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Lavecon 2015

Details from their Website:

Lavecon: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival
In its third year, Lavecon is a growing event celebrating all aspects of Science Fiction and Fantasy with Elite: Dangerous at its centre. This annual event is a chance to meet up with fans, gamers, writers, developers and anyone else interested in Science fiction and Fantasy.

We hope you can join for Board Gaming, LRP, Cosplay, LAN, tabletop roleplay, workshops (writing, make up, props), Special Guests and of course Elite Dangerous!

More details will appear on the activities page, we are still working on it, but we have exciting plans, so please keep checking back.

2015 Venue
Sedgebrook Hall

The Sedgebook Hall Hotel, Northamptonshire, NN6 8BD

http://www.sedgebrookhall.co.uk/

Time to relax after a long day gaming? There is a swimming pool, mini-gym, sauna and Jacuzzi, use of which is free for those staying in the hotel. Treatments (massages etc.) can be added on for extra cost, but need to be booked in advance.

Travel
Air – Nearest airports are Birmingham International, East Midlands and Luton. If you are then getting a train, there are direct trains from Birmingham International.

Train – The nearest train station to the venue is Northampton. For train times details please see www.nationalrail.co.uk

Car – There is car parking at the venue.

Timings
Saturday 11th – Sunday 12th July 2015.

Starting at 10am each day and running into the late night early morning for Saturday and weekend attendees and finishing by 6pm for Sunday and weekend attendees.

Tickets
This year, we have organised with the venue the option to stay onsite in the luxury hotel over the weekend, tea and coffee, meals and for those that choose our Platinum tickets, exclusive souvenirs of the day.  (charges apply to each of the options – take a look at our price list for more information).

Don’t forget to book a LAN pass if you’re bringing your computer!

All transactions will be charged a booking and transaction fee, prices shown on this document do not include this.

Bookings are now live – click here.

Lavecon 2015 Ticket Pricing Table

We will be taking bookings for hotel room (and breakfast) for the Friday and Sunday nights, as only the Saturday night stay is included with your gold/platinum tickets, book via us to make sure you don’t have to move rooms in between and to get the best price.  We will update this when we have the details.

We would ask that you don’t book rooms directly with the venue as these will not count towards our event attendee number to make the event viable.

We do not currently have camping options and it is not possible to camp at the venue, but will look into whether there is camping nearby.

Volunteers
Volunteers will be free to attend and charged at a discounted rate for food and hotel room. If you would like to volunteer and feel you would qualify for the volunteer rate then please contact us to confirm and discuss the volunteer role you would like to do. Volunteer booking will be taken separately, but the cost for this are shown on the ticket price document (payment via Paypal may have additional charges, not included in quoted price).

Activities and Guests
In 2014, we had:

• A LAN party running Oculus Rift headsets and an assortment of game controllers.
• Authors of the Elite: Dangerous official novels from Gollancz and Fantastic Books Publishing.
• Elite Encounters the RPG.
• Boardgaming bring and play.
• A Lave Radio podcast recording.
• The team from Frontier Developments giving us the latest inside knowledge on the development of the game.
• Live audio drama and previews from The Radio Theatre Workshop.
• Technology demonstrations.
• Q&A Sessions and workshops.
• Special guests.
• A raffle of never seen before prizes.
• Nintendo 3DS Streetpass.
• Trade stations from Fantastic Books Publishing, Having a Larp, ED Tracker and Thornless Rose.

In 2015 we plan to expand this itinerary, including a wide variety of fantasy and science fiction content.

Please visit their website for further news and updates