ConGregate 11

Informal Kickoff Cocktail Party: Meet the Lifeguards of Geek Summer Vacation 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Alakazam...It's Love! 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Panel TBD 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Unveiling Genetics: Healing, Innovating, and Exploring Ancestral... 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Room Closed 7:00pm - 8:00pm

The Creative's Paradox 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Time is Fleeting - 50th Anniversary of Rocky Horror Picture Show 9:30pm - 10:30pm

Open Gaming 2:00pm - 10:00pm

Opening Ceremonies: Geek Summer Vacation! 7:00pm - 8:00pm

The Idiot Box visits ConGregate Comedy Show 8:30pm - 9:30pm

Women in Film (need to change time) 2:30pm - 3:30pm

What Film Festivals Really Want (And What They Absolutely Don’t!... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

So, You Made a Movie… Now What? 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Room Closed 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Wonderful Movies with Wonderful People 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Exploring the Enchantment: The Enduring Allure of Fairies in Fan... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Geeks & Mental Health 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Who Needs an Agent Anyway? 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Room Closed 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Readings Hour Fri (5 people) 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Oh Those Summer Nights: Fantasy and Erotica - 18 & Up 9:30pm - 10:30pm

Teens & Tweens: Our Favorite Magical Worlds 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Teens & Tweens: Camp Halfblood 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Teens & Tweens: Heartstopper Graphic Novels and Netflix Series 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Room Closed 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Belly Dance in Speculative Fiction and Media 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Nevermore Academy: What's Next for Wednesday Addams in Season Tw... 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Costume in Crisis 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Room Closed 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Appreciation for Audio Dramas 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Ya Canna Change the Laws of Physics 9:30pm - 10:30pm

PDLS: Opening Ceremonies/Welcome/What to know 2:00pm - 3:00pm

PDLS: Creating Reader Engagement 3:30pm - 5:00pm

PDLS: 21 Days to a Novel 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Room Closed 7:00pm - 8:00pm

PDLS: Writer's Mingle 8:00pm - 9:30pm

Con Survivalism 101 2:30pm - 3:30pm

LARP SET UP - ROOM CLOSED 4:00pm - 5:00pm

World of Darkness LARP 5:00pm - 10:00pm

Top 10 Geeky Summer Beach Reads 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Home Recording: The Best Tools 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Decoding Slang: The Revenge of Gen X 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Room Closed 7:00pm - 8:00pm

 "And They Called Me Mad!" The Worst Ideas of Mad Scientists, Su... 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Room Closed

Online Media for Love or Money? 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Summer Blockbusters! 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Holo and Hampson Read Each Other's Works 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Room Closed 7:00pm - 8:00pm

This One Time at Con (or Con Stories on the Rocks... or How I Le... 9:00pm - 10:00pm

Room Closed

Secret History and Alt-worlds 10:00am - 11:00am

Small Press Publisher Roadshow (Sol, Prospective Press) 11:30am - 12:30pm

Falstaff Books Roadshow and Books Extravaganza 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Baen Books Traveling Roadshow and Prize Patrol 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Don't Hide from the Hide - Leather Working 3:30pm - 4:30pm

MV Media and Mocha Memoirs RoadShow 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Queer Press Road Show (Golddust Publishing and Space Wizard Scie... 5:30pm - 6:30pm

It Was A Dark And Stormy Night 7:00pm - 8:00pm

1985: The Year in Horror! 8:30pm - 9:30pm

Open Gaming 9:00am - 10:00pm

D&D Short & Sweet - An Intro Festival 1:30pm - 5:30pm

DJ McGuire Presents the Goldsmiths’ Gambit 10:00am - 11:00am

Gray Rineheart in concert 11:30am - 12:30pm

GOH Interview: Milton Davis 1:00pm - 2:00pm

The Return of the Costume Contest 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Alexandra Higgins in Concert 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Chuck Parker in concert 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Auction Set up 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Auction Viewing 9:00pm - 9:30pm

Charity Auction in support of the Winston-Salem Rescue Mission 9:30pm - 11:30pm

Film Festival 10:00am - 7:00pm

Hold for Film Festival Awards 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Emotional Support Demon - Ask Me (Us) Anything! 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Workshop: Beat the Summer Heat - How to make your make-up last 9:30am - 11:00am

Workshop: Basic Pattern Making 11:30am - 1:00pm

Pre-judging for Costume Contest/Green Room 1:30pm - 4:00pm

Workshop: Let's Make a World: Discuss Worldbuilding & Then Make One Together! 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Presentation: Viruses vs the Immune System 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Readings Hour Sat (5 people) 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Let's Go to Camp Blood! - 45th Anniversary of Friday the 13th 9:30pm - 10:30pm

Teens & Tweens: Children of the Con 10:30am - 11:30am

Teens & Tweens: How Spicy is too Spicy? 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Teens & Tweens: Summer Reading Lists 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Teens & Tweens: The Hunger Games 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Teens & Tweens: Dragons are a Girl's Best Friend? 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Caftans and Caffeine 9:00am - 10:00am

Presentation: LiDAR - Science Fiction and Science Reality 10:30am - 11:30am

What I wish I knew when I started...(Self-publishing) 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Development Mindset for Writers 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Bridging the Gap: Empowering Women for a Diverse STEM Future 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Unconventional Storytelling Tools 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Weird Science: Unexpected Ways to Put Science in Science Fiction 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Romero's Legacy - 40 Years of Day of the Dead/20 Years of Land o... 7:30pm - 8:30pm

Hazbin Hotel & Helluva Boss 9:00pm - 10:00pm

PDLS: Plotting 9:00am - 10:30am

PDLS: Business One w/John Hartness 11:00am - 12:30pm

PDLS: How to Write Urban Fantasy w/ Gail Z. Martin 1:30pm - 3:00pm

PDLS: Advanced Characterization 3:30pm - 5:00pm

PDLS: Crisis Clinic 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Mutant Mayhem - 25 Years of Fox's X-Men 9:30am - 10:30am

Fictional Fashion 11:00am - 12:00pm

Communicating Science - Part 1 (The Panel) 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Communicating Science - Part 2 (The Presentations) 1:30pm - 2:30pm

I'm Gonna Pop Some Tags - Thrift Shop Magic 3:00pm - 4:00pm

LARP SET UP - ROOM CLOSED 4:00pm - 5:00pm

World of Darkness LARP: 5:00pm - 10:00pm

Interdisciplinary Interactions: Engineering Subsets and Essentia... 9:00am - 10:00am

Shaping Modern Fantasy: Diverse Voices and Challenging Conventio... 10:30am - 11:30am

Arcane Carolinas: Winston-Salem's Ghosts of the Gilded Age 12:00pm - 1:30pm

A Scoundrels Interview - Timothy Zahn and Michael A Stackpole 2:00pm - 3:00pm

"Back in My Day" - OG Con Stories from 25+ years ago 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Plants and Fungi in Horror 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Sci-Fi Court! 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Pro-Wrestling: It’s a Fandom Too! 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Room Closed

1985: The Year in Science Fiction 9:00am - 10:00am

Did We Watch the Same Thing? 10:30am - 11:30am

Science Fiction Movies that Nobody Considers Science Fiction 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Toe-Tapping Terror: Where Music & Horror Meet, from Sinners to S... 1:30pm - 2:30pm

It wouldn't be Summer w/o JAWS... 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Classic Reboots: She-Ra, He-Man, Voltron and the one that starte... 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Wedding and Reception 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Doctor WHOrror? 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Room Closed

Summer Vacation in Other Realms 10:00am - 11:00am

Cowabunga! 35th Anniversary of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The... 11:30am - 12:30pm

DON’T COME TO THIS PANEL! 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Con in Review 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Open Gaming 9:00am - 2:00pm

Storymasters Tales (Game Session) 9:00am - 1:00pm

Playing Make-Believe - World Building 10:00am - 11:00am

Writer vs Author 11:30am - 12:30pm

Summer Camp Sing a Long 1:00pm - 2:00pm

What's Going on in the Lab? 10:00am - 11:00am

LiveStreaming in 2025 and Beyond 11:30am - 12:30pm

Gods, Myths, and Otherworlds: The Fusion of Mythology in Specula... 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Readings Hour Sun (5 people) 10:00am - 11:00am

Workshop: Basic Leather Working 101 (fee) 11:30am - 1:00pm

Teens & Tweens: Something about Video Games? 10:00am - 11:00am

AI in Star Trek 10:00am - 11:00am

Science Fiction and Fantasy in Musicals 11:30am - 12:30pm

Comfort Reads when the World is on Fire 1:00pm - 2:00pm

PDLS: Finding the Story 9:00am - 10:30am

PDLS: Business Two 11:00am - 12:30pm

PDLS: Making the Next Draft the Best 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Aliens and Hurtful Stereotypes 10:00am - 11:00am

Writing for the Body: Engaging the Readers' Senses 11:30am - 12:30pm

Crazy Online Media Mistakes to Avoid 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Value of a Critique Group 10:00am - 11:00am

Summer of '75 - Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy in Film and... 11:30am - 12:30pm

My First Costume - Getting Started in the Magic of Building Your... 1:00pm - 2:00pm

HIdden Disney: Metaphors within the Disney World 10:00am - 11:00am

Empowering Creativity: Open Source Tools for Independent Artists... 11:30am - 12:30pm

Andor as the New Star Wars 1:00pm - 2:00pm