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2008 Annual Theme


This year CONvergence will be held over FOUR DAYS in celebration of our tenth year. Not only is it a whole extra day of convention, we'll have all kinds of special plans that we'll be telling you more about over the coming year.

We'll be having an expanded slate of guests, filled with returning guests from previous years of CONvergence. Scheduled to appear in 2008:

Trace Beaulieu (New Guest of Honor)
Puppeteer, Writer and Actor from Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Cinematic Titanic
http://cinematictitanic.com/wpmu/

Robert Meyer Burnett (2002 Guest of Honor)
Filmmaker, director of Free Enterprise, and producer of DVD extras.
http://www.ludovicotechnique.com/

Christian Colquhoun (2004 Guest of Honor)
Prop-builder and physical effects artist whose projects include Galaxy Quest, Van Helsing, and Firefly.

Larry Dixon (2005 Guest of Honor)
Co-author of Mage Wars and Dariens Tale series, author of many short stories and game material and fantasy artist.
http://gryphonking.aelfhame.net/

Daren Dochterman (2002 Guest of Honor)
Designer and illustrator for over 35 feature films, including Star Trek: The Motion Picture Special Edition.
http://www.darendoc.com/darendoc/Welcome.html

Mark Evanier (New Guest of Honor)
Television and Comic Book Writer.
http://www.povonline.com

Kenneth Hite (2006 Guest of Honor)
Role-playing game designer for GURPS, the Star Trek role playing game, and beyond.
http://princeofcairo.livejournal.com/

Dr. James Kakalios (2005 Guest of Honor)
U of M physics professor, author of The Physics of Superheroes.
http://www.physicsofsuperheroes.com/

Harry Knowles (1999, 2001 and 2005 Guest of Honor)
Creator of Aint-It-Cool-News.com.
http://www.aintitcool.com/

Jay Knowles (1999, 2001 and 2005 Guest of Honor)
Creator of Harry Knowles (and contributor to AICN).
http://www.aintitcool.com/

John Kovalic (2003 and 2007 Guest of Honor)
Cartoonist and Game designer: Dork Tower, Dr. Blink, Out of the Box Games.
http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/

Mercedes Lackey (2005 Guest of Honor)
Author of many popular novels, including the Valdemar and Bardic Voices series and folk music lyricist.
http://www.mercedeslackey.com/

Bridget Landry (2006 Guest of Honor)
Engineer on the teams of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Mars Pathfinder project, the Cassini Mission to Saturn, and other space missions.
http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/bios/team/landry.html

Peter Mayhew (2001 Guest of Honor)
The actor who played the beloved Chewbacca in the original Star Wars Trilogy and in Episode III.
http://www.petermayhew.com

Andrew Probert (2003 Guest of Honor)
Production Designer for Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and Airwolf.
http://probertdesigns.com

Vincent Truitner (2004 Guest of Honor)
Animation and CGI artist.

David Weber (2006 Guest of Honor)
Author of the Honor Harrington series and other military science-fiction
http://www.baen.com/author_catalog.asp?author=DWeber

Len Wein (2005 Guest of Honor)
Writer for comics and animation, creator of Swamp Thing, Nightcrawler & Wolverine.
http://lenwein.blogspot.com

Greg Weisman (2006 Guest of Honor)
Creator of Disney’s Gargoyles and supervising producer of The Spectacular Spider-Man for 2008.

Wally Wingert (2007 Guest of Honor)
Voice Actor
http://www.wallyontheweb.com/

Marv Wolfman (2005 Guest of Honor)
Writer for comics and animation, creator of Blade, Bullseye & The New Teen Titans.
http://www.marvwolfman.com

Bernie Wrightson (2007 Guest of Honor)
Comic Book Artist and Illustrator
http://www.wrightsonart.com/

and EVEN MORE to be announced!


CONvergence Registration

Adult Memberships
$40 Until December 31, 2007
$50 Until May 15, 2008
$65 At-the-door

Supporting Memberships
$30 Before May 15, 2008 + $20 At-the-door=$50 total

Kids Memberships
$25 Kids Ages 6-12 Until May 15, 2008
$30 Kids Ages 6-12 At-the-door
Kids under 5 may attend for free.

All ages refer to the age of the child at the time of the convention. CONvergence is a private organization and reserves the right to refuse service to anyone.

Photos

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Contact webmaster@convergence-con.org if you'd like us to place a link to your photo gallery here.

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