About Minicon 49

About Minicon

Minicon is Minneapolis's premier Easter-weekend fan-run science fiction convention with a name between 6 and 8 letters long! We hope you'll join us this year. You'll be in the company of about 500 other fans of not only science fiction, but fantasy, horror, anime, gaming, music, and many other pursuits. Our theme this year is Pirates and Airships

Minicon features panel discussions, readings, signings, costuming, films, gaming, an art show, a dealers' room, kids' programming, a teen lounge and teen programming, a science room, music, a consuite and bar, room parties, our Medallion Hunt, and various other special events. For all that, most people say they don't come for what we have scheduled, but because they want to hang out with others like them in a place that feels like home.

This year Minicon will be April 17½–20, half a day longer than usual (read on for what exactly that means), in part as preparation for a 4-day Minicon 50 in 2015, but also we would just like to start the party a bit earlier. Oh, also, for those who like things to be numerically tidy, this will bring the total count of days of Minicon up to an integer, 145, since Minicon 1 was half a day. (Whew, glad we've got that taken care of finally.)

Convention Committee

The convention committee (or concom) are the people that organize and run the convention. Anybody can help out on the committee as long as you're willing to put in the work to put on a great convention. If you'd like to help, please email inREMOVEfo@miniconTHIS49.mnstf.org.