Wiscon 33 - The Gathering
Jun. 13th, 2009 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julieandrewsWhat is the Gathering? Basically it's the giant ballroom broken up into stations, each run by different individuals or groups. There's things like palm or tarot reading, massages, and things I'm not really into. But then there's stuff I find more interesting. Some things are a fixture from one year to the next, other activities are new. Sort of a mixture of a carnival and a flea market.
Last year, I went around trying to collect enough stamps for a prize, and didn't manage to. So this year I didn't even try. At the ARC table, as I think I previously said, I bought one ARC. I left a shirt for the clothing swap before the Gathering began, and browsed the clothes once it did. But I still have not mastered the trick of finding cool clothes in a random assortment like that. I'm not very daring in the clothes department. Boring, you might say.
Got a cookie from the Interstitial Arts Foundation. Next year, I recommend they have interstitial cookie/brownie/cupcake things.
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keyan_bowes to listen to the singing. It was too noisy for me to hear the directions they were being given, but when they sang, it sounded nice.
Checked out the Tiptree items up for auction. Always interesting. (I say 'always', it was only my second year.)
Keyan was interested in going to the Cultural Appropriation 101 panel, and other than the cow-tipping, I'd done and seen about all I wanted to in the gathering, so I went too. I had not left the room prepared to attend a panel, so I didn't have notetaking supplies with me. And we were late, so we sat on the floor in the back. And that should get its own entry once I dig out my notes which ended up on two separate pieces of paper.
The Gathering is a great way to kick off the con. If you haven't met up with people you know yet, you often find them for the first time at the Gathering, so it lives up to its name. And it gets everyone relaxed and ready to have a good time. If you're planning your Wiscon trip for next year, make sure you arrive by the time the Gathering starts.
Last year, I went around trying to collect enough stamps for a prize, and didn't manage to. So this year I didn't even try. At the ARC table, as I think I previously said, I bought one ARC. I left a shirt for the clothing swap before the Gathering began, and browsed the clothes once it did. But I still have not mastered the trick of finding cool clothes in a random assortment like that. I'm not very daring in the clothes department. Boring, you might say.
Got a cookie from the Interstitial Arts Foundation. Next year, I recommend they have interstitial cookie/brownie/cupcake things.
Sat down with
keyan_bowes to listen to the singing. It was too noisy for me to hear the directions they were being given, but when they sang, it sounded nice.Checked out the Tiptree items up for auction. Always interesting. (I say 'always', it was only my second year.)
Keyan was interested in going to the Cultural Appropriation 101 panel, and other than the cow-tipping, I'd done and seen about all I wanted to in the gathering, so I went too. I had not left the room prepared to attend a panel, so I didn't have notetaking supplies with me. And we were late, so we sat on the floor in the back. And that should get its own entry once I dig out my notes which ended up on two separate pieces of paper.
The Gathering is a great way to kick off the con. If you haven't met up with people you know yet, you often find them for the first time at the Gathering, so it lives up to its name. And it gets everyone relaxed and ready to have a good time. If you're planning your Wiscon trip for next year, make sure you arrive by the time the Gathering starts.