Crafting has been a thread that has run through Glasgow 2024, from bid, to build up, and now to con itself. Creativity in all forms is something we believe should be celebrated and shared. It sits at the heart of our community—not just in our professional and fan artists but in everyone who loves to make things […]
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Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon For Our Futures, has an excellent selection of arts and theatre-related content, including John Robertson’s The Dark Room, The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, and Emily Carding’s Quintessence. One of the things all of these shows have in common is that they’ve all been part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the
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Travel: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Glasgow So you’ve managed to hitch a ride to the convention on a Vogon spacecraft, but now you need to get around the city. Here are some ways you can get about on public transport—hopefully without being subjected to anymore awful poetry. There are a lot of public
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Ever find yourself thinking, “I wish I could be part of something fun and incredibly rewarding?” Well, your wish just might be about to come true! At-con volunteers are on the lookout for spirited individuals to join our volunteer community for Glasgow 2024. We have a wide variety of opportunities, for example managing queues, checking
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Have you caught the recent announcements for the special guests who will be attending Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon For Our Futures? We’re thrilled to welcome the following talented individuals to the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, along with our Guests of Honour. Make sure you check out their special guest feature pages (linked below) for
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The art show is always a traditional and important part of any Worldcon, and this year in Glasgow is no different. This year, the show is being run by Serena Culfeather and John Wilson. They have a wealth of experience, having run art shows for Loncon 3 and Dublin 2019 as well as many Eastercons
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On the evening of March 15, a group of over thirty scientists gathered in a small private function space above Ye Olde Cock Tavern on Fleet Street, in London. Unusually for a STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths, and Medicine) gathering, the vast majority of the attendees were women, brought together by Homeward Bound. Leading for
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Glasgow 2024 will be presenting a number of live music events, such as the new Opera, Morrow’s Isle, which we’ve already announced. In this blog entry, we’re delighted to highlight the live performance by a full symphony orchestra—the Worldcon Philharmonic—on the Friday evening of the convention, 9 August 2024, in the Auditorium of the SEC
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On this glorious 1st of April—a day of fools and frivolity—Glasgow 2024 would like to share with you something fantastically foolish. A silly surprise to bring joy and to show that we take what we do very seriously but we want to have fun with it. The most Scottish of conventions really needed a tartan
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Dressing up in costumes has been a part of many cultures historically—at carnivals, dances, masquerades, religious events, and formal court balls—and for dramatic performances such as plays and later film and TV. Costuming by fans has been a feature at science fiction conventions since the very first Worldcon in 1939, where Morojo (Myrtle R Douglas)
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