Festivals Extra: Universal FanCon Pushes Show Back Citing They’re Just Not Able To Put On The Show

The Beat has a reasonably straightforward write-up on the show pushing back a week out from its start date. No refunds. No firm date for the show.

This is a focused bad thing in that people that planned to attend or to exhibit at this particular show almost certainly will suffer from sunk costs in terms of non-refundable travel costs, items made or prepared for the show, fees, and even time asked off or something similar. I assume there will be an effort to do a smaller show for those in town, and on-line connections extended to sellers that won't make it now, and I will try to promote those efforts here at CR in next week's Festival column. It doesn't necessarily sound like the kind of show readers of this site would attend in great percentages, but many of you were likely aware of it and attending a make-up show is a nice thing to do even if it's not completely your thing.

This is a general bad thing in that it underlines that these shows are hard, and kickstarted things of many types can be hard and elude completion. I've learned this as much as anyone the last few years and am still scrambling to get on track with a lot of make-up work to come afterwards at all of my jobs. I wish I had been less brash and started smaller and pushed harder to develop as we go and even when we have we've still learned that anything worth doing is going to go through growing pains that are going to extraordinarily painful to negotiate. Be Drawn and Quarterly, not Next Planet Over. Year twenty, not year one. Just having a smaller group of people involved makes any recovery easier, too, as will multiple back-up plans. My sympathy to everyone harmed.

Update: This twitter thread suggests there may be a nefarious element involved and thus this may not just be a failure of the organizers' collective will. That might help people leverage their credit cards into refunding, and it certainly needs to be part of the story moving forward.
 
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