Orycon 19 Filking

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<taps mike>

All right, I am somewhat belatedly getting my act together. Herewith the scoop:

As a few of you know, I'm the Filk Liaison for Orycon 19 coming up this November. I have, as of today, been handed an actual schedule which indicates the whens and wheres of my/our available space. This means a couple of things.

One, we know that we *will* have two filk rooms again this year, once again the Klamath (big room) and Santiam (smaller room across the hall) rooms. This means two circles; I anticipate following last year for precedent and running Bardic in one room and Chaos in the other, most likely trading off the formats so that Bardic gets the big room one night and Chaos gets it the other.

Two, I know when the Golden Bough concert is (Saturday, ca. 9-11 pm). At this point, we formally have *one* of the filk rooms during that time; although the other isn't yet formally scheduled, I've been advised that we should not assume that it's available at this point. [If the group wants both rooms opposite GB, feel free to clamor, and I shall pass the clamoring up the chain of command. <g>]

Three, I also therefore have some idea of available concert slots, and a partial--emphasis, partial--list of those expressing advance interest in same.

This last is possibly the most useful of the three points; I am very definitely interested in hearing from persons who expect to be in attendance and would be interested in a concert slot; I know for a fact that there are people on this list that I'd like to hear whose names are not on the list I have been handed. [Before anyone asks, Heather has been scheduled for Sunday in front of the art auction again.]

The down side is that I can *also* virtually guarantee that there will be more people interested in concerts than I have space for in the schedule. More, I am pretty sure that I will barely have enough slots to manage to fit in people that I know I *want* to schedule.

Thus while I ask for interested concerteers, I am also interested in picking the group's brain for ideas on how to deal with this problem (nice problem that it is <g>). Some thoughts that have occurred to me:

# scheduling some concerts in the Santiam room

    (it's smallish, it gets hot quick, but we have more      hours in it than we do in the Klamath)

# shortening concert blocks (say, setting start times at
    20-minute rather than 30-minute intervals)

# scheduling an hour somewhere devoted to "one-shot"
    numbers, with advance sign-up

# scheduling fewer concert slots earlier in the evening,
    and then reserving a half-hour block for a "midnight     concert" which would interrupt the open filking

All of these clearly have down sides as well as ups, which is why I'd like input from the groupmind as to what might be most happily adaptable to our time and space needs. Some may not come to pass. Or I may have missed an obvious and brilliant scheme.

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One final item. While I have every intention of staying here on Genie till they turn out the lights, I also have "real" Internet access and E-mail these days, and my preferred E-mail address is now:   JCBunnell at sff.net

(Don't hesitate to post replies to the list, but use that one to get to me personally--and if Our Fearless Leader can switch my list access over to the sff.net address, I'd be grateful.)

Thanks in advance for any thoughts folks have on all this. I'd like to do well by filkers again this year at Orycon, and the more help I get, the happier I'll be....

• John C. Bunnell
• JCBunnell at sff.net