MarsCon 2014
Let’s Get the Parties Started!
Groups and individuals throw parties throughout MarsCon weekend. Parties are open to all MarsCon attendees. Clubs and individuals throwing a party will be ecstatic if you visit their party, hang out, have fun, and make new friends.
Eris (goddess of strife, hotels, and rearranged convention schedules) decided to pay a little visit to parties just before the convention, so parties will be split between the 2nd floor cabanas and North Tower this year. We hope you will have a chance to visit them all though and show your appreciation to our fantastic party hosts.
North Tower
Atrium 6 - Dance Rave
Get ready for Live DJs spinning hip hopping, dubstepping, jive talking, psychedelic, laser-lit musicbroom into the wee hours. Music Man Mark will honor requests as best he can especially if it means putting your techno playlist through his subwoofer!
Atrium 7 - Karaoke Krypt
Experience the future of Karaoke. The Krypt returns with more blinky lights than ever. We guarantee you will feel like you are back in the 80s. It’s fun, it’s timeless, it’s 9 PM to 3 AM Friday and Saturday Nights. Let’s do the Time Warp again!! Also, anime music video Saturday 1-5 PM. Hosted by Gene Stoneman and Carla Simonson
7th Floor Exec Lounge - Krushenko’s Lounge
Krushenko’s and its sometime partner, Krushenko’s Annex (Room 751), are spaces that encourage conversation about science fiction and fantasy at SF conventions. Krushenko’s, named after a Manhattan bistro in Larry Niven’s novel Ringworld, started at the 1983 Minicon, and now also travels to CONvergence, Diversicon, and Arcana in the Twin Cities and WisCon in Madison. A regular feature of MarsCon since 1999, Krushenko’s (with help from the Annex) this year serves up panels and discussions about SF in literature and other media in the daytimes, and conversational SF-related parties in the evenings. “Krushenko’s is accustomed to serving alien guests!”
751 - Krushenko’s Annex
767 - Dementia Radio Party, hosted by Dementia Radio
Dementia music and livecasting on the station
768 - Anime Fusion
Revisit classic anime and discover new favorites with the convention that spans the ages. [6-10pm]
769 - Valleycon
ValleyCon returns to MarsCon with Captain Kirk’s House of Ill-Repute! Shake it with the Captain and check out the major surprises heading to ValleyCon this fall! [9pm–1am]
781 - Royal Manticoran Navy
[8pm-1am]
782 - Tarzan’s Karaoke and Desserts!
Ridiculously good desserts while they last. Karaoke party for your entertainment. [8pm-2am]
784 - Jurisfiction
Party roomed based on the Thursday Next series of books by Jasper Fforde. [9pm-2am]
Cabanas
213 - Minicon 49
Hosted by the Minnesota Science Fiction Society (Minn-StF) [8pm-1am]
214 - Trans Galactic Inter-Dimensional Chronically Warped party
[8pm-1am]
215 - Still Crazy After All These Years
Hosted by IKV RakeHell from the year 2034, a RakeHell retrospective from 20 years ago.
216 - Cosmic Tulip Lounge
Full Circle. This is the place where the Cosmic Tulip started. Come see some vintage Guerrilla Signage (yes I kept a lot of it ) As usual there will be pizza and killer punch and of course nuclear cherries! [10pm-1am]
217 - The Big Lebowski
Hosted by The Dude’s Abode [9pm-1am]
218 - CON SUITE
219 - Doctor Who
Hosted by TARDIS Tea Society
220 - Space Oddity Music Club & Brew Pub
Music circles, board games, and beer [7pm-LATE]
222 - Grave Diggers Party
[7pm-2am]
223 - A/V Club Room
We will bring you the great cult classics, great geeky films and a few surprises along the way. The A/V Room needs your help—if you love films, please help out the A/V room by volunteering! Sponsored by Geek Partnership Society. See program schedule for the final movie list.
224 - U.S.S. Enterprise
Hosted by the U.S.S. Nokomis and the World Defense Force
225 - Anime Twin Cities
Anime Twin Cities brings back their Anime Lounge! [6pm-2am]
226 - Bilbo Baggins’ home - Bag End
Hosted by DreamStitcher & Brit Con [9pm-2am]
227 - The Greathall
Hosted by Barony of Nordskogen: the Twin Cities branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism. The Baron and Baroness of Nordskogen welcome you to their Greathall. There will be games, music, demonstrations of ancient skills, and other period delights. Come and enjoy their hall and their hospitality! [9pm-1am]
228 - Tales from the White Hart (Arthur C. Clarke) British Geek Pub 1950’s
Hosted by Minnesota Space Frontier Society (MNSFS) [9pm-1am]
229 - X-Geek Party
The Inventory: A secret club established in 1919 after an early draft of the 18th Amendment was acquired, which would not only outlaw libations, but games and amusements as well. Even though it never came to pass, the Inventory continues to exist to this day, safeguarding both games and libations. Come, get a drink, and sit down for a round. You never know who’ll be up for a game, be it a Canadian Rock Star, a Disney princess, or even a Sith Lord. Your buy-in is $20,000. Play wisely.
Many thanks to all of you hosting parties at MarsCon!
MarsCon 2014
Time Is The Key
March 7-9, 2014
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bloomington-Minneapolis South
7800 Normandale Boulevard
Bloomington, MN 55439
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