CONvergence is just one month away, so now is a great time to get to know our CONvergence 2021: The Stuff of Legends Guests of Honor so that you can look for their panels and events when the schedule is released! Then, keep reading for some more CONvergence 2021 announcements.
CONvergence 2021 Guests of Honor
Elsa Sjunneson
Elsa Sjunneson is a self-described Deafblind hurricane in a vintage dress. Her fiction and nonfiction writing has been praised as “eloquence and activism in lockstep” and has been published in dozens of venues around the world. When she isn’t writing, Sjunneson works to dismantle structural ableism and rebuild community support for disabled people everywhere. Her debut memoir, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism, releases in October of 2021 from Tiller Press.
Click here to read more about Elsa Sjunneson!
Laura Anne Gilman
Laura Anne Gilman’s work has been hailed as “a true American myth” by NPR, and praised for her “deft plotting and first-class characters” by Publishers Weekly, among others. She won the Endeavor Award for The Cold Eye and has been shortlisted for a Nebula, (another) Endeavor, and a Washington State Book Award. Her novels include the Locus-bestselling weird western Devil’s West novels, the Cosa Nostradamus urban fantasy series, the Vineart War trilogy.
Click here to read more about Laura Anne Gilman!
T. Aaron Cisco
T. Aaron Cisco is an award-winning author/essayist, tv producer, musician, and cosplaying chess nerd. His literary works include Teleportality, Dragon Variation, Big Ass Aliens, and Black Nerd Blue Box: The Wibbly Wobbly Memoirs of a Lonely Whovian. His latest book, Rod String Nail Cloth: An Afrofuturist Mixtape, reached the top five on Amazon’s Top 100 lists for both Science Fiction Anthologies, and Black & African American Science Fiction.
Click here to read more about T. Aaron Cisco!
Book Swap & Board Game Donation Drive
Do you have books or board games that you are done enjoying, and you would like to see other people enjoy? Our annual Book Swap & Board Game Donation Drive is a great opportunity to pass on print media and board games for all ages when you’re done with them! Books will be made available during the CONvergence 2021 Book Swap, for anyone to take and enjoy. Board games will be added to CONvergence’s board game library for everyone to enjoy during the convention. (Due to logistics challenges, board game donations will be especially important this year!)
We will be accepting donations in advance of the convention so you don’t have to lug all those wonderful books and board games to the convention with you!
Sunday, July 11, 2021
Noon – 4:00PM
Geek Partnership Society
121 NE Jackson St UNIT 106
Minneapolis, MN 55413
We are accepting:
- Hardcover and paperback books
- Anime/manga books
- Graphic novels
- Comic books
- Children’s books
- Used & new board games will all the pieces
- Used & new party games with all the pieces
- Used & new card games with all the cards
We will not accept items such as random board game pieces, cookbooks, manuals, how-to books relating to computer programs and components prior to 2010, or pornography.
No Shuttles for CONvergence 2021
Due to CONvergences 2021’s membership cap, the budget constraints it creates, and not having any official overflow hotels in 2021, CONvergence’s free shuttle service will not be available this year. Look for the CONvergence shuttle to return in 2022!
Hotel Rooms Are Still Available
Hotel rooms are still available at the Hyatt Regency and the Millennium hotels. Head over to the Hotel Rooms page for the links to reserve your room now and be close to all the CONvergence 2021 action!
Help Make Sure Panels Are Streamed Online
We are currently seeking volunteers who can commit to using their own computer (and CONvergence’s wi-fi) to stream select live panels and events during the convention onto Zoom for those who can’t attend in person. Without a few heroes stepping up to help with this, it may not be able to happen at all. And while not all heroes wear capes, we actually do encourage you to wear a cape if you want to. Plus if you have any experience using Zoom, you may well be a legend yourself.
Send an email to activities@convergenceevents.org if you can help!
More News is Coming!
We know you are anxious to hear more information about CONvergence 2021: The Stuff of Legends! It is coming very soon, and we really appreciate your patience while we navigate convention planning with reduced staff and reduced resources.
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