MarsCon 2008 Guests of Honor

• Actor Erick Avari
• Artist Jeff Easley
• Author Naomi Kritzer
• Musicians Hot Waffles

Dementia Track

News about the MarsCon 2008 Dementia track

• MarsCon Dementia Dot Com
• Dementia Track Fund Raiser CD

Artists appearing at MarsCon 2008:

• DJ Particle
• Hot Waffles (our Music GoH)
• Rob Balder
• Eric Coleman
• Carrie Dahlby
• the Gothsicles
• the great Luke Ski
• Beth Kinderman
• Paul and Storm
• Possible Oscar
• Power Salad
• Art Paul Schlosser
• Sudden Death
• Work Quartet

Many of the performers above appear on:

• the FUnny Music Project (a.k.a. "the FuMP")
• Dementia Radio dot org
• Dr. Demento

Regional Cons

Of course we want you to put MarsCon at the top of your congoing list, but that leaves over fifty con-free weekends a year. Here's a list of some other conventions within 7 hours of our home, conveniently sorted by driving time:

• CONsume/RelaxaCON (Twin Cities - Holiday Inn Select - Relaxacon - TBA)
  [sometimes runs in conjunction with Diversicon]
• Convivial (Twin Cities - Holiday Inn Select - Relaxacon - Oct 19-21, 2007)
• Diversicon (Twin Cities - Holiday Inn Select - Multicultural SF con - TBA)
• MinneApple Con (Twin Cities - Holiday Inn Select - Music/Gaming/SF con - Apr 11-13, 2008)
• Anime Detour (Twin Cities - ~0:04 - Anime con - April 4-6, 2008)
• CONvergence (Twin Cities ~0:11 - SF con - July 3-6, 2008)
• Kakkoi | Con (Twin Cities - ~0:11 - Anime con - Aug 1-3, 2008)
• Minicon (Twin Cities - ~0:11 - SF con - March 21-23, 2008)
• Twin Cities Entertainment Expo (Twin Cities - ~0:19 - SF con - May 30-June 1, 2008)
• Con of the North (Twin Cities - ~0:23 - Gaming con - Feb 15-17, 2008)
• Arcana (Twin Cities - ~0:24 - Dark/Horror/SF con - October 17-19, 2008)
• MNCBA FallCon (Twin Cities - ~0:26 - Comics con - Oct ??)
• MNCBA MicroCon (Twin Cities - ~0:26 - Comics one-day event - April ??)
• Bacon (Twin Cities - ~0:29 - Relaxacon - May ??)
• Super Con (Rochester, MN - ~1:24 - Relaxacon - Feb 1-3, 2008)
• Gamer's Reunion (Rochester, MN - ~1:25 - Gaming con - Sep 19-21, 2008)
• No Brand Con (Eau Claire, WI - ~1:41 - Anime con - April 18-20, 2008)
• OmegaCon (Siren, WI - ~1:58 - Relaxacon - November 9-11, 2007)
• DemiCon (Des Moines, IA - ~3:35 - SF con - May 2-4, 2008)
• ValleyCon (Fargo, ND - ~3:45 - "The Fargo Entertainment Expo" - Oct 31-Nov 2, 2008)
• Sogen Con (Sioux Falls, SD - ~3:50 - Anime con -)
• WisCon (Madison, Wi - ~4:22 - Feminist SF con - Mar 23-26, 2008)
• GEEK.KON (Madison, WI - ~4:24 - SF Con - October ??)
• Filmcon (Madison, WI - ~4:26 - Filmmaking/SF con - April ??)
  [sometimes runs in conjunction with Oddesy Con]
• Odyssey Con (Madison, Wi - ~4:26 - SF con - April 4-6, 2008)
• AnimeIowa (Iowa City IA - ~4:41 - Anime con - Aug ??)
• ICON (Iowa City, IA - ~4:41 - SF Con - Nov 2-4, 2007)
• Anime Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI - ~5:28 - Anime con - :-( Feb 29-Mar 2, 2008 )
• Capricon (Chicago, IL - ~6:11 - SF con - Feb 14-17, 2008)
• Windy Con (Chicago, IL - ~6:21 - SF con - Nov 9-11, 2007)
• DucKon (Chicgo, IL - ~6:27 - SF con - June 13-15, 2008)

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MarsCon 2008 / Feb 29th—Mar 2nd / Holiday Inn Select / Bloomington,MN
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