Potlatch News and Report

Next year's Potlatch is expected to be held in conjunction with Corflu; a report from this year's is available on the web

Victor Gonzalez sends us the following concerning next year's Potlatch and Corflu:

Hello!

Potlatch 8 has ended, and Seattle will hold Potlatch 9 (chaired by Ian Hagemann; assistant chair, Jane Hawkins).

If Seattle also wins the Corflu bid for 2000 (which Andy Hooper and I will cheerfully co-chair), fandom will have the chance to experience its first "Corflatch." Or "Potflu." Whichever you prefer.

There's no doubt that Corflu and Potlatch have different goals, and a different ambiance, but there are also similarities and connections. Held in combination this way, the events might strengthen those connections. Plus, it just might make a fine vacation week for those with the inclination, with four days between conventions to explore Seattle or any of the Pacific Northwest features and cities that can be reached easily by car, bus, plane or ferry.

Basically: You can attend two conventions in Seattle on consecutive weekends for the low introductory price of only $60 (the combined rate will last until the end of Corflu Sunsplash, May 2, 1999). Individual memberships are also available. More details follow below, pulled from the text of a flier distributed this weekend at Potlatch. Bare-bone websites for both conventions will appear within a week; membership forms will be posted on the site in several downloadable formats. If you itch to sign up even sooner than that, email me at <squib@galaxy-7.net> and I'll get you something you can print and snail-mail back.

Or you can send the appropriate amount in a check (made out to Corflu if only ordering a Corflu membership, or to Clarion West/Potlatch 9 if ordering a combined membership) to P.O. Box 31848, Seattle, WA, 98103-1848. Please include your name and address.

Paper copies will also be available. Of course.

---Corflu 2000 Info--- Contacts: Andy Hooper <fanmailaph@aol.com> and Victor Gonzalez <squib@galaxy-7.net>

Announcing: Corflu 2000 March 3rd to 5th, 2000 AD (One week after Potlatch 9; see reverse) University Plaza Inn, Seattle, Washington

Special Combination Rate: $60.00 for both Potlatch and Corflu. Corflu Membership Alone: $40.00 These rates will be good up to and through Corflu Sunsplash, May, 1999

Corflu is the longest-running fanzine convention in the solar system. Seattle last held a Corflu in 1988, and we're eager for another chance to host fanzine fandom's annual reunion. We'll present the mixture of fannish programming, plastic spacemen, fanzines, fine microbrews, gossip, chocolate, and trivia that have become Corflu tradition, plus one or two new things we have in mind.

(Corflu 2000 must be ratified by the members of Corflu Sunsplash, in Panama City Beach, Florida, in May of this year. If for some reason Seattle is not awarded the convention, all money will be spent on rent boys and iboga root extract. Rates Rise Post-Sunsplash.)

---Potlatch 9 Info--- Contact: Ian Hagemann <ianh@scn.org>

Potlatch 9 will be held February 25-27, 2000, at the University Plaza Hotel in Seattle, Washington.

The agenda: talk about writing and reading speculative fiction, in formal programming, in Clarion-style writers' workshops, in the con suite, in the halls and elevators. Talk, talk, talk. Listen, listen, listen.

We'll host the Clarion West scholarship auction. There will be a small dealers' room. We'll have a dance. Nanoprogramming may strike at any moment.

The committee: Ian Hagemann, Chair; Suzanne V. Tompkins, Hotel Liaison; Janice Murray, Treasurer; Jerry Kaufman, Programming; Jane Hawkins, Con Suite and Assistant Chair; Kate Schaefer, Clarion West Auction and Writers' Workshops; Victor Gonzalez, Publications and Web Page; Marcia Goldoff, Dealers' Room; Anita Rowland, Toys; and Luke McGuff, Truck.

Membership (for Potlatch 9 only) is currently $30 and may be higher later. The combined Potlatch/Corflu rate of $60 will be good until May 2.

Meanwhile, Anita Rowland has posted a Potlatch report and photos, links to which can be found in this page's links section.

-- Mike Scott

28 Jan 1999