Cosplay Parade
Our Cosplay Parade is open to anyone wearing any level of costume. All ages and skill levels are welcome to participate in a march through the Convention to show off your Cosplay Costume to everyone! Participants are asked to gather in the Marked Lawn Area at 3:00. There will be time for pictures, then everyone will be organized into a line, and the parade will commence at 3:30!
BridgeCon Market
Vendors at the Bridgecon Market are open from 10:00am – 4:00pm
Vendors can be found in our indoor and outdoor spaces.
Author Alley
Authors will be selling books, chatting, and doing signings all day at our Author Alley, open from 10:00am – 4:00pm
Author Event Schedule
All author events are located outside in the Quad Tent. and run for 20-30 minutes.
| AUTHOR | PRESENTING | TIME |
|---|---|---|
| Anne Smith | Anne Smith-Nochasak will be reading from her recent dystopian novel River Faces North. Following the cataclysmic events that have reduced the surviving pockets of humanity to a wasteland, a determined grandmother in a rural Nova Scotian swamp will sacrifice anything to protect her granddaughter–and the earth. There will be a quick look ahead to the sequel, River Becomes Shadow. | 10.30 |
| Julian Smith | Julian will be reading from his prize-winning speculative fiction collection The World of Dew and Other Stories. The book brings together fantasy, science fiction, and fabulism. It was described by Giller Prize-winner Sean Michaels as “a box of umpteen delights: startling, magical, tender-hearted stories, from an imagination that seems endless.” | 11:00 |
| Emerald Baynton | Join author Emerald Aonghusa for a reading from one of her own short romance novellas. Followed by a Q and A: Everything You Wish You Knew About Indie Romance. Gets answers about independent publishing and recs for some great indie romances in all genres. All questions welcome. Leave no indie stone unturned! | 11:30 |
| Gregory Munroe | Fantasy author Gregory Munroe will be doing a presentation on the importance of empathy in character writing. | 12:00 |
| Dave Pickering | Mr. Pickering will discuss the craft writing of thrillers. He will also treat the audience to a brief reading from one of his works. | 12:30 |
| N.L.Blandford | N.L. Blandford will be reading from her latest thriller novel, Escaping Victoria. Set in the wilds of Nova Scotia, ‘Escaping Victoria’ takes you on a hair-raising journey through the underworld of this idyllic province, exposing us to the intrigues, infighting and ever-changing loyalties of the organized crime syndicate known as The Family. | 1:00 |
| S.D.Miller | SD Miller will discuss relevance of the cyberpunk genre today, and read a short excerpt from his award-winning novel: Nekonikon Punk: Ctrl+Break | 1:30 |
| Emily Hurricane | Emily will be reading an excerpt from the first Bloodlines Volume, The Beginning of the End, a post-apocalyptic paranormal fantasy about the last survivor on earth living in rural Nova Scotia. | 2:00 |
| Jude Mire | Jude Mire will be launching his latest book, Shunt. The novel is a grim, dystopian horror story set in a nightmare future where food becomes indigestible. It has a disturbingly resonant theme about the perspectives of different social classes. He will be reading a brief excerpt and discussing the motivation behind the novel. | 2:30 |
Miniature Gallery
Display tables of the fantastically detailed miniatures of Miranda Johnson will be available for viewing all day from 10:00am – 4:00pm. She will also be available during this time to talk about painting techniques and giving introductions to the hobby of miniature painting.
Tabletop Gaming Schedule
We’ll have several gaming tables available through the day, with Free To Play board, strategy, and card games provided by Lantzalot Games. From 10:00am-4:00pm, the gaming area is limited, but from 4:30 – 8:00, several open tables are added as our Market Area is transformed into a Gaming Zone.
There will be a sign up sheet in the gaming area for attendees to register for Role Playing Games and Heroscape in advance. Details on specific RPG games will be available closer to the day of the event.
| GAME | TIME | LOCATION | PLAYERS | SIGN UP? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tabletop Time: Choose from a variety of available games and challenge some friends! | 10am – 8pm | Sun Table | Open Play | No |
| Card Play Patio: A spot for card game challenges from Pokemon to Magic! | 10am – 8pm | Planet Table | Open Play | No |
| Dungeons and Dragons: Just Desserts Gourmageddon has come to the small guild town of Rotisserie. Food has been animating on plates and buffets of food monsters called The Desserted have been attacking and raiding the town. Now that the raids have become more and more frequent, the guild of the Golden Goblet has requested that you go to the Banana Split Peaks, infiltrate the Pastafarian church and put a stop to whatever magic is causing this gourmageddon! Just Desserts is a Dungeons and Dragons 2024 level 4 campaign designed for both beginner and advanced players. Think Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs but more mimics, more magic, more dungeons, and more dragons. | 10:30am – 1:30pm | Star Table | 3-5 | Yes |
| Blades in the Dark: Strap Shot Join a team of dusty wranglers to protect a learned doctor from a vicious outlaw called Sammuel “The Strap” McGuinn. He’s out for vengeance, lookin’ for a fight, and won’t give up easy. Saddle up, bring your d6s and your best cowfolk voices! Warnings for blood, gun violence, and some bad cowboy accents. | 10:30am – 1:30pm | Moon Table | 3-5 | Yes |
| Dungeons and Dragons: Swords! Sorcery! SAND! What mystery has the hot wind revealed? Recently risen from beneath the desert sands, adventure into the ancient ruins of a fallen metropolis. Long forgotten, now revealed. Rich with both treasure & trouble, waiting for the brave to discover! | 2:00pm – 5:00pm | Star Table | 3-5 | Yes |
| Dungeons and Dragons: The Slayer Take The Slayer Take is looking for adventures to undertake Bounty Hunter and Monster Hunter missions. Form a party. Choose a job and find your target. Fortune awaits! | 2:00pm – 5:00pm | Moon Table | 3-5 | Yes |
| Patchworld Eterna: The Rovisco Wreck When an exploration flight crashes, a rescue team must cross unexplored alien territories in order to rescue the pilots. A science fiction role playing game based on the novel Patchworld Nova where where the whole province of Nova Scotia is lost in space! | 5:30pm – 8:00pm | Star Table | 3-5 | Yes |
| Roll for Shoes: The Stolen Sun Humanity lives in a digital world, safely hidden away from the apocalypse that destroyed our planet. A small faction of the population knows, however, that we’ve been living on the servers for far too long. Something’s not right—and it’s your job to find the Sun and steal it back! | 5:30pm – 8:00pm | Sun Table | 3-5 | |
| HeroScape: Join the warriors of Valhalla with this epic, tile-based, miniature battle game! | 4:30 – 8:00pm | HeroScape Table | 4-6 | Yes |