{"id":11196,"date":"2015-10-21T06:11:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=11196"},"modified":"2015-10-29T09:22:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T16:22:43","slug":"ifconvictoria-2015-brings-fantasy-to-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/10\/21\/ifconvictoria-2015-brings-fantasy-to-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"IFConVictoria 2015 brings fantasy to Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: This event has been cancelled.<\/em><\/p>\n

Halloween is a very special time of year, when the veil between the spirit world and our world parts and all the ghosts, candy fairies, and costume-shop owners slip through. Bill Code and his team thought that this would be an excellent time of year to put on a fantasy convention; after all, everyone\u2019s already in costume.<\/p>\n

Code has been involved in many conventions and has been a fan of all things fantasy, superheroes, and sci-fi since he was 12. He\u2019s determined to make IFConVictoria 2015 (the IF stands for Island Fantasy) exactly what his childhood self dreamed of.<\/p>\n

\u201cI decided, you know what? You can\u2019t do anything small; you\u2019ve got to go big or go home. That\u2019s why IFCon is on such a large scale,\u201d says Code. \u201cThere are a lot of systems to be put in place. Not only are you doing the bookings, you\u2019ve got to do the setups, the movie room, Q&As, costume contests, exhibitions, all the insurance; putting on an event this size is a lot of work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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IFCon\u2019s Bill Code (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All the work that\u2019s been put into IFCon over the past 16 months is worth it to Code. The event will feature a pile of celebrity guests, from The X-Files<\/i>\u2019 Smoking Man to TV\u2019s Buck Rogers. Other guests have been feature on shows including The 100<\/i>, Flash<\/i>, and Continuum<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an Addams Family <\/i>panel, we have two different Power Rangers<\/i> panels, we have a science fiction panel, we have a fantasy panel, we have an armour workshop, we have exclusive showings of R-rated horror movies, we have a paintball zombie shooting range,\u201d says Code. \u201cJust a whole bunch of different things that assure there will always be something to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are a lot of expenses involved in putting on an event like IFCon, but this hasn\u2019t deterred the convention\u2019s team from creating the best and biggest show they can. And they\u2019re not just working to entertain the public at large\u0143the proceeds are going to help a very worthy cause.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis event is completely for the BC Children\u2019s Hospital, so everyone who\u2019s working on it is doing so on a volunteer basis, myself included,\u201d Code explains. \u201cIt\u2019s all going to the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

As it turns out, helping out children is a top priority for Code.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m big on the kids,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve got a one-year-old granddaughter that\u2019s my love and joy. She\u2019s the best thing that ever happened to me. I just think there are a lot of underprivileged and sick children, and the BC Children\u2019s Hospital, I think, spends money more wisely than other charities.\u201d<\/p>\n

IFCon Victoria 2015
\nOctober 31 and November 1
\n$45 for weekend pass,\u00a0Pearkes Rec Centre
\nifconvictoria.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: This event has been cancelled. Halloween is a very special time of year, when the veil between the spirit world and our world parts and all the ghosts, candy fairies, and costume-shop owners slip through. Bill Code and his team thought that this would be an excellent time of year to put on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-october-21-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11250,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196\/revisions\/11250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}