Blogging about conventions
As usually in recent years I opened convention season with Zjava. This time it was Zjava 15, a nice anniversary. Sadly it fell on the same weekend as the final of Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy (Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity). Because of that I had to choose between convention and a smaller event held by my local club. It was a tough decision, and in the end I decided to go for the con.
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It is hard to believe that 2025 has already passed, but here we are. Was it a good year? Yes, and no. I managed to do some things, but failed with others. Surprisingly I visited fewer conventions than usually but some were pretty important ones.
For me Imladris is a very dear convention. Back in 2003 it was my first SFF con to attend. Because of that it has a special place in my heart. It also has a special atmosphere that I treasure a lot. Last year because of a cold I didn’t manage to attend it but this year I visited Imladris XXIII.
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Not so long ago I attended Archipelacon 2 in Mariehamn and it was a slightly new experience to me. Well it may be an overstatement but I feel like that a bit.
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That last weekend I attended the Seminarium Literackie 2025 ran by Silesian SFF Club (ŚKF). I must say that it was exactly the con I needed now. The mix of programme and socializing was perfect and I came back home filled with positive thoughts. (I won’tsay that I came back relaxed as I was quite tired).
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Recently I managed to fulfil one of my dreams – I attended a convention in Japan. I cannot say it was my lifelong dream – my young self would not even dare to dream of something like that. Yet, since I learned about HAL-CON I knew I wanted to attend it. And at last I managed to do so this year. It was fun but also challenging. HAL-CON was so similar to other cons I visited and also so different from them.
2024 was a tough year. Full of joy and satisfaction, but also of sadness and frustration. Yet here I want to concentrate rather on the positive aspects, as this is what I want to keep remembering. I managed to visit 15 conventions – all except one I attended in person. There were also many other things happening last year!
Ten years ago Toudi convinced me to visit Nordcon. At first I had somehow mixed feelings, yet now, after ten years I can say that I enjoy this convention very much! This year, although being a bit specific to me, was also very good and I am glad that I attended.
I heard of Bilcon a few years ago. Not sure when exactly, but I wanted to attend it since. Yet somehow each year since then I had some other plans and couldn’t go. This year I finally managed to do so. Bilcon is a small (up to 70 members) convention in Bílovec, near Ostrava in Czech Republic.
It was around two years age when Częstochowski Dzień Fantastyki (The SFF Day of Częstochowa) appeared on the convention scene in Poland. It is a small, day long event that to my surprise is held four times in a year. Somehow every time they held it I couldn’t go, yet this has finally changed.