{"id":2935,"date":"2019-04-05T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2019-04-04T22:39:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T02:39:57","slug":"thus-quoth-the-raven-ravencon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/thus-quoth-the-raven-ravencon\/","title":{"rendered":"Thus Quoth the Raven: RavenCon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I&#8217;ll be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravencon.com\/\">RavenCon<\/a> science fiction and fantasy convention in Williamsburg, Virginia. RavenCon is a terrific convention, run by a great group of people, and I&#8217;ve enjoyed attending and serving as a guest at it for many years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ravencon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cropped-RavenConLogoSpring-web-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This year, in addition to a number of panels, <strong>I get to play two concerts!<\/strong> Here&#8217;s what I have going on, if you&#8217;re curious:<\/p>\n<p>Friday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 pm &#8212; Guests Meet and Greet<\/li>\n<li>7 pm &#8212; Opening Ceremony<\/li>\n<li>8 pm &#8212; Panel, &#8220;Music and Art Influences in SFF Stories &amp; Novels&#8221; (Moderator)<\/li>\n<li>10 pm &#8212; Open Filk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saturday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 am &#8212; Concert: <strong>Gray Sings Silly Songs!<\/strong> (<em>one of which might be <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jU0_ThP2X-A\">&#8220;Tauntauns to Glory&#8221;<\/a><\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>11 am &#8212; Reading<\/li>\n<li>1 pm &#8212; Panel, &#8220;Purple Prose&#8221; (Moderator)<\/li>\n<li>4:30 pm &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/\">Baen Books<\/a> Traveling Slide Show &amp; Prize Patrol<\/li>\n<li>10 pm &#8212; Open Filk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sunday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 am &#8212; Concert: <strong>Gray Sings <em>Serious<\/em> Songs<\/strong> (<em>one of which might be <a href=\"https:\/\/grayrinehart.bandcamp.com\/track\/taking-you-out-to-see-the-stars-demo\">&#8220;Taking You Out to See the Stars&#8221;<\/a><\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Noon &#8212; Panel: &#8220;Spirituality and Religion in SFF&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope to debut a new serious song (that I just finished last week!) in my Sunday morning concert, and I may also debut a work-in-progress silly song during one of the open filking sessions.\u00a0Should be fun, all around!<\/p>\n<p>Safe travels to everyone who&#8217;s headed anywhere, and especially to all my fannish friends coming to the con!<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\nRelated Items of Interest:<br \/>\n&#8211; 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RavenCon is a terrific convention, run by a great group of people, and I&#8217;ve enjoyed attending and serving as a guest at it for many years. This year, in addition to a number of panels, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/thus-quoth-the-raven-ravencon\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[432,4,3],"tags":[57,164,386],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-2","category-science-fiction","category-writing","tag-convention","tag-fantasy","tag-science-fiction-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}