Big Fun Radio Funtime is a staged performance of audio comedy featuring new comedy sketches spoken into microphones for your laughing pleasure. Created especially for CONvergence, this soundscape of humor is a great way to start off the convention! Participants: Jerry Stearns, Tim Wick, Dawn Krosnowski, Angela Fox, Christopher Jones, Charles Hubbell, Windy Bowlsby
See a symphony of Smackdown as our sonic specialists sound off about which bogus bands succumb or survive! Participants: Melissa Sue Kaercher, Tim Wick, Christopher Jones, Kelvin Hatle, Tim Uren, Chris Kluwe, Rian Vellichor, Duck Washington, Windy Bowlsby
Come watch a live play through of a Dungeons and Dragons campaign with past and present Guests of Honor! They will jump right into an active campaign and what happens next is your best guess. Participants: Kyle B Dekker (mod), Chris Kluwe, Shannan Paul, Victor Jason Raymond, C.S.E. Cooney, Carlos Hernandez, Colette Feehan
A panel of comedians compete to complete the strange tasks set forth by a megalomaniacal game show host and their assistant. Who can complete the challenges with the most creativity and panache? Based on the British game show. Participants: Lee Harris, Tim Wick, Nick Glover, Duck Washington, Shannan Paul, Windy Bowlsby, Jeremy Stomberg
Dr. Jim Kakalios, physicist, and Chris Kluwe, retired NFL punter, will discuss and demonstrate the physics of kicking (punting) a football. Participants: James Kakalios, Chris Kluwe
Four "experts" must each give a PowerPoint presentation with slides they have never seen before, and the slides make no sense! Participants: Melissa Sue Kaercher, Tim Wick, Shannan Paul, Lee Harris, Gregory Parks, Andrea Ropella
Ready to run away to the circus? Escape to MainStage for a cirque-style celebration of fantastic fandoms and creative cosplays as performers dance, climb, spin and astound! Participants: Shadowcat Sophie, Sarah Herda, Sara Su, Rev Dominic, Anjela, Dewfeathers, Jayne Aer, Thayer Slichter, Foxxi Stiletto, Sasha Rapacz, Hot Tang
Reverend Matt’s Monster Science: They Might Be Halflings - A History of Player Character Species 2022 CONvergence Guest of Honor Reverend Matt returns to the Mainstage with a compact history of non-human adventurers in role-playing games! From the days when “Elf” was a character class (and Gary Gygax was grumpy about it), through to the modern day, where every single character is maybe a pony! Mutant animals! Moody vampires! Various humanoid ducks! At least two whole games where everybody is a dinosaur in outer space! And much, much more! Tons of information about the history of role-playing games, plus so many comedy jokes, and even PowerPoint! Participants: Matthew Kessen
Laughter meets real life in this unforgettable blend of stand-up comedy and storytelling. Join Miss Shannan Paul and her special guests as they turn life's chaos into comedy gold--sharing hilarious, heartfelt, and geek-approved tales that celebrate resilience, fandom, and the joy of embracing the unexpected. Participants: Shannan Paul
Loud as a nat-20 made entirely of drums, we are Harisen Daiko. Our drummers bring you a selection of pounding visceral rhythms including original compositions, as well as percussive adventure in the finest traditions of ignoring the script in favor of doing something intensely silly. Step inside the blast radius this Sunday, and get a taste of the power, energy and emotions that taiko ignites.
The continuing adventures of the second-best Galaxy class starship in the Federation fleet: The USS Intrigue! Join the cast for a completely new & totally improvised episode performed in the style of The Next Generation. A show that truly goes where no one has gone before!
