Guest Announcement

We are sad to announce that Mira Furlan’s appearance has been cancelled due to professional commitments.  The good news?  Marina Sirtis!  Marina has agreed to join us this February at Farpoint.

Volker/McChesney Award Nominations Being Accepted!

Once again, the Volker/McChesney Award will be awarded at Farpoint’s Opening Banquet on Friday evening.

Beverly Volker and Marion McChesney were instrumental in the development of the fan community on the East Coast.  They were fans from the earliest days of Star Trek and were writers and publishers of original fan fiction back in the days when the typing was done on an IBM selectric with carbon paper and publishing meant making copies and binding your zine yourself.  Bev and Marion were driving forces in the beginnings of the Baltimore/Washington area fan convention scene and spent many an hour on the organizing committees of all of the past and current local conventions, including Farpoint.  This award was established in their honor and memory to recognize the continued contribution of an individual or group to the fan community.

Nominations for the 2008 award are due to the Farpoint Committee no later than December 31, 2008.  Please send your nominee’s name, contact information (if known), and a short statement on why you have chosen to make the nomination to us at FarpointEnt@comcast.net.  You should also include your own name and contact information with your nomination.  Current Farpoint committee members and past recipients are not eligible for nomination.

Pre-Registration Confirmations are out

If you have pre-registered for Farpoint 2008 up through October 2007, you should have received your confirmation via e-mail this week.  However, we have had a few e-mail addresses bounce.  If you are expecting a confirmation and did not receive one, please e-mail us at FarpointEnt@comcast.net so that we can verify your membership status.

Frequently Asked Questions

Welcome to our new Farpoint blog! One of the things we will be able to do with our new blog is to answer some of the questions that come up on a regular basis regarding the convention. One of the biggest is always autographs - so, here goes.

“Why can we get some guests’ signatures for free, but others at a price?”

This situation always depends upon the convention’s contracted appearance agreement with the individual guest. Some guests are paid a flat fee that compensates them for their appearance, including participating in the official convention autograph session. Other guests are compensated as “paper guests”, meaning they are not paid an appearance fee by the convention, but are compensated through their sales of signed memorabilia throughout the weekend.

The situation as to which guests are signing in what capacity changes every year, and we as a convention do our best to let the membership know in advance which guests are signing at no charge and which guests are charging. For 2008, James Callis, Mira Furlan, and Harve Bennett are all participating in the official autograph session and will be signing 1 item per badged convention member per session at no charge. There will be 2 autograph sessions - one on Saturday and one one Sunday - times TBA.

Mira has the option to decide to sign additional items during the session, at a charge she determines. We will keep you posted as any news develops on this decision.

James has agreed to sign a limited number of additional items. These additional signatures must be purchased in advance at a cost of $20 each, maximum of 2 additional signatures per person. If you are already registered for Farpoint and wish to add on an additional James signature, please e-mail us at FarpointEnt@comcast.net to update your registration. Our new flier coming out with the next week or so will have the additional signature purchase as an option on the registration form.

As always, thanks for supporting Farpoint! We’re looking forward to seeing you in February.

Podcasting Summit at Farpoint

Farpoint 2008 will offer podcasters from the Mid-Atlantic area a chance to attend some programming specifically geared toward enchancing and encouraging podcasting in our area. Discussions will be led by our featured podcasters (listed on the guests page), but all are welcome. We’re hoping to share advanced techniques and plan cross-promotions that will help us all. And, if you’re not a podcaster but would like to be, remember that we literally have the guy that wrote the book, Tee Morris, on hand to tell you how to get started!

Farpoint has a blog!

The Farpoint convention has a blog here at wordpress.com.  Come by and read, catch the feed, or just ignore us.  I don’t care.