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Autograph Sessions
It’s cool to see your favorite actors on stage during the Q&A sessions,
but to meet them face to face and get a personally signed item from
them takes your convention experience to a whole other level. While
some guests are contractually prohibited from signing unlicensed
photos, for the most part, what you have signed is up to you.
Please keep your items within
the bounds of good taste. You
can bring something from home,
get a photo or some other item
from the Dealer’s Room, get
your program book signed, or,
in many cases, you can even
purchase a special photo from
the guest at the autograph table.
Tickets can be purchased in
the Activities Room next to the
autograph tables. Autograph
times will be posted at the
autograph tables during the
convention. You are entitled to
one autograph per autograph
ticket, but there is no limit to the number of tickets you can purchase.
Each guest is scheduled to sign for a limited amount of time. Guest
autograph tickets are fully refundable prior to their last scheduled
autograph session of the show. Guests have two autograph lines –
one for Platinum Members and the other for everyone else. The lines
alternate to keep things moving.
Federation Ball - THE Saturday Night Party
The Federation Ball is in the Activities Room this year. The Ball starts
at 9:00pm Saturday, so be ready! It doesn’t matter if you’re in costume
or not, it’s always fun. Door prizes awarded, but you must be present
to win! Enter the dance contest for a chance to win some cool prizes.
The audience members get to help with the judging! Cost is only $3.00
per person. Music is provided by professional DJ company ACES. The
Federation Ball is sponsored by the USS Pioneer and O.m.e.g.a. ALL
proceeds benefit the American Diabetes Association, Dumb Friend’s
League Furry Scurry and OMEGAResponders!
Stardate 201603.11
Welcome to StarFest Denver 2016.
Yogi Berra said it best: “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” A few
years ago we packed up and moved the convention to the
Marriott DTC, and now we are back. It’s kind of nostalgically
sweet that we find ourselves returning. We’ve made some programming adjustments to fit the convention into these facilities.
We’ve planned, reworked the plans and then changed the plans
to create the best StarFest experience possible. Please have patience with your fellow convention attendees (and our staff) if they
look lost or disoriented. After all, many of the people you will see
this weekend weren’t even born when our last StarFest was here!
We will be returning back to the Marriott and Hilton in the Tech
Center facilities for the next convention on April 21-23, 2017.
At last year’s convention we noted the passing of Leonard Nimoy.
As you can imagine 2016 is a little bitter-sweet as it marks 50
years since Star Trek was first aired. I got into Star Trek watching reruns. Every day I’d come home from school and watch an
episode - hoping to see a new one - but usually sitting down to
enjoy a favorite all-over again. I watched Star Trek so many times
that the characters became my best friends. When my parents
got divorced, I’d think about how Spock would have held back his
emotions. When I’d see some injustice I’d get upset and express
emotional indignation like McCoy. I never really put myself in
Kirk’s shoes with the girls, but I’d explore new places and meet
new people with the kind of enthusiasm that Kirk taught me.
Rather than dwelling on characters we may have lost to time, let’s
dedicate this convention to celebrating the dreams and imagination that those shows inspired. Welcome to a StarFest where
we plan to celebrate 50 years of boldly going where no man has
gone before!
Live Long and Prosper, Stephen & KathE Walker
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StarFest Denver 2016 • ArtFest •ComicFest • DoctorWhoFest •GameFest • HorrorFest • KlingonFest • ModelFest • RoboCon
PHOTO
WITH
THE STARS
Get a professional 8x10 photo
of you with your favorite star
at the convention!
All you have to do is stand
next to the actor and smile.
The photo sessions are
scheduled to give you an
opportunity to have your
picture signed after the photo
session (separate ticket required) at the guest’s next autograph
session.
Groups are allowed to pose in photos, but each person in the
group must purchase a photo ticket (each will receive a photo).
Tickets for some guests may sell out and processing time varies.
You are not guaranteed the opportunity for an autograph after
your photo is taken. Photo session tickets are fully refundable
prior to the guest’s last scheduled photo session.
Texas Hold-’Em Poker Tournament
Looking for some action Friday night? Join the USS Pioneer for
a free, no-limit Texas-Hold-‘Em Tournament! The game starts at
9:00 pm, with set-up starting at 8:30 pm in the Activities Room.
Players must be at least 18 years of age to play. Sheets listing the
chip values and hand ranks will be available to keep it easy. You’ll
have fun even if you haven’t played much!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACTORS 4
INDIE FILM MAKERS 15
AVISTRUM 6
COMICFEST 16
DIRECTORS 7
GAMEFEST 17
SCIENTISTS 7
CROSSWORD 20
HORRORFEST 8
ACTIVITIES 21
PERFORMERS/PRESENTERS 9
STARFLEET ACADEMY 21
ARTISTS/ILLUSTRATORS 10
KLINGONFEST 26
SPONSORS 11
MODELFEST 27
AUTHORS 13
WHOFEST 28
GAME DESIGNERS 14
MAZE 30
Main Events Auction
StarFest’s font of information - the guy with the largest Star Trek
collection ever seen in 30+ years of Star Trek collecting -- is selling
it off. Let’s just call it what it is, the “Phil Watson almost completely
everything ever made for Star Trek” collection.
Make a trip over to the information tables in the Activities Room to
take a peek at some of the rare stuff that Phil is taking out of the
vault to sell at StarFest. The auction will take place at 3:00PM on
Sunday. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to our convention charity - The Dumb Friends League of Denver.
Registration begins at 5:00 pm at the USS Pioneer check-in table
near Main Registration and goes until 8:30 pm. We’ll also be selling the StarFest commemorative poker chips for charity, benefiting
the Dumb Friends League and American Diabetes Association.
Program Book Credits:
StarFest Cover Art , Cory Gray
ComicFest Cover Art, Steven Pulawa
Indispensable help, Susan Anderson
All the mistakes, Stephen Walker
Frisbee Fetching, Dakota
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Bob Morley
ACTORS
Actor
Michael Dorn
Actor, Writer, Director
Michael is best known for his role
as Worf in the TV series Star
Trek: The Next Generation, Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine and the
Star Trek movies. He is coming to
StarFest to help us celebrate the
50th Anniversary of the Star Trek
franchise. Michael will be available
throughout the StarFest weekend
and is one of the nicest and most
generous actors we have ever had
the pleasure to work with over our 39
year history.
Mr. Dorn is appearing in the science fiction – comedy film
Unbelievable!!!!! which will be released next year. He is also returning to
his Worf role on the new Internity TV series currently in pre-production.
2015 was a busy year for Michael. He appeared in Ted 2, Relatively
Super(TV movie), Con Man (TV) and Castle (TV). He lent his
considerable voice talents to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV),
StarCraft II:Legacy of the Void (Video Game), Infinite Crisis (VG) and
Code Name S.T.E.A.M (VG).
Mr. Dorn is also known as being an accomplished jet pilot and has owned
and flown both the Air Force T-33 and F-86 Sabre jets.
Jaime Murray
Actress
Jaime just completed the movie
The Rapture, in which she plays
Fiona. The film is a religious
mystery story in the vein of The Da
Vinci Code.
Ms. Murray is probably best known
to fans of the series Defiance in
which she starred as Stahma Tarr.
Stahma was a very empowered
female villain on the series whose
role expanded dramatically as
Jaime’s contribution to the show
became apparent to the writers.
Jaime Murray is also well known for her contribution to the Warehouse 13 TV
series as H.G. Wells. In that role, she appeared in 15 episodes of the series.
She also appeared this year in Sleepy Hollow (TV), but it’s strangely
probable that it was her role in the British TV series Hustle that got her
booked for StarFest (ask Stephen Donnelly about that).
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Bob Morley stars as Bellamy
Blake in the CW’s drama/sci-fi
series THE 100 which in 2015 he
was nominated for a Teen Choice
Award for “Choice TV Actor in a
Sci-fi/Fantasy Show”
Morley recently starred as Aiden in
the hit Australian series Neighbours
and starred in the Australian feature
film thriller Road Kill, opposite
Sophie Lowe, Xavier Samuels and
Georgina Haig. He was previously
a series regular on the Australian
TV series The Strip and Home and Away, which earned him a Logie
Nomination for best new actor. He also starred in the Australian sports
drama Blinder, directed by Richard Gray, which had a theatrical release in
2013 across Australia.
In 2014, Morley starred alongside Haley Bennett and Thomas Dekker in
The White City, a film from Gil Kofman, writer/director of the critically
acclaimed and award-winning independent film The Memory Thief, and
Oscar nominee Tanner King Barklow.
Tahmoh Penikett
Actor
Tahmoh starred as Lieutenant
Karl “Helo” Agathon on the Emmy
Nominated Sci Fi series Battlestar
Galactica for which he received the
prestigious Peabody Award. Prior to
Battlestar Galactica, Tahmoh joined
the cast of the critically acclaimed
Canadian series The Cold Squad
(Constable Ray Chase). His
performance on that series earned
him a LEO award nomination.
A handsome leading man, Tahmoh
has starred in several TV Series
and Movies noteably: Whistler (Elias Noth), Titan Maximum (Troy
Hammerschmiddtt), Dollhouse (Paul Ballard), Riverworld (Matt Ellman),
Jabberwock (Francis), Bomb Girls (Clifford Perry), Continuum (Jim
Martin) and The Riftworld Chronicles (Alar of Caer Caladh).
He is also very much in demand as a character actor and has landed
several recurring roles on popular shows like: Smallville (Wes Keenan
/ Vince Davis), Robot Chicken (various voices), Mortal Kombat:
Legacy (Lt. Kurtis Styker), The Killing (Mark Ellision), Castle (Cole
Maddox), Arrow (Nick Salvati), Star-Crossed (Officer Jack Beaumont),
Supernatural (Gadreel/Ezekiel), Strange Empire (Marshal Caleb
Mecredi) and Justice League: Gods and Monsters (Steve Trevor)
Tahmoh was born in the city of Whitehorse in the Yukon, Canada and his
background, which includes strong ties to the Upper Tanana tribe and their
traditions, led him to his love of storytelling. Tahmoh has a very strong
connection and devotion to his family with whom he spends time with
whenever possible. In his spare time enjoys a variety of athletic pursuits
including being a competitive kick boxer.
Nana Visitor
Actress
Nana Visitor began her acting
career in the 1970s on the
Broadway stage in such productions
as My One and Only. Her film
debut came in the 1977 horror film
The Sentinel. In television, Visitor
co-starred in the short-lived 1976
sitcom Ivan the Terrible, and from
1978 to 1982 had roles on three
soap operas: Ryans Hope, The
Doctors and One Life to Live.
She later appeared in Hunter,
MacGyver (Hellfire and DOA:
MacGyver), Remington Steele (Steele Blushing), Knight Rider (Hills of
Fire), Night Court as a mental patient who is obsessed with the movies,
Heat of the Night, Matlock, Doogie Howser, M.D. as Charmagne, a rock
star who has a throat nodule removed at Doogie’s hospital, and as a
glamorous girlfriend in Thirtysomething.
Visitor co-starred with Sandra Bullock in Working Girl, which was based
on the feature film of the same name.
In 1993 her life as an actor changed dramatically when Visitor landed on
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Major (and then Colonel) Kira Nerys, a
former freedom fighter/terrorist for the planet Bajor, who worked to drive
off the alien occupiers, the Cardassians, from her homeworld.
After DS9, Visitor had a recurring role as villain Dr. Elizabeth Renfro on the
television series Dark Angel and starred as Roxie Hart in the touring and
Broadway companies of the musical Chicago. She was then cast as Jean
Ritter on the series Wildfire.
In 2008, she appeared as Emily Kowalski, a dying cancer patient in
“Faith“, an episode of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. Visitor
played Pamela Voorhees in the 2009 version of Friday the 13th. She
lent her voice in a few guest appearances on the sitcom Family Guy,
such as Rita in the episode “Brian’s Got a Brand New Bag” and as the
voice of the Enterprise in “Extra Large Medium”. In 2011, she appeared
in The Resident playing the realtor. She appeared in Torchwood: Miracle
Day episodes 7 (“Immortal Sins”) and 8 (“End of the Road”). In 2012,
she appeared as Dr. Patty Barker, a canine psychotherapist, in “An
Embarrassment of Bitches”, a season four episode of ABC’s Castle.
He first came to attention with a strong performance in Arcadia at the
Huntington Theater Company in Boston, and much of his work to date has
been in theater. More recently, he has had several guest-starring roles on
television, including One Life to Live, Sliders and Touched By An Angel.
He also had a significant role in the TV adaptation of A.R. Gurney’s play
Far East, playing the conflicted gay officer Bob Munger. In 2001 he was
cast in the role of Commander Tucker on Star Trek: Enterprise. After Star
Trek: Enterprise, Trinneer returned became a series regular on Stargate
Atlantis with his portrayal as the wraith Michael.
In 2015 Michael appeared on Kittens in a Cage, Prey for Death, Exorcist
House of Evil, and a recurring role as Michael Banks on American
Odyssey. In 2016 he has two projects currently in post-production:
Unbelievable!!!!! and Mena.
Significant portions of this bio were shamelessly lifted from IMBD and Wikipedia.
Arryn Zech
Actress
Arryn Zech is an American actress
best known for her role as Blake
Belladonna from RWBY. She also
voices the character Dr. Emily Grey
in the longest running web-based
series, Red vs. Blue, created
by the Austin-based production
company, Rooster Teeth.
With a background in theatre and
classical voice, Arryn is now based
in LA pursing her career in film and
television.
Main Events Seating Instructions
It is your responsibility to be seated 5 minutes
before all Reserved Seating Events so that our
stars don’t have to talk to empty seats. Please be
courteous and get to your assigned seat on time.
Connor Trinneer
Actor
Connor Trinneer is best known for
playing the role of Charles “Trip”
Tucker III on Star Trek: Enterprise.
Trinneer went to Pacific Lutheran
University in Tacoma, Washington.
While there, he played college
football until he left the sport and
found acting. He graduated with
his BFA in Acting, then went on to
obtain his MFA from University of
Missouri Kansas City.
Have a question?
tweet #StarFestDenver
WE WILL HELP
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The Tales From Avistrum Show Series is an interactive entertainment
experience set in the fictional world created by J.K Rowling.
Fun for the entire family, all ages are welcome. All children under the
age of 12 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. All events
and classes presented by Avistrum Academy are free of charge at
StarFest. Produced by Mischief Managed Entertainment. You can find
us on facebook.
Friday Night
“Colubration” (a celebration for Colubrae House)
6:00PM: Doors to Avistrum Open
Come and spend a fun evening with Avistrum as Parador, Enigmus,
and Lobostro unite to lift the spirits of Colubrae and throw the House of
the Dragons a surprise party!
*Sample and enjoy free wizarding candies in the Candy Bar, sponsored by the Foundation for Fixing the Founders Fountain.
*Free Face Painting, brought to you by Enigmus Prefect, Riffka Rose.
2:00PM-3:00PM: Defense Against the Dark Arts w/Headmaster Dowling
Equip yourself in the battle against the dark forces! This class will
both work your deductive reasoning and teach you how to bring down
dangerous foes.
3:30PM: 10th Annual Starfest Quidditch Finals and Championship Match
w/ Assist. Coach Latrova
The finalists shall compete to see who takes home the Medallion and
the title of Starfest Quidditch Champion 2016! Not playing in the Tournament? Come and cheer on the players in this fun and lively event!
AFTER THE QUIDDITCH TOURNAMENT: The Doors to Avistrum
Close for the Evening
Have a fun and safe night! We’ll see you in the morning.
Sunday
10:00AM: The Doors to Avistrum Open
12:00PM-1:00PM: Quidditch 101 w/ Assist Coach Latrova
*Arts and crafts in the Celebration Hall! Create a Quidditch Pendant,
etch your name in hieroglyphics and more!
Learn all about the teams that play in the heavily competitive National
Quidditch League! The Salem Saints, the Toledo Terrors, Chicago
Centaurs and your home team, the Colorado Chimera are just a few
of teams that shall be discussed. You also may be able to design your
own Quidditch Team!
*Registration opens for the Triwizard Tournament! Become the new
Grand Champion!
Who knows? Send it to the NQL and they may decide to create an
expansion team inspired by your creation!
Ask anyone with Avistrum for details.
1:00PM: The Doors to Avistrum Close for the Weekend
*Reserve your place for any of the classes Avistrum is presenting over
the weekend, free of cost! Classes tend to fill quickly, so claim your
spot and don’t miss out.
Thank you for joining us! Make sure to register for the Fall Show at
MileHiCon, Oct. 24th-26th. Special discounted rates for Starfest attendees at www.avistrum.org
9:00PM: Doors to Avistrum Close for the Evening.
The room may be closed, but we are not done yet! Don’t miss the Third
Task of the Triwizard Tournament, Wizard Jeopardy!
*”Open Pitch” to play Quidditch on the PS2! Train for the 10th Annual
Starfest Quidditch Tournament!
Saturday
10:00AM: Doors to Avistrum Open
10:00AM-4:00PM: 10th Annual Quidditch Tournament!
Become this year’s Starfest Quidditch champion and take home a
Championship Medallion and Certificate! Played on the PS2 due to
Statute of Secrecy, sign up for a spot with Assistant Coach Latrova
(Quidditch Pitch is closed during classes.)
11:00AM-12:00PM: History of Magic w/ Professor Aleator Boudreaux
Fascinated by the remarkable history of where our predecessors have
been? Come and join this always enjoyable and informative class on
our history of wizardry. Only by learning where we have been, might
we learn where we can go.
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5:00PM: Wizard Jeopardy! This is not in the Avistrum Room.
This event is located in Panel Room 1, Aspen Room
Do not miss this exciting Third Task where the final three competitors
will battle it out to see who will become this year’s Triwizard Champion!
Even if you’re not competing, attend the event and get your raffle ticket
in order to win one of our fantastic Door Prizes! The prizes are brought
to you by Barnes & Noble Bookstores, Cave of the Winds, Century
Theatres and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
But in order to win, you have to be there! This event is always a
cauldron of laughs!
DIRECTORS
SCIENTISTS
Kyle Rankin
Writer • Actor • Director
Kyle co-directed The Battle of Shaker
Heights on the second season of HBO’s
Project Greenlight. He wrote and directed a
movie produced by Icon Productions, called
Infestation starring Chris Marquette, Ray
Wise, Brooke Nevin and Kinsey Packard.
Infestation was shot in the summer of 2007
in Bulgaria.
He created the feature/web-series Nuclear Family (2011) and the indie
feature Night of the Living Deb (2015) – which he will be presenting at
StarFest for its Colorado Premiere!
Carolyn Collins Petersen
Space Science Writer & Producer
Carolyn is a long-time regular speaker at
StarFest, bringing the cosmos to you in
bite-sized helpings. She is a science writer
who focuses on astronomy and space
science. Carolyn is also CEO of Loch Ness
Productions, where she produces videos for
planetarium facilities and science centers.
Her latest book, Astronomy 101: From the
Sun and Moon to Wormholes and Warp
Drive, is a great way to learn about the universe. Currently, she is hard
at work on a book about the history of space exploration. You can
follow Carolyn on Twitter at @spacewriter, and read her blog at www.
thespacewriter.com.
Mark Steven Grove
Writer, Director, & Man of Action
Mark Steven Grove is a Denverbased Filmmaker who has worked
in the entertainment industry for
over 25 years. Aside from being an
accomplished Actor and Stunt Performer,
it is his skills behind the camerathat have
established him as a true Renaissance Man.
Gifted in all things action-related, Mr. Grove
is a talented Fight Choreographer, Stunt
Coordinator, Firearms Handler, Pyrotechnician, and Special Effects
Supervisor who has utilized his skills in over 120 professional projects.
In the mid 90’s Mr. Grove sold his first screenplay and in 1999 he directed
his first feature film. Since then he has written 6 feature projects, produced
12 projects, and has directed 5 more feature films. Mr. Grove has also
actively been involved in world-wide film distribution since 2003.
He likes to pay homage to exciting stories with classic hero and villain
archetypes. No social commentary, no artsy statements, just escapist-style
content that lets viewers leave the chaos of the real world behind for 90 minutes.
His most recent films, the fantasy/adventure Gathering of Heroes: Legend
of the Seven Swords, starring Martin Kove (Karate Kid), Christopher
Atkins (Blue Lagoon), and Debra Marshall (WWE), and the psychological
thriller Mind’s Eye, starring Malcolm Mcdowell (Star Trek: Generations),
Dean Cain (Lois and Clark), Natalie Distler (Rescue Me) and Izzie Steele
was released in May 2015 and retitled Quantum Voyage.
In 2015 he wrote and directed Star Raiders: The Adventures of Saber Raine,
a scifi/action film that is now is the distribution phase. In 2016 he will shoot
Bokendan: Quest for the Phoenix Sword which will be a kids action film that
will have elements from films such as Goonies and Jumanji.
Mr. Grove has also created an amazing resource for those interested in
getting into the action industry. He has opened the Risk Factor: Action
Training Center in Arvada, Colorado.
Dr. Alex Parker
Planetary Astronomer, Data Visualizer, Artist
Dr. Alex Parker is a planetary astronomer,
data visualizer, and artist. He currently works
as a research scientist at the Southwest
Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado,
seeking to understand the origin and
evolution of our solar system. Dr. Parker’s
artwork and data visualizations have been
featured in television programs, film festivals,
museums, and planetariums around the
globe. Trained as an astrophysicist, he received his PhD in 2011 from
the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, and worked at
the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the University
of California at Berkeley before coming to Colorado to work on NASA’s
New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
Dr. Erin Macdonald
Astrophysicist • Educator
Erin Macdonald holds a PhD in Astrophysics
from the University of Glasgow. After working
as a postdoctoral researcher for the LIGO
Scientific Collaboration, she moved back
to her roots in Colorado to pursue science
education. She has worked as an educator
at the Denver Museum for Nature and
Science, as well as an adjunct professor in the
Colorado Community College System. She is
currently working as a systems engineer with Stellar Solutions in Denver.
Her true passion lies in dissecting the science in popular science
fiction and she has given talks at various science fiction and fantasy
conventions on the Science of Mass Effect, Star Wars and Star Trek.
Additionally, she works as a voice actress for independent animation
and video games.
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Saturday Panels
10:00am – Kreepy Kids Krafts – with artist Peri Charlifu
11:00am – Horror Jewelry Making – Come make some great earrings
with jewelry artist Carol Fritz. $5 a pair payable at the class.
1:00pm – Mix, Mingle, and Munch – A chance to meet all of our authors, artists, and filmmakers while enjoying snacks, drinks, and great
conversation.
3:00pm – Hex Publishers Presents: Writing on the Darkside. A
discussion about horror and why authors write in that genre. Featuring
authors from the book Nightmares Unhinged.
4:00pm – Independent Filmmakers Panel – Talk to our filmmakers about
indie horror and the ins and outs of making horror films on a budget.
Friday Night Highlights
5:00pm – Ask a Paranormal Investigator – This is your chance to ask
any and all questions about paranormal investigation. With Bryan and
Baxter from Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research.
7:00pm – What are you reading? – Come discuss what the authors are reading, what they
love any why. Bring your suggested reading
for a lively discussion with the Horrorfest
authors.
Stop by the activities room for our annual charity raffle. Lots of fun and
unique items to be won there! The Horrorfest official charity is My Quiet
Cave, a resource and mentorship program for people with Bipolar Disorder. You can check out their website at www.myquietcave.org. Come
spend some money for great prizes and a good cause!
8:00pm – Filmmakers Favorites – What
horror movies do our filmmakers love? Which
are your favorites? Let’s discuss what we
love about horror and why we love it!
Saturday Highlights
Kids crafts, jewelry making, premier films, authors, filmmakers, publisher panels, and a live interactive séance with Bryan & Baxter!
10:00pm – Conjuring Elizabeth, A live
interactive event. Starring Bryan & Baxter
Sunday Highlights
Horror trivia, more fun panels, artists, body painting, and much more.
Special Guests
Artist Gerard Schott
Body Painter Mythica
Director Kyle Rankin
Guest Authors
Mario Acevedo • Molly Tanzer
Stephen Graham Jones
Jeanne Stein • HEX Publishers
Betsy Dombusch
Sunday Panels
10:00am Coffee and Donut Panel – Ask an Author. Have questions
about the work of our authors? Where do they get their inspiration
from? What’s the writing process like for each of them? Come with
questions and we’ll do our best to answer them.
11:00am – Horror Trivia – Yes it’s back! Come embarrass yourself for
fun and prizes with trivia master Peri Charlifu. Sign up your team in
the Horror room on Saturday. Team space is limited.
1:00pm Art on the Darkside – Horrorfest guest artist Gerard Schott
shows and talks about his incredible work. You don’t want t miss this!
2:00pm – Body Painting with Mythica. If you’ve seen her demos
before you know you don’t want to miss this! If you haven’t seen her
work you owe it to yourself to see her mad skills.
Indie Film Makers
Glenn Berggoetz
(Driving with our Eyes Shut Films)
Richard Taylor & Zack Beins
(BizJack Flemco)
Zachary Byron Helm
(Sorp Films)
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PERFORMERS/PRESENTERS
Brian & Ginny
GEEKIARCHY
Performers Brian Dowling, co-founder of
Mischief Managed Entertainment, and Ginny
DiGuiseppi, writer, singer, cosplayer and
much more, have joined forces to create
GEEKIARCHY.
What is Geekiarchy you ask?
It is a collaborative team of creative individuals
working together to produce geeky content for
the internet - from comedy shorts to music videos to web comics.
Some of Ginny’s most recent projects can be seen on YouTube. Check
out her latest Deleted Disney video. You won’t believe the attention to
detail and quality of her productions and her voice! She has a Firefly
parody currently in the works.
Kaai in Cosplay
Cosplay Artist
Kaai (Kaai In Cosplay) has been sewing for
fifteen years, and transitioned to costume design and cosplay in high school. He has been
a professional Cosplayer since 2013, and
since then has traveled all over the United
States to appear at conventions. He believes
in the sharing of knowledge equally amongst
all cosplayers, and can easily be contacted
via his facebook page (Kaai In Cosplay) for
any questions one may have. He has recently begun releasing youtube
videos on a variety of subjects – tutorials to information, convention
reviews to product testing, and more! He is Denver-local, and frequents
all of the local conventions that he can.
Brian is no stranger to parody having co-founded the successful touring
stage act The Charming & Dashing Show. Together these two incredibly
talented people are unstoppable and will be performing an original
production live at StarFest, just prior to the Costume Contest.
Bryan and Baxter
Urban Myth and Legend Busters
If there is a polar opposite to the Ghost Hunters, it’s these two “urban myth and legend
busters.” For the last 20 years they have been
investigating pseudoscientific and paranormal
claims using sound scientific methods. Everything from phony claims of people “in touch
with the other side,” to ghosts, poltergeists,
cryptids, and UFOs. They have verified the
absolute normalcy of such sacrosanct haunted sites as the Stanley Hotel,
known worldwide as the site of Stephen King’s film The Shining.
Conjuring Elizabeth
A live event that is one part Victorian spiritualism and one part modern
ghost busting. Join us as we talk to the dead! It’s sort of a Penn & Teller
style experience where you learn how many of the tricks are done.
Klingon Pop Warrior
Costumed Performer
Jen Usellis-Mackay is a singer and actress
from the Chicagoland area. After doing A
Klingon Christmas Carol for 2 years she got
recruited to sing a translation of Sixpence
None The Richer’s Kiss Me in Klingon for
Improvised Star Trek.
The recording was so much fun - they made
a music video. And thus, the Klingon Pop
Warrior was born.
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Kevin Atkins
Master of Ceremonies
Kevin, has been with the convention since it
started. He has been working on the “technical” side of space science his whole life, building models for NASA, developing planetarium
shows, and filming animation. He’s currently
working with a national photography company,
handling their computer installation issues.
In addition to his MC duties, Kevin helps Phil
Watson with the Trailer Park shows on Saturday and Sunday.
ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS
Mythica von Griffyn
Body Painter
Mythica von Griffyn was listed as Westword’s
Best of Denver, Best Bodypainter in 2012. She
has been doing horror since she was 14, starting
with haunted house work. About 4 years ago she
got into the artistic side of bodypainting and has
been getting better at it ever since!
Some of you may have seen the full Mystique
bodypainting she did for one of the attendees
a few years ago. She usually comes as Darth Maul, and has been
published in Denver’s CRAVE magazine. She has bodypainted for
music videos, fashion shows, cosplay, haunted houses, calendars,
and private photo shoots. She currently travels across the country
bodypainting at conventions and music festivals for her sponsor, Exotic
Lenses.
Mythica was one of 10 body painters chosen to be on the New Skin
Wars Game Show on the Game Show Network. Skin Wars gave us a
rare chance to glimpse into the lives and world of body painters.
Mark McKenna
Illustrator & Writer
Mark McKenna is one of the definitive comics
creators that many young artists aspire to be.
With a comics industry career spanning three
decades, Mark has had great adventures
working for Marvel and DC Comics, along
with many of the independent publishers
out there today, like Image, Dark Horse and
Acclaim. Mark’s current personal project is
Combat Jacks and it’s a thrilling adventure
ride through Comicdom.
Frazetta Girls
Comic Art Purveyors
In 2012 a few years after Frank Frazetta’s
passing, Holly,Frank’s daughter and Holly’s
three daughters, Sara, Brittany and Rachael
created Frazetta Girls, LLC to honor the
Frazetta legacy.The business started with
a few local Florida comic conventions, a
Facebook fan page, Frazetta signature t-shirts
and some vintage prints. In under 6 months
they were partnered with film maker, Robert
Rodriguez and created a full online shop, offering canvas prints, limited
edition giclees and full sublimation graphic t-shirts. The Frazetta Girls
have toured their and Rodriguez’s original Frazetta art around the
country, most recently, SXSW in Austin, Texas and Art Basel in Miami.
In 2015 there were exciting collaborations with large clothing brands,
Rodriguez began production on the highly anticipated remake of Ralph
Bakshi and Frazetta’s, “Fire & Ice” animated film, original Frazetta art
continued to have pop-up exhibitions and the Frazetta Girls continued
making appearances at comic conventions throughout the U.S.
All of you art fans, and more importantly my fellow die-hard Frazetta art
fans, make sure not to miss out on this year’s convention where you can
pick up some amazing Frazetta artwork and other wonderful items from
the Frazetta Girls.
Christopher K. Tullis
Illustrator
Ever since I was a child I’ve had a passion
for art. While the other kids were playing
sports and watching TV, I was busy copying
my favorite anime characters, and drawing
prehistoric monsters with great gnashing teeth.
By the time I got to high school, I was a much
better artist than I was a student, and my
guidance counselor, Mr. Hater (yep, that really
was his name) took notice. While I swear I can
remember every word he said to me that day, I’ll spare you the details
and give you the short version. Mr. Hater told me in no uncertain terms
that I should give up drawing and focus on my school work, and that if I
continued to believe that I would ever make a living as an artist, I would
never amount to anything and wind up broke and living on the streets
holding a sign saying “will draw for food.”
Right then and there I swore to myself that I would prove him wrong.
A few years later an article about me appeared in the newspaper.
My ability as a draftsman and sculptor had earned me a position as
a curatorial assistant at a major natural history museum where I was
sculpting the missing bone fragments necessary to complete the
museum’s display of the largest terrestrial vertebrate skull on the planet.
I bought an extra copy of that newspaper and dropped it off to Mr. Hater
personally. I was told I couldn’t make a living as an artist, that art was
only a hobby, and that one day soon I would have to get a “real” job
(whatever that means.)
I was told wrong, and I’m betting you were too. I have earned an income
as an artist nearly my entire adult life. I have drawings and paintings in
private collections all over the world, and I’ve created life-size memorial
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sculptures in bronze that will gaze across grassy fields long after I’m
gone. I have paid my bills with my childhood dream of being an artist,
and I can show you how you can do it too.
PROMOTIONAL & CHARITIBLE SPONSORS
COMICFEST ARTISTS OF THE YEAR
Robert Elrod
Illustrator
Robert is a self-taught artist who works with a
variety of mediums across multiple genres. His
artwork has appeared on the covers of several
novels and anthologies from small-press horror
authors and publishers, including Permuted
Press. His comics have appeared in his selfpublished books as well as within the pages
of the “Best New Zombie Tales” series from
Books of the Dead Press. Robert has contributed pinup art to publications
by Bluewater Comics, Creephouse Comics, Creator’s Edge Press,
Abandoned Comics, Angry Dog Press, British Fantasy Society, Lovecraft
eZine, This Is Horror, Ragnarok Publications, and ZED Presents.
rljentertainment.com
lalalandrecords.com
sainteuphoria.com
Steven Pulawa
Graphic Artist
Steve is a freelance graphic design artist/
illustrator from Aurora Colorado. Steve has
been working with the Aurora Rise Foundation
for the past three years helping them collect
all the donated art pieces for the charity’s
sketchbooks. On top of creating donations
himself for those books he has been working
on storyboard commissions for short films and
comic book commissions for clients.
Steven’s most recent focus has been building his fan base and providing
art commissions to those supportive fans. Steven is also planning on
producing some guest/variant covers for independent publications and
self published artist projects in 2016.
Bid at the StarFest Charity
Auction (at the Information Desk)
...for our friends like Simba
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AUTHORS
Kevin Dilmore
As a journalist for more than 25 years, Kevin
Dilmore has contributed to publications including
the Village Voice, Amazing Stories, Hallmark
and Star Trek Communicator magazines as well
as web sites including Hallmark.com and Star
Trek.com. His essays on popular culture topics
including Star Wars, Star Trek and comics have
been published in anthologies by Sequart and
Crazy 8 Press. In 2014, a short film written by
Kevin, “Outside of Town,” was selected for
screening in the Short Film Corner of the Cannes International Film Festival.
His short stories have appeared in anthologies including Native Lands by
Crazy 8 Press. Kevin has teamed with author Dayton Ward for 16 years on
novels, shorter fiction and other writings chiefly within the Star Trek universe,
including their latest novel in the Star Trek: Seekers series, All That’s Left,
published by Pocket Books in November. By day, he works as a senior writer
for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, Mo., which published his Batmanthemed puzzle book, Riddle Me This, in October. A graduate of the
University of Kansas, Kevin lives in Overland Park, Kansas.
Dayton Ward
Dayton Ward is a New York Times bestselling
author or co-author of nearly thirty novels and
novellas, often working with his best friend,
Kevin Dilmore. With Kevin and fellow author
David Mack, he helped to develop Star Trek:
Seekers, the “literary spin-off” to the critically
acclaimed Star Trek Vanguard novel series.
His short fiction has appeared in more than
twenty anthologies, and he’s written for
magazines such as Kansas City Voices, Star
Trek and Star Trek Communicator, as well as the websites Tor.com,
StarTrek.com, and Syfy.com.
Dayton’s most recent novels are All That’s Left, the fourth book in the
Star Trek: Seekers series, and the forthcoming Elusive Salvation, a new
adventure featuring Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Other upcoming publications include a short story in the anthology
2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush, Star Trek: A Travel Guide
to Vulcan, and Trial By Fire, an original novel based on the critically
acclaimed television series 24.
Though he currently lives in Kansas City with his wife and two
daughters, Dayton is a Florida native and still maintains a torrid longdistance romance with his beloved Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Mario Acevedo
My big lesson in this journey? Man, is there a big gulf between my world
and reality. And so what? I prefer my delusions. The truth would be an
unseemly thing for a professional liar like myself.
Molly Tanzer
That’s me, over on the left, though my hair
changes pretty regularly so the picture isn’t a
reliable indicator of how I’ll look on the street or
at a con.
I live in Boulder, Colorado along the front
range of the Mountains of Madness, or maybe
just the Flatirons. I’m a professional writer of
literary horror and fantasy both long and short
form. My first collection, A Pretty Mouth, was
nominated for the Sydney J. Bounds and the
Wonderland Book Award. Fancy! I’m also the author of Rumbullion and
Other Liminal Libations, a collection of short stories with associated
drinks, and the forthcoming Vermilion (Word Horde). Cameron McClure
of the Donald Maass Literary Agency represents my work.
I’m also a Hong Kong cinema enthusiast, a former academic, and an avid
hiker. I mix a mean cocktail. I’m training for a triathlon. When I’m not
working, I’m typically practicing martial arts, watching movies of
questionable quality, or in the kitchen cooking up some tasty vegan food.
Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones was born in West
Texas in 1972. Jones is a Blackfeet Native
American, the author of 15.5 novels, 6 short
story collections and 220-plus stories. Jones
has written in a variety of different genres
including horror, crime and science fiction.
Stephen Graham Jones is a professor at the
University of Colorado.
Stephen Graham Jones’s books to date: The
Fast Red Road: A Plainsong (2000), All the
Beautiful Sinners (2003), The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto (2003), Bleed
into Me: A Book of Stories (2003), Seven Spanish Angels (2005),
Demon Theory (2006), The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti (2008),
Ledfeather (2008), It Came from Del Rio (2010), The Ones That Got
Away (2010), Zombie Bake-Off (2012), The Last Final Girl (2012),
Growing Up Dead in Texas (2012), Three Miles Past (2012), The Least of
My Scars (2013), Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth (2013), Flushboy
(2013), Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn’t Fly [co-authored with
Paul Tremblay] (2014), States of Grace (2014), The Gospel of Z (2014),
Not for Nothing (2014), The Elvis Room (2014), After the People Lights
Have Gone Off (2014), and Mongrels (2016)
Jeanne C. Stein
Jeanne Stein is the national bestselling author
of the Urban Fantasy series, The Anna Strong
Vampire Chronicles. Her character, Anna
Strong, received a RT Reviewers Choice
Award for Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist in
2008 and was nominated again for the 2011
book, Crossroads. Anna Strong was named
one of Panaromal Fantasy’s Top ten AssKicking Heroines by Barnes and Nobles’s
reviewer, Paul Goat Allen in 2013. Jeanne
Ten years ago, I got “The Call.” That is, my
agent called to say that I had been offered
a contract for my Felix Gomez series. Five
vampire novels, a graphic novel, some short
fiction, and numerous ghost-written books
later, I’m still here. In the meantime I’ve had
some adventures and met a lot of great
people, artists and writers, mostly.
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also has numerous short story credits, including the novella, Blood
Debt, from the New York Times bestselling anthology, Hexed (2011).
Her series has been picked up in three foreign countries and her short
stories published in collections here in the US and the UK. The ninth
in the Anna Strong series, Blood Bond, debuts in August. Cursed, the
first in a new series written with Samantha Sommersby under the S. J.
Harper pseudonym, debuts in October.
Jeanne lives in Denver, CO where she is active in the writing
community, belonging to Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers (where she
was honored by winning the Writer of the Year award in 2008 and is
nominated again for 2011), Romance Writers of America, Sisters in
Crime and Horror Writers of America. She has taught at numerous
conferences and on-line academies.
Betsy Dornbusch
Betsy Dornbusch writes epic fantasy, and
has dabbled in science fiction, thrillers, and
erotica. Her short fiction has appeared in over
a dozen magazines and anthologies, and
she’s the author of three novellas. Her first
fantasy novel came out in 2012 and her latest
trilogy, BOOKS OF THE SEVEN EYES, wraps
up with ENEMY in 2017.
In her free time, she herds her teenagers (like
cats, only they talk back), snowboards, air jams
at punk rock concerts, and follows Denver sports teams. She’s just a quick
google away by her name or Sex Scenes at Starbucks.
GAME DESIGNERS
Tim Brown has been a designer at Game
Designers’ Workshop, an editor at Challenge
magazine, and the director of product
development at TSR, Inc. Marc Miller, Frank
Chadwick, Lester Smith, and Timothy Brown
of GDW designed the new game Traveller:
2300 (1986) as an expansion of the original
Traveller role-playing game. Brown went to
TSR in 1989, where he eventually became
Director of Game Development. Brown
co-created the AD&D Dark Sun setting with Troy Denning and Mary
Kirchoff. Brown and Denning led the project, alongside fiction editor
Kirchoff, and they were soon joined by artist Brom, who contributed the
unique illustrations that helped set Dark Sun apart from the other TSR
settings, making Dark Sun the first of TSR’s world designs with a more
artistic sensibility. Brown and Denning also put together the 1991 D&D
”black box” set, which became a top-seller for TSR, selling half a million
copies in the next six years. Brown later went on to found Destination
Games and work with Imperium Games. For Imperium’s fourth edition of
Traveller(also called Marc Miller’s Traveller or T4) published in 1996, the
designers worked on distinct parts of the rules, with Brown writing about
aliens. Sweetpea Entertainment bought out the stock of the many
creators who had worked on T4 and took over some of the day-to-day
operations of the company; Brown took the helm of Imperium Games
under Sweetpea’s guidance, and was now the only official staff for
Imperium, with others acting as freelancers. Brown, James Ward,
Lester Smith, John Danovich, and Sean Everette founded the d20
company Fast Forward. Entertainment.
Jay Little
Sean Brown
Sean started playing games at 5 with his
Uncle Dave every day after school. He first
played Chess and then moved on to Feudal
and Thinking Man’s Golf. By the age of 7, his
older brother Shad had caught the full bug for
D&D and the two played role playing games
with their close friends Ryan and Dwayne for
the next 10 years. At 12, he was consumed by
the Gamemaster series of games by MB,
mostly Axis and Allies but also Conquest of the Empire, Broadsides, and
Fortress America (still to this day, his favorite — thanks Mike Gray!).
After spending a year developing the game Teraforming (while recovering from knee surgery) Sean attended his first Gencon to sell the game
and landed a job with Eagle Games doing demos. He later helped
to build a distribution network (FRED) and continued developing and
distributing games for Eagle Games.
With Mr. B Games Sean has utilized Kickstarter to provide the financial
backing to fulfill his lifelong dream of running his own game company.
His current offerings are Alien Uprising, Spurs, Realm of Heroes, Clockwork Kingdom, Posthuman, WarQuest, Prospectus and Helionox.
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Tim Brown
Jay is an award-winning game designer with
more than 20 years of experience in the hobby
gaming industry. With dozens of published titles,
Jay Little has designed a broad range of board
games, card games, and roleplaying games. He
has worked with several high profile licenses,
including Star Wars, Warhammer, and Major
League Baseball. He has been invited to share
his insights in game design and development
as an industry guest at workshops, seminars,
conventions, and podcasts, as well as with student groups of all ages. In
addition to his freelance work, Jay teaches Game Design in the nationally
recognized University-Wisconsin Stout Video Game Design & Development
degree program. Jay loves to teach and will be participating in a lot of panels
all weekend long that you do not want to miss.
.
Mike Fitzgerald
Mike Fitzgerald is an American game designer
from the area of New York. Contests that he
has won at the World Boardgaming Championships include his victory in Football Strategy in
1991 and Speed Circuit in 1992.
Keith Meyers
Keith is a board game industry veteran with
nearly 30 years in the business. He has worked
in all aspects of the industry, from publishing to
retail to inventing. He has had more than 3
dozen games published in countries around the
world and he has authored a book and taught
classes on game design. He was worked for
major names in the industry included Hasbro,
Wizards of the Coast, The Game Keeper and
IELLO. He is currently opening Denver’s
premier board game cafe & pub called Board Game Republic.
Greg Stolze
If you want to see vast swaths of my career,
it’s all splayed out like a centerfold at www.
gregstolze.com. These days, there’s particular emphasis on http://www.gregstolze.com/
fiction_library/index.html – that’s where you
can get the stories of lonesome teen boys,
fish horror, historically and medically accurate
zombies, bent cops, pedicures (well… one
pedicure), sword-fighting adulterers, ghosts,
multiple-universe dating conundrums and one
fellow who might be a vampire or who might just be a sort of sentient symbolic enzyme. As for me, the hand up the bottoms of all those literary sock
puppets, I’m really just some guy. I’m 40, nervous, with terrible posture
but a surprisingly deep and resonant speaking voice. If you want to ask
me a question about my work (or about jujitsu, which is another thing I do,
or my recommended reads or whatever), email or follow me on Twitter (@
gregstolze) or, if you hate Twitter and email and only communicate online
via forums, you can find mine at forgreatjustice.net/bbs. Even then, you’ll
have to use email to convince me you’re a human being. I get a LOT of
spambots and have valiantly fought back every last one.
Sarah “McSparkleHappy”
Zack Beins
Zack is an actor and producer, known for
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006),
Atom the Amazing Zombie Killer (2012) and The
Misled Romance of Cannibal Girl and Incest Boy
(2007).
Richard Taylor
Richard lives in Denver, Colorado, currently making Horror/Comedy films as well as music videos
with his production company Bizjack Flemco.
Sometimes credited as Ben “Bizjack”, being
an “inside” joke to a high school basketball
player on the schools wall of fame with
the same name, and led to the production
company “Bizjack/FlemCo” which he runs with
partner/buddy Zack Beins.
His film The misled romance of Cannibal Girl and Incest Boy has just
been distributed with Troma Entertainment who he also generously
works for off and on. He worked on Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken
Dead! doing Blood FX, also had a small cameo.
Richard Taylor is an active volunteer for the Troma Dance film festival
since 2006 and has organized benefit concerts for Troma Dance called
Tromapalooza!
Zachary Byron Helm
Zachary is an actor, known for Atom the
Amazing Zombie Killer (2012) and Rock &
Bowl the Making of Atom the Amazing Zombie
Killer (2014).
We are pleased to have McSparkleHappy join us as she shares her
love of party games and bringing people together. Known to start mini
gameshows on the spot, you never know when you will be caught by
this yellow-jacket-wearing wonder.
INDIE FILM MAKERS
Glenn Berggoetz
Glenn Berggoetz is an award-winning and
critically acclaimed independent filmmaker who
has made a splash in the indie film world with
his feature films The Ghosts of Johnson Woods,
Midget Zombie Takeover, To Die is Hard, Evil
Intent, and The Worst Movie EVER! Glenn
has directed legendary actors Kane Hodder (of
Friday the 13th fame) and Joe Bob Briggs.
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Panels At ComicFest 2016
How to Make Money With Your Art
Learn the Ins-and-Outs of how to make the most financial gain from
your artwork. With Christopher Tullis.
My Life In Comics
A look into the life of Mark’s more than 3 decade career in the Comic/
Art industry. With Mark McKenna.
FRAZETTA GIRLS-Q&A
Learn about the Frazetta Girls and the art legacy they continue to
carry, in honor of the great Frank Frazetta. With Sara Frazetta Taylor.
Collecting Comics Today
All old and new collectors in the comic book scene are welcome to
join us as these seasoned collectors give you all the 411 on collecting
comics today. Toys and other collectibles will be discussed as well.
With Matt Renwick and Daniel Sharner, Michael Young, and Doug
Ford from Colorado Comic Book Enthusiasts (CCBE).
What is ComicFest?
It’s About Fun! ComicFest is Denver’s annual celebration of both the
local and national comics, cartooning and art industry! ComicFest is
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the longest running Rocky Mountain Region Comics convention. It
has always been our goal to increase the public’s awareness of the
comic book medium and showcase talented local talent and publishers to the general public. What we have been surprised to learn is
just how many creators there are that live right here in the region. We
promise to continue to work at creating a unique convention experience that allows talented comics professionals to network with each
other and meet their fans.
It’s Educational! ComicFest features lots of hands on comic book
creation panels and demonstrations. If you are looking to break into
Comics this is a great weekend to learn from the pro’s.
It’s About Collecting! Don’t worry if drawing stick figures is the extent
of your artistic talent, ComicFest provide an outlet for what you enjoy
about Comics as well. If you are looking for that special back issue or
paper-back you’ll have the chance to search it out at one of our dealer
tables. There will also be collection supplies available as well so don’t
miss out on any of these items from all of our fine retailers.
It’s About Art! Come get custom sketches of your favorite Comic book
characters from the area’s most talented comic book artists. The
artists have a wide variety of styles and as a whole have worked for
virtually every major publisher so you’re sure to find someone that can
create that image that you’ve been waiting to display.
GameFest is proudly brought to you by:
Colorado’s Best Gaming Store
7681 N Union Blvd, Colorado Springs, CO 80920
www.petriesgames.com • (719) 522-1099
GameFest is focused on board games, card games, role playing and miniatures. Our mission is to bring you industry insiders, helpful panel discussions and of course, plenty of opportunities to play the latest games!
GameFest is included in your StarFest membership.
Planned Events At GameFest 2016 Include:
Designer Q&A featuring Mike Fitzgerald and Jay Little • Werewolf, a Petries Family tradition at Gamefest
Old Collectible Card Games Swap Meet
dream crafter events is hosting several mysteries
throughout the weekend including:
0900 Saturday and Sunday: Planned Spy Event (2 Hour limit) using Mission
Impossible/I Spy theme. 24 participants divided into 6 teams of 4.
Saturday – A scientist/population control activist places hemorrhagic virus
deliver device somewhere in the convention center. Homeland Security
has arrested the scientist and located the device, but cannot disarm it
or hold the scientist without proof. Your team’s mission, if you choose to
accept it, will be to identify the scientist’s accomplices, locate the disarming instructions which should also incriminate the mastermind. Homeland
Security will give you full cooperation in this operation.
Sunday – A brilliant young researcher has had his research turned into
nano. Can you help get it back and reassemble it?
Flash Events
For the flash events, participants should sign up for events 5 to 10 minutes
before the event start time and meet outside the GameFest game room.
Saturday Flash Events (1 hour limit)
Noon – Star Trek Adventure. Prevent a
temporal assassination by a Romulan time
traveler. First 12 to attend will be involved
and placed into 3 teams of four. $6 per
person.
2pm – Batman Adventure. Foil the Joker’s
plot to detonate a Joker Toxin bomb at
the convention. First 12 to attend will be
involved and placed into 3 teams of four. $6
per person.
4pm – Indiana Jones Adventure. Retrieve a stolen antiquity and return
it to the tribe from whom it was taken. First 12 to attend will be
involved and placed into 3 teams of four. $6 per person.
6pm – LOTR adventure. Recover Gandalf’s
staff while saving innocents from werewolves, zombies, vampires, an ogre, and a
dragon. First 6 to attend will be involved and
make up the fellowship. $6 per person.
Sunday Flash Events (1 hour limit)
Noon – Star Trek Adventure. Prevent a temporal assassination by a Romulan time traveler.
First 12 to attend will be involved and placed
into 3 teams of four. $6 per person.
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2pm – Batman Adventure. Foil the Joker’s plot to detonate a Joker
Toxin bomb at the convention. First 12 to attend will be involved and
placed into 3 teams of four. $6 per person.
to life and could erupt at any moment. Only the most cunning and
resourceful castaways will escape the curious island of Dr. Oddhemier.
4pm – LOTR adventure. Recover Gandalf’s staff while saving
innocents from werewolves, zombies, vampires, an ogre and a
dragon. First 6 to attend will be involved and make up the fellowship.
$6 per person.
Decator (board game)
You are the head of a vast enterprise, chartered by the Crown to engage in commercial activities in the eastern hemisphere. As such, you
will maneuver your company representatives (factors) into prosperous
regions. You will leverage your influence with the established commonwealths. You will weigh the need for a merchant navy. But above
all you must navigate changing economic conditions…
Designer Q&A
Come ask your questions from our guest panelists on publishing,
design and the experiences of getting a game from your paper to
players. This panel is comprised of individuals just new to the field all
the way to the fully experienced.
Battlestar Galactica
Do you think you could find Kobol before the evil Cylon menece destroys you? Come play ‘Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game!’ and
find out! Players will fly fighters, command battlestars, outwit each
other in politics all while avoiding anihalation. Seating is limited to 6
players for this cooperative board game.
CCG Swap
Wanting to find someone to play your favorite Collectible Card Game
(CCG)? This is the time and place to do it. Looking for someone to
trade cards with as well? Come and trade for the much needed card.
As host, I will have Magic:The Gathering, dot Hack, Card Fight!: Vanguard, Brawl!decks that anyone can borrow. I also will have Sentinels
of the Multiverse, Penny Arcade, Splendor, Big Eyes/Small Mouth
card game, Back to the Future card game, and others.
The Corillians Switch, RPG
You have to infiltrate Imperial Security on Corrillia, kidnap the CEO
and steal all of the corporate data all while avoiding bounty hunters
and your own past.
The Curious Island of Dr. Oddheimer
In this highly original game, you are stranded on a deserted island. But
this is no ordinary island. It belongs to the eccentric and reclusive Dr.
Oddheimer. The mad scientist fled the island years ago, but the jungle
still conceals many of his strange inventions and deadly hybrid
creatures. You must try to avoid these unusual dangers as you
scavenge for resources and devise your daring escape off the island.
You can cooperate with your fellow castaways to secure the resources
you need, or you can double-cross them to assure your own survival.
But whatever you do, you better hurry. The island’s volcano is rumbling
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Dragon Age: Legacy of the Archdemon RPG
One year ago, the terrible Fifth Blight ravaged the nation of Ferelden.
Though the war is over, Ferelden struggles to recover and rebuild. One
such attempt at rebuilding has just left Denerim, the capitol of Ferelden. A
caravan carrying settlers and soldiers is bound for the ruins of Lothering,
one of the first settlements destroyed in the Blight, with the intention of
reestablishing it. You have joined this caravan for your own reasons, and
though you may have lived through this most terrible of times, you may yet
realize that the greatest evil is not done by Darkspawn or Archdemons,
but by mere men…
Life on Mars
The nations of Earth are engaged in a space race for Mars. Who will
be first to establish a viable settlement on the barren plant? In this
fast-paced strategy game, players must set up stations to support life
on Mars while also attempting to fulfill their colony’s primary mission.
All action occurs simultaneously, so there is no turn-taking and no
room for hesitation. Decisiveness and quick thinking win the day! Will
your Mars colony fulfill the greatest aspirations of your people, or will it
fail to survive the harsh conditions of the unforgiving planet?
Mr. B Games Demos
Mr. B. Games – a small publishing company started by Sean Brown
in 2005 to publish his own game designs. After a few small card
games (Teraforming, Stoplights), Mr. B. Games went on hiatus from
publishing from 2009 – 2013 but has resumed publishing once again
in 2013 with Alien Uprising. Spurs, Clockwork Kingdom and Realm of
Heroes followed in 2014 and 2015 saw Helionox and Posthuman
come to life. 2016 has Prospectus and WarQuest set for summer
releases as well as many many more tiles on the way!
Play With The Author:Dragon
Kings RPG Playtest- Chaos in
Rhojess Day 1
The city of Rhojess is
under siege. Marauder
clans have united behind
the power of the priest
Rodyn, who seeks a long
buried power within the city.
The characters must fight
through the enemy lines,
and defend their home from
the marauders who wish to
see it razed. This playtest
will use the Cypher System.
Characters provided.
Play With The Author: Dragon Kings RPG Playtest- Chaos in Rhojess Day 2
The city of Rhojess is under siege. The characters successfully
prevented its fall, but Rodyn renews the attack with the day. The dark
priest has plans for Rhojess, which are swifly approaching fruition.
This playtest will use the Cypher System. Characters provided.
On Listening Post Grek-13 a handful of rebels go about their duties
tracking Imperial shipping and attempting to intercept Imperial
communications. It’s a thankless job, but not everyone can be a hero…
Star Wars RPG: Naturally
They Became Heroes Part 2
The dreaded Death Star has
been destroyed! The heroes
of the Battle of Yavin are
spoken of throughout the galaxy, sometimes in whispers,
sometimes in shouts of jubilation. You are NOT one of
those heroes. For every Luke
Skywalker and Princess Leia,
there are hundreds, maybe
even thousands of you. Just
ordinary men and women doing their small part to hurt an
empire that, in some way, has
wronged them. On Listening
Post Grek-13 a handful of
rebels go about their duties
tracking Imperial shipping and attempting to intercept Imperial communications. It’s a thankless job, but not everyone can be a hero…
Lords of Waterdeep Tournament
Registration will be limited to 20 players and will be on a single game
basis with the persons with the highest scores of all the games taking
the top places. Ties in score will be settled by other scoring factors.
Play With The Author:Dragon Kings RPG Playtest- Chaos in Rhojess Day 3
Rodyn has laid the secrets of Rhojess bare, and the characters find
themselves thrown into the underworld to battle for the soul of a long
dead Power. They must battle through scenes from Khitus’ the past
and demon jailers. Can the characters prevent Rodyn from claiming the mantle of a Dragon King? This playtest will use the Cypher
System. Characters provided.
The Power of Choice panel with Jay Little
Meaningful decisions and interesting choices drive compelling gameplay. But why does a player choose one option over another? Learn
about the factors that influence player choice and how they affect
both game design and the player experience.
Werewolf
An interactive game of deduction for two teams: Villagers and
Werewolves. The Villagers don’t know who the Werewolves are, and
the Werewolves are trying to remain undiscovered while they slowly
eliminate the Villagers one at a time.
Speed Pitch
Take part in a 10 minute private session to show your game design
ideas to industry in-sider Keith Myers of Iello Games.
Star Wars RPG: Naturally They Became Heroes Part 1
The dreaded Death Star has been destroyed! The heroes of the Battle
of Yavin are spoken of throughout the galaxy, sometimes in whispers,
sometimes in shouts of jubilation. You are NOT one of those heroes.
For every Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia, there are hundreds,
maybe even thousands of you. Just ordinary men and women doing
their small part to hurt an empire that, in some way, has wronged them.
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STAR TREK ANNIVERSARY CROSSWORD
Across
29. Another word for enemy.
31. Abbreviation for ensign.
33. James Kirk’s nephew.
34. Kim’s first name.
35. Quark’s nephew.
36. Bajor has several of these.
37. Vulcan mating period, ___Farr.
11. Starfleet’s most famous ship.
12. Most famous Enterprise captain.
13. Bar owner on Deep Space Nine.
18. What sort of animal Spot is.
19. Quadrant that is home of the Founders.
21. Curzon of Jadzia.
24. Worf’s race.
25. Deep Space Nine’s ship.
28.Borg leader.
30. Member of the U.F.P.
32. Quark’s brother.
35. Opposite of yes.
1. Vulcan member of the Voyager crew.
4. Voyager crew member, ____Suder.
5. The Enterprise’s doctor’s nickname.
7. Neelix’s occupation on Voyager.
9. Number One’s surname.
14. A class of Starfleet ship.
15. Bajoran ensign.
Down
16. Former Borg. ___ of Nine.
1. Trip’s surname.
17. Bajoran major.
2. To turn sharply.
20. Anno Domini, abbr.
3. Miles O’Brien’s wife.
22. ___ Walston guest starred as Boothby.
4. Library Computer Access and Retrieval
23. The Enterprise’s science officer.
Systems: abbr.
25. Starfleet’s android.
6. First child born on Voyager.
Need Help?
26. Data’s brother.
8. Michael Ansara starred as this Klingon.
Ask
anyone
wearing
a Star Trek costume.
27. A group of resistance fighters.
10. One of the Borg children.
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ACTIVITIES
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use the interactive scheduling features available to help you
learn more about the activities listed here. Please use it to
make your StarFest experience everything it can be.
50 Shades of Geek
The Speed Dating panel is back! New name, new ways, more fun.
If you are looking for that special one to enjoy the Con, search no more.
50 Shades of Geek is embracing all sides of Geekdom. Here you should
find troopers, red shirts, pirates, Klingons, browncoats, replicants,
ghosts, explorers, steampunks, companions and new friends.
This panel is open only to people over 21 years of age.
The 501st Star Wars Experience
In celebration of over 30 years of Star Wars, Star Wars Rebels animated series, and the upcoming Star Wars: Rogue One movie, the
501st Mountain Garrison will be presenting the Star Wars Experience at
StarFest. Come and join us for this momentous occasion of one of the
most influential science fiction sagas in our generation.
Throughout the weekend, meet your favorite Star Wars characters in
the new replica set, and get an opportunity to take your picture with
stormtroopers, bounty hunters and even the menacing Darth Vader. If
you are lucky, you can even meet a couple of our captured R2 units,
maybe R2-D2 himself!
Battlestar Trivia
Think you know Battlestar Galactica inside and out? Want to test your
knowledge against your fellow geeks and nerds? Well, now you can!
Back by popular demand, Battlestar Trivia! Answer questions, get the
most right answers and win prizes! What can be better than that?!
Combat in Sci-Fi and Fantasy
A lively discussion about what works (and doesn’t) in books and media
as far as fighting and conflict. A friendly discussion about violence,
bloodshed, and what effect it has upon characters. We’ll discuss what
goes on in crafting a scene, what makes a fight scene realistic without
being over the top, and we’ll dive into examples of combat done right
versus where authors/directors have gone wrong.
Starfleet Academy
Starfleet Academy is a fun way to experience the Star Trek Universe
first hand as a student at the StarFest Branch Campus. Each class
is designed to present humor, audience participation and a different
way of looking at the Star Trek Universe. Each class is self-contained,
but those who complete all four classes will receive a diploma and gift
from the convention.
This year Starfleet Academy looks at the History of Star Trek.
Starfleet Academy: History 201 – The Captain Kirk Era
Starfleet Academy starts out our activities this year with a look at the
original Enterprise crew. We will look at life on the NCC-1701 – the
crew, what it takes to be a Red Shirt Security Officer and that all
important guideline – WWKD? What Would Kirk Do?
Starfleet Academy: History 202 – The Captain Picard Era
The second Starfleet Academy class revisits the Picard era of the
Enterprise – The various adventures, the diverse crew, dealing with
empires, alliances and syndicates and, of course, Wesley Crusher.
Starfleet Academy: History 203 – Deep Space Nine and USS Voyager
The third Starfleet Academy class will focus on two other significant
entities in the Federation. First, a visit to Deep Space Nine – the Cardassians and Bajorans and the Dominion War — and then a trip to the
Delta Quadrant and a ride on the USS Voyager. For both of these we
will look at how the various crews dealt with adversity, discuss some
amusing moments and give the students a chance to experience life
at the edges of the Federation.
Starfleet Academy: History 204 – The Enterprise Elsewhere – Enterprise and Alternate Realities
We will finish the Starfleet Academy classes with a brief visit to the
original Enterprise Starship – NX-01 — followed by accounts of the
Enterprise in other media, including the animated series, novels, and
comic books. We’ll wrap up with a look at the Alternate Cinematic
Timeline. Come and be ready to enjoy a look at the fringes of the history of the Starship Enterprise.
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Coming Together
Anti-Bullying with the
LunarGuard
We must come together and fight for
the good of Humanity.
mention. Or six. But wait, there’s more! Don’t miss what happens when
Dayton and Kevin get an unsupervised* panel room for an entire hour
- and next year, when someone asks why they’re not sitting in Authors’
Alley anymore, you’ll know WHY!
*Programming note: StarFest dress code will remain in effect despite
any declarations of “No Pants Allowed” from panel members.
Exploding TARDIS Painting Class
Costume Contest
Our Costume Contest takes place on Saturday night in the Main Events
room. Prizes are awarded in several categories. If you are interested in
participating, sign up at Costume Contest Registration on Friday and
Saturday. It’s a lot of fun and exciting, too! Imagine appearing on the
same stage as our Hollywood Stars! Registration at the Info Table in the
Activities Room - while there is room for entries.
Cosplay Tips and Tricks
At StarFest this year we have a special cosplay guest, Kaai in Cosplay.
He’ll be at his table in the Activities
Room, next to Costume Contest
Registration, to talk to anyone and
everyone about cosplay. He’ll be a
guest judge at the Costume Contest,
and he’ll share some of his secrets
during four panels.
Kick back, relax, and let your creative juices flow! Blue Jasmine Studios
presents this beginner-friendly class. Create your own beautiful ‘Doctor
Who’ inspired painting. Whether you are new to painting, or one of the
Old Masters, you are sure to have a good time! Our experienced instructor will guide and encourage you as you follow a series of simple steps.
Everyone gets to keep their masterpiece! Bring the whole family for painting fun! Recommend for ages 10 and up, children should be accompanied by an adult. Class is offered at a special show discount, $22/person.
Reserve your spot online at BlueJasmineStudios.com , or at our booth in
the Dealers Room. Walk-ins welcome! Sunday at the Activities Stage.
Exploration at the Edge: New Horizons at Pluto and Beyond
Just what it sounds like.
Presented by Dr. Alex Parker. Last summer, humanity’s first robotic
explorer of the worlds beyond Neptune reached its primary target: the
Pluto system. During a whirlwind first-reconnaissance flyby at over
50 times the speed of a jet airliner, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft
imaged Pluto and its five moons in unprecedented detail. In this talk,
I will cover the history of the outer solar system exploration, the New
Horizons mission, and examine the latest images and findings from the
mission. I will conclude with a preview of where New Horizons could
head next in an extended mission deep into the Kuiper Belt, targeting a
flyby of a completely new and unexplored world (currently) called 2014
MU69, the most distant world ever targeted for exploration.
Cosplay Survival Kit
Federation Ball
Everything You Need to Know: Cosplay
ALL proceeds benefit the American Diabetes Association, Dumb
Friend’s League Furry Scurry and OMEGAResponders!
Convention Horror Stories
Performed at many conventions and always a good starter for new
cosplayers, the cosplay survival kit is all about what to do when things
go horribly wrong in a hallway. If something breaks, this panel is
designed to help you fix it, at least long enough to make it back to a
sewing machine or hot glue gun.
Cosplayers rejoice! This updated version of my Cosplay Boot Camp
panel has websites, reviews, and more, all geared towards cosplay.
Everything you need to know starts with the references for a character and goes to the finished project and traveling with a cosplay.
Cosplay Photography: How Not to Break Your Legs
Posing in a hallway approached from a fine-arts perspective. Everyone
learns some basic do’s and don’t’s of posing, from the perspective of a
very expensive art degree. I cover how cameras work and how to use
that to the best advantage, and I teach everyone some poses to boot.
Always a fun one, and photographers AND cosplayers learn quite a lot.
The Dayton & Kevin Show
Join writer guys Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore for a relaxed and fun
discussion - yes, audience participation is welcomed - about sci-fi and
pop culture in general. Topics might include their latest projects, Star
Trek news from Pocket Books, inside scoop on Hallmark Keepsake
Ornaments, and all sorts of cool stuff they’re enjoying at the bookstore,
on TV or in theaters. It’s also quite possible that the attractive young
lady wearing the Power Girl costume near the autograph lines will get a
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The Federation Ball is in the Activities Room this year. The Ball starts at
9pm Saturday, so be ready! It doesn’t matter if you’re in costume or not,
it’s always fun. Enter the dance contest for a chance to win some cool
prizes. The audience gets to help with the judging! Cost is only $3.00
per person.
Night of the Living Deb
A Classic Rom-Com-Zom
After a girls’ night out, endearingly
awkward Deb wakes up in the apartment of the most attractive guy in
Portland, Maine. She’s thrilled, but
she can’t remember much of what
got her there. Pretty boy Ryan only
knows it was a mistake and ushers
her out the door... into a full-scale
zombie apocalypse. Now, a walk of
shame becomes a fight for survival
as the mismatched pair discovers
that the only thing scarier than trusting someone with your life... is trusting them with your heart.
Saturday Night in the Main Events Room
The scientist’s inner hate for all things foreign to the world begins to
lethally manifest through the alien world’s advance technology, especially
once love blooms between the ship’s captain and the scientist’s daughter.
Forbidden Planet - Behind the Scenes
The 50th anniversary of Forbidden Planet was in 2006. During the year
there were a number of events including panels at conventions and signings featuring some of the original cast members and other guests. The
largest was the Forbidden Planet panel at the San Diego Comic-Con that
year. On hand were original actors Richard Anderson, Warren Stevens
and Earl Holliman. The film enjoyed a brief theatrical release that year.
Even the Denver Film Festival took part. They presented, in 35MM, a
complete work print of the film. The film has no music or optical effects.
It was a treat to see.We presented Forbidden Planet as well at StarFest
that year, along with a look at the making of this historic film.
This year marks the 60th anniversary and StarFest is delighted to
screen the film on Friday evening after the Meet and Greet.
Our MC, Kevin Atkins, will introduce the film. On Saturday morning
Kevin will present an updated illustrated look behind the scenes. He will
also show several deleted scenes from a rare work print of the film.
Game of Thrones Theories
We will discuss some of our
favorite Game of Thrones/A Song
of Ice and Fire theories and point
out where the books and TV
show support, and disprove, the
theories.
Forbidden Planet - The Movie
Forbidden Planet, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s
first attempt at science fiction, premiered on
March 15th, 1956. It was a film years ahead
of its time, the direct forerunner of Star Trek,
Star Wars and the big-budget science fiction
films of today.
Gorram Browncoats!
It was the first film to be set in a future where
mankind is spreading out into the universe in
faster-than-light starships.
How do you self-publish? Should you self publish? Do I need an agent?
Why? Should I use a Pen Name? What if I do? I heard… but then I
heard…? Bring your burning questions about being a writer, and we will
do our best to solve them!
In an era where Cold War fears materialized in mutated, giant insects, or alien invaders subverting all that was
American, Forbidden Planet worked as all good science fiction does: it
examines ourselves. Quite literally, it looked into the materialization of
our own inner demons. While most ’50s movies are marred by obviously
wire strung rockets, rehashed radiation clouds or just plain bad acting,
Forbidden Planet continues to view like a top of the line movie, some
sixty years later.
The film was entered into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry
in 2013, being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
Join fellow local Browncoats for a discussion centered on Joss Whedon’s
Firefly/Serenity ‘Verse. Learn about our upcoming group activities,
Shindigs and the upcoming “Can’t Stop the Serenity” charity screening of
Serenity. Share with us your love of this shiny TV series and film.
I’m a writer; I Have Questions!
Intergalactic Bellydance
In the mood for something rhythmic, elegant
and a bit frivolous? Join Apsara and companions as they travel between worlds, performing some of the thousand dances they have
picked up along the way. Recently regenerated from Les Femmes, Apsara looks forward
to sharing their unique fusion Bellydance
stylings with you.
The story of Forbidden Planet holds up so well because it is lifted from
Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Starring Leslie Nielson, Walter Pidgeon
and Anne Francis, it tells the tale of a ship from Earth investigating the
missing expedition to Altair IV. When they arrive they find that most of
the crew had died nearly two decades before with only a scientist and
his daughter still alive.
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Introduction to Steampunk in Fiction and Literature
So you’ve heard of this Steampunk thing, but where to get started?
What interesting books should you read? We have the answers.
Introduction to the Colonial Ministry of Defense
Ever dream of flying a Viper or commanding your own Battlestar? Are
you looking for a club where you can discuss your love of Battlestar
Galactica? The Colonial Ministry of Defense wants you! This interactive
discussion will introduce you to the Crew of Battlestar Stormbringer,
the local chapter of the CMoD. You will learn about the formation of the
Ministry, the principles it is run by today and the benefits group fandom
can provide. We will end the meeting with an awards and promotions
ceremony including the induction of new members. Join us and discover
the excitement for yourself.
John Williams’ Star Wars and Other Sci-Fi Music
This panel will hear and discuss the all time sci-fi movie music classics which made the sci-fi movies great including Star Wars, ET, Close
Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, Star Trek, 2001: A Space
Odyssey and Batman. Composer John Williams composed many of the
sci fi movie classics. We will see how the music has affected us socially
and culturally and have a final vote on the three all-time sci-fi movie
music classics plus a Yoda sing-along. May the Force be with you!
Karaoke Test of Bravery
Come and prove your bravery by singing in front of your StarFest
Family. We are a supportive group. A unique opportunity to see people in
costume singing in character, or not.
Rey’s Heritage
Where did Rey come from? Who could she be related to? What information do we have from the movie and tie-in media?
Sci-Fi Improv
Come see improvisational theatre based on your favorite Science Fiction
books, movies and TV shows. If you like Whose Line Is It Anyways? or
the Upright Citizens Brigade, you’ll love us! Watch improv made up on
the spot based on your suggestions! Come challenge us, laugh with and
at us and even join us for awhile on stage!
Sciencing the Heck Out of
Mars
What’s happening on the Red
Planet these days? With spacecraft
on the ground and orbiting Mars,
there’s a LOT of good science being done. Carolyn Collins Petersen
fills us in on the latest Red Planet
News and a special updates from two guest panelists.
Joining Carolyn are Pieter Kallemeyn, System Design Lead for the
InSight Mars Lander at Lockheed Martin and Christopher Grasso of Blue
Sun Enterprises, Inc. He provides sequencing software and expertise
for NASA deep-space missions, including the Spitzer Space Telescope,
MRO, and Phoenix. He sequenced the 2008 Phoenix landing.
Come join Carolyn, Christopher, and Pieter for the Mars Hour at StarFest!
MileHiCon Challenge Panel: Best SciFi on TV .. Ever!
We seem to be in a Golden Age for sci-fi on television. From Agents of
SHIELD to The Expanse, Supernatural to The Walking Dead, Killjoys to
Lost Girl … whatever your taste, there’s something to savor. But what is
the best *ever* SF/F/H show? Whether you’re an aficionado of Avatar,
the Last Airbender, a loyal Browncoat or a faithful fan of The Twilight
Zone, come defend your favorite at the MileHiCon Challenge Panel!
Obligatory Media Tie-In Panel
What’s the state of media tie-ins? Why such a surge in short fiction? Are
tie-in books influencing which movies are getting made? (WoW?)
Oh No, They Did NOT Just Go There
Panelists discuss topics they will and won’t write about and why. Bring
your sense of humor, and leave your judgement outside.
Ow! My Spleen!
All too often in a book or movie, the characters undergo severe physical
trauma, only for them to undertake heroic acts in the following scenes. How
do you write realistic fiction where your characters are injured and face the
consequences yet still manage to allow them to do what you need?
Putting the “Science” in Science Fiction
The worlds of science and sci-fi intersect in interesting, and sometimes
unexpected ways. We will discuss the influence that our favorite science
fiction fandoms have had on the world of scientific research.
StarFest
Art Show
Treasures Await
You!
Resin Casting 101
From start to finish on how to set up and make silicone molds and casting
resin kits. We’ll show the same method we used to produce the Star Wars
for the Disney’s launch bays in California and Florida. Come and see how
to work with a professional FX company. Learn different methods to get
that special piece cast and learn tricks of the trade on how to get that resin
cast right to avoid little mistakes.
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Space Food and Out-of-This-World Games
To boldly go where no Pink has gone before!!
The Pink Trek away-mission will be beaming down space foodstuffs and
playing alien games. How good are you at pinning the alien queen tail?
Come to find out. Presented by the Pink Girls.
Star Trek 50 Years Later: A Look Back
It’s easy to forget how much has changed in our world since Star Trek:
The Original Series aired 50 years ago. We will discuss both the historical and scientific context surrounding the iconic series as well as its
influence on our world today.
Star Trek: 50 Years of Humanism
Now a continuing tradition with StarFest, Religion in Star Trek is a much
requested panel. This year, celebrating 50 years of Star Trek: If the human
race were to be judged by God today, what would be our defense given
our history of violence? Gene Roddenberry’s view on humanism would
show our greatest potential. We’ll be showing a 15 minute video Saturday
at noon at our table in the Activities Room for all who plan to attend..
Star Trek IQ Test
Test your Star Trek IQ to determine whether you are a Star Trek Imbecile or a Star Trek Genius! Star Trek fans of all ages are welcome to take
a written exam to determine their Star Trek IQ. Can you score over 160
to be called a Star Trek Genius? The exam will test knowledge of original Star Trek and Next Generation episodes (with a little Deep Space
Nine, Voyager and Enterprise added this year) and all Star Trek movies.
Even if you took the test last year, join us again as we will have new
test questions. This is your chance to show your knowledge of the Star
Trek universe. Each participant takes the test individually – not yelling
out the answer or being called on to answer a question. All participants
will receive a ribbon showing their Star Trek IQ level and score, and a
trophy will be awarded for top score. This is a family friendly activity, but
the test is guaranteed to be challenging to any Star Trek fan. This is not
a come-and-go panel. Please be punctual since the timed test will begin
5 minutes after the panel starts. Lastly, we understand that there will not
be any tables in the panel room this year. We are planning to bring some
writing surfaces, but bring something to write on if at all possible (your
StarFest program book, for example). Qapla’ (KAHPLAH’)!
Star Trek Outpost — LIVE!
Beam in to this two-part “panel”/hands-on experience. Audience members become the voices of characters in a “minisode” of the Parsecaward winning audio drama “Star Trek: Outpost.” After recording the
session during the Saturday session, the crew from Outpost will mix the
“minisode” overnight and play it back for the audience and actors on
Sunday. With the time remaining, the session will be a Q&A where the
audience learns what it takes to create an audio drama from the crew
that produces the show. We’ll discuss the ins and outs (including how
easy it is!) of production – from script writing to the final mix — we cover
it all! The final production played on Sunday will be part of the Star Trek:
Outpost podcast which airs monthly on www.startrekoutpost.com and
www.giantgnome.com.
Star Wars as Story
There’s a lot of debate over the older and new Star Wars films, especially how they stand as stories. Let’s chat and see how they hold up, shall
we? Maybe we’ll even figure out who Rey’s parents are!
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Ship Battle Tactics – Top Gun Training
Learn Klingon Battle tactics. Learn Klingon Top Gun Air Combat training. Leave this class knowing how to out maneuver your lesser enemy.
Klingon Minions: A How to Draw Klingon Minions
Klingon Naming Ceremony
J’Tark will teach fundamentals of how to draw a minion and make
them into proud Klingon warriors, after J’Tark teaches the fundamentals K’cuaH will be telling the story of how the minions made their way
to Klingon space and how they joined the empire. The purples ones,
aka the evils, evolved and became front line soldiers while the smarter
yellow ones became scientist and doctors — together they make a
ship run tight and right.
Klingon Kulture
Klingon Episodes of Star Trek TOS, TNG, DS9
A true Klingon Warrior must have a glorious Klingon name. We will be
having a naming ceremony and you will receive a certificate with your
new glorious Klingon name. Be sure to join us YousWhysGuysez!
Come and enjoy an hour with House K’ralvaj and Lord K’ral as
they teach earthers and other aliens about Klingon life and rituals.
There are a number of Klingon foods and drinks to learn. As well as
weapons and ships! There could be a live demonstration! That’s if we
can get them through customs in time. Learn of all the famous and
infamous Klingons! Bring Yuch!(Chocolate), Klingons love it!
Honor Of Kahless the Unforgettable
House K’ralvaj is here again to teach about Kahless the Unforgettable
and the scrolls written about his life. You will learn about the man and
the myth of Kahless. How Kahless the man took a stand against a
tyrant, saved a people and helped create the Klingon culture to what
it is today.
Klingon BOP – Young Warrior Bat’leth Tourney!
Come watch your warriors battle it out with training (foam and duct
tape) Bat’leths. Open to ages 3 to 13 yrs. Cheering sections requested! Qapla’! Awards will be give to the top three, and prizes will be give
to all warriors.
Klingon Tribble Hockey!!
Come relax with a Klingon Sunday tradition of Tribble hockey. All species are welcome to participate! In this game young warrior are taught
the skills of Defense and Offence. Cheer, laugh, and yell as the young
warriors battle it out with tribbles and foam sticks.. Qapla’!
Klingon Weapons
Join Gunny D’nuoP as he details the many different weapons that
a Klingon can use to kill. He will be discussing the creation of the
Bat’leth and many other Klingon weapons.
Klingon costuming: Details ma’Ke the Kostume
Not your basic costume talk, but details of a believable costume to
develop your character. Take it to the next level; learn makeup with
Sec’ca’mete and detailing with DoQ.
Makeup All the Shades of Gray
Bring old heads and new and learn the art of contouring, the
prosthetic process, creating your own character, teeth, props and
weapons. There will be a special Q&A afterwards starring Kate DoQ
& many other surprises!
Klingon Knowledge Battles!
Prepare yourself for Klingon Knowledge Battles, face off against
teams or individuals, in an interstellar challenge in galactic science
fiction trivia.
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Join us as we show Klingon Episodes of TOS, DS9, and other Star
Trek series.
Karaoke by IKS Tiburon
Join IKS Tiburon and House VamPyr for Karaoke until close.
All-House VamPyr Meeting
This is a all hands on deck meeting. Be there to receive your awards
and promotions. If you want to join our house or find a ship to belong
to, this is your chance!
Region 17 Meet and Greet
Join Starfleet Region 17 as they hold meetings and invite new members to join the Federation.
Klingon Kreations – Glorious Klingon Ship Building
All young warriors will have fun building, gluing and painting ships.
Join our most glorious young warrior instructor Ki’mI as she teaches
young warriors to create the newest fighting vessels in the Empire.
Klingon Gaming
Join us as we play Star Trek Catan, Quj Majyang, Multh/Quirkle and
many other games.
Klingon Cosmic Putty and Coloring
Join us as we will be making rainbow cosmic putty with add-ins! Pick your
color and space shapes to make your putty fun to play with. We will have
coloring sheets and snacks for the kiddos too! Klingon Coloring is training for
young warriors to display self pride! Conducted by Lord VamPyr and Kara!
Klingon Button and Magnet Making
Join Kara as she instructs warriors in Klingon Button and Magnet
making! All ages are welcome at this family friendly event. Come
make a Klingon symbol or any other to add to your costume. We will
have lots of colors to work with and will be happy to help you make
your creation. Buttons will come out around the size of a quarter and
magnets a little larger. Come join us for this fun hands on activity and
take home a souvenir! Conducted by Kara .
Closing Ceremonies
Join us as we reflect on the convention. If you are staying over Sunday, be sure to join us in the atrium for some music and conversation.
Green Screen Charity Event
House VamPyr will be holding a green screen charity event Saturday
to benefit the USO. All proceeds go to USO. We will email you your
image. You will be able to choose your background for a fun image.
We will be collecting for one of our Charities Toys for Tots. So
please bring a Toy to donate.
Base(ic) Training – Cal Dowling
Recreation of terrain in a small scale. Tools and techniques for recreating different types of terrain like mud, snow, dried & cracked mud, dirt, and sand.
Introduction to Airbrushing – Dan Holmes (Saturday Only)
An airbrush is probably the most versatile modeling tool there is. It is
also a significant financial investment and requires hours of practice. Dan
Holmes will discuss selecting, using, learning, and maintaining this tool.
Model Lighting – Doug Scott (Sunday Only)
Models are impressive. Lit models are life-like. We will cover wiring and
powering the model, selecting the proper resistor, connecting components, and other topics.
Lighting with Microcontrollers – Pat Amaral (Saturday Only)
A basic introduction to using the inexpensive Arduino microcontroller to
produce complex lighting schemes for scale models.
Do you build models? If so, bring it by the Model Show and share
your work with the world! Our show includes science fiction, science fact, fantasy, and horror subjects. Are you amazed by detailed
artwork in miniature? Come on by and cast your vote for the People’s
Choice Award! Do you want to improve your skills? Our friendly staff
of qualified volunteers will be happy to talk to you about your work.
Model Show Awards Presentation and Door Prize Drawing
Introduction to Modeling – Vernon Clark
Model building is a rich and rewarding hobby. It is also an intimidating
one to start. We will cover selecting a kit, assembling it, and discuss
necessary basic tools.
Advanced Tools – Robb Merrill and Brad Guy
Better tools often mean better results. Plus, you can never have too
many pin vises.
Every year, the outstanding modelers in the show are presented
certificates and prizes. This year, we are going to recognize those
achievements in an award ceremony. Come and help us celebrate their
accomplishments!
Vacuum Forming – Brad Guy
We will also have the door prize drawing. Here’s where your participation in the modeling events pays off. You must be present to win.
An overview of how to build resin kits, including resin commercial and
garage kits. This is intended as an overview of the process of assembling these kits from the basic purchase of the kit, to the tools needed,
to the final product.
Paper Model Make-N-Take
Paper models have been gaining in popularity in recent
years. IPMS/CoMMiES will help you take your first step into
this fascinating hobby. We have compiled a wide selection
of Cubeecraft models. This event is in the Model Show room and is
free! Come check it out!
Model Make-N-Take
The Model Events Team is pleased to announce the 2016
FREE Model Make-N-Take at StarFest.
Once again, we will have some of their most popular kits for the Make-NTake Participants! This event is for members from 8 to 16 years old.
Modeler’s University
The StarFest Model Show is proud to announce Modeler’s
University will be returning in 2016. Regardless of your
age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be
hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building.
Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Learn how to create custom parts using sheet plastic, heat, and a vacuum.
We will discussion creating a master part and how to replicate it.
Introduction to Resin – Jack Hubbard
Weathering – Tim Blanchard
Unless you are building a factory fresh vehicle, it should show some
degree of dirt and wear. We will discuss how to make your model fit into
its environment realistically.
After Hours Modeling with the CoMMiES
Do you have what it takes to hang with the CoMMiES? Bring
a kit, bring your tools, and sniff glue with the most unique
chapter of the International Plastic Modelers Society.
Work on a kit. Ask about techniques. Share stories. And, above all, poke your
friends verbally! Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm in the Model Show room.
Special Thanks to
all our ModelFest
Sponsors!
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention.
Classes last approximately 50 minutes. Topics include getting started
in the hobby, bases and groundwork, scratchbuilding, and basic &
advanced lighting.
Scratch Building and Design – Nate Deveaux
How to use parts and plastic shapes for kit bashing and scratch building with an overview of design as it pertains to getting things laid out.
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Greetings! We are ecstatic to announce the TARDIS is landing at StarFest! WhoFest will
be held all weekend and is included with your ticket purchase for StarFest 2016. As an
added bonus, it will be here for three days. That’s right, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday!
Join local fans and others as we celebrate everything that is The Doctor.
WhoFest features nearly 24 solid hours of Doctor Who related activities and panels
throughout the convention weekend. Allons-y!
Friday
Young Companions Arts and Crafts
Arts and crafts for our younger companions.
Cosplay Meetup
Cosplayers talking about cosplaying
To Gallifrey and Back Again: Series 9
Series 9 in review
Script Writing Workshop
Learn the language of the Time Lords
Gallifrey Stands Panel
Who Girls Live
You’ve heard the podcasts, now be a part with our Live studio audience!
Trivia
How does your Time Lord knowledge stack up against the best?
Rouges Gallery Panel
Bad guys and gals, who was hot, who was not
5ish Doctors
Gallifrey is Back! Now what?
The low-budget parody that is almost as popular as the 50th Ann. Special
Stolen Earth
Genesis of the Daleks
Saturday
Sunday
Doctor Who Meetup
Fans being fans, talking with fans
Witches Familiar
Writing Gallifreyan Workshop
The Impossible Girl Panel
Learn the language of the Time Lords!
So…what’s the deal with Clara?
Time War Panel
Doctor Who: Prophecies and Prognostications Panel
The War Doctor, and the stories we were never told
What does the future hold for the Time Lord and his TARDIS?
Fashion Runway
Cards Against Whomanity
Walk the runway and show the latest and greatest of Whovian fashion
and cosplay
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A fun, Whovian take on Cards Against Humanity for immature
adults. 18+.
Star Wars Trivia
In this trivia contest open to 12 players, the questions will be asked at
light speed! Players will have to chose if the answer is true or false.
Prizes are offered to the top three.
StarFest Talent Show
Do you have a song you need to sing? A skit
you need to perform? The Activities Stage is
the place to do it on Sunday morning. Sign up
Friday and Saturday at Costume Contest registration (near Convention Information). Walk-ons
will be accepted on Sunday If time permits.
Please keep performances to under 5 minutes
each. Categories are 18+ and under 18.
So warm up those pipes, practice that guitar,
or put the finishing touches on your skit!! You
could be StarFest’s Most Talented!
Stargate Trivia with a Twist
Test your knowledge of Stargate SG-1 in a fun, simple and unexpected
format! Prizes will be awarded. Three rounds, and anyone who wants to
participate will be able to. Come have some fun!
Steampunk in the Media
Steampunk isn’t just a fancy name for the Victorians with goggles. Movies have been making use of Steampunk elements for years — we talk
about our favorite instances.
Steampunk THIS
We bet you can’t steampunk a toaster! Join AnomalyCon and the
Colorado Steampunks for our classic game where we pit the audience
against each other to draw strange objects Steampunked. It’s Steampunk Pictionary!
The Story’s Journey
Anyone will tell you about the Hero’s Journey, a plot structure formula
that many tales follow. But what they don’t tell you is now that you got
your story, how do you make it sellable? Revision, killing your darlings,
critiques. The real work behind every story is discussed here.
What Does It Take to Live in Space?
From breathing air, to side-stepping 40,000 mph trash, it takes a lot simply
to stay alive in outer space. A National Space Society panel of experts will
present an outline of just staying alive on the New Frontier. James Short
will cover the basics in “A Shopping Cart for Space.” Bennett Rutledge will
show how thinking on shelter has developed in “A Cozy Little Place on
Pluto.” Tim Miller will look at what lets you level-up from survival to living,
or “Creature Comforts in Hard Vacuum.” Jim Barnard will saddle up for
“Getting Around Where There Are No Trails.” And, of course, we’ll need
YOU for some ideas of what to actually DO out there!
Where Did This Chocolate Come From?
Every time our character turns a corner in a secondary world, it seems
there is a decision to make. Even something as simple as a drink (and
brawl!) in a tavern can lead to a thousand questions about commerce,
culture, and connections. Our panelists will talk about these decisions,
pitfalls and rabbit holes, and when to say when.
Irish Dancing
Kick off your St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations with a performance by Celtic
Steps, Colorado’s Premier Irish Dance School!
With dancers ranging in age from five to thirty-five, including dancers
who will be representing Colorado at the 2016 World Championships in
Glasgow, Scotland! Celtic Steps will show you the best of Irish Dance!
IDIC – Infinite Diversity In Infinite Combinations
StarFest is determined to offer an environment that is free of harassment. StarFest is a place where everyone can meet together in the
spirit of mutual trust and respect. Harassment is a form of discrimination that is offensive, impairs morale, undermines the integrity of
relationships and causes serious harm to the productivity, creativity
and enjoyment of the convention.
All convention attendees have the right to be in an environment that
is free of discrimination and harassing conduct, including sexual
harassment. Harassment on the basis of race, color, creed, ancestry,
national origin, disability, marital status and/or sexual orientation is
not what we are about.
Harassment means persistent and unwelcome conduct or actions.
Harassment may be subtle and/or manipulative and is not always evident. It does not refer to occasional compliments of a socially acceptable nature. It refers to behavior that is not welcome and is personally
offensive. All forms of gender harassment are covered.
Verbal Harassment: Jokes, insults and innuendoes (based on race,
sex, age, disability, etc.), degrading sexual remarks, referring to someone as a stud, hunk or babe; whistling; cat calls; comments on a person’s body or sex life, or pressures for sexual favors are not tolerated.
Non Verbal Harassment: Gestures, staring, touching, hugging, patting, blocking a person’s movement, standing too close, or brushing
against a person’s body are not tolerated.
If a convention attendee violates this policy, they risk being expelled
from the convention and/or permanently banned without refund.
If you believe you are being harassed, report it to the nearest StarFest
staff member. We can’t help you if we don’t know there’s a problem.
Whedonverse
Avengers, Firefly, Buffy, Angel, Serenity and
so much more! Celebrate the many worlds of
Joss Whedon with a lively interactive panel.
We’ll be debating and discussing our favorites
and speculating on the future. “Joss is Boss!”
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April 21-23
Marriott & Hilton DTC
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STAR TREK ANNIVERSARY PUZZLES
Join us as House VamPyr
celebrates the life of our fallen
warrior N’robSo, otherwise
known as Bob Blackbeard
Osbourn.
N’robSo was a member of the
ship IKS Notqa. Bob joined
House VamPyr back in 2010. He was the Holographic
Officer (official photographer) for House VamPyr and
weapons Officer on the IKS notqa’.
Bob was much beloved in the convention community.
He made friends easily. His company was always
enjoyed. Whether at a convention, a festival, or party,
Bob could always be seen with a smile on his face.
Bob was an accomplished photographer. He has made
friends across many communities with his skill and
talent. His work was often displayed in Denver’s art
galleries.
The loss of N’robSo leaves a hole in our bloody Klingon
hearts. House VamPyr will mourn him as Klingons, and
as humans who loved our dear friend Bob. Join us
Saturday in the Activities room as we celebrate the life
of Blackbeard Bob and give rise to the Klingon Death
Howl in honor of our fallen warrior N’robSo.

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