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Dale Arnold
Sep 6, 2023, 9:46:02 PM9/6/23
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Charm City Spec Reading this Friday:
The next Charm City Spec reading seris hits at 6:30 pm on Friday September 8, 2023 for a full night of brilliant speculative fiction authors including Nadia Bulkin, Vajra Chandrasekera and Sarah Pinsker. The reading will be in the garden behind The Ivy Bookshop: https://www.theivybookshop.com Details at https://www.facebook.com/CharmCitySpec/ or through the twitter feed of https://twitter.com/charmcityspec?lang=en Also on offer: door prizes, beverages and treats, panel Q&A and conversation with the authors, a mass signing.
BSFS’s monthly writer's workshop for SF and Fantasy and Speculative authors of poetry held every Third Thursday of each month at 7:00 PM. Near term this would mean 09/21/2023. By Zoom only (only use this zoom link for Poetry Workshop, for other zoom meetings use proper links below) at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82344040646?pwd=eFdCQlZmL29KSVYzYUZXdE1EK3Q1UT09
Meeting ID: 823 4404 0646 Passcode: 365968
Our next Book Club will be held September 23, 2023 at 7:30 PM. Featured Book will be Compton Crook Award Winner by Alex Jennings - The Ballad of Perilous Graves. This Book Discussion will be by Zoom and also in-person at the BSFS Building (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
On September 19, 2023 at 6:00 PM (building opens at 5:00 PM for early folks and browse the library) with fun fan films and professional productions our license allows. This month a double feature of recent high concept animated productions about multidimensional travel gone not quite right. Babylon 5 – The Road Home and Spiderman – Across the Spiderverse. The license we have says we can not advertise on the web but can distribute flyers and email.. Free screening on our 10 ft screen. Watch with old or new friends.
Tabletop Role-Playing Game Event next held September 24, 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. Our Tabletop Roleplaying Games (RPGs) meetup! We will be rotating through various tabletop Sci Fi RPGs. For more details contact mike at bsfs dot org
Anime Social will be in person at the BSFS Building and as watch party on discord as well. Join Discord here On 09/23/2023 we will be screening: Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon epsiodes 1-3 at 2PM. Then Undead Murder Farce episodes 1-3 at 3:30PM. A decaiptated detective goes in search of her missing body with her maid and a half human Oni slayer. And finally, Space Dandy episodes 9 & 10 at 5PM. More bounty hunter nonsense in space. For more info or suggest titles for the future contact anime at BSFS dot org
Writers Circle at BSFS:
BSFS sponsors a Writing Circle 6:30-8:30pm by zoom every second and fourth Thursday of the month, near term this means teleconference only by zoom on 09/14/2023 and 09/28/2023. 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=TENjZ25HenRNOHhtcHFaRlZnOGE3dz09
Meeting 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
Every third Sunday of the month at the BSFS Building. Next on September 17, 2023 4:30 PM to 9:00 PM. Board gaming using the games from For info email matthewsands at bsfs dot org
See the BSFS long range events calendar at http://www.bsfs.org/bsfscldr.htm.
Borrow and bring back books from our 17,000 item free lending library at any event or meeting at the BSFS Building.
Special Events that BSFS Knows of you might like:
BSFS/Balticon will have a Fan Table Exhibit at Baltimore Comic Con see http://baltimorecomiccon.com/ for details held at the Baltimore Convention Center September 8-10, 2023.
BSFS/Balticon will have a Fan Table Exhibit at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention, details at https://www.midatlanticnostalgiaconvention.com/ on and also on September 7-9, 2023. in the Hunt Valley Delta Marriott.
BSFS/Balticon will have a Exhibit at Artscape during September 22, 23, 24, 2023 where we return for the first time in decades in hopes of spreading the love of SF Literature to a wider artistic population. Artscape details at https://www.artscape.org/ To volunteer at the BSFS tent email da...@bsfs.org
Capclave Con Returns to Rockville:
Capclave the DC area con that focuses on Short form SF returns September 29, 2023 to October 1, 2023 Hilton Washington DC/Rockville, Executive Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. GOHs are Charlie Jane Anders, and Sarah Pinsker. For more details see https://www.capclave.org/capclave/capclave23/
Author Reading by E.G. Condé:
E.G. Condé presents "Sordidez" in conversation w/Karlo Rodriguez, with Author Reading on Wednesday, September 13th 2023 at 7:00 pm inside Red Emma's Bookstore. Sordidez is a multigenre work of speculative fiction, solarpunk, indigenous futurism and climate fiction or CliFi with a Latine/x bent. More details at https://redemmas.org/events/
Balticon Planning and BSFS Business Meetings:
These meetings this month will be in person at the BSFS Building and by teleconference by Zoom. To attend in person see our directions page at http://www.bsfs.org/bsfsdrct.htm 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
The Baltimore Science Fiction Society business and discussion meeting will be held at 8:30pm on September 9, 2023 in person and by Zoom to share ideas, watch us warp traditional parliamentary rules, hang out etc. This is election meeting, so you can watch us elect officers at the end of the meeting..
The Balticon 58 Planning Meeting next held on September 9, 2023 at 7:00 PM. Drop by in person or on Zoom then to share your ideas about how to improve the next and future Balticons. (or volunteer)
The next Charm City Spec reading seris hits at 6:30 pm on Friday September 8, 2023 for a full night of brilliant speculative fiction authors including Nadia Bulkin, Vajra Chandrasekera and Sarah Pinsker. The reading will be in the garden behind The Ivy Bookshop: https://www.theivybookshop.com Details at https://www.facebook.com/CharmCitySpec/ or through the twitter feed of https://twitter.com/charmcityspec?lang=en Also on offer: door prizes, beverages and treats, panel Q&A and conversation with the authors, a mass signing.
Speculative Poetry Workshop by Zoom:
Meeting ID: 823 4404 0646 Passcode: 365968
Book Club Meeting at BSFS:
Meeting ID: 941 2901 6253 Passcode: 041896
Film Night at BSFS:
BSFS Sunday Tabletop Role-Playing Game Event at Online:
Anime Social at BSFS:
Writers Circle at BSFS:
BSFS sponsors a Writing Circle 6:30-8:30pm by zoom every second and fourth Thursday of the month, near term this means teleconference only by zoom on 09/14/2023 and 09/28/2023. 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=TENjZ25HenRNOHhtcHFaRlZnOGE3dz09
Meeting 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
Alphabet Soup Board Gaming at BSFS:
See the BSFS long range events calendar at http://www.bsfs.org/bsfscldr.htm.
Borrow and bring back books from our 17,000 item free lending library at any event or meeting at the BSFS Building.
Special Events that BSFS Knows of you might like:
BSFS/Balticon will have a Fan Table Exhibit at Baltimore Comic Con see http://baltimorecomiccon.com/ for details held at the Baltimore Convention Center September 8-10, 2023.
BSFS/Balticon will have a Fan Table Exhibit at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention, details at https://www.midatlanticnostalgiaconvention.com/ on and also on September 7-9, 2023. in the Hunt Valley Delta Marriott.
BSFS/Balticon will have a Exhibit at Artscape during September 22, 23, 24, 2023 where we return for the first time in decades in hopes of spreading the love of SF Literature to a wider artistic population. Artscape details at https://www.artscape.org/ To volunteer at the BSFS tent email da...@bsfs.org
Capclave Con Returns to Rockville:
Capclave the DC area con that focuses on Short form SF returns September 29, 2023 to October 1, 2023 Hilton Washington DC/Rockville, Executive Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. GOHs are Charlie Jane Anders, and Sarah Pinsker. For more details see https://www.capclave.org/capclave/capclave23/
Author Reading by E.G. Condé:
E.G. Condé presents "Sordidez" in conversation w/Karlo Rodriguez, with Author Reading on Wednesday, September 13th 2023 at 7:00 pm inside Red Emma's Bookstore. Sordidez is a multigenre work of speculative fiction, solarpunk, indigenous futurism and climate fiction or CliFi with a Latine/x bent. More details at https://redemmas.org/events/
Balticon Planning and BSFS Business Meetings:
These meetings this month will be in person at the BSFS Building and by teleconference by Zoom. To attend in person see our directions page at http://www.bsfs.org/bsfsdrct.htm 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
The Baltimore Science Fiction Society business and discussion meeting will be held at 8:30pm on September 9, 2023 in person and by Zoom to share ideas, watch us warp traditional parliamentary rules, hang out etc. This is election meeting, so you can watch us elect officers at the end of the meeting..
The Balticon 58 Planning Meeting next held on September 9, 2023 at 7:00 PM. Drop by in person or on Zoom then to share your ideas about how to improve the next and future Balticons. (or volunteer)
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