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The official press release for BabelCon Merchant Room tables:


Babel*Con is a fandom convention held in Baton Rouge on July 19-20 (Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or ).  We are currently looking for interested vendors to participate in our Village Bazaar merchant's room.

BabelCon is billed as a Science Fiction convention, but our expected 800+ attendees for 2008 will be drawn from a large variety of fandom genres.  In addition to the Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror track, we also have entire rooms dedicated to Gaming, Anime, Science, Paranormal, Kids, and a full blown Ren Fair in the atrium.

Our headliner guests this year include Suzie Plakson, the only actress to appear as four different aliens in three different Star Trek series: 1) Vulcan Lt. Selar & Klingon K'Ehleyr on Next Generation,  2) The female Q on Voyager,  3) Tarah, the first female Andorian on Enterprise.  We also have John Hertzler, who starred in nearly 30 episodes of Deep Space Nine as the regular character General Martok, the changeling Laas, and vulcan captain Storil, among others.  More guests are to follow, and all will be stationed in the Merchant's Room.

Performing for our attendees this year are the Bedlam Bards, Nightmare Theater, the Orion Slave Girls, Happy Shimmies Belly Dancing, Pirates of the Caribbean Interactive, the Chi Institute Martial Arts, a Medieval Knighting Ceremony, the Rocky Horror Picture Show, a Costume Contest, and Model Rocket Demonstrations outdoors.

A great number of national fan groups will also be in attendance, including Starfleet, Star Wars 501st Garrison, Klingon Assault Group, and Battlestar Galactica Colonial Defense Forces.

In our giant game room, there will be Live Action Role Playing groups putting on demonstrations.  Tabletop games will also be played, such as a Warhammer Tournament, miniatures contest, RPGA games, card games, historic war games, board games, Dungeons & Dragons, and various Role Playing Games.

If you are interested in renting a table, the price for each 3 ft. x 8 ft. table is $60, which includes a free con badge, and 50% off up to 2 more badges.  If you rent more than one table, you get one free badge for each table rented.  Please let me know if you are interested, and I will send you the pertinent forms.

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I've modified the BabelCon website as follows:

a)  Sci-Fi & Fantasy icons and Movie Posters added to top bar on every page.
b)  Added detailed titles to each page.
c)  Added a schedule page for each new room.
d)  Updated volunteer form for 2008. Linked to download icon.
e)  Pre-registration form updated for 2008.
f)   Posted new admission prices to Registration page.
g)  Added online registration capabilities to Registration page.
h)  Updated merchant form for 2008. Linked to download icon.
i)   Added online payment capabilities for table rentals to Merchant page.
j)   New venue added to Location page, with link to hotel site.
k)  Posted new convention hours of operation.
l)   Added new paranormal guests.
m) Updated program book advertising form for 2008. Linked to download icon.
n)  Created new BabelCon 2008 T-shirt logo. Updated graphics for T-Shirt page.
o)  Updated text for 2008 on Press Kit page.
p)  Updated Gaming pages with Gary Gygax Memorial.
q)  Passed out from exhaustion.

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The BabelCon floorplan map has been released:  

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Then, I used the Sci-Fi soundbytes to created a "Sci-Fi & Fantasy Dance Remix" to open the BabelCon dance.  You can listen to it and other geek music here:  

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Cutoff for BabelCon hotel block of rooms is June 18th. You can make reservations after that, but they will no longer hold open rooms - its first come, first serve.

You MUST use the reservation code O02 (letter O, number zero, number 2) to get the reduced room rate.

We've planned a Friday night Meet-n-Greet event with the guests.  Admission price to be announced.

If you've already made a hotel reservation, using the code or not, please let me know.  We're trying to get an estimate of reservations made so far.

Announcing BabelCon's newest Guest:

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Richard Hatch

"Apollo" and "Zarek" from old and new Batlestar Galactica

The new Flier & Pre-registration combo form are now available.
The updated form includes the "VIP Meet-n-Greet & Eat":