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Announcing our 2022 Venue!

Looking for the Octocon 2022 website? Find it here!

As Octocon 2021 kicks off, we can finally talk about our plans for 2022 and the new venue we’ve secured to make our return to in-person conventions as best as can be! Our wonderful Chairperson Raissa revealed the news in the 2021 Opening Ceremony.

Octocon is going to Croke Park!

The home of Irish sports is the new home for Ireland’s National Science Fiction Convention. The next Octocon will take place on October 15-16, 2022 in Croke Park.

Registration for Octocon 2022 is now open!

Membership prices for 2022:

  • Adults (22+) – €60
  • Young Adult (13-21) – €20
  • Concession – €40
  • Supporting – €20
  • Friend – €100

We look forward to seeing you there!

Please note that if you purchased membership for 2020, it has been rolled over to 2022 already.

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Octocon Presents: We Can Change Faster Than the Climate Can, with Oisín McGann

As part of our Octocon Presents series of events in the run-up to our virtual event in October, we’re proud to present We Can Change Faster Than the Climate Can, on June 8th at 7:30pm (UTC+1). The event will feature a reading by Oisín McGann from his new non-fiction book ‘A Short, Hopeful Guide to Climate Change’, followed by an interview conducted by Daniella Bella.

Watch live on our Twitch channel OctoconIRL.

What is Climate Change? How can it be stopped? And what can you do to help the fight? Oisín McGann explains Climate Change science and encourages readers to be a part of positive change by getting involved in the global movement to fight humanity’s biggest challenge.

About Oisín McGann

Oisín McGann is one of Ireland’s most prolific and best-known writer-illustrators, producing books for all ages of reader. He is the author of the Mad Grandad books, Headbomz: Wreckin’ Your Head, and novels such as Race the Atlantic Wind, The Gods and Their Machines and The Wildenstern Saga.

He is a winner of the European Science Fiction Society Award, CBI’s Children’s Choice Award and has been shortlisted for numerous other awards, including the Waterstones Childrens’ Book Prize in the UK, le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire in France and Locus Magazine’s Best First Novel Award in the US.

You can find out more about Oisín McGann via the social media links below, and don’t forget to join us on Twitch at 7:30pm (UTC+1) on Tuesday 8th June for our Octocon Presents event.

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Our Survey Says…

Octocon Presents is hosting a panel quiz during Pride Month in June, and we’d like you to answer the following questions!

Complete our survey here!

Don’t think too hard, just put down the first thing that comes to mind, and feel free to skip questions if it’s taking too long to think of an answer. Your answers to the survey will be used to determine the correct answers for the actual quiz – think Family Fortunes.