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It's a party, it's a convention .... What the hey,
it's Tra-La-La Con,
the ultimate party and relaxacon.
With Special Guests
DAVID GERROLD
Author of
Star Trek: The Trouble with Tribbles
Creator of
Star Wolf (TV Series)
and
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Writer/Producer of
Babylon 5
Artist Guest of Honor
SELINA PHANARA
Fan Guests of Honor
LEN & JUNE MOFFATT
Plus -- Video Room, Ice Cream Social, Plutonium Chili Cookoff, Medieval Banquet, Dance, Art Demos, Gaming, Dealers, and Science Fiction Auction
$10.005 Pre-Attending, $12.34 at the Door
ATTENDANCE LIMITED to 150 / Call for Speaker Confirms
At the LASFS CLUBHOUSE
11513 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601
(818)760-9234
We're right close to the 170 fwy, park on the Boulevard.
 
The annual theme for the convention is to promote and encourage local talent, so who better to have as our guest this year as local-makes-good David Gerrold, whose work in media and print have made him known to an international audience. Also, Selina Phanara is a local artist whose skill with paper cutout art has defined a new arena in SF artwork. We honor her artistry with a special convention t-shirt featuring an original artwork design. Len and June Moffatt have been steady attendees of conventions, convention runners, and supporters of science fiction fandom since the 1940's. We welcome them to our special weekend and honor them at our Sunday Festival banquet, where they will serve as King and Queen during our live-role playing event.
Well, here we go! Enjoy the weekend, visit with friends, and remember, have some fun!
-- Michael Donahue
Chair, Tra-La-La Con
Guests of Honor
David Gerrold (Guest of Honor)
David Gerrold is the award-winning author of many groundbreaking science fiction novels including "When Harlie Was One," "The Galactic Whirlpool" and the landmark "War Against the Chtorr" series, as well as the non-fiction book "The World of Star Trek". His screenplay for "The Trouble With Tribbles" is counted as one of Star Trek's most popular episodes ever, so much that it was recently revisited on Deep Space Nine (where David guested as an extra). He was also responsible for much of the early production of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and is a past president of the LASFS. David is currently embroiled in pre-production of his series Starwolf, which is based upon his novel "Voyage of the Star Wolf".
J. Michael Straczynski (Media Guest)
Joe Straczynski has joined us at the past two La-La-Cons, usually in conjunction with his television series, Babylon 5, which is inarguably the most popular TV science fiction series among fandom today. Babylon 5 is currently in its fourth season, and any time Joe does a convention, the B5 event is certain to be well-attended. Joe is also the former producer of Murder, She Wrote and other TV series, and the author of such books as "Othersyde" and "The Complete Book of Scriptwriting". He lives in LA with his wife, author Kathrynn Drennan.
Len & June Moffatt (Fan Guests of Honor)
Len & June Moffatt are active members of LASFS and Los Angeles fandom; as a matter of fact, Len is the longest continuing LASFS Thursday attendee today. The winners of the Evans-Freehafer Award for service to the club a few years ago, Len and June are responsible for starting Bouchercon, dedicated to the mystery genre. They met and eventually married through the club.
Selina Phanara (Artist Guest of Honor)
Selina Phanara is a local artist and LASFS member. Her works are mostly paper-cutout and have been displayed at many local conventions including Loscon and Gallifrey. Selina also designed the t-shirt for this year's La-La-Con convention.
PROGRAMMING
Saturday, April 26
| 10:00 AM | Library Open-House | Host: Michael Mason |
| 10:00 AM | Cartoons
(Back Building) | |
| 11:00 AM | Fan Story Telling | Len & June Moffatt
Bill Rotsler
and others! |
| 12:00 PM | Chili Cookoff
(Front Building) | |
| 12:30 PM | SMOF Panel-
"How to Manipulate Fans, Run Cons,
Start Secret Societies,
all for the love of SF" | Bruce Pelz
Ed Green
Mike Donahue
Shaun Lyon |
| 2:00 PM | Guest of Honor | David Gerrold |
| 3:30 PM | Wolfmill Productions' "Pocket Dragons" | Craig Miller
Marv Wolfman |
| 4:30 PM | Crafts Demo - Glass Engraving | Theresa |
| 5:30 PM | Break for Dinner | |
| 7:00 PM | "Beyond the Rim" Ice Cream Social | Time Meddlers
of Los Angeles |
| 7:00 PM | "Shadow Dancing":
The Tra-La-La-Con Dance | |
| 8:30 PM | The UCLA Enigma Players Performance | |
| 8:45 PM | Babylon 5 | J. Michael Straczynski |
| 10:00 PM | Videos | |
Sunday, April 27
| 10:00 AM | "They're Coming to Conquer The World ... Again" | Eric Hoffman |
| 11:30 AM | Artist Frank Kelly-Freas | |
| 12:30 PM | Glorious Galaxies - Astronomy Lecture | Dr. Robert Hurt |
| 2:00 PM | Artist GoH Crafts Demo | Selina Phanara |
| 3:30 PM | Science Fiction Auction | Hosted by
Bruce Pelz |
| 5:00 PM | Tra-La-La-Con Banquet | Presided by
Len & June Moffatt
Ed Green
Charles Lee Jackson II |
| 7:30 PM | Miscellaneous Videos
clean-up | |
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