TitanCon 2012 membership prices are subject to the following increases:
Please make sure you buy yours early to avoid the price raises!
TitanCon - A science fiction and fantasy literature, media and gaming convention for Belfast Northern Ireland including panels on HBO and George RR Martin's Game of Thrones, organised and run by GRRM fangroup the Brotherhood Without Banners, Studio NI, Northern Ireland's largest arts and culture group, The Other Ones a Belfast science fiction and fantasy society, with gaming events run by Arkham Gaming Centre and TableTopNorth.
We would just like to point out that TitanCon will not be completely over until after the convention tradition of the Dead Dog Party (because that's what you feel like on the last day of a SF/F convention). Our Dead Dog will take place on the evening of Monday 24 September 2012 in Robinsons Bar, directly opposite our venue, the Europa Hotel. There isn't really an official start time for the Dead Dog, nor is there an official finish time (that'll be whatever time the staff chuck us out at). It's really just a case of drop by the bar during the evening if you're still around and you should see some familiar faces about the place to have a drink with and talk about how good a time you've had at TitanCon.
See you there Dead Dogs!
In case you missed the announcements on Twitter we have added four new guests to our line up, three authors and a literary agent (sounds like the opening for some sort of cautionary fairy tale). The authors are Ruth Frances Long, Ken Magee and Leigh Bardugo - whose name means "ghost" or "lost" in Dothraki. No really, it does. Check out her bio if you don't believe me. Our literary agent guest is Joanna Volpe who represents Leigh Bardugo (yes they come as an adorable set of two guests for the price of one, we could not resist).
More guest announcements to follow over the coming months with the full Game of Thrones guest line up to be announced in September.
The new TitanCon 2012 website is open for business. Well, actually not quite.
Membership sales open at 12.00 midday GMT on Saturday 18 February 2012. We wanted to put a firm date and time to start selling and announce it in advance so that everyone has a fair chance of getting membership.
TitanCon 2011. Photo taken by Jim Corr.
Not that we expect to sell out in the first five minutes or something but TitanCon 2011 members should realise why we've done it this way if they have checked their email inboxes. If you have not received an email from us with details of something special just for you then please check your spam filters or contact us to request a resend. If you've changed email addresses since last year we may need to update our records otherwise you'll miss out on any future announcements we make via email.
We'll be making a similar announcement with a date and time for when the Game of Thrones Coach Tour tickets go on sale in a couple of months time. We do expect demand to be high and for all the tickets to sell out pretty quickly so you can call this a trial run for that.
TitanCon 2011 guest photo session, (from l-r) William Simpson, Sophie Turner, Art Parkinson, Maisie Williams, Silverjaime (co-chair TitanCon 2012 committee), Kristian Nairn and Miltos Yerolemou. Photo taken by Jim Corr.
In the meantime take a look around the site and check out what we have to announce so far.
Looking at the guest list may give you a sense of déjà-vu. Admittedly the line up of guests looks pretty similar to last year at this stage and you may also note that we have not named a guest of honour yet. But rest assured we are working hard on arranging more new guests and we'll be announcing them over the coming months including details of who our guest of honour will be.
The situation with Game of Thrones cast and crew member guests will be the same as last year in that we won't be able to confirm the full line up until just a couple of weeks before TitanCon. We are sorry about that but with the constantly changing nature of HBO's production schedule we are committed to waiting until we are confident that our potential guests are going to be in Belfast and available to attend. We would hate to announce someone only for them to drop out when the schedule changes and they need to be in Croatia or Iceland instead.
We hope you're as excited about TitanCon 2012 as we are and we can't wait to see you there!
We are pleased to announce that we have arranged a special room rate offer for TitanCon 2012 members. Days are holding 25 rooms for us from 21st September for 2 nights - 15 twin rooms and 10 double rooms. The rates are:
Rather than post the booking codes on a public website we will be including the details for how to take up this offer in your membership confirmation email. Please see our hotel information page for more information.
Please note that the TitanCon offer rate includes breakfast and the facility to cancel your booking without charge if you should need to. The standard hotel rate for these options is £65.95 per night single occupancy and £72.90 double occupancy.
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