[interactionfilk-discuss] Re: Filk Liaison

[rafe@xxxxxxxxxx (Rafe Culpin)]

Bill said:

> I will do it if there is someone in the UK who is willing to act as 
> dogsbody.

That would be great - there's a couple of possibilities for UK end, that 
I'll try to sort in the next few days.

I think it's best if I still post in WiGGLe tomorrow, but revise it down a 
bit from the doom and gloom version!

> Please note that if I run it, it will be only a partially organised filk 
> programme, with about 3 hours of concerts per day and a few panels - I 
> will be trying to get filkers into the main programming panels more than 
> anything else.

I don't have any problem with that - I think that's pretty much the way we 
ran it in 95. It certainly wasn't 100% filk programming. I particularly 
remember going to one non-filk science item, and being rather surprised 
that the speaker was awake - since I'd helped you pour him into a taxi not 
many hours before :-)

My main hope is just for enough programming to have an opportunity to see 
the different communities, and to encourage enough people to be there for 
those massive late night gatherings of filkers from all over the world. The 
more we can tell people will be there, the more we can maybe pull in to add 
to that.

I'd particularly like to get more of the Germans over. Maybe the ones who 
don't even make UK filk cons. Hey, maybe we could get Summer and Fall over? 
Or GeBORGt?

Of course it would be *really* nice to get Divine Strumpet, but I don't 
think that's very likely unless maybe for one day.

> I would encourage anyone who would be planning to go to WorldCon only 
> for the filk to save their money and go to the UK filk con instead. Much 
> better value for money and a gathering of many (if not most) of the same 
> international filkers who would be coming to WorldCon.

Hmm - my impression in 95 was that I met lots and lots of US filkers that 
I've never met elsewhere. But certainly if you're there *only* for the filk 
then the UK or the German dedicated filk cons would be better.