Distinction between Press Passes and Press Credentials

A Press Pass is a complimentary admission to the convention that includes the right to attend the convention (possibly for a limited time) with an endorsement to the person’s badge indicating that the person is a member of the press covering the convention. A Press Pass does not include any WSFS membership rights. Anyone who qualifies for a Press Pass automatically gets Press Credentials.

Press Credentials are a badge endorsement which indicates that the person is a member of the press covering the convention. It is possible to have Press Credentials without a Press Pass. We expect that some Attending members will qualify for Press Credentials.

Anticipation reserves the right to deny Press Passes and Press Credentials to individuals or media organizations as it sees fit.

Distinction between Working Press and SF/F Industry Press and Fandom

Working Press includes those people employed by recognized media outlets such as television and radio stations, newspapers, and other forms of news coverage, who are on assignment from those outlets and who would not otherwise be attending the convention if their jobs did not require it. Working Press may include reporters and editors for non-fannish news web sites, but they do not include technical staff or others who are not journalists. Working Press are entitled to appropriate complimentary press passes and credentials.

SF/F Industry Press and fannish news sources such as fanzines and web sites are not Working Press for the purposes of this policy and are expected to purchase a membership; they may also qualify for press credentials.

Anticipation believes that issuing press passes to people who are attending in their personal capacity is unacceptable. Worldcon belongs to all of fandom and all members of our community — fans, pros, staff, and program participants (save only our guests of honour) — pay for their memberships. Someone who is a member of the convention staff or who has accepted an invitation to be a program participant is presumed to be attending the convention primarily in their personal capacity, not as a member of the Working Press.

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We could not find an online version of the article to link to, but here is a scan taken from the September 2^nd issue.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention will change its membership rates starting January 1st, 2008.

* An attending membership is currently 165.00 CAD. This rate will increase to 190.00 CAD as of January 1st, 2008. The new rate will be valid until July 31st, 2008.

* A supporting membership is currently 55.00 CAD. This rate will remain the same.

* Supporting members will be able to upgrade to an attending membership by paying the difference in price between the two rates. Note that all voters for the 2009 site selection are supporting members of Anticipation.

* Montréal in 2009 pre-supporters still get a rebate on their memberships.

* Child memberships will remain 75.00 CAD until April 30th, 2009.

* Family memberships are currently 400.00 CAD. This rate will increase to 450.00 CAD as of January 1st, 2008. The new rate will be valid until July 31st, 2008.

Rates in other currencies (USD, EUR, GBP and JPY) are available on the Anticipation web site at http://www.anticipationsf.ca or by contacting us at registration@anticipationsf.ca.

(Confused? Write us and we’ll tell you how much you need to pay. You can email us at registration@anticipationsf.ca)

The 67th World Science Fiction Convention, known as Anticipation, will take place in Montréal, Québec, Canada from Thursday, August 6th through Monday, August 10th, 2009. More information about Anticipation, including current membership rates, is available from its web site (http://www.anticipationsf.ca) or by writing to contact us.

To be removed from the Anticipation press release mailing list please write to media@anticipationsf.ca

Contacts:

Anticipation
The 67th World Science Fiction Convention
P.O. Box 105, Station NDG
Montréal, QC H4A 3P4
http://www.anticipationsf.ca/
email: media@anticipationsf.ca

“WSFS”, “Worldcon”, “World Science Fiction Convention”, “Hugo Award” and “NASFiC” are registered service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Anticipation is pleased to announce that our programme participant application form is available through the Programming page on our website.

In English: http://www.anticipationsf.ca/English/ParticipantForm

In French: http://www.anticipationsf.ca/Fran%E7ais/FormulaireParticipant

Our tracks and track heads are:
Literature in English Graham Sleight
Literature in French Jean-Louis Trudel and Christian Sauvé
Science and Technology Dave Clements
Gaming Eugene Fong Dere
Filk Judith Hayman and Peggi Warner-Lalonde
Human Culture Jo Walton
Children’s Programming Lisa Hertel
Writing Workshops Gregory Frost and Oz Whiston
Academic (French and English) Christine Mains and Graham Murphy
Visual Arts James A. Owen
Costume and Craft Dawn McKechnie and Martin Constantineau
Media Howard Picaizen
Fandom Murray Moore

The 67th World Science Fiction Convention, known as Anticipation, will take place in Montréal, Québec, Canada from Thursday, August 6th through Monday, August 10th, 2009. More information about Anticipation, including current membership rates, is available on our web site (http://www.anticipationsf.ca); you can also write to us for more information.

To be removed from the Anticipation press release mailing list please write to media@anticipationsf.ca

Contacts: Anticipation The 67th World Science Fiction Convention P.O. Box 105, Station NDG Montréal, QC H4A 3P4 http://www.anticipationsf.ca/ email: media@anticipationsf.ca

“WSFS”, “Worldcon”, “World Science Fiction Convention”, “Hugo Award” and “NASFiC” are registered service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.

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Press Release #8, June 2008
Anticipation Announces Competition to Design the 2009 Hugo Award Base.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The World Science Fiction Convention has presented the Hugo Awards for achievement in science fiction for 55 years. They are named after author and editor Hugo Gernsback. A rocket has always been the central element of the trophy, and its manufacture has been standardized over the past several decades. The base design changes yearly, often reflecting the country, state, or province in which the Convention takes place. Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, will be held at the Palais des congres de Montreal from August 6th – 10th, 2009, with guests of Honour Neil Gaiman, Elisabeth Vonarburg, Ralph Bakshi, Taral Wayne, David Hartwell, and Tom Doherty. Julie Czerneda is Master of Ceremonies. The Worldcon committee is now soliciting proposals for the 2009 Hugo Award Base design in an open competition.
Design of the Hugo Award Base
The winning proposal will conform to certain general and technical specifications. Those are:
• Bases may be made of wood, metal, lucite, or any other material which has a fixed form. Materials that are fragile or change form with age or extremes of temperature are not suitable.
• Bases must be designed in such a way that the silver Hugo rocket is an integral part of the design. Rockets for the bases will be supplied.
• Rockets will be bolted to the bases from below the tailfins and must be able to stand on a flat surface. Hanging designs are not acceptable.
• Specifications on the Hugo rocket are:

English
13″ tall
2″ across from fin-tip to fin-tip
weight 3 lb. 2 oz.
bolt 5/16–18 machine screw thread

Metric
33.02 cm tall
5.08 cm across from fin-tip to fin-tip
weight 1.42 kg
bolt 5/16–18 machine screw

• Space must be left for a plaque or plaques indicating the convention, winner, and category of award won in an easily readable 12 pt font.
• The winning design should have a theme appropriate to Canada and Quebec.
• It should be kept in mind that designs will be traveling home in people’s luggage. Fragile parts, fiddly bits, things that fall off, and anything that would make airport security too nervous is strongly discouraged. Designs shaped like sub-machine guns, for example, are right out. Sharp pointy things are also a bad idea.
How to enter the competition
Entry in the competition is open to all. Design proposals must be submitted by midnight (EST) October 31st, 2008, and all submissions should include:
• Drawings, sketches, and/or a fabricated sample of the proposed base unit.
• Cost estimate per base, and estimated total cost for the fabrication and shipping of 25 base units.
• Lead time is needed for fabrication. The contest winner will be announced in January 2009. Delivery of at least 25 bases will be expected by 15 April 2009.
• Your ability to either craft the bases or arrange for the work to be done.
As a guideline, bases should cost no more than $150 each or less to fabricate. Photos of past Hugo awards can be viewed at http://www.thehugoawards.org/?page_id=10 To enter the competition, proposals should be submitted either electronically or via postal mail. Do not forget to include your name and contact information. The winning designer will also receive a full 5-day membership to Anticipation and will introduce their base design at the Hugo ceremony. Competition entries, regrettably, cannot be returned. The winning entry will not be unveiled until the Hugo Ceremony. Strict confidentiality will be expected of the winner as to the specifics of the design until the Hugo Ceremony at Anticipation. Electronic submission. Please email proposals to hugodesign@anticipationsf.ca. Include the information above and a JPG, TIFF or GIF image of your design. Postal mail submission. Please send the information requested above along with a sketch/drawing/sample base (or a disk or CD containing your sketch/drawing). The physical address is:
Anticipation
Attn: Diane Lacey, Hugo Base Design
C.P. 105, Succursale NDG
Montréal, Québec
Canada H4A 3P4
Questions? Write to hugodesign@anticipationsf.ca

What’s New

Aug 12, 2009

The convention is over; thank you for joining us!

Thank you for joining us! Please post links to your convention reports or photos to the Anticipation Livejournal, or let us know on Twitter. And we hope to see a lot of you at Aussiecon 4

Aug 9, 2009

Hugo Winners Announced

The 2009 Hugo winners have been announced.

Aug 7, 2009

Anticipation to offer “Taster” memberships

Heard about World Science Fiction Conventions (Worldcons) and think they sound cool but not sure they’re worth the money? Then Taster memberships are for you.

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Raleigh NASFiC 2010 Bid Submission

The filing contains the following documents.

Visit the Raleigh NASFiC 2010 web site

What’s New

Aug 12, 2009

The convention is over; thank you for joining us!

Thank you for joining us! Please post links to your convention reports or photos to the Anticipation Livejournal, or let us know on Twitter. And we hope to see a lot of you at Aussiecon 4

Aug 9, 2009

Hugo Winners Announced

The 2009 Hugo winners have been announced.

Aug 7, 2009

Anticipation to offer “Taster” memberships

Heard about World Science Fiction Conventions (Worldcons) and think they sound cool but not sure they’re worth the money? Then Taster memberships are for you.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Our payment plan is a way to spread out the cost of your membership over time while locking it in at a low early registration rate.

STEP 1. Buy a Supporting Membership. If you voted in site selection for the 2007 Worldcon, you already have a Supporting Membership. While your Supporting Membership fee is not refundable, the membership may be transferred; if you do so, you will need to contact us with the name and address of the person you are transferring the membership to so that we may update our records.

STEP 2. Inform us (by email, snail-mail, or at a convention) that you wish to convert your Supporting Membership to an Attending Membership using our payment plan.

STEP 3. After your conversion has been processed, we will contact you to confirm your registration and inform of you of the deadline for the quarterly payments. We will also let you know what amount you still need to pay to complete your upgrade to an Attending Membership.

STEP 4. Send us a payment of no less than 10$ once every 3 months. More frequent payments are welcome. Failure to comply with the payment schedule will result in us canceling your payment plan. If your plan is cancelled, we will refund your payments (although not the initial cost of your Supporting Membership, which is nonrefundable). Your plan will also be cancelled if a cheque or credit-card payment is returned.

HOW TO PAY
Do not send cash in the mail. We will accept predated cheques or permission to charge your credit card quarterly. If you would prefer not to use your checking account or credit card, you can send an international postal order (if mailing from outside of Canada), or (within Canada) a Canadian postal order.

DEADLINES
The last payment (for a total of the complete Attending Membership price) must be postmarked or processed no later than Tuesday, March 31st, 2009.

If your last payment is not postmarked (or processed) by Tuesday, March 31st, 2009, your payment plan purchase will go towards paying the total cost of Attending Membership at our posted at-door rate. If this happens, we will contact you with the new cost of your Attending Membership and allow you to either cancel your payment plan or pay the difference at the door.

VOLUNTARY CANCELLATION
You can voluntarily cancel your installment plan at any time by contacting us by email or snail-mail. If you cancel your payment plan, Anticipation will refund the amount you paid towards the conversion; Supporting Memberships are not refundable. When an installment plan is cancelled, you have forfeited your right to convert at the locked-in price. A cancelled plan may not be resumed, and you may not start a new installment plan.

TRANSFERS
If you are using an installment plan to convert to an Attending Membership, you can still transfer your membership (including all paid installments) to another individual at any time. The person you transfer it to will be responsible for making the remaining payments as outlined above. If a plan is cancelled after you have made the transfer, any refund due will be sent to the new owner of the membership.

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATES
June 30, 2008
Sept. 30, 2008
December 31, 2008
March 31, 2009

The 67th World Science Fiction Convention, known as Anticipation, will take place in Montréal, Québec, Canada from Thursday, August 6th through Monday, August 10th, 2009. More information about Anticipation, including current membership rates, is available on our web site (http://www.anticipationsf.ca); you can also write to us for more information.

To be removed from the Anticipation press release mailing list please write to media@anticipationsf.ca

Contacts:

Anticipation The 67th World Science Fiction Convention P.O. Box 105, Station NDG Montréal, QC H4A 3P4 http://www.anticipationsf.ca/ email: media@anticipationsf.ca

“WSFS”, “Worldcon”, “World Science Fiction Convention”, “Hugo Award” and “NASFiC” are registered service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention announces child rates and family rates. The rates for children are as follows:

“Child in Tow”: 0.00 CAD for ages 0–5 (born on or after August 6th, 2003).

Child membership: 75.00 CAD, full benefits for ages 6–12 (born on or after August 6th, 1996 and on or before August 5th, 2003). This rate will be good until April 30th, 2009.

Children who pre-supported Anticipation will get a 25.00 CAD rebate. Those who voted will get a 50.00 CAD rebate. These rates are cumulative so a child who both pre-supported and voted does not have to pay any additional fees to be a member.

Persons 13 years or older must have full memberships.

Anticipation also introduces a special family rate of 400.00 CAD for two adults and two children, with additional children paying 50.00 CAD. This rate will be valid until December 31st, 2007

If members of the family pre-supported Anticipation, an additional 25.00 CAD rebate applies for each person who pre-supported.

If members of the family voted on site selection for the 2009 Worldcon, an additional 45.00 CAD rebate applies for each person who voted.

(Confused? Write us and we’ll tell you how much you need to pay. You can email us at registration@anticipationsf.ca)

For more information about registering, including current membership rates in US Dollars, UK Pounds, Japanese Yen and Euros, please visit our web site at http://www.anticipationsf.ca or contact registration@anticipationsf.ca

The 67th World Science Fiction Convention, known as Anticipation, will take place in Montréal, Québec, Canada from Thursday, August 6th through Monday, August 10th, 2009. More information about Anticipation, including current membership rates, is available from its web site (http://www.anticipationsf.ca) or by writing to contact us.

To be removed from the Anticipation press release mailing list please write to media@anticipationsf.ca

Contacts:

Anticipation
The 67th World Science Fiction Convention
P.O. Box 105, Station NDG
Montréal, QC H4A 3P4
http://www.anticipationsf.ca/
email: media@anticipationsf.ca

“WSFS”, “Worldcon”, “World Science Fiction Convention”, “Hugo Award” and “NASFiC” are registered service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.

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Press Release #3, March 18th 2008 Anticipation issues Progress Report #1.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention released its first Progress Report on March 18th, 2008.

Anticipation plans to produce four Progress Reports in the run-up to the Convention. Progress Report #2 is scheduled to be released in July 2008

Progress Report 1 (PR1) includes a wide range of articles including two appreciations of Taral Wayne, the Anticipation Fan Guest of Honour, and a retrospective on the 1977 Worldcon Bid, by its Chair Andrew Porter.

The cover illustration of PR1 is by Aurora Award winning artist Jean-Pierre Normand.

Paper copies of PR #1 will be mailed shortly to those members of Anticipation who have requested one. Downloadable PDFs, including a large print version, are currently available online at: http://www.anticipationsf.ca/English/ProgressReports

The 67th World Science Fiction Convention, known as Anticipation, will take place in Montréal, Québec, Canada from Thursday, August 6th through Monday, August 10th, 2009. More information about Anticipation, including current membership rates, is available on our web site (http://www.anticipationsf.ca); you can also write to us for more information.

To be removed from the Anticipation press release mailing list please write to media@anticipationsf.ca

Contacts:

Anticipation The 67th World Science Fiction Convention P.O. Box 105, Station NDG Montréal, QC H4A 3P4 http://www.anticipationsf.ca/ email: media@anticipationsf.ca

“WSFS”, “Worldcon”, “World Science Fiction Convention”, “Hugo Award” and “NASFiC” are registered service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.

What’s New

Aug 12, 2009

The convention is over; thank you for joining us!

Thank you for joining us! Please post links to your convention reports or photos to the Anticipation Livejournal, or let us know on Twitter. And we hope to see a lot of you at Aussiecon 4

Aug 9, 2009

Hugo Winners Announced

The 2009 Hugo winners have been announced.

Aug 7, 2009

Anticipation to offer “Taster” memberships

Heard about World Science Fiction Conventions (Worldcons) and think they sound cool but not sure they’re worth the money? Then Taster memberships are for you.

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Press Release #5, May 2008
Anticipation chosen to host Prix Auroras and Canvention 2009.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Anticipation is honoured to host the Prix Aurora Awards (http://www.prixaurorawards.ca), which are traditionally presented at Canvention, the Canadian national science fiction convention. Since 1980, the Canadian SF and Fantasy Association has recognized a variety of francophone and anglophone contributions to fandom; categories have included literature, editing, art, and con-running. Associated events, guests, nominees, and voting information will be announced on the Anticipation website once they have been finalized.

The 67th World Science Fiction Convention, known as Anticipation, will take place in Montréal, Québec, Canada from Thursday, August 6th through Monday, August 10th, 2009. More information about Anticipation, including current membership rates, is available on our web site (http://www.anticipationsf.ca); you can also write to us for more information.

To be removed from the Anticipation press release mailing list please write to media@anticipationsf.ca

Contacts:

Anticipation The 67th World Science Fiction Convention P.O. Box 105, Station NDG Montréal, QC H4A 3P4 http://www.anticipationsf.ca/ email: media@anticipationsf.ca

“WSFS”, “Worldcon”, “World Science Fiction Convention”, “Hugo Award” and “NASFiC” are registered service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.

What’s New

Aug 12, 2009

The convention is over; thank you for joining us!

Thank you for joining us! Please post links to your convention reports or photos to the Anticipation Livejournal, or let us know on Twitter. And we hope to see a lot of you at Aussiecon 4

Aug 9, 2009

Hugo Winners Announced

The 2009 Hugo winners have been announced.

Aug 7, 2009

Anticipation to offer “Taster” memberships

Heard about World Science Fiction Conventions (Worldcons) and think they sound cool but not sure they’re worth the money? Then Taster memberships are for you.

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