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Submissions Call!

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Hello Mysterium attendees and friends!

It’s submissions time, and this year, we’re calling for three types of submissions:

Art Contest

Our art contest for this year is a poster art contest. We’re looking for travel posters to go along with the theme “A Fantastic Voyage to Magical Worlds”. A great example is Robert’s beautiful Age 233 art from last year:

Think about those beautiful NASA posters, or classic Disney attraction posters. We’ve got very special plans for these posters!

Contest deadline: April 14

Conbook

The Conbook is a glossy, full-color mini magazine featuring your Myst, Uru, and Obduction themed works. The conbook takes artwork, photos of crafts, works of fiction, or Myst/Obduction/Cyan-related non-fiction articles.

Conbook deadline: June 9

Events

Events at Mysterium range from favorite group events like ayoheek, marker missions, and building competitions, to panels and presentations put together by you: the fans.

Events deadline: June 9

Follow the links above to see detailed submission instructions. The Committee is really looking forward to what you come up with!

Capella & OHB
Co-Chairs
Mysterium 2017

Wrapping Mysterium 2013!

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Shorah!

Mysterium 2013 is over and done, so now it’s time to wrap the event with some final words.

If you have photographs of Mysterium 2013 in publicly-viewable places, please email links to them to web@mysterium.net (or post them in comments). We’d love to post a showcase of people’s event pictures up on the blog and Flickr.

The recordings of the panels can be found on our YouTube channel. This is great for attendees who want to hear them again and non-attendees who want to know what happened. There will also be transcriptions of the panels within the next week.

Capella would like to take a moment like to thank the rest of her convention committee this year. Making a successful bid to host Mysterium in a new city is always a ton of effort and research. Odo’s a long-timer, and Capella has helped the committee before, but the rest of 2013’s committee was entirely new to the Mysterium planning game. Let’s thank estelendur, Kaelri, and Lutra for stepping up to the plate!

See you in the Drift – I mean, around the Cavern –

Capella

Mysterium 2013 Schedule!

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Here’s the schedule for Mysterium 2013. Please note that all times are in Eastern Time (GMT -4).

Thursday, August 1st

6:30 PM: Early Arrival Meet-and-Greet (optional)
6:45 PM: Showing of “Pacific Rim” at Regal Henrietta Cinema (optional)

Friday, August 2nd

10:00 AM: Opening Announcements, followed by Meet & Greet
11:00 AM: Panel: “Starry Expanse”
12:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 PM: Strong Museum of Play; Rochester Museum and Science Center; Unguided City Exploration
2:00 PM: “Reahn” Immersive Age Experience (Group 1)
3:00 PM: “Reahn” Immersive Age Experience (Group 2)
4:00 PM: “Reahn” Immersive Age Experience (Group 3)
5:00 PM: “Reahn” Immersive Age Experience (Group 4)
6:00 PM: Dinner
8:00 PM: “‘Heek 101” Tutorial
8:30 PM: Ahyoheek Tournament / Social Time

Saturday, August 3rd

10:00 AM: Ahyoheek Tournament / Social Time
11:00 AM: Panel: “Seltani”
12:00 PM: Lunch
1:15 PM: “What Would Atrus Build?”
3:00 PM: Skype Q&A with Robyn Miller
4:30 PM: Ahyoheek Tournament Finals / Social Time
6:00 PM: Dinner
8:00 PM: Social Time

Sunday, August 4th

10:00 AM: Social Time
12:00 PM: Closing Ceremonies

Guidebook

This year we’re pleased to offer an electronic version of our schedule as a Guidebook guide. You can download the app for Android or iPhone. To access our guide, you can either select “Scan” within the app to scan the QR code below, or just search for “Mysterium”. If you have a different mobile device, you can also access the guide by visiting m.guidebook.com and searching for “Mysterium”.

With the Guidebook app, we can push updates to you if there is a schedule change, and you can set up notifications for events or activities that you want to make sure you don’t miss. We will be pushing additional information about the Rochester area into our Guidebook guide soon, and you’ll always have the latest details even if you get the guide now.

We only have 200 downloads available for our 2013 guide, so if you aren’t attending this year, please refrain from downloading the guide so that attendees can have access to it. Thank you.

We look forward to seeing y’all there!
-the 2013 Mysterium Committee

Paper People!

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shorah Mysterium fans!

Paper People is a time-honored tradition. If you can’t attend Mysterium in-person, you can come in the form of a print-out representing yourself! Many people send pictures of their meatspace selves, but it’s okay to submit an Uru avatar, or your name on a cool background. If you want to come as a paper person, please email your representative image to committee@mysterium.net before midnight EST of Wed July 31. We’ll print you out and put you on our wall of paper people!