Montreal in 2027 Worldcon Bid Launched
Feb. 10th, 2024 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeMontréal, Canada has launched a bid to host 2027 Worldcon. You can read the full announcement in the news item on the WSFS website. This is a project of CanSMOF, the non-profit corporation that ran the 2009 Worldcon at the same site. Yes, I'm still a director of CanSMOF, and have been asked to join the bid committee. (Now I need to scrape up the money for my bid committee dues.)
Because it has already come up here on the first day after it was announced: 2028 was not possible. The Palais des Congrès is scheduled for a major renovation during 2028 and is unavailable. The dates were available in 2027, so we agreed to launch a bid.
As I've said elsewhere, should Montréal win, I expect that, if possible, that Lisa and I will go there the same way that we did in 2009, by train, although in this case the trip will start from Reno, then go to Chicago (probably staying overnight), then Schenectady (another overnight because the connection doesn't work), then up to Montréal. The last time we took that trip, we went back Montréal-Schenectady-Los Angeles without overnight stops, and it worked then. Should we be able to make this trip, we'll have to revisit possible travel plans. There is, after all, one east-west transcontinental route Lisa and I have not yet taken.
But first, we have to win a bid. Remember that if you want to help make Montréal a reality, you need to join Seattle Worldcon 2025 as at least a WSFS (formerly called Supporting) member so that you'll be eligible to vote on the site of the 2025 Worldcon. Then you'll have to actually vote in the election, which will probably open for voting in spring 2025 and run through the convention itself.
Because it has already come up here on the first day after it was announced: 2028 was not possible. The Palais des Congrès is scheduled for a major renovation during 2028 and is unavailable. The dates were available in 2027, so we agreed to launch a bid.
As I've said elsewhere, should Montréal win, I expect that, if possible, that Lisa and I will go there the same way that we did in 2009, by train, although in this case the trip will start from Reno, then go to Chicago (probably staying overnight), then Schenectady (another overnight because the connection doesn't work), then up to Montréal. The last time we took that trip, we went back Montréal-Schenectady-Los Angeles without overnight stops, and it worked then. Should we be able to make this trip, we'll have to revisit possible travel plans. There is, after all, one east-west transcontinental route Lisa and I have not yet taken.
But first, we have to win a bid. Remember that if you want to help make Montréal a reality, you need to join Seattle Worldcon 2025 as at least a WSFS (formerly called Supporting) member so that you'll be eligible to vote on the site of the 2025 Worldcon. Then you'll have to actually vote in the election, which will probably open for voting in spring 2025 and run through the convention itself.
