Nullus Anxietas 2

Happy Hogswatch!

We’ve got a couple of special treats for you this Hogswatch.

Hogswatch Special

For the period 17th of December to the 31st of December we are celebrating Hogswatch by giving people who sign-up in this period a $15 discount off their convention ticket¹. This is a perfect time to get your Pratchett fans a great Christmas present or a present for yourself with your Christmas money. Tickets for this period are $135/$115 respectively.

¹ Discount does not apply to Gala Dinner tickets.

Gala Dinner

The long awaited Gala Dinner tickets are now available for purchase, these tickets will be on sale until the 31st of January and there are a limited number of tickets. If you’ve already got your ticket and want to add the Gala Dinner to your membership head over here: Gala Dinner Upgrade otherwise just purchase your Gala Dinner ticket as you sign-up. You can build your own table if you have friends coming simply nominate them as your preferred dining companions when you sign-up.

Impending Price Rise

Just a quick note to all that there is a scheduled convention ticket price rise on SEPTEMBER 30TH AT MIDNIGHT. After that tickets will be $150 or $130 for valid concession holders.

Also don’t forget that supporting memberships are available. These are for people who wish to support the convention, but don’t have any current plans to be at the event itself.

Supporting memberships are available at any point for $25 – and if you have one of these and want to upgrade to a full membership at a later point, then you’ll only need to pay the difference to whatever the full price was when you signed up for the initial supporting membership.

We Aten't Dead

We’re now open for registration! Thanks for your patience – as a reward, there’s a $15 discount on our starting prices of $120/$100 until July 14th.

More details will be elaborated upon as we draw closer to February, but there’s a start on the programme page and the unions page.

Convention Plans

Sorry it’s taken a while to get an official announcement for the next convention worked out – we wanted to get a few people’s involvement confirmed first though.

So here’s the plan:

• 6th-8th February 2009
• Daniel Knight and Snowgum Films are working to better ‘Run Rincewind Run’, and planning to have Troll Bridge ready to show off too.
• Martin Pearson will be returning to regale us with his witty songs and stories.
• Medieval Weapon Demonstrations, Werewolf, Significant Quest and other favourite sessions will be returning as well.

We’re currently working on getting a venue confirmed and membership registration set up – planning to have that ready in the coming weeks. We’re all pretty excited with what we’ve got lined up, and hopefully you are too.

Update regarding Terry's health

Terry got in touch with us a couple of days ago, and informed us he has a rare form of early onset Alzheimer’s. Before you get too worried, I recommend you read his note about it at paulkidby.com

While it’s not happy news, it is great to see Terry approach it optimistically.

However, this turn of events has led to the cancellation of Terry’s signing tour of Australia and New Zealand in 2008 – and thus, his attendance at Nullus Anxietas 2. Frankly, we’d rather Terry look after himself, and spend more time writing, than come down to this part of the world – it does raise a few questions about the convention though.

We don’t have any concrete answers for you just yet, but we’re in the midst of discussions. At this stage, I’d say there’s a good chance we’ll still go ahead, perhaps as a smaller event, but I can’t give you a definite response about that just yet. (I will let you know as soon as possible, I promise!)