Seattle Worldcon Bid Press Release

SEATTLE IN 2011 WORLDCON BID GOING TO SEVEN CONVENTIONS ON MEMORIAL DAY

Seattle, Washington - April 29, 2008

The Seattle in 2011 Worldcon Bid will have committee and supporters fanning out across North America to represent the bid at seven conventions on the Memorial Day weekend (May 23-25). Representatives will be going to the
following:

BayCon (Santa Clara, CA): Bobbie DuFault, bid chair and Jerry Gieseke.

Oasis (Orlando, FL): Pat Porter, bid vice-chair

CONduit (Salt Lake City, UT): Charlie and Steve Harmon, and David Glenn Anderson (con suite Saturday brunch)

ConQuest (Kansas City, MO): Alex von Thorn and Marah Searle-Kovacevic

Wiscon (Madison, WI): Helen Gbala and Jeff Orth

Miscon (Missoula, MT): Hans Johnson

Marcon (Columbus, OH): Kevin Standlee (fan guest of honor, available to answer questions about the Seattle bid)

And the bid committee is still trying to get to one or two more conventions on this important weekend.

"Seattle in 2011" is a bid to host the 69th World Science Fiction Convention ("Worldcon") in downtown Seattle in 2011. The bid hopes to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Seacon, the 1961 Worldcon in Seattle. The bid is sponsored by the Seattle Westercon Organizing Committee ("SWOC"), which has hosted three Westercons and Cascadia Con, the very successful North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC) in 2005. SWOC also organizes ConComCon, a conrunning convention held in the Pacific Northwest each year, and SWOC is the parent corporation of ConFilkt, the new filk convention in Seattle.

For further information, contact the bid at
bid-info(at) seattlein2011( dot)org.

http://www.seattlein2011.org

http://www.swoc.org

Pre-support online at http://seattlein2011.org/online-reg.php