Conventions & Activities

SFSFC activities, including convention organizing

Costume-Con 39, Westercon 74 Committees Discharged

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At its March 16, 2024 meeting, the SFSFC Board of Directors discharged the standing committees previously established to operate Costume-Con 39 and Westercon 74. Both conventions have completed all of their tasks. This action means that both convention committees will close their financial books and turn over any remaining surplus assets to the SFSFC corporate general fund. Any residual responsibilities of these committees have similarly been absorbed by the corporation’s general fund.

SFSFC continues to maintain both conventions’ websites. Anyone with questions about either committee can still contact the organization through those convention’s general-information inquiry addresses or they can contact SFSFC directly.

Worldcon 76/SFSFC and Jon Del Arroz Settle Suit

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4 June 2021
To Whom it May Concern:

SFSFC AND JON DEL ARROZ HAVE SETTLED THE LAWSUIT MR. DEL ARROZ FILED WHICH INVOLVED HIS BEING BANNED FROM WORLDCON 76. IN CONCLUDING THE DISPUTE, SFSFC WISHES TO ISSUE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT:

SFSFC acknowledges the importance of reputation, especially for a relatively new author, and regrets that its public statement about barring his attendance might have led people unfamiliar with Mr. Del Arroz and his work to infer that he is or was a racist. For that, SFSFC apologizes. This attendance ban was specific to the Worldcon 76 events produced by SFSFC, and Mr. Del Arroz has the same opportunity as other members of the public to register for future SFSFC events. Worldcon 76 does not tolerate discrimination in any form — including through cosplay — based on but not limited to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or physical/mental health conditions. SFSFC firmly believes that healthy political discourse requires active, mutual, good faith participation by members of the community with differing opinions.

Kevin Roche
Chair, Worldcon 76 in San Jose
President, San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc.

Attachments:

Signed statement from Kevin Roche on behalf of Worldcon 76/SFSFC

Settlement Agreement between Jonathan Del Arroz and SFSFC

Westercon 74 Postponed to 2022

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Westercon 74, previously scheduled for 2021, has been postponed until July 1-4, 2022, as part of a joint agreement with Westercon 73 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For further details, see the joint announcement posted on the Westercon 74 web site.

SFSFC to Host 2021 Westercon in Tonopah

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SFSFC was selected to host Westercon 74, the 2021 West Coast Science Fantasy Conference, in Tonopah, Nevada, July 2-5, 2021, at the Tonopah Convention Center, Mizpah/Belvada Hotels, and other hotels to be announced.

The members of SpikeCon/Westercon 72 voted to award the right to host Westercon 74 to the bid for Tonopah in voting held at SpikeCon over the weekend of July 4-7, 2019

Attending memberships in Westercon 74 are $40 through at least December 31, 2019, with discounts for those people who voted in the site selection election. See the Westercon 74 website for more information and the Westercon 74 registration website to register now.

The online registration system, Grenadine, calls all our memberships “tickets” and this is not something we can change on their site. Rest assured that you are buying memberships to the 2021 Westercon, and that the convention is being run by a non-profit, tax-exempt charitable organization, despite the “ticket” labeling on the Grenadine site. If you would prefer to not register through Grenadine, you can send payment to the address below.

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Note that the Grenadine site does not have those people who voted in site selection loaded into it at this time, and therefore the “Upgrade from Voting to Attending” option is not currently available. Only new memberships are currently available through the Grenadine site. Conversion from voting membership will be available online at a future date. If you voted and want to upgrade immediately, download the current registration form and mailing it with payment by check, money order, or credit card to:

Westercon 74
PO Box 61363
Sunnyvale CA 94088-1363

Tonopah in 2021 Westercon Bid

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SFSFC has filed a bid to host Westercon 74 in Tonopah, Nevada over the weekend of Friday, July 2 through Monday, July 5, 2021, at the Tonopah Convention Center and nearby hotels. The members of Westercon 72 (SpikeCon) will vote to select the site of Westercon 74. See the Tonopah Westercon Bid pages for additional information about the Tonopah in 2021 bid.

San José in 2018 Worldcon Bid Crowdsources Guest Candidates

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The San José in 2018 Worldcon bid is asking the science fiction & fantasy community’s assistance in ensuring worthy candidates are not overlooked as the bid considers its choices for Guests of Honor for the 76th World Science Fiction Convention.

Worldcon’s Guest of Honor appointments function as a sort of lifetime achievement award for contributors to SF & F literature, arts and the community. SJ in 2018 asks people to send guest recommendations to goh@sjin2018.org, and to include in their recommendation how the candidate meets the basic criteria for consideration and why they think the candidate should be honored.

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Recommendations will be accepted through December 15, 2015.

See the press release for full details.

San José in 2018 Worldcon Bid Announces Prospective Convention Chair

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The San José in 2018 Worldcon Bid has announced that Kevin Roche will chair Worldcon 76 in San José, California should their bid to host the World Science Fiction Convention win.

The Board of Directors of SFSFC, San José in 2018 Worldcon bid’s parent non-profit corporation, unanimously voted to select Kevin Roche as the chair of the committee that will host Worldcon 76 should the San José in 2018 bid win the election to be held at the 2016 Worldcon, MidAmericon II. Members of the 2016 Worldcon will vote on where to hold the 2018 Worldcon.

See the press release for full details of the announcement.

SFSFC Launches Worldcon Bid: San Jose in 2018

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The San José in 2018 Worldcon Bid, sponsored by San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc., officially launched with a presentation, bid table, and party. Bid Chair Andy Trembley was there and made a presentation and answered question at Westercon’s “Fannish Inquisition.” The San José bid was also present at this year’s North American Science Fiction Convention, Detcon 1, and will also host a table at the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention, Loncon 3, as well as many other conventions in the future.

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San José in 2018 is a committee of SFSFC, the parent non-profit corporation behind the 1993 Worldcon in San Francisco and the 2002 Worldcon in San José. SFSFC has also run Westercons, World Fantasy Conventions, SMOFCons (the SF/F conrunners convention), and other SF/F genre conventions.

The site of the 2018 Worldcon will be selected by the members of the 2016 Worldcon in Kansas City. You need to be a member of the 2016 Worldcon in order to vote for San José. For more information about San José’s bid to host the 2018 World Science Fiction Convention, see the bid’s web site.

Westercon 66 Joins SFSFC Fold

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Westercon 66, the 2013 West Coast Science Fantasy Conference, has been adopted as part of the SFSFC corporate family and will be run as a committee of SFSFC, like the two past Westercon run by SFSFC. Convention co-chairs Kevin Roche and Andy Trembley will continue to run Westercon 66, which will be held at a yet-to-be-determined site in the Sacramento, California area.

The Westercon 66 bid was awarded to a committee headed by Roche and Trembley by a vote of the Westercon 64 Business Meeting after no eligible bid won the regular site-selection election. Kevin and Andy came to the SFSFC Board of Directors asking if SFSFC would be willing to the sponsoring non-profit, tax-exempt corporation behind Westercon 66, and the Board voted at their July 30 meeting to bring Westercon into the corporate fold and to confirm Kevin and Andy as committee co-chairs.

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The Westercon 66 committee is currently evaluating sites in the Sacramento area. Further announcements from Westercon 66 are expected during Renovation, this year’s Worldcon in Reno, Nevada.