| Ales from the Crypt |
| Room |
209 |
| Thursday |
7 pm – 1 am |
| Friday |
7 pm – 1 am |
| Saturday |
7 pm – 1 am |
| Sunday |
7pm – 1 am |
| Crypticon presents: Ales from the Crypt! The Zombie Guys are back with More Embalming Fluid, Brain Aneurysms, Mausoleum Mudslides, and of course Zombie Snot! Come up to the Crypt |
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| Anime Detour |
| Room |
123 |
| Thursday |
5 pm – Midnight |
| Friday |
6 pm – 2 am |
| Saturday |
6 pm – 2 am |
| Come and see some of your favorite AMVs, have some snacks, or just hang out as Anime Detour brings their room party back again for more tunes, dancing, sing-alongs and fun! |
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| Assassin’s Guild Presents: Talon |
| Room |
228 |
| Thursday |
7 pm – Midnight |
| Friday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Saturday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Sunday |
12 pm – 5 pm |
| Do you live in the wasteland? Do you like to scream the name of your organization as you charge into combat? Then our party is the place for you! Come join the mercenary group Talon Company. We will have fun, games, refreshments & combat for the irradiated psychopath in you. |
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| Bollywood Follies |
| Room |
205 |
| Thursday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Friday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| 4000 years perfecting flirtation & innuendo, not to mention some fabulous dance moves. Want to be the courtesan with the heart of gold, swarthy kidnapper, or star-crossed lover? Learn how from the gorgeous specimens of the Bollywood screen- and see what YOU’d look like as a Hindi movie star! |
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| Campaign CONvergence ’11 |
| Room |
125 |
| Thursday |
8 pm – 2 am |
| Friday |
8 pm – 2 am |
| Saturday |
8 pm – 2 am |
| Where evil masterminds maneuver, manipulate, and murder their way to the presidency. (Just like the real election only not as depressing.) Take exit polls, play games, and cast your vote! See programming guide for our debate Friday at 7. Election results posted Saturday. Sponsored by The Guild of Calamitous Intent. |
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| Captain Kirk’s House of Ill-Repute! |
| Room |
208 |
| Friday |
8 pm – Midnight |
| Saturday |
8 pm – Midnight |
| Captain Kirk will again host a party room with some classic fun video, a swingin’ 60’s dance-off, Captain Kirk’s 2-fisted punch and much more! |
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| Children of Dagon |
| Room |
203 |
| Friday |
8 pm – Midnight |
| Saturday |
8 pm – Midnight |
| “Damn fine coffee, and HOT!” – Agent Cooper |
| Seize the discomfort and discord! The Children of Dagon will disenchant with visual discourse. Art and AV installments with a vibe of disarrangement for your discontent. A Black Lodge replica will surround this dissemination. Disarm yourself with free alcohol and discuss your distaste. |
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| Club NerdTron: Cloud 9 |
| Room |
103 |
| Thursday |
9 pm – 3 am |
| Friday |
9 pm – 3 am |
| Saturday |
10 pm – 5 am |
| Sunday |
2 pm – 10 pm |
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| Club NerdTron: Goes Viral |
| Room |
104 |
| Thursday |
9 pm – 3 am |
| Friday |
9 pm – 3 am |
| Saturday |
10 pm – 5 am |
| Sunday |
2 pm – 10 pm |
| Visit Club Nerdtron as we genetically alter the way you party & rave. Let us infect you with our futuristic way of life. Thursday infection begins, Friday it mutates, Saturday it spreads into Outbreak. Sunday we will aid you in your recovery. Join us as Club Nerdtron: Goes Viral. |
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| Con of the North 2012 |
| Room |
109 |
| Thursday |
7 pm – Midnight |
| Friday |
7 pm – Midnight |
| Saturday |
7 pm – Midnight |
| We are the longest-running games convention in the Twin Cities. Now in our 20th year, we still strive to provide the best forum for game masters to present their games. Drop by for fun events, easy-to-learn card and board games, and traditional gamer fare on Thursday, Friday and Saturday night! |
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| Deadly Delights: A Link to the Past |
| Room |
210 |
| Thursday |
7 pm – 1 am |
| Friday |
7 pm – 1 am |
| Saturday |
7 pm – 1 am |
| Deadly Delights Proudly Presents: Legends of Zelda. Link has come to CONvergence and with him brought a few friends but most importantly CAKE! Come to a time where money was hidden in pots, people drank mana potions and your health was measured in hearts. |
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| D-Notice |
| Room |
230 |
| Thursday |
9 pm – 1 am |
| Friday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Saturday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Welcome to D-Notice stop in the Take a spin on the wheel of Miss fortune check out our red room and have some of our famous shaktrain steak ball along with our biogentic drinks last but least Don’t for get the Caution Tape. |
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| Gaylaxicon 2012 |
| Room |
205 |
| Saturday |
7 pm – Midnight |
| Gaylaxicon returns to the Twin Cities in 2012! Meanwhile, join the Gaylaxians at Sci-Fab, celebrating everything fabulous about science fiction and fantasy. And we’ll have root beer floats, again! |
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| GPS Clubhouse |
| Room |
110 |
| Thursday |
6 pm – Midnight |
| Friday |
6 pm – 12:30 am |
| Saturday |
6 pm – 1 am |
| The Club House is back, bringing with it all the friends of the Geek partnership clubs to share with you. |
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| Green Lantern Corps |
| Room |
223 |
| Friday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Saturday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| In Brightest Day, we’re all abed, in Blackest Night, let’s party instead! Prepare yourself for a trip to the Green Lantern Corps HQ to celebrate the new Green Lantern Movie! We will be serving power jello shots, beverages, and snacks. There will be a superhero cartoon all night marathon! |
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| Gryffindor Commons |
| Room |
225 |
| Thursday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Friday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Saturday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Come hang out in Hogwarts’Gryffindor Commons, nibble Bernie Bott’s Beans, sip some Butter Beer, and cram for your O.W.L.exam (prizes awarded). Meet Hogwart Professors, Harry, or even Hagrid. Join us for dancing, singing, and some wizard chess! |
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| House of Toast |
| Room |
130 |
| Thursday |
8 pm – Midnight |
| Friday |
8 pm – Midnight |
| Saturday |
9 pm – 1 am |
| Come enjoy delicious toast with more than 100 toppings. But not all at once. |
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| IKV RakeHell |
| Room |
105 |
| Thursday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Friday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Saturday |
Post Masquerade – 2 am |
| Warriors of the Universe Unite!! Cast off the Daisy Chains of the Borguise/Federation Imperialists and their running targ Romulan Lackeys. Join the Vanguard of the Klingon Empire the IKV RakeHell as we march valiantly forward into the bright future, The Warriors Paradise! |
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| Jews in Space |
| Room |
402 |
| Friday |
6 pm – 10 pm |
| Saturday |
6 pm – 10 pm |
| Celebrating all things geeky and Jewish! Join us Friday night for free matzo ball soup (vegetarian) and Saturday night to end the Sabbath. Nosh, kibbitz, and (inevitably) play Jewish Geography (or Jewish Apples to Apples). Non-Jews are of course welcome, you know you all hang out on J-Date anyway. |
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| Midnight at the Oasis |
| Room |
102 |
| Friday |
7:30 pm – 2 am |
| Saturday |
7:30 pm – 2 am |
| Come quench your thirst and feast your eyes on the lovely dancers of Smiling Lune and friends. Join us for hourly performances Friday and Saturday nights. Come shimmy with us! And remember… “No one is just friends with a bellydancer!” –William Shatner’s girlfriend, Impulse 1974 |
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| Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of |
| Room |
207 |
| Friday |
7 pm – Midnight |
| Saturday |
7 pm – Midnight |
| At Milliways we serve all creatures that happen by! We offer homemade and fresh baked cookies with non-alcoholic milk shots! We also provide entertainment with the “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” till 11pm when we have Vogon Poetry hour! So bring your best and worst poetry to share for prizes! |
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| Minicon 47 |
| Room |
206 |
| Thursday |
9 pm – 1 am |
| Friday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Saturday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Sunday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Minicon 47 Welcomes author Ted Chiang, Fanzine editor Chris Garcia and artist Frank Wu as guests of honor. |
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| Mos Icee Cantina |
| Room |
231 |
| Friday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Saturday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| A long time ago, … Some of the greatest sci-fi films ever began with these words. If that doesn’t represent “Tomorrow Through The Past” nothing does. Visit the Mos Icee Cantina to mingle with scum and villainy, savor a frosty snow cone, and enjoy the music of the Modal Nodes. |
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| Orange Crush |
| Room |
127 |
| Friday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Saturday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Come play with us at Orange Crush! Post your status to our wall and impress your friends with your vocabulary prowess on our giant Scrabble board! Enjoy orange treats and share some orange love! |
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| Perfectly Legitimate Spaceship |
| Room |
202 |
| Thursday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Friday |
9 pm – 3 am |
| Saturday |
9 pm – 3 am |
| Sunday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| This is a perfectly legitimate spaceship for perfectly legitimate spacemen. If it was a speakeasy, we would say it’s a speakeasy, capice? |
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| Sci Fi 70s |
| Room |
204 |
| Friday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Saturday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Rockin the apocalypse Join Marscon as we rock our way to our 2012 convention. |
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| Skepchick |
| Room |
227 |
| Thursday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Friday |
8pm – 1 am |
| Saturday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Your favorite geek girls are back again! Join the Skepchicks and friends in our spaceship for fun activities, lively conversation, swag, and don’t forget to raise a Buzzed Aldrin shot with us and toast SCIENCE! |
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| Slytherin Commons |
| Room |
226 |
| Thursday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Friday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Saturday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Fancy the darker side of the Harry Potter world? Come join Death Eaters, Snatchers, and other students of Slytherin House. Maybe you’ll meet Bellatrix, or Draco, or even “He Who Must Not Be Named” while you down Butter Beer, or struggle through the hardest N.E.W.T exams ever! |
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| SPIRE, Year 3.14 |
| Room |
401 |
| Friday |
7 pm – 11 pm |
| Saturday |
7 pm – 11 pm |
| SPIRE is back for its 3.14th year, so naturally we have Pie (and 3 kinds of punch)! Come expand your mind with art, games, psychedelic music and far-out ideas. We celebrate the geek experience as a path to enlightenment, so come exalt (or exult) in fun and imagination with us. |
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| Stand Up Records |
| Room |
128 |
| Thursday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Friday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Saturday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| We are proud to announce a comedy club/burlesque/comedy cinema four our debut appearance at CONvergence. We endeavor to focus on addressing yesterday’s problems of tomorrow. Enjoy clean comedy and magic for the early crowd, a comedy concert film, and later, comedy for the nerdy adult and some burlesque to boot! |
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| SuperCon |
| Room |
131 |
| Thursday |
7 pm – Midnight |
| Join us for an evening of fun Steampunk beach style! Grab your favorite bathing costume and towel and come on down to our Cabana for snacks and new friends We’ll be glad to tell you all about SuperCon, the pool assaults and art Auctions. The best Comfy-Con we know! |
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| Tardis Tea Society |
| Room |
404 |
| Thursday |
8 pm – Midnight |
| Friday |
8 pm – Midnight |
| Saturday |
8 pm – Midnight |
| Sunday |
1 pm – 5 pm |
| Step through the familiar blue doors and enter the newly upgraded Tardis. We serve tea, ginger beer, English muffins (with jam and butter) and extra goodies found on our adventures. Watch some of your favorite Doctor Who episodes and regenerate before you move on to your next galaxy or party. |
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| Terran Empire |
| Room |
108 |
| Thursday |
9 pm – Midnight |
| Friday |
7 pm – Midnight |
| Saturday |
7 pm – Midnight |
| Come aboard the ISS Enterprise for an agonizing good time. Visit with characters from the Star Trek that started it all, while enjoying some Red or Green (only you can judge which is best!). When you’re done, step through to the United Federation of Planets next door for some square food and photo ops. |
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| The Brass Falcon |
| Room |
224 |
| Friday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Saturday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Captain McClelland’s crew of aerial privateers have docked at CONvergence, but these mercenaries are on shore leave, and the captain is looking for new recruits. Come, tour the airship, take a spin with the time machine, and have a taste of adventure! |
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| The Cow Asylum |
| Room |
124 |
| Thursday |
6 pm – 11 pm |
| Friday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| Saturday |
9 pm – 2 am |
| “The State of Wisconsin Cow Asylum: dance till the cows come home. Dancing today for a better tomorrow.” |
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| United Federation of Planets |
| Room |
107 |
| Thursday |
9 pm – Midnight |
| Friday |
7 pm – Midnight |
| Saturday |
7 pm – Midnight |
| Come aboard the Original Starship Enterprise, the one that started it all! Enjoy replicated food, play games and have your picture taken with some of your favorite characters. When you’re done, step through to the Mirror Universe next door for some agonizing fun.favoriate characters. When you’re done, step through to the Mirror Universe next door for some agonizing fun. |
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| Vampire Hunters Union (VHU) Local 542 |
| Room |
232 |
| Thursday |
7 pm – 1 am |
| Friday |
7 pm – 1 am |
| Saturday |
7 pm – 1 am |
| Sunday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Pig’s Eye Park Dirigible Landing. Join us in Pig’s Eye Park for an evening of revelry and well wishes. We will be sending a group of explorers to the uncharted wilds of Africa to hunt vampires of legend. Join us Sunday night for our brand new “dead vampire” game night. |
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| Vice City |
| Room |
129 |
| Thursday |
7 pm – 1 am |
| Friday |
7 pm – 1 am |
| Saturday |
7 pm – 1 am |
| Vice City is a celebration of old arcade and console games and the quirky vision of the future that only something dating from the late 1970s/early 1980s can have. March down memory lane, and generally just have fun. |
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| Wayne Manor |
| Room |
229 |
| Friday |
8 pm – 3 am |
| Saturday |
8 pm – 3 am |
| Gotham’s Cock-of-the Walk is summoning all fops and dandys to come to his abode for merriment most extraordinary! Arboreal alcoholic libations will be served and “Gotham by Gaslight” will be given away to the best dressed villain. Will you discover what lies beyond the extremely suspicious grandfather clock? |
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| Wonka’s Night Out |
| Room |
131 |
| Friday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Saturday |
9 pm – 3 am |
| Chocolate! Is there really anything else that needs to be said? Wonka returns with his Oompa Loompas, and of course more chocolate. Come and partake in the glory that is Candy Vodka, and other concoctions made specifically for you lucky people to try. |
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| Worship the Goddesses |
| Room |
106 |
| Friday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Saturday |
8 pm – 1 am |
| Welcome back worthy worshippers! Whether song, gift or poem, the Goddesses will enchant your heart, inspire your creativity and warm your soul. Relax with the Goddesses, or bring your own lovely Goddess and fall in love with each other again! Sip the Goddess nectar, and feel your worries slip away. |
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| X Marks the Spot |
| Room |
201 |
| Thursday |
6 pm – Midnight |
| Friday |
6 pm – 2 am |
| Saturday |
6 pm – 2 am |
| Come celebrate the return of the airship “X” from its maiden voyage. Help recover Captain James’ Lost Booty, aid us with some reconnaissance, or just stop by for some good ole carousing. |
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| Xena’s Speak Easy |
| Room |
126 |
| Thursday |
7 pm – Midnight |
| Friday |
7 pm – Midnight |
| Saturday |
7 pm – Midnight |
| In the time of ancient ales, hard liquor and wines, a land in turmoil cried out for alcohol. She was Xena, a mighty (hiccup) princess… forged in the heat of battle. The Power…. The Passion… The Prohibition… Her drinking problem will change the world. Live entertainment, beverages, games and more. |
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