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If you are interested in VCON, then you may also be interested in our "friends and relations" - events, clubs, forums, discussion lists, media resources related to the topics VCON holds near and dear from across BC, Canada, the Pacific Northwest plus other conventions of regional, national, or international importance.

Sections:
Events & Conventions | Art & Artists | Animation & Anime | Comics & Manga | Cosplay & Costuming | Games & Gaming | Models & Miniatures | Movies & Media | Music & Melodies | RenFests & Reenactment | Science & Space | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Writers & Writing

Events & Conventions

Love to get your Geek on with hordes of your fellow geeks? This page will introduce you to the many Conventions and other events put on by or for various local and national fan groups.

Find a Convention

General SF&F

Games & Gaming

Anime & Manga

Comics

RenFairs & Reenactment

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Art & Artists

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Anime & Animation

Get your kicks by watching Saturday morning cartoons? Have a yen for Japanese style animation? Enchanted by Disney's princesses? Virtually enlightened by 3D animation? To help satisfy these desires, here are some links to useful resources and local groups focused on animation and anime.

Anime Conventions

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Comics & Manga

Religiously read the Sunday Funnies? Regularly entangle yourself in the web comic archives? Crave the latest comic books every Wednesday? Have a desire to draw funny people in three panels or more? Maintain an alphabetized library of manga magazines? To meet your needs, here are some links to useful resources and local groups focused on comics and manga.

Events

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Cosplay & Costuming

Constantly planning to create costumes for yourself and the kids? Get a kick out of playing pretend? Secretly wish you had cat's ears or could wield a real light sabre? To help acheive your fantasies, here are some links to useful resources and local groups focused on cosplay and costuming.

General

Lord of the Rings

Star Trek

Star Wars

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Gamers & Gaming

Do you drool over bags of polyhedral dice? Does your heart beat faster at the sound of cards being shuffled? Do you love moving metal or plastic figures or tokens across a field or around a board? Do your thumbs and fingers twitch at the mere whisper of the name "Master Chief"? To satiate some of these uncontrollable urges, here are some links to useful resources and local groups focused on games and gaming.

Gaming Groups

Gaming Stores

Online/Social Networking

Events

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Models & Miniatures

Do you fiddle around with figures in lead, pewter or plastic? Do you love to manufacture mechas? Do you own a bunch of paint brushes, a multeity of model paints and a gallon of model glue? To help you minatureize, here are some links to useful resources and local groups focused on models and miniatures.

Models

Miniature Game Players

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Movies & Media

Are you a rabid fan of Reaper? Would you drop everything to jump through the Stargate? Do you think Serenity is shiny? Wish you could gear up and become a guildie with the Knights of Good? To help you geek out over your favourite media personalities, here are some links to fan sites for TV shows and movies that have been or are currently filmed in Vancouver and to sites for locally run SF&F fan groups focused on specific tv or movie franchises.

Fansites of Locally Filmed Shows

Local Fan Groups

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Music & Melodies

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RenFests & Reenactment

Love the clothing of the Renaissance period? Have a desire to be a dashing swordsman with a real sword? Mesmerized by the melodic notes of the mandolin? To assist your travel back in time, here are some links to useful resources and local groups focused on the pursuit of historical reenactment.

Training

Events

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Science & Space

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

Are you an all around omnivorous geek? Love it all - art, animation, comics, costumes, games, miniatures, media, music, renfests, science, writing - and can't get enough of any of it? To satisfy your every need, here are some links to useful resources and local groups with an non-specific, all-you-can-eat buffet attitude towards everything science fiction and fantasy

General SF&F Events

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Writers & Writing

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