Friday | 6:00 PM | 6:50 PM | Learn To Draw Cartoons with Bill Messner Loebs | Ballroom A&B | Take a lesson on drawing cartoons from Bill at the Mural of ConFusion! | Bill Messner-Loebs | ART |
Friday | 7:00 PM | 7:50 PM | Opening Ceremonies | Ballroom A&B | Welcome to Friendship is ConFusion! Meet our GOHs and SubPress special guests, and hear what the ConCom has in store for you this weekend! | Anna Carey, Karen Burnham, Gail Carriger, Jeffrey Alan Love, Mallory O'Meara, Mark Oshiro, James S.A. Corey, Joe Hill, Gillian Redfearn | CONFUSION |
Friday | 9:00 PM | 9:50 PM | The Nerdaissance | Ballroom A&B | In the comedic fanfiction system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. The audience who enjoys and laughs and the Nerdiassance, who write and perform for them. These are their stories. 18+. ID will be required. | Ericka Kahler, Joe Harvey, Adam Clifford, Mary Brandt, Molly Zigler, Mary Ann Mead | FANDOM |
Saturday | 10:00 AM | 10:50 AM | Reading: Dyrk Ashton, Emmy Jackson, Ferrett Steinmetz | Ballroom A&B | Authors read from current or forthcoming works | Dyrk Ashton, Emmy Jackson, Ferrett Steinmetz | LITERATURE |
Saturday | 11:00 AM | 11:50 AM | Reading: Joe Hill and John Scalzi | Ballroom A&B | Authors read from current or forthcoming works | Joe Hill, John Scalzi | LITERATURE |
Saturday | 12:00 PM | 12:50 PM | Worldbuilding 495 | Ballroom A&B | Genre fiction, in all its many forms, relies on the author's ability to invest its reader in a world other than their own. What are some of the advanced methods of adding a sense of the real to invented worlds? How do authors get themselves out of tricky spots when deep into a series? | Marissa Lingen (M), John Chu, Dave Robison, Mary G. Thompson | LITERATURE |
Saturday | 1:00 PM | 1:50 PM | Art Demo: It Starts With The Dragon | Ballroom A&B | Artist Clifford Van Meter gives a live story drawing with help from the audience! | Clifford VanMeter | ART |
Saturday | 2:00 PM | 2:50 PM | Behind the Scenes of a Book Cover | Ballroom A&B | Jeffrey Alan Love will paint a live demonstration of what goes into making a book cover, from the moment the artist gets the concept through to the final product. The completed painting will be raffled off to support our charity! | Jeffrey Alan Love | ART |
Saturday | 3:00 PM | 3:50 PM | Mallory O'Meara Q&A | Ballroom A&B | Come ask our Media Guest of Honor all your burning questions! | Mallory O'Meara | CONFUSION |
Saturday | 4:00 PM | 4:50 PM | Fans & Health | Ballroom A&B | Fans sometimes think they need to run a marathon (or run period) or completely change their eating habits to be "healthy." Not so. Learn from a couple of fans, with completely different health challenges, how each of us have gotten healthier | Andrea Dale (M), Tom Smith, Bernadette Bosky, Cylithria Dubois, Elizabeth Shack | FANDOM |
Saturday | 5:00 PM | 5:50 PM | Tom Smith Concert | Ballroom A&B | Tom brings his usual mix of humor, wit, and energy. Not to be missed! | Tom Smith | MUSIC |
Saturday | 7:00 PM | 7:50 PM | Masquerade | Ballroom A&B | Come see - or show off - the best costumes of the night! Judges will scrutinize. Crowds will cheer. Audiences will swoon. Honors will be awarded. | | CONFUSION |
Saturday | 8:00 PM | 8:50 PM | Reading: Max Gladstone, Mur Lafferty, Andrea Phillips | Ballroom A&B | Authors read from current or forthcoming works | Max Gladstone, Mur Lafferty, Andrea Phillips | LITERATURE |
Saturday | 10:00 PM | 10:50 PM | Mark Reads After Dark | Ballroom A&B | Mark Oshiro reads from erotic sci-fi savant and national treasure Chuck Tingle, and other examples of hilarious adult literature. 18+. ID will be required. | Mark Oshiro | FANDOM |
Sunday | 11:00 AM | 11:50 AM | Reading: Brandon Black, Michael J. DeLuca, Michael R. Underwood | Ballroom A&B | Authors read from current or forthcoming works | Brandon Black, Michael J. DeLuca, Michael R. Underwood | LITERATURE |
Sunday | 12:00 PM | 12:50 PM | Jeffrey Alan Love Reading | Ballroom A&B | Our Art Guest of Honor reads from his new book "Notes from the Shadowed City" which he both wrote and illustrated. | Jeffrey Alan Love | CONFUSION |
Sunday | 3:00 PM | 3:50 PM | Closing Ceremonies | Ballroom A&B | Come say goodbye to our Guests of Honor and Special Guests, and learn what we might have in store for you for next year! | Anna Carey, Karen Burnham, Gail Carriger, Jeffrey Alan Love, Mallory O'Meara, Mark Oshiro, Yanni Kuznia, Geralyn Lance | CONFUSION |
Sunday | 4:00 PM | 4:50 PM | Feedback Session | Ballroom A&B | Give the ConCom compliments, ask questions, provide concerns. Review the con experience with the all-volunteer concom and staff, and find out how to join in the fun of planning ConFusion for next year! | ConFusion ConCom | CONFUSION |