12.21.10 // GeekGirlCon Craft Day #2
You’re invited to join the Design Team for their 2nd Craft Day! We will be making single color tees and buttons for our upcoming GGC Benefit Concert!
• Sunday, January 9, 2011 · 12:00pm – 3:00pm
• Summit @ Madison • 2209 E Madison St. • Seattle, WA 98122
There will be an $8 cost per person. This will cover materials to produce one shirt and unlimited buttons.
Please RSVP by January 2nd to:
graphics@geekgirlcon.com (subject: “GGC Craft Day #2 RSVP”)
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12.21.10 // GeekGirlCon Benefit Concert!
GeekGirlCon is having a benefit concert at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard and you are invited! There will be FIVE acts including:
• Jonny Nero Action Hero
• Altin Jimbiz (http://altinjimbiz.com/)
• DJ Princess Sparklepony
• Runt
• Channa Masala
You can get in for just $7 OR $6 with a donation of 2 non-perishable food items for the Ballard Food Bank! (Cash only at the door)
To buy tickets now from Brown Paper Tickets, click this link: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/142425
Check us out on the Sunset Tavern’s event calendar here: http://www.sunsettavern.com
Doors open at 8pm • Music starts at 9pm • *This is a 21+ show
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12.20.10 // Announcing Special Guest Trina Robbins!
Legendary cartoonist and comics herstorian, Trina Robbins has accepted our invitation to be a guest of GeekGirlCon!
Ms. Robbins has been writing comics and books for over 30 years, and was one of the founding members of The Wimmen’s Comix Collective. She is the author of such books as The Great Women Superheroes, From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Women’s Comics From Teens to Zines, The Best of Nell Brinkley’s Cartoons from 1913-1940, and Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story.
We are honored and excited to have her as our guest!!!
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12.19.10 // Last Minute Gift Guide
Did you just realize you forgot to get a gift for that special geeky someone in your life? Fear not GeekGirlCon is here to save the day!
We have put together a list of some of our favorite geeky items
You just may find a few things you can’t live without!
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12.18.10 // Special Guest Bonnie Burton Announced
GeekGirlCon is excited to announce that the amazing Bonnie Burton has agreed to be our very first Special Guest. If you don’t already know, Bonnie is an author, writing several Star Wars craft and art books, content for starwars.com, the official Star Wars Blog and is the brains behind the Star Wars twitter page!
Aside from her work with Star Wars, she has written the books “Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How We Can Change” and “Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers”
For a complete listing of Bonnie’s wonderful books, and we recommend you purchase them all please click here
We could not be more excited to have such an amazingly supportive Geek Girl involved with our convention!
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12.17.10 // Firefly Flashmob! December 19th – Westlake Center
On September 20th, 2002, Fox network aired a show for one season that’s legacy continued to thrive long after it was gone. Firefly was an unfinished masterpiece about survival, pride, love and sacrifice in tv writer Joss Whedon’s collection. Nearly eight years after its cancellation, we gather together to celebrate both the beloved show and our fellow Browncoats (fans).
To mark the occasion, GeekGirlCon has organized a flashmob that will occur at 3:30pm on Sunday, December 19th, 2010 the plaza of Westlake Center. Street-legal drinks in hand, Browncoats will raise their voices in song to the Hero of Canton, Firefly’s Jayne Cobb, to promote and raise awareness for GeekGirlCon, a convention that “aims to misbehave.”
GeekGirlCon is an unprecedented convention in celebration of we women geeks and women’s contribution to the geeky things we love. GeekGirlCon will be held in Seattle in 2011, and we are currently fundraising in order to secure our date and venue. Math, fantasy, science, video gaming, comic books, and sci-fi: our love for them once made us outcasts, but now they will bring us together.
We invite you to join us in raising a glass to Joss Whedon’s Firefly and to support GeekGirlCon to make this a beautiful reality.
To find out more about GeekGirlCon, please visit: http://www.geekgirlcon.com or contact our Public Relations Manager Kiri Callaghan pr@geekgirlcon.com.
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12.14.10 // GGC mentioned on OMFG.fm podcast!
OMFG.fm gave us a shout out on their podcast. Head on over and give it a listen!
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12.12.10 // The Hero of Canton Flash Mob!
On Sunday, December 19 we will be throwing a flash mob to raise awareness for GeekGirlCon! So grab your Brown Coats and Jayne hats, ’cause we aim to misbehave!
Here’s the way (it’s better than a plan):
We meet at 4th and Pine across from Westlake Center at 3:30. There, you’ll see a busker playing the guitar. At the call of “Jayne!” get ready to sing about the Hero of Canton!
Don’t know the song? Here’s a handy video.
Also, here are some lyrics.
Ask questions and get more info at our forum.
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12.10.10 // PacMan Ornaments
GGC Fundraising Xmas ornaments 10pc PacMan set, 20 dollar CASH donation or highest bidder at our next meeting 12/11/10. Qtys limited.
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12.7.10 // Planning Meetings and Fundraising, Oh My
Our next planning meeting will be Saturday, December 11th from 10:15 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. at the Des Moines Library at 21620 11th Avenue S, Des Moines, WA 98198. We’d love to see you there.
We apologize for the last minute move, but our friends at the Wayward Coffeehouse in Seattle are currently closed due to smoke damage. We hope you can still make it.
Right now, we are busy fundraising in order to secure our venue for GeekGirlCon. Our Marketing Director Erica is attempting to raise $500 for GeekGirlCon her birthday. Read her letter and explanation of why she’s doing this. You can donate by clicking on the button below:
We need your support. 100% of funds go toward Geek Girl Con.