Ad Astra Toronto
175 Wynford Dr L4B 1B2 Toronto, ON, Canada

With the growing concern over the COVID-19 situation, along with the Ontario Government's order halting events with 50 people or more attendees, it is with a heavy heart that I must announce that this year's Ad Astra will be postponed until 2021. After discussing our situation at length with the Ad Astra Board of Directors (the Board), we have made the difficult decision to postpone Ad Astra this year. The team would like to stress that this decision did not come lightly, and... we have exhausted every other option we had available. In keeping with the above-mentioned order from the Ontario government, combined with our own discussions with respect to public safety, the safety and well being of our members, volunteers, stakeholders, and our duty of responsibility to the continuing viability of Ad Astra, we have suspend the planning of Ad Astra 2020 and focussing our efforts on being prepared for the next opportunity to run again. If you have already registered for Ad Astra 2020, those existing registrations will be put forward to Ad Astra 2021. If you have any questions or concerns regarding your membership, or wish to inquire about refunds, please email us at: [email protected]. We are actively working with the hotel on securing the venue for the same dates next year. As soon as we have more solid information on bookings for the hotel for 2021, we will let people know on our social media and website. The Board and Chair want to thank the entire ConCom for all of their hard work in organizing this year's event. Now that we can use all of our planning efforts towards next year, the Board is confident that with the additional time available, we will make 2021 something even more special. Very special thanks goes out to our Guests of Honour Ellen Kushner, Heather Dale and Peter Kenneth whose generous gift of their time is so important to us. To our featured guests Robert Sawyer, Ed Greenwood and Eric Choi, your continued support of literary events is ever so appreciated! To our local artists and exhibitors who continue to return and support Ad Astra over and over again, thank you always for your contributions every year. We especially want to thank the entire membership of Ad Astra; it is because of your support that we can continue to put these events on every year. Thank you for your continued support, we hope you are all safe and doing well during these difficult times. James Bade Convention Chair Ad Astra Board of Directors: President: Paul Roberts Vice-President: Michael Green Secretary: Zalmen Serebryanski Directors: David Hurst, Andrew Houston, Michael Labadie Carolyn van Heerden

Need Science Fiction help? Who you gonna call? 1-844-NEED-SCI !! Now, we're not sure this will work for Canadians calling ... but this is a pretty great idea. The Science & Entertainment Exchange is ready to provide consultation to make your Science Fiction more realistic. It says Film and TV - but we can see no reason why Authors couldn't take advantage of this... NOTE: We do have our own local people to ask too ... some of our Ad Astra members are literally Rocket Scientist...s, Mechanical Designers, and other professionals.... so feel free to ask here too. http://scienceandentertainmentexchange.org/

Stay Safe everyone... we miss you all!

Many of us are Omnilegent... for sure!

Me after how many months in quarantine? #roddenberry

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Hey hey Ad Astra fans! Seeing as how we'll be missing all our hallway chats this weekend () ... Share with us what you last read... with a little review.