Salem, Massachusetts · First year
A Roman and Greek history convention for greater Boston.
It doesn't exist yet. That's what this page is for.
We're counting. If enough people within reach of Salem say they'd come, we book a venue and set a date. If they don't, we don't, and nobody has put down a deposit on a hall that stays empty.
Either way you'll hear the number. Nothing on this page is a promise except that one.
The facts, so far
- Attendance
- 2,000–3,000
- the number we'd need. The only one we've fixed.
- Region
- Greater Boston
- Salem, unless your postal code says otherwise.
- Venue
- Open
- we can't book a hall before we know the size.
- Dates
- Open
- one day or a weekend, depending on how far you'd come.
- Ticket
- Open
- you're setting this one directly.
Waitlist
Put your name down
About ninety seconds. No payment, no account, no ticket. This is a count.
Programming
What we'd put on
Seven tracks, and the waitlist asks which of them you'd actually turn up for. A track that nobody picks doesn't get a room.
Reenactment & LARP
Kit gets inspected. Bring something you made.
Cosplay
Build panels, a masquerade, and a table of people who can fix a broken strap
Academic talks
Working historians and archaeologists. Not costume drama.
Gaming & wargaming
Open play space, all weekend
Vendors & artisans
Armourers, potters, weavers, booksellers
Family programming
For younger visitors, and the adults who get dragged along
Film & media
Screenings, plus the people who got it wrong
Why we're asking
Each answer settles something
Every question on the form maps to a decision someone has to make with real money. None of it is market research for its own sake.
- How big a venue
- A 500-person hall and a 3,000-person hall are different buildings with different deposits. Your postal code and group size set that number.
- Which city
- Salem is the working assumption. If the answers cluster elsewhere in the Boston area, we move rather than argue with the data.
- What a ticket costs
- The price band you pick is the ceiling we plan against. Underprice it and the programming thins out; overprice it and the hall is half empty.
- One day or a weekend
- How far people say they would travel decides this. Nobody drives six hours for an afternoon.
The small print
The list, and who can read it
Your email goes on a list two organizers can read. We use it to tell you whether this is happening, and when tickets open. It is not sold, rented, or handed to a sponsor.
Postal codes are cut to three digits before they reach any report, and any group smaller than five is dropped. No summary can point at a person.
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