ARCon

ARCon was the Aussiecon Reunion Convention, held September 22-24, 1995 at the Savoy Plaza Hotel, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Guests of Honour were Robin Johnson and David Grigg.

Bruce Gillespie said of the convention in The Metaphysical Review #22-23 (1995):

ARCon was designed to celebrate 20 years since Aussiecon I (the World Convention held in Melbourne in 1975) and ten years since Aussiecon II (1985, the second time the World Convention came to Melbourne). Like Anzapacon, it had an ideal size (100-150 attendees), and brought together people who remember when Australian fandom was one group, before it split into splinter groups. Lots of nostalgic slides, a showing of the Aussiefan film, nostalgic panellists, and the appearance of Don Ashby helped to make this into a Mellowcon. Not that all was backward looking: panel items about fanzine publishing turned into arcane discussions of the ins and outs of Internet publishing. Me? I don’t have a modem yet.

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