Bus to Finncon from Turku

TSFS is thinking about organizing a bus transport to Finncon next August. The trip would be for Saturday only, and would be quite inexpensive (maybe around 15 to 18 € per person, depending on the amount of participants). If you think you might be interested in a day trip to the convention (very warmly recommended, if you are not able to go for the whole weekend), contact <bussi@tsfs.fi> and let them know this would be a good idea.

Also (just occurred to me): if you are coming to the con from Sweden via Turku on Saturday (on the morning ferry), it might be possible to use the bus connection (no guarantees, since no timetables have been set). If anybody’s interested, drop me an e-mail and I’ll make inquiries.

Update: Some info about the time table. The departure from Turku will be at 9 in Maistraatinpuisto (if anybody will be coming from the ferry, the bus will pick you up). The bus will be at con at noon(ish). The way back will start at about 9 PM.

French Author Rufin in Helsinki Today

The French author Jean-Christophe Rufin is visiting Finland today and tomorrow. Tonight he will be interviewed by Kimmo Lehtonen at seven (Mannerheim-sali, Uusi ylioppilastalo, Mannerheimintie 5 A, 5th floor; free admittance) at an event organized by HYSFK and his publisher Tammi.

Rufin’s book Globalia just came out in Finnish.

Turku Comics Meeting on Thursday

The Turku comics club spring meeting will be held tomorrow (March 16) at Cosmic Comic Cafe at 5. All interested are welcome to discuss comics and future activities of the club.

Thursday Pub Meeting

Just a reminder that the monthly pub meeting in Turku takes place this Thursday at 6. Bar Bremer, as usual.

Sf Co-operation Meeting in March

The co-operation meeting for the Finnish sf societies will be held March 4 in Tampere at the traditional winterswimmers’ sauna. It is also the 4,5-year–anniversary of Spektre.

The event starts at 3, and in addition to meeting representatives from other sf societies, there’s the anniversary celebration, including snacks, drinks, sauna (with swimming), and also the silent film The Call of Cthulhu from 2005. The cost is five euros per attendee.

Birthday Mafia

Today’s was a pub night with a birthday theme—sort of. As reported earlier, TSFS celebrated its 30-year–anniversary last weekend, and I’d made a picture report for this mafia in my fanzine (with pictures that couldn’t have been published anywhere else). Also, Tutka had a birthday (11 years) last week, but we decided not to have the traditional celebration (so as not to have too many birthday parties during one week), but asked people to come to the mafia instead—and had at least one extra person there who wouldn’t have come otherwise. Hopefully he will be seen again at future pub meetings.

And last, but also least, my fanzine, Turu Mafia Zine, had an anniversary of sorts: the tenth issue came out today. Oh, how the time flies when you’re having fun! (Well, I am anyway. Not so sure about the readers.) There was the picture report mentioned before, some fandom news and a competition with a chivalrous theme. Which was won by Tytti, congratulations. Not much improvement on the prize front this time either, I’m afraid. But will try to do better in the future. Maybe.

TSFS Site Moved

The website of the Turku Science Fiction Society has moved and can now be found at address www.tsfs.fi. More frequent updates of site content have been promised.