This year, the beneficiary of the annual Dragon*Con Charity Auction will be the Georgia Chapter of the Lupus Foundation of America. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can cause damage to any part of the body. In some ways, lupus represents an allergic reaction by the body in which the immune system sees the body’s own healthy tissues and… Read more →
Dragon*Con is not selling memberships via Ticketmaster this year. Memberships will be available through the Dragon*Con office until September 1, 2010. After that time, memberships will only be available on-site in the Georgia Hall of the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel. All tickets purchased between August 25, 2010, and September 1, 2010, will be available at a special will-call desk in the… Read more →
Information Beware of Parking Extortion A Peek into Georgia Aquarium Choices! We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Choices! (Or How the Information Booths Can Help You Navigate Through Dragon*Con) Pocket Program and Schedule Grid PDFs for Download Daily Dragon Tweets Getting Here, There, and Back Again to Here New for 2009: The Late Show
The Parsec Awards honor SF and fantasy within the new frontiers of Portable Media. Podcast shows are nominated by fans, and finalists are chosen by a yearly steering committee. Those finalists are then voted on by an independent panel of judges. Awards are given in several categories ranging from content to audio quality and presented at Dragon*Con, hosted by the… Read more →
The Dragon*Con Independent Short Film Festival awards ceremony took place on Monday, September 7st. Clips were shown from each of three finalists in 14 categories (Animated Comedy, Animated Fantasy, Animated Science Fiction, Animated Short-Short, Action, Comedy, Dark Comedy, Documentary, Fantasy, Horror, Horror Comedy, Magic Realism, Science Fiction, Thrillers. Best Animated Short was chosen from the 1st place winners in the… Read more →
It’s the podcast edition of The Dragon*Con Late Show for September 7th, 2009. Brought to you by the Dragon*Con Videography Staff and The Daily Dragon.
The preliminary 2009 Charity Auction proceeds (including the Stargate auction) total $25,000*! Thank you for your generosity! [*This figure does not include the Art Auction.]
The record increases! 437 people registered today, bringing the total registered donors to 2,081 for the past four days. About 1,650 were able to donate, and we have close to 2,100 units! Tomorrow is the last day to donate. Give in the Marriott, rooms A701 and A702, from 10AM to 3PM.
