Darkover 2001
ANNOUNCING THE GREAT 2001 YEAR-END KAZOO PERFORMANCE!
2001 has been a rather momentous year. For most of us, Darkover is the final convention of the year. On Saturday evening, after the art auction and before the Clam Chowder concert, we will celebrate by all playing the 2001 theme music "Also Sprach Zarathustra" on kazoos!
You didn't bring your kazoo with you to Darkovercon? Not to worry, for a donation to the Children's Hospital Charity Fund, you can have a kazoo of your very own. See Dr. Gandalf any time Friday or Saturday to make a donation and get your kazoo.
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
Regular memberships are $35.00 each until November 1, 2001. After that, and at the door they will be $40.00. Make checks payable to Armida Council (PO Box 7203, Silver Spring, MD 20907). We will sell only 600 regular memberships. If you wish membership confirmation, please include a Self Addressed Stamped Postcard [not an envelope].
The Holiday Inn, Timonium in Timonium, Maryland. It has 250 rooms on five floors with four elevators, an indoor pool and hot tub. Room rates are $82.00 a night (plus a 13% room tax). There is no additional charge for up to four people in a room.
Our Guest of Honor is: JOANNE BERTIN. Our Special Guest is: KATHERINE KURTZ. Our Artist Guest of Honor is L.W. PERKINS. Our Musical Guests of Honor are: CLAM CHOWDER. Other author/artist guests include: India Edghill, Rosemary Edghill, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Nancy Janda, Scott MacMillian, Alanna Morland, Don Sakers, and Hannah Shapero. Musical guests include: Bob and Sue Esty, John Huff, Ellen James, Myfanwy, On the Mark, Homespun Ceilidh Band, and Ed and Kathy Sobansky.
Our hucksters room is sold out. It will open for business Friday 4PM to 8:30'PM, Saturday 10AM to 6PM and Sunday 10AM to 4PM. Dealers may start setting up Friday at 11AM.
Besides main programming, alternate programming, videos and workshops, there will be a Huckster's Room, Art Show and Con Suite. We also have filking, a pool, a costume contest FRIDAY NIGHT, a jacuzzi, a Bardic Circle, a Regency Ball, and two art auctions. There will be a track of musical performances Friday, Saturday and Sunday, including a performance by Clam Chowder on Saturday. Note: you must have a convention membership to attend the concert.
We have music scheduled in both our music room and main programming. Please note that the schedule is tentative at this time. As soon as a permanent schedule has been established, it will be posted here.
There will be two art auctions, the first on Saturday night and the second on Sunday at 1PM. There is no hanging fee for art at the con, and we take a 10% commission on all sold pieces. The Art Show will be open Friday 4PM to 9PM, Saturday 10AM to 6PM, and Sunday 10AM to 12 Noon. Most, but not all, the art exhibited is for sale.
To buy art, you must bid on it. A slip of paper will be attached to each piece of art, with either a minimum bid notice (the least amount the artist will accept for the piece) or N.F.S. (Not For Sale). To bid on a piece of art, you write your name and amount you are bidding on the slip of paper (bid sheet). Your bid must equal or exceed the minimum bid, and it also must exceed the last bid on the sheet by at least one dollar. All bids must be in even dollar amounts (for example: $20.00, not $19.32). Pieces that will go on to auction on Saturday night will be identified beforehand.
Remember, if you are not at the auction and someone outbids the price you have written on a bid sheet, they will get the piece of art.
We will accept cash and checks (with proper identification); and all art must be purchased through the convention.
For more information about the art show or art auctions, contact our art show director c/o the Darkover PO Box.
Please check your label. The year on the label is the last year you have paid for. If it does not say 2001 then we do not have you listed as paid for 2001. Please contact us in writing or by email if you feel this is in error.
Registration will open Friday morning at 10AM and continue until 9PM Friday night. It will reopen Saturday at 10AM.
There will be a Regency Ball Saturday afternoon. Regency dress is strongly encouraged, but not required. There will be Regency era dances and classes as well as waltz classes during the day.
We will have some assorted children's activities during the day on Saturday -- stories, games, etc. This is not a babysitting service; children using this service will not be stopped from leaving the programming room.
We will have a video room running Friday evening/night, Saturday late afternoon through early Sunday morning, and Sunday during the day. Click here for the show schedule.
There will be a costume competition, run by Marty Gear, on FRIDAY NIGHT. The categories for the costume competition are: General fantasy and SF; Darkover/Pern/Deryni; and historic. These categories are subdivided into Beginners and experienced. You are experienced if you have won at SF or historical costume competitions in the past; you have awards for your costuming, or you make your living (or a great deal of it) as a costumer. Entry forms for the competition will be available near registration desk. Contestants should be assemble in the alternate program room 45 minutes before competition starts. Younger fen will go first.
The only weapon allowed to be worn publicly during the convention, except as part of the costume competition, will be knives. All knives (and weapons used for the costume competition) must be sheathed and peace strapped at all times. We will enforce this policy, and will ask people who do not obey it to leave the convention.
The swimming pool will be open Friday 10AM to midnight, Saturday 10AM to 1AM and Sunday 10AM until 10PM. Swim suits are required.
The only pets permitted at the convention will be dogs and cats. They will not be permitted in the dealers' room or the art show. A seeing eye dog is not considered a pet and is not under this ban. The hotel allows small pets in the hotel with a refundable deposit. See your hotel card for further details.
The con suite from Friday at 7PM until the wee hours of Sunday night/Monday morning, when we finally shut down the dead banshee party. However, it may be closed from approximately 11:30 PM to 1AM for the Hallelujah Chorus. Except for cleaning, it will be open continuously. Hot water and things to put into it (coffee, tea, hot chocolate, etc.) will always be available. Sodas and munchies will be available during the evenings. The con suite is a place to relax, hangout, and talk to people. It is not a place to crash.
Darkover, like all SF cons, runs on volunteer labor. We need you. We are always in great need of people to help out by guarding doors, setting up art show hangings, work at registration, etc. If you are willing to help out, either contact me, Jaelle, in advance, or at the con. Jaelle can be reached through the Armida Council PO Box (listed below), or (202) 726-4396. -- no calls after 11:15 PM. please or by E-mail at Jaelle@darkovercon.com.
Due to problems in the past, all returned checks will be charged a $25.00 returned check fee.