For Immediate Release

Date: November 11, 2024

Los Angeles, California – Loscon 50 “Celebrating 50 Loscons”

Loscon 50: Nov 29- Dec 1, 2024 Los Angeles area’s longest running Science Fiction Fan Convention supports the American Cancer Society/Relay for Life Team.

Loscon 50 is honored to support the mission of the American Cancer Society during the 2024 convention weekend as “Loscon Gives Back”. Many of our community members have been affected by various forms of cancer, we have survivors and losses from this devastating disease. We have teamed up with the Relay for Life fundraiser with one of our staff, Julia Ree who is part of the Riverside team and a cancer survivor herself. Julia’s direct Relay for Life link: https://secure.acsevents.org/site/STR?fr_id=109498&pg=personal&px=45165489

We have put out a call for knit hats to be crafted by those who knit or crochet in our Loscon community. These hats are gifted to cancer patients during their treatment and will be presented to Julia Ree during the convention. The hats can be brought to Loscon 50 and dropped off in the Office or they can be mailed in, please use the contact form on the loscon.org website.

Loscon will have an auction during the convention to raise funds to donate directly to the American Cancer Society Relay for Life team. We welcome donations to the auction by our community, our dealers, our authors and others who would like to support this worthy cause. Please use the contact form on our website at this link: https://loscon.org/contact/

Loscon is excited to welcome attendees to our three-day weekend of Science Fiction and Fantasy fun. We celebrate Larry Niven as our Writer Guest of Honor, Kathy Mar our Musical Guest of Honor, Dr Laura Brodian Freas Beraha our Artist Guest of Honor and the late Kelly Freas as our Artist Ghost of Honor and our Fan Guests of Honor, Genny Dazzo and Craig Miller. 

Loscon hosts writers and science panels, an ice cream social, regency dance, film screenings, music, blood drive, escape room, cosplay, maker room, art show and dealers’ room during our 3-day weekend event. Loscon is held at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton on Century Boulevard near Los Angeles International Airport. Weekend memberships are currently available at discounted rates. Please see https://loscon.lineupr.com/loscon-50/ for programming details.

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Loscon 50: Nov 29- Dec 1, 2024 Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel 5711 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045

Contact: Krystal Rains
Phone: 818-823-6033
losconpress@gmail.com