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Worldcon
Worldcon is in Philly this year, and Jim and Laurie Mann are in charge of programming for it. (Jim is a former co-worker of mine, and Dani and I are friends with both of them.) So it's not too surprising that Dani and I both ended up being asked to be on program.
I have an odd set of panels: two music-related (which sound like fun), one costume-related (makes me wonder why I'm on it, but it's an SCA-fandom crossover panel so I guess that makes sense), and one about the link between the SCA and fandom. There are two problems with this last one that I'm not sure how to handle: (1) I really wasn't *there* -- yes, I've been in the SCA for 20 years and I've been going to cons for almost as long (a couple a year, though, not a lot), and there are other people who do both, but I'm not sure there's much I can actually *say* about any of this. And (2), the original collection of panelists has dwindled to two people; the other person is one of the founders of the East Kingdom but hasn't been playing in the SCA for years. (I don't know how active he is in fandom.) I'm trying to figure out what on earth the two of us can do with this topic. I'm kind of hoping that they decide to drop this panel (unless they can add a couple people to it at the last minute), but I'm not sure I should try to initiate that. I did tell Laurie that I'm uncomfortable with its current make-up, but I don't know what she'll do about it.
The music panels should be interesting. One is called "performing with other people", and I can certainly bring experience from On the Mark to bear on that. (They actually made me the moderator of this one, so I have to think about topics before the con. I'm on another item right before it, so we can't just huddle right before the panel. I sent out email to the other participants; I hope they have time to respond before heading out to the con this week.) The other one is called something like "connecting with the audience"; the three of us who are on this have interpreted this to mean mostly performance technique (eye contact, gesture, emotion, that sort of thing). I'm not sure exactly what we'll do with this yet. It's actually listed as a "workshop" in the program, so I suppose we can try for some audience participation. (I suggested to the other people that we have one of us do a "bad" performance and have the audience identify what specifically we're doing wrong.)
Dani and I are driving out there Thursday after work. Worldcons tend to be huge, so I have no idea if I'll actually be able to meet up with any of my co-panelists before we show up for our panels. We'll see, I guess. I'm new to this...
I have an odd set of panels: two music-related (which sound like fun), one costume-related (makes me wonder why I'm on it, but it's an SCA-fandom crossover panel so I guess that makes sense), and one about the link between the SCA and fandom. There are two problems with this last one that I'm not sure how to handle: (1) I really wasn't *there* -- yes, I've been in the SCA for 20 years and I've been going to cons for almost as long (a couple a year, though, not a lot), and there are other people who do both, but I'm not sure there's much I can actually *say* about any of this. And (2), the original collection of panelists has dwindled to two people; the other person is one of the founders of the East Kingdom but hasn't been playing in the SCA for years. (I don't know how active he is in fandom.) I'm trying to figure out what on earth the two of us can do with this topic. I'm kind of hoping that they decide to drop this panel (unless they can add a couple people to it at the last minute), but I'm not sure I should try to initiate that. I did tell Laurie that I'm uncomfortable with its current make-up, but I don't know what she'll do about it.
The music panels should be interesting. One is called "performing with other people", and I can certainly bring experience from On the Mark to bear on that. (They actually made me the moderator of this one, so I have to think about topics before the con. I'm on another item right before it, so we can't just huddle right before the panel. I sent out email to the other participants; I hope they have time to respond before heading out to the con this week.) The other one is called something like "connecting with the audience"; the three of us who are on this have interpreted this to mean mostly performance technique (eye contact, gesture, emotion, that sort of thing). I'm not sure exactly what we'll do with this yet. It's actually listed as a "workshop" in the program, so I suppose we can try for some audience participation. (I suggested to the other people that we have one of us do a "bad" performance and have the audience identify what specifically we're doing wrong.)
Dani and I are driving out there Thursday after work. Worldcons tend to be huge, so I have no idea if I'll actually be able to meet up with any of my co-panelists before we show up for our panels. We'll see, I guess. I'm new to this...