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Montreal Area Event / Convention

Scintillation 3 Update

Scintillation 3 is scheduled for the weekend of June 10 -12 at the Holiday Inn Chinatown in Montreal. There are still rooms available in the hotel.

Registration closes on MAY 31st. As usual, there will be no at door registration, you must register online by May 31st to attend Scintillation.

IMPORTANT: Proof of vaccination is required, as is the wearing of a mask.

Montreal Area Event / Convention

Scintillation Progress Report

From Jo Walton:

Scintillation Progress Report

Progress!

We’re delighted to announce that Scintillation 3 will be taking place on the weekend of 10-12th June 2022, in the Holiday Inn, Montreal, the same one with a pagoda on the roof where Scintillation 1 and 2 took place. We will have program, expeditions, a picnic, and as much fun, friends, and conversation as possible under the circumstances. We may have an outdoor hangout area. We’re doing out best to have Scintillation in a difficult situation. We want to see you! We have missed you all so much. We’re not waiting until the pandemic is over, because we don’t know what over even means any more.

Programme

There will be a fun programme, created by Jo Walton. If you would like to be on programme, or if you have any ideas for program, email programme@scintillation.ca

Debra Doyle Memorial Dumplings

Debra Doyle was a beloved member of the Scintillation community. In one of her last posts to the Scintillation Discord she said how much she was looking forward to eating dumplings at Scintillation. In memory of her, we’d like to give someone doing the con on a budget money to take a friend and have a dumpling lunch. If you qualify, email dumpling@scintillation.ca — we’ll put the names in a hat and draw one at random to enjoy the dumplings Debra would have liked to share.

Pandemic Safety

While the pandemic continues, it seems to us that summer is a safer time for conventions, which is mostly why we’re doing it in June. We will be requiring masks and proof of vaccination, and any other health measures required by the province of Quebec. All attendees must be fully vaccinated.

Coming to Scintillation

We will inform members nearer the time what the situation is for entering Canada — right now the border is open, and it’s possible to fly here from overseas or the US, and to drive here from the US. The train is not presently running across the border, but it may be by then. Via Rail trains are running from other parts of Canada. Canada currently requires a recent PCR test for entry, but this may change. It also requires downloading the ArriveCan app and filling it out, and this is less likely to change.

Hotel

The Holiday Inn has raised prices for function space by more than fifty percent since 2019. Unfortunately this means we will not be able to have the Saturday evening reception or the Games Room — but we will have games in the con suite. We’re hoping to be able to afford the Reading Room in addition to the Big Room. We have also reluctantly raised membership rates for new members, and instituted the Bonus Membership (see below) as a fundraiser. The hotel room rate is still under negotiation, we will put it on the website when we have it.

Existing Members

If you have an attending membership in Scintillation 3, either from the Kickstarter, or purchased online, or bought in person on the Sunday of Scintillation 2, you can either use it to attend Scintillation 3 or, if this timing does not work for you, roll it over to Scintillation 4. (Scintillation 4 will take place in 2023, dates TBA.) Please contact members@scintillation.ca to let us know whether you will be using your membership or rolling it over. We’d really appreciate it if let us know as soon as possible, and definitely by the end of March. The same applies to people who have supporting memberships in Scintillation 3 — you can convert them into attending memberships at any time, but letting us know your intentions before the end of March will help us know how many new memberships we can sell. Between the end of March and the end of May, if we are at capacity and you have not already informed us you are coming you may need to be added to the waitlist, so please let us know.

New Memberships

We are selling new memberships on the website http://www.scintillation.ca New memberships are limited and may sell out. We will stop selling them when we reach capacity. How many we have available depends on how many existing members want to attend. Right now, we have memberships available. New memberships cost $90. Membership sales will close when we are at capacity or at the end of May, whichever happens first. There will be no at door memberships. If there are no memberships available on the website, you can email members@scintillation.ca to be placed on the waitlist.

Benefactor Memberships

Benefactor memberships are bought by those who can afford to pay for both themselves and for another person who will enhance the conversation to come to Scintillation. Benefactor memberships are presently available and are one of the things we love about Scintillation. Benefactor memberships presently cost $160.

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Bonus memberships are new as a fundraiser for 2022 — bonus memberships cost $50, and are an add-on to an existing or new membership. Anyone with a bonus membership is entitled to two free signed Tor books by Jo Walton, your choice of books while supplies last. The books will be delivered at con. The money raised will help pay for a better and safer sound system, and for the Reading Room.

Scintillation Online

Scintillation will never have a virtual convention, or a virtual component to the in person convention. But Scintillation does maintain an active 365 days a year online Discord community where you can hang out and talk with other members of the Scintillation community, listen to and take part in playreadings, our pretend radio program, gift exchanges, Eisteddfodau, etc. No, really! We’ve been doing this ever since March 2020, and all Scintillation people of goodwill are welcome to join us. https://discord.gg/7V3bMzMJ

Come if you Like

You can come if you like, but it is not the best time:
the weather’s uncertain
the trees are still teetering on rust’s edge
we have cake, but it is not the right cake
and we haven’t been cleaning.
But come if you like.

You can come if you like, but it is not the best time:
work is beginning all round
there are things I have to get done
I can’t spare more than fourteen hours a day
and the best of the flowers are over.
Do come if you like.

You can come if you like, but it is not the best time:
I should train the birds to form hieroglyphs
proclaiming your name to the sky
and persuade the city to organise a special festival
and shed three stone and ten years.
Still, come if you like.

You can come if you like, but it is not the best time:
the best time is the enemy of the good time
come now, come in possible time,
come and share some time while we’re breathing,
let weather fall on us.
Come whenever you like.

(10th September 2010)

Events and Conventions

Scintillation Cancelled

Scintillation, which was to have been held in Montreal October this year, has been cancelled.  While there is great progress being made in fighting the pandemic, there are still too many uncertainties regarding the feasibility of holding an event in October.

The convention is now tentatively scheduled for Thanksgiving of next year, October 7-9th, 2022.

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Scintillation Update

From Jo Walton, an update on Scintillation.

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So surely surely by October everything will be all right again, civilization will arise again, there will be lemon scented paper napkins, and you’ll all come to Montreal and hug each other and eat in restaurants as in the halcyon and lovingly remembered past?

We really hope so, and we hear good things about vaccines and so on.

Meanwhile, we have reviewed our contract with the hotel, and fortunately we can get out of it with no penalty up to 30 days ahead. So we will continue to plan for Scintillation happening as intended, and make a final decision depending on the state of the world in September. If we should have to cancel we will run the convention as planned but a year ahead in 2021, all memberships will stay valid for that. If we can’t run it in 2021 then civilization has worse problems than Scintillation.

Meanwhile, stay well, and keep up your spirits as best you can.

I’ve been working on A New Decameron: Stories For a Plague Year .This was Maya Chhabra’s wonderful idea. As you probably know, Boccaccio’s Decameron was written in the 1350s and set during the Black Death of 1498 when seven young womena and three young men go into self-isolation in a villa in the hills and occupy themselves telling storeis. For our New Decameron, I’m writing a frame story and various writer friends are contributing stories — a story every day. This has also inspired Hannah Dorsey, who some of you met at last year’s con, to set up a Discord group for reading Boccaccio’s book one story a day. There’s also a group being set up to read Dante’s Divine Comedy by @danteinquarantine on Twitter. I strongly urge everyone working at home and self-isolating or in quarantine to get involved in something like this with a community or by Scintillation half of us will be gibbering and gnawing the furniture. Learn a language with Duolingo. Work on Zooniverse projects. But do try to have something that’s fun, also involves other people, and with a sense of progress.

And on those lines, I am setting up a Scintillation Discord group, for general hanging out with each other and chatting. If you don’t have Discord it’s free to join. I know we already have a Slack, but Slack crashes my browser and it has ads and it’s slow, while Discord works and has no ads. Fpr those who aren’t familiar with it, it works like usenet but with no threading. (That invitation will expire, if you want a new one, email me.) This group is for past and present or intending future members of Scintillation.

Stay safe, stay in touch.

Events and Conventions

Montreal Conventions: Costume-Con, Scintillation, World Fantasy

From MonSFFan René Walling, info on upcoming conventions in Montreal.  For more information on upcoming conventions and events go to http://www.monsffa.ca/?page_id=254

Hi!

As promised, here is some info on upcoming Montreal cons:

Costume-Con: March 13-16, 2020. Memberships are $115 until December 31st, 2019, $120 after, price at the door TBA. Memberships are available on the convention’s website http://costumecon38.org/en/home/

Scintillation: October 23-25, 2020. Memberships are $70 until October 31st, 2019, $80 after and can be purchased on the convention’s website. https://scintillation.ca/
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World Fantasy Convention 2021: November 4-7, 2021. Guests and rates will be announced Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 at 18:00 Montréal time, at which time memberships will also be available on the convention’s website https://www.wfc2021.org/

Cheers!

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Convention Review

Jo Walton reports on Scintillation 2

From Jo Walton:

Aliens did not invade, Scintillation 2 happened, and despite a lot of people being felled at different points by varied ill health, it was a success. Program went well — the last minute substitution of a play by Greer Gilman acted by Greer and Emmet O’Brien in place of Greer’s scheduled interview was such fun we may repeat it next year. The cake all got eaten. The Sassafrass concert was amazing. The pre-con reading at Argo was a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone who came, everyone who supported but couldn’t make it, and especially to our benefactors and philanthropists who help make Scintillation possible.

Scintillation 3 will take place October 23-25th 2020, same hotel. This is NOT Canadian Thanksgiving! We hope to see you there.

Everyone who backed the Kickstarter and plus everyone who didn’t but who buys a membership in Scintillation 3 by September 1st, will get a copy of the e-book of false starts Alter Reiss is putting together.

Membership for Scintillation 3 is available right now!
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https://www.scintillation.ca/index.php/registration

We are holding the at-con rate of $70 CDN and $140 for Benefactors until the end of October and then it will go up to $80 and $150. Please buy memberships as soon as you can, it really really helps, and besides, they may sell out. If you buy a supporting membership for $15, you will be able to convert to attending at any point up to two weeks before the convention. Full attending memberships will also be available until two weeks before the convention, or until we are full.

We’re still negotiating with the hotel, but will have details about next year’s hotel room rates soon.

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Scintillation update from Jo Walton

Scintillation Update from Jo Walton

It’s getting closer! I’m really looking forward to it now.

Scintillation membership closes next Sunday, 22nd, at midnight Montreal time. If you’ve been waiting to buy a membership, if you have friends who want to come OR if you want to convert from supporting to attending, do it before that. We mean this! We have a proper membership button on the website now. https://scintillation.ca/index.php/registration or email members@scintillation.ca with any queries. We will not do at the door registration.

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Friday afternoon expeditions include a tour of the old port, a trip to Jean Talon Market, a trip to the Jardin Botanique and other activities. You don’t have to decide any of them in ahead of time, you can decide at dim sum or at the last minute. But if you want to do the tea tasting with Jon Singer at Camellia Sinensis, you have to pay for it in advance using the website, where it explains how to do it https://scintillation.ca/index.php/registration

Program(me) is done, and up on the website now, including brief panel descriptions. I think it’s OK and fairly self-explanatory, but if you spot errors or want to ask anything reply to this email. This year we’re doing 60 minute panels in 75 minute slots, to give time for bathroom breaks, moving between rooms, and over-run. We’re also doing an “In Conversation” series in the reading room, which I think will be terrific. We’re having a Joy of Reading panel on Sunday morning, and we’d be delighted if you bring along readings you love to share, which must be written by somebody else, not you, and not more than 5-10 monites max. https://scintillation.ca/index.php/programme

 

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News from Scintillation 2019

We have everything agreed with the hotel for next year, meaning all the same rooms reserved, though we’re going to keep the consuite until end of program this time.

And you can reserve your hotel room at this link Scintillation 2019 Hotel

or if for some reason you prefer to phone, you can call 1 888 878-9888 and give the code ZSC

Rooms are $199 Canadian per night.

Our computer-competent team are working hard on the website attempting to put up a button where you can buy membership and also an interface so I can edit it, because right now it’s all hand-carved HTML. (Possibly these things will happen over the holidays. We’ll see.) Meanwhile, memberships are still available by the clunky method of sending $80 via PayPal to farthingparty@gmail.com and emailing members@scintillation.ca to say you’ve done that. Many of you have done this already, we do still have memberships available at this time, we expect to be full again, but anyone with a supporting membership for 2019 can convert at any time.

Happy Holidays!

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