Dragon Con

Dragon*Con (also Dragon Con) is a multi-genre fan convention held annually on Labor Day weekend (usually the first weekend of September) in Atlanta, Georgia. It attracts over 30,000 people to four hotels in downtown Atlanta and is hosted by a staff of over 1,500 people. It has been running since 1997.

The four-day event comprises approximately 3,500 hours of panels, seminars, demonstrations, and workshops, with over 30 specialized programming tracks that include writing, art, anime, gaming, science fiction and fantasy literature, comic books, costuming, space science, online media, independent film, podcasting, Asian cinema and culture, robotics, filk, scientific skepticism, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, X-Files, Joss Whedon creations, apocalyptic themes, Anne McCaffrey's Pern, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, British and American SF television, the Dark Fantasy track, the Dragon*Con Independent Short Film Festival, and general programming which specific guests of honor attend (e.g. Clive Barker's Lost Souls and Storm Constantine's Grissecon).

Veronica Belmont (3rd from left) on a podcasting panel at Dragon*Con 2009

Podcasters such as Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont have been among the dozens and dozens of guests of honor for the convention. Brian Brushwood will attend for his first time in 2010, but is not on the guest list as of March 2010.

Guests and Performers

Among the list of guests and performers in 2010 are the following:

• Veronica Belmont
• Tom Merritt
• Phil Plait
• James Randi

Links

• Dragon*Con official site
• Dragon*Con 2010 on AnimeCons