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Opening Ceremonies will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, August 5th in Hall E in the Convention Center. Our Con Chair, Peggy Rae Pavlat, will introduce our Guests and welcome all to the convention. Booty and entertainment will abound. Following Opening Ceremonies—upstairs in the Camden Lobby in the Convention Center at 4:30 p.m.—we'll have a Bucconeer Reception. This will be your opportunity to meet new people and become reacquainted with old friends.
Starting around 10 p.m., we'll have the first of a series of late-night dances (a.k.a. Bucky Balls). These will be held in the Grand Ballroom in the Marriott. The first dance will be Evil Swing—modern and vintage swing music with a horror theme with DJ's Steve Ledebur and ReddNikki and hosted by Red Steve.
Thursday, August 6th, at 10 a.m. we'll have a Preliminary Business Meeting. Our Piratical Business Meeting is open to everyone. Thursday evening we'll take some time to showcase our Special Guest, J. Michael Straczynski, in Hall E in the Convention Center. Our Crab Feast will be held at the Baltimore Museum of Industry starting at 5 p.m. At 10 p.m., DJ Kangal and the Divas will present The Grand Illusion—a night of masks, outrageous outfits, and other surprises set to techno/electro/80's/new wave dance music in the Marriott Grand Ballroom.
Friday, August 7th, the first Regular Business Meeting session will be held at 10 a.m. Our Regency Dance will be held in the afternoon. At 8 p.m. in Hall E of the Convention Center, we'll have the Hugo Awards Ceremony, where our members' choices will receive the tangible recognition for the best science fiction and fantasy of 1997. There will be another dance, Prom Through Time—prom music from the 50's to the 90's with DJ's Tigger, Birds of Prey, and Failsal, beginning at 10 p.m. in the Marriott Grand Ballroom.
On Saturday, August 8th, the second Regular Business Meeting (site selection session) will start at 10 a.m. The site selection session will be on Saturday this year because of our convention dates. So cast your site selection ballots by Friday. Saturday evening, at 8 p.m. in Hall E of the Convention Center, we'll have a Worldcon Masquerade. The evening dance at 10 p.m. on Saturday will be Porno Patrol—modern and 80's pop.
Finally, on Sunday, August 9th, the third Regular Business Meeting will be held (if it's needed) at 10 a.m. Closing Ceremonies will be held at 3 p.m. in Hall E at the Convention Center. We'll bid a fond farewell to all our pirate mates, whom we won't see again until we dock in Australia.
If you'd like to volunteer to help out—or make comments or suggestions—we'd be happy to hear from you. You can contact the Events Division through the Bucconeer postal address, or by e-mail to events@bucconeer.worldcon.org.
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