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Monday, October 7, 2024

Change of landing site for SFW-X

Sci Fi Weekender (SFW) is not your typical science-fiction event (a review of last year’s SFW in the City can be found here).  Less of a convention and more of a festival, for one weekend every year, thousands of sci-fi and fantasy fans descend on North Wales for a celebration of all things geek.  However, change is afoot.

There is a saying by Donald Rumsfeld (profoundly uncool, but apt), but which is popular in psychology and strategic planning:
“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”

Essentially; there are things that you know and can prepare for, things that you do not know but can anticipate, and those that you have no idea about whatsoever.

It this in the latter case that the tenth Sci Fi Weekender finds itself.  Extensive building and refurbishment work at the Hafan y Mor holiday park, which SFW calls home, which had initially planned for later in the year, will now commence at the start of the year – right in the middle of when Sci Fi Weekender would be held there. This naturally puts a crimp in what was an otherwise damn fine plan.

Chic are currently all hands on deck and working alongside Haven, amongst others, to find an alternative landing site.  Advance scouts will be reviewing various sites over the coming weeks to find an alternative venue that is able to meet the exacting requirements necessary for hosting SFW.  Demanding maybe, but we are worth it.

In order to avoid possible miscommunication, Chic will only announce the new landing site once all venues have been reviewed and the location for has been confirmed.

In the meantime – as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, has emblazoned in large friendly letters on its front cover – don’t panic..

Peter Ray Allison
Peter Ray Allisonhttp://www.peterallison.net
Science Fiction: the final frontier. These are the articles of the freelance journalist Peter Ray Allison. His continuing mission: to explore strange new realms of fiction, to seek out new genres and new visions of the future, to boldly geek where no one has geeked before.

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