From Jo Walton:

Scintillation Progress Report

Progress!

We’re delighted to announce that Scintillation 3 will be taking place on the weekend of 10-12th June 2022, in the Holiday Inn, Montreal, the same one with a pagoda on the roof where Scintillation 1 and 2 took place. We will have program, expeditions, a picnic, and as much fun, friends, and conversation as possible under the circumstances. We may have an outdoor hangout area. We’re doing out best to have Scintillation in a difficult situation. We want to see you! We have missed you all so much. We’re not waiting until the pandemic is over, because we don’t know what over even means any more.

Programme

There will be a fun programme, created by Jo Walton. If you would like to be on programme, or if you have any ideas for program, email programme@scintillation.ca

Debra Doyle Memorial Dumplings

Debra Doyle was a beloved member of the Scintillation community. In one of her last posts to the Scintillation Discord she said how much she was looking forward to eating dumplings at Scintillation. In memory of her, we’d like to give someone doing the con on a budget money to take a friend and have a dumpling lunch. If you qualify, email dumpling@scintillation.ca — we’ll put the names in a hat and draw one at random to enjoy the dumplings Debra would have liked to share.

Pandemic Safety

While the pandemic continues, it seems to us that summer is a safer time for conventions, which is mostly why we’re doing it in June. We will be requiring masks and proof of vaccination, and any other health measures required by the province of Quebec. All attendees must be fully vaccinated.

Coming to Scintillation

We will inform members nearer the time what the situation is for entering Canada — right now the border is open, and it’s possible to fly here from overseas or the US, and to drive here from the US. The train is not presently running across the border, but it may be by then. Via Rail trains are running from other parts of Canada. Canada currently requires a recent PCR test for entry, but this may change. It also requires downloading the ArriveCan app and filling it out, and this is less likely to change.

Hotel

The Holiday Inn has raised prices for function space by more than fifty percent since 2019. Unfortunately this means we will not be able to have the Saturday evening reception or the Games Room — but we will have games in the con suite. We’re hoping to be able to afford the Reading Room in addition to the Big Room. We have also reluctantly raised membership rates for new members, and instituted the Bonus Membership (see below) as a fundraiser. The hotel room rate is still under negotiation, we will put it on the website when we have it.

Existing Members

If you have an attending membership in Scintillation 3, either from the Kickstarter, or purchased online, or bought in person on the Sunday of Scintillation 2, you can either use it to attend Scintillation 3 or, if this timing does not work for you, roll it over to Scintillation 4. (Scintillation 4 will take place in 2023, dates TBA.) Please contact members@scintillation.ca to let us know whether you will be using your membership or rolling it over. We’d really appreciate it if let us know as soon as possible, and definitely by the end of March. The same applies to people who have supporting memberships in Scintillation 3 — you can convert them into attending memberships at any time, but letting us know your intentions before the end of March will help us know how many new memberships we can sell. Between the end of March and the end of May, if we are at capacity and you have not already informed us you are coming you may need to be added to the waitlist, so please let us know.

New Memberships

We are selling new memberships on the website http://www.scintillation.ca New memberships are limited and may sell out. We will stop selling them when we reach capacity. How many we have available depends on how many existing members want to attend. Right now, we have memberships available. New memberships cost $90. Membership sales will close when we are at capacity or at the end of May, whichever happens first. There will be no at door memberships. If there are no memberships available on the website, you can email members@scintillation.ca to be placed on the waitlist.

Benefactor Memberships

Benefactor memberships are bought by those who can afford to pay for both themselves and for another person who will enhance the conversation to come to Scintillation. Benefactor memberships are presently available and are one of the things we love about Scintillation. Benefactor memberships presently cost $160.

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Bonus memberships are new as a fundraiser for 2022 — bonus memberships cost $50, and are an add-on to an existing or new membership. Anyone with a bonus membership is entitled to two free signed Tor books by Jo Walton, your choice of books while supplies last. The books will be delivered at con. The money raised will help pay for a better and safer sound system, and for the Reading Room.

Scintillation Online

Scintillation will never have a virtual convention, or a virtual component to the in person convention. But Scintillation does maintain an active 365 days a year online Discord community where you can hang out and talk with other members of the Scintillation community, listen to and take part in playreadings, our pretend radio program, gift exchanges, Eisteddfodau, etc. No, really! We’ve been doing this ever since March 2020, and all Scintillation people of goodwill are welcome to join us. https://discord.gg/7V3bMzMJ

Come if you Like

You can come if you like, but it is not the best time:
the weather’s uncertain
the trees are still teetering on rust’s edge
we have cake, but it is not the right cake
and we haven’t been cleaning.
But come if you like.

You can come if you like, but it is not the best time:
work is beginning all round
there are things I have to get done
I can’t spare more than fourteen hours a day
and the best of the flowers are over.
Do come if you like.

You can come if you like, but it is not the best time:
I should train the birds to form hieroglyphs
proclaiming your name to the sky
and persuade the city to organise a special festival
and shed three stone and ten years.
Still, come if you like.

You can come if you like, but it is not the best time:
the best time is the enemy of the good time
come now, come in possible time,
come and share some time while we’re breathing,
let weather fall on us.
Come whenever you like.

(10th September 2010)