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AnachroCon- THIS WEEKEND

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10 years ago

February 23, 2011

Ange Alex

AnachroCon is a celebration of history both real and imagined. It is a place where those who have a love for yesterday’s future mix and mingle with those who chronicle the past and present.

AnachroCon is the place in the South for Steampunk, History, Alternate History, Sciences, Music, Classic Sci-Fi Literature and the most amazing costuming you’ve ever seen!

Located at the Holiday Inn Select Perimeter, 4386 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Atlanta, GA

Friday at 12:00pm – February 27 at 6:00pm

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2011 AnachroCon Memberships

Become an Anachronaut!

AnachroCon Membership provides you access to AnachroCon 2011 (February 25-27, 2011), and all the benefits thereof!

Hours and hours of fun and informative panels
Music presented in the main ballroom and the acoustic stage
Costuming, performances, demonstrations, and unique merchants
A ConSuite Offering Delicious Food and a welcoming atmosphere
Parties!

Registration Rate is only $50.00 at the door

Single Day Prices

What is Alternative History?

Alternate History looks at “what if” scenarios from some of history’s most pivotal turning points and presents a completely different version, sometimes based on science and fact, but often based on conjecture. The exploration of how the world would look today if various changes occurred and what these alternate worlds would be like forms the basis of this vast subject matter.

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of “our” universe by the people in another; or ordinary voyaging uptime (into the past) or downtime (into the future) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines. Cross-time, time-splitting and alternate history themes have become so closely interwoven that it is impossible to discuss them fully apart from one another.

Main Ballroom Schedule Listed below, for more information visit AnachroCon’s site HERE!

Start	End	Friday
1:00pm	1:45pm	Opening Ceremonies
2:00pm	2:45pm	Ancient Innovation and Technology
3:00pm	3:45pm	Victorian Occult pt1
4:00pm	4:45pm	Victorian Occult pt2
5:00pm	5:45pm	Thomas Jefferson at Monticello
6:00pm	6:45pm	Ballroom Closed for Set-up
7:00pm	2:00am	Gaslamp Gala Event Ghosts Project 7-8:30 Play it With Moxie 9-10:30 Gypsy Nomads 11-midnight Doctor Q rest of the night
Start	End	Saturday
9:00am	9:45am	Not Your Daddy’s Steampunk: New Directions in Steampunk
10:00am	10:45am	Gender and Race in Alternate History
11:00am	11:45am	Jefferson, Franklin & Oglethorpe
12:00pm	12:45pm	Weapons of Historical War
1:00pm	1:45pm	Van Gogh at St. Remy
2:00pm	2:45pm	Adventure, Swords, and a….Wedding (2:30-3:30p)
3:00pm	3:45pm	Adventure, Swords, and a….Wedding (2:30-3:30p)
4:00pm	4:45pm	Thomas Jefferson at Monticello
5:00pm	5:45pm	Charity Auction
6:00pm	6:45pm	Ballroom Closed for Set-up
7:00pm	9:30pm	Enchantment Under the Sea Dance (7-9:30) w/ Cemetery Surfers & Denim Arcade
10pm	1:00am	The World’s Fair Exposition (10pm – 1am) w/ Extraordinary Contraptions & Gypsy Nomads and Talloolah Love’s Lovely Ladies at Midnight
1:00am	XXX	Time Warp Experience: DJ Light Featuring B-Naut
Start	End	Sunday
9:00am	9:45am	Civil War Oxford Style Debate
10:00am	10:45am	Vintage Hairstyles for the Modern Lady with Talloolah Love
11:00am	11:45am	Morality in Victorian Literature
12:00pm	12:45pm	The Past, Present and Future of Steampunk
1:00pm	1:45pm	History of Tarot
2:00pm	2:45pm	Atlanta Radio Theater Co. (2:30-4)
3:00pm	3:45pm	Atlanta Radio Theater Co. (2:30-4)
4:00pm	4:45pm	Closing Ceremonies

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