Con-G has a chance to bring w00tstock to the Guelph/Kitchener-Waterloo area, but we need your help to do it!
What is w00tstock? Billed as “3 hours of geeks and music”, it’s a fun-filled evening hosted by television host/special-effects artist Adam Savage (“MythBusters”), actor/author/blogger Wil Wheaton (“Star Trek: TNG”, “Stand By Me”) and music-comedy duo Paul and Storm (The Internet, Da Vinci’s Notebook) with additional guests based on location! These guys are awesome.
Songs, readings, comedy, short films, it’s the best parts of the huge US conventions (except cosplay) all distilled into 3 hours.
(w00tstock.net)
Planning is in the early stages, and nothing is guaranteed! We have been told that we need to show there are enough people who would attend a w00tstock performance held in Guelph/KW before planning can continue. Until now, they have only done performances in the USA, and all on the West Coast. We need to show them that it would be worth their while to come all the way to Canada! We have been told that if we can show that at least 750-1000 people (the size of a US show) in the area want to attend, they will consider coming to Con-G!
Tickets would be sold separately from Con-G memberships, so if you only want to attend one or the other you’re not stuck paying for both, but we hope to have joint tickets to both events at a discounted rate.
Guelph is less than an hour from Toronto, Burlington, and Hamilton, and an hour and a half from London. It would be worth the drive to see w00tstock live in Canada!
If you would like to attend a w00tstock performance in Guelph/KW, please “Like” our Facebook Page to show your support, and pass the link on to anyone else you know that would attend!
If you do not have a Facebook account, please leave a comment on our blog indicating your support.
EDIT: You can grab a banner to use on your own site/blog right here.
Registration for the 2011 Con-G Artist Alley is now OPEN!
You can register for your alley space here: http://www.con-g.com/programming/artist-alley-information/
An Artist Alley space costs $32 and includes:
4? x 3? table space with tablecloth (half of a shared 8? x 3? table)
1 chair
1 membership badge
Artist Alley spaces are sold as half tables only.
We are now accepting applications for our 2011 Dealer’s Room! It will be bigger and better than ever, in the “Trillium” room at the Holiday Inn.
For details on how to become a dealer, see the Dealer Information page here.
The Dealer rates for 2011 have been posted!
Dealer registration opens August 1, 2010.
Ta da! The Con-G site has received a face lift for 2011! It has not yet been updated with all of the information for 2011, but information will be released shortly. Let us know what you think of the new site design!
The dates have been announced for the next Con-G. It will be held February 19th and 20th, 2011 at the Holiday Inn Guelph Hotel & Conference Centre (right across from the Stone Road Mall). Yes, that’s a new location as well. We’re chock full of shiny new things this year!
More details about 2011 programming will be released as soon as possible.
Get ready for the all-new, redesigned Con-G website coming after Anime North 2010!
It will be snazzier and easier to navigate, and will also announce the dates of Con-G 2011!!
A huge big THANK YOU to everyone who came up to Guelph for Con-G 2010 on a surprisingly lovely February weekend.
Honestly we just can’t say enough good things about Con-G’s wonderful staff, they are such a great group of people and it’s such a pleasure to work with every one of them.
Thank you to all the artists, guests, dealers, attendees, cosplayers (i.e. everyone) for making our second year such a success. A big thank you to our volunteers and everyone who helped out with various tasks and to everyone who participated in our many events through out the weekend.
We had 530 people attend this year (last year there were 350) so we are really happy with the growth and super happy that it kept the fun and friendly atmosphere it had last year. Hearing all the feedback from people saying that they had a good time makes all the headaches of running a convention totally worth it. 
Our masquerade was awesome again this year, thank you to everyone who participated! We apologize to everyone who entered the masq and were promised a green room feed – it worked great during set up when we tried it multiple times – clearly the masq entries were so awesome it broke the video camera.
Apparently there is some confusion about who runs Con-G. Con-G is not affiliated with any other group or organization. We are not part of the University of Guelph, nor the university’s FLASH or Games clubs. Con-G is a standalone entity run by a group of cosplayers who became friends back in university and wanted to bring an anime convention to Guelph.
Thanks again to everyone who helped make Con-G 2010 a big success!
xoxo The Con-G Staff
Here’s a cool video of Con-G 2010 filmed by Ackson Lee.
Here’s an awesome video of Con-G 2010 by the Savage Bandito.
Con-G is over for another year!
Thanks to everyone who made it a great success, and even better than last year! This includes you, attendees! You are wonderful!
A proper post-con news update will go up shortly with follow-up details, we just wanted to thank everyone first thing this morning.
If you took photos at Con-G, remember you can add them to our Flickr Group (tag: cong2010), or upload them to the Con-G Forum Gallery (though the forum gallery is much more restrictive in terms of file size due to server space, sorry!). We’d also love to hear about your con experiences in our forum!
Con-G is at the end of the week, folks! We’re really excited, and we hope you are too!
We look forward to seeing you there! 
