Upcoming conventions and filksings!
Plans for panels at a show later this year.
After having a good time at St. Pete Comic Con, it turns out that I may be involved in a couple of panels for Anime St. Pete. Unfortunately, that's the weekend of Necronomicon, so I don't know if I'll be able to sell at that after all. (I do wholeheartedly recommend you dropping in on it sometime, though--classic sci-fantasy events are rare).
However! At Anime St. Pete, the plan is to run some (or all) of several panels:
Fic Libs, a mad-lib-style fanfiction game that works well as a panel.
Anime Jenga, where players get assigned fandom-related challenges based on the piece they draw.
Last, but certainly not the least: A filksing! I'm not sure if we're going to do an introductory panel or not, but we're hoping the convention can either get us an open theatrical space (for general stuff, and filking) or time in one of the panel rooms for a filksing.
What's a filksing, you ask? (google it, it's such a deep history!). An open-particpation circle for people to come sing folkish fan-culture-related music at a convention. Historically, filk has a wide scope; parodies, fandom songs, songs about fan culture, songs about your cat, and songs about working IT would all fit. Even social commentary! Because of all that, filk generally operates on two rules. First: what you sing is your choice. Two: Be civil. The one thing filk usually isn't is mean-spirited (and it is common for people to take a break during a song they don't dig!).
My upcoming events:
Anime St. Pete
As ever, I'll try to get into Maker Faire Orlando (possible!) and Holiday Matsuri (that's more difficult).