Welcome to the Convention Tuesdays segment! Each week here on Geek Alabama, Convention Tuesdays will feature and highlight conventions happening during the upcoming weekend in the State of Alabama, or within short driving distances from Alabama such as Atlanta, Nashville, Chattanooga, New Orleans, Jackson, Memphis, and other nearby cities close to Alabama.
Listings come from Southern Fandom Resource Guide
March 7-9 — CoastCon — Biloxi, Mississippi
CoastCon is Mississippi’s longest-running and largest science fiction, fantasy, and gaming convention. It is the main sponsored event of CoastCon, Inc., a non-profit literary organization. CoastCon, Inc. and its ten-member volunteer board develops events and gatherings to promote reading, education, fellowship, and science fiction, fantasy, and gaming in all formats across the Southern United States, for over forty years.
Besides the largest genre-themed vendor’s room in the state, the art show and auction, a charity auction, and Saturday costume contest and evening dance party, each year members and attendees of CoastCon can participate in three days of events including over 72 hours of panels, seminars, demonstrations, and workshops on topics that include activities on writing, art, anime, gaming, science fiction and fantasy literature, comic books, costuming, hard science, online media, fandom, genre film and television, table-top, card and miniatures gaming, and robotics to name only a few.
Learn more at: https://www.coastcon.org/
March 8-9 — Mississippi Anime Festival — Jackson, Mississippi
Mississippi Anime Fest is a two-day event being held at the Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St, Jackson, MS 39202) and will bring together a diverse list of guests, vendors, artists, and fan groups, in an affordable, family-friendly environment.
Learn more at: https://www.msanimefest.com/
