. Items to be screened include @ 2PM The Daily Life of the Immortal King ep 1-3, For prodigy Wang Ling, defeating a demon king at age 6 is nothing compared to fitting in at high-school; @ 3:30PM Utawarerumono Mask of Truth ep 1-3, The Yamato Empire descends into chaos. It’s up to a group of fugitives to rally all the kingdoms together, but will peace and order be restored?; @ 5PM Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc ep 6-7. For more details email anime at bsfs dot org Stick around after the anime for the book club and film screening for almost a con-schedule of events on one day!
Book Club Meeting at BSFS:
Will next be held at a Special Date/Time of the third Saturday December 17, 2022 at 7:00 PM. Featured Book: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle.. In-person at the BSFS Building and by Zoom (only use this zoom link for book club, for other zoom meetings use proper links below) at
https://zoom.us/j/94129016253?pwd=LzRMVEZmVGtnUi9jOUc3MnFOcHFHQT09 Meeting ID: 941 2901 6253 Passcode: 041896 To attend in person see our directions page at
https://www.bsfs.org/bsfsdrct.htm Film Night at BSFS:
On December 17, 2022 at 8:30 PM+ (building opens at 6:00 PM for early folks and book club) with a screening of The Last Unicorn a classic fantasy film related to the Book Discussion held just before this screening that day. On our 10 ft screen. The license we have says we can not advertise on the web but can distribute fliers and direct email to interested people.
Music Concert and Other News lower on page so keep on reading down...
Sunday Tabletop Role-Playing Game Event at Online:
Tabletop Role-Playing Game Event is (Off in December back in January) on January 29, 2023 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. On Discord only at
https://discord.gg/5U3s2YzPzQ To participate by Discord you do need to register for Discord if you have never done so before, but the process is fairly easy. We will be rotating through various tabletop SF RPGs. For more details contact mike at bsfs dot org
Thursday Night Alphabet Soup Board Gaming at BSFS:
Evenings of the first and third Thursdays of each month, that is for next ones 12/15/2022 and January 5, 2022 at (New Start Time of) 5:00 PM and going to 10:30 PM come on down for a night of in-person SF and Fantasy theme board gaming. For info email matthewsands at bsfs dot org (Library open of course during this event like at all in-person events)
Borrow and bring back books from our 15,000 item free lending library at any event or meeting at the BSFS Building.
Balticon Planning and BSFS Business Meetings:
These meetings this month will be in-person and teleconference by Zoom. Come on down and meet in person! We encourage vaccination, and a mask but your choice. (If you have symptoms please attend by zoom) To attend by Zoom using your computer use link
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88616075406?pwd=YmF1aDhPZzVYR2NjdzBYdGZ0aStpZz09 Passcode: 930363
Meeting ID: 886 1607 5406 Or iPhone one-tap : US:
+13017158592,,97614691479#,,,,*463191# or
+19292056099,,97614691479#,,,,*463191# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US:
+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC),
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago),
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York),
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma),
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston),
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
Meeting ID: 886 1607 5406 Passcode: 930363
International numbers available:
https://zoom.us/u/ac59gxWAiW To attend in person see our directions page at
https://www.bsfs.org/bsfsdrct.htm The Baltimore Science Fiction Society business and discussion meeting will be held at 8:30pm on December 10, 2022. Drop on by in-person or on Zoom to share ideas, watch us warp traditional parliamentary rules, hang out etc., see above.
The Balticon 57 Planning Meeting next held December 10, 2022 at 7:00 PM. Drop by in-person or on Zoom and share your ideas about how to improve the next and future Balticons. (or volunteer)
Writers Circle at BSFS:
BSFS sponsors a Writing Circle 6:30-8:30pm usually meets every second and fourth Thursday of the month inside the BSFS Building, however, near term this means teleconference only by zoom on 12/08/2022 and 12/22/22. Participants prefer to stay on zoom for now. This is a SF and Fantasy focused writing group. If you write check it out. This is a recurring meeting so any Writer's Circle meeting use: Join Zoom Meeting at
https://zoom.us/j/91064908740?pwd=TENjZ25HenRNOHhtcHFaRlZnOGE3dz09Meeting ID: 910 6490 8740 Passcode: 805110 (see Zoom phone numbers above for dial in at need)
For more info contact BSFSEvents at BSFS dot org
Balticon 24 GOH Honored:
In 1990 Robin McKinley was Balticon author Guest of Honor and this year she was just named the 39th Science Fiction and Fantasy Association Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master. For details see:
https://file770.com/robin-mckinley-named-the-39th-sfwa-damon-knight-memorial-grand-master/Chromatics Concert:
The Chromatics (a group popular at local SF Cons) will entertain you with their unique combination of holiday tunes, covers from five decades of pop and rock music, and their own twisted original songs of science, technology, and modern life during concerts on 12/11/2022 and 12/17/2022 at the Greenbelt Arts Center. Tickets needed in advance. See details at
https://www.greenbeltartscenter.org/Gamer Symphony Orchestra Concert:
The Baltimore Gamer Symphony Orchestra will perform 12/10/2022 at 1:00 PM at the Baltimore War Memorial, 101 North Gay Street, Baltimore, MD. See more details at
https://baltimoregso.org/orchestra-and-choir
Buy Stuff and Help BSFS:
Since many of us buy stuff for the holiday season, one time each year I remind the folks on this list that if you go to
www.bsfs.org and use the links for amazon-smile or Charity-Mall on the left side of the page BSFS gets a small donation and you pay the same as you would anyway on those sites. Amazon is just Amazon of course. Charity-Mall has a bunch of websites you can buy from with donations as noted back to BSFS. Good luck with the holiday shopping regardless of where you go...
