Festivals Extra: April’s SPACE Loses Host Hotel To Closure; Event Moved To Mid-July At New Venue



The Columbus, Ohio-based small press festival SPACE, the long-running comics show to grow out of the Spirits Of Independents tour some two decades in the rear view mirror now that's not named SPX, has moved from a show on April 11 and April 12 to the weekend of July 18 and July 19. The reason? The hotel that has hosted the show for the last five years has shuttered, sending founder and organizer Bob Corby scrambling for an alternative venue. They've found one at the Northalnd Performing Arts Center.

Corby's e-mail indicates the new venue had been on the show's mind for a while. "[The closure] was done without any notification and less than a week after they assured us we were all set for our original contracted date. We knew the hotel was having problems and were about to sign a contract with the Northland Performing Arts Center for 2016 when the closure occurred so we contacted them about a date this year."

Corby also noted that any exhibitors or ticket-holders that cannot attend on the new dates will have their money immediately refunded upon request, with the show's apologies for any inconvenience caused.

One positive outcomes is that the new space has more tables and they're opening up their exhibition registration again as a result.

Intriguingly, this takes SPACE out of maybe the Spring's most crowded convention/festival weekend, and may allow some alt-indy folks to attend or maybe even find a bit of table space with a pal at MoCCA, which is itself switching venues this year. It also puts them the weekend after Comic-Con International. As SPACE is a show with almost no overlap with the San Diego event -- I bet fewer than 10 people work both shows professionally in any single year -- I don't expect any disruptions there.

I plan on exhibiting at the July show.
 
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