FunCon One: Space leopards (probably) won't eat your face

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(Did you mean a California convention or an Australian convention?)

FunCon One logo showing a blue space leopard wearing a spacesuit

FunCon One is a Fun Science Fiction Convention or funcon inspired by the works of authors such as Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Robert Rankin, and more. It runs "kids program for adults", with plenty of active games, crafting and workshops, as well as amusing panel items and unexpected talks, with a fun science or science fiction twist.

It will be held in the Palace Hotel, Buxton, UK, from 31st May to 2nd June, 2024.

Planned programme items include:

  • Assemble an Alien
  • Campfire singalong
  • Correlation ≠ causation
  • Crochet a space leopard
  • Defy gravity - acro yoga
  • Drawing with data
  • How (not) to become an astronaut
  • How your cat is trying to kill you...
  • Intergalactic disco
  • It's a conspiracy!
  • Lifesize board games
  • Pan Galactic dessert cocktail workshop
  • Save the space leopards
  • Space balls! Juggling & poi workshop
  • The Amazing Allergy Testing Woo Machine (also known as the Woo Machine)
  • Time travellers' ceilidh



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