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An ornamental trophy celebrating April Fool's Day in Glasgow for the year 2024. The trophy features a large, vertically standing, patterned rocket in hues of purple and blue with tartan pattern. The base is a dark, metallic color, depicting three armadillos, two in traffic cone hats flank a centered armadillo sitting atop a book. Center, a plaque reads 'GLASGOW 2024 HAPPY APRIL FOOLS' DAY! 1st APRIL 2024' against a textured gold background.

April Fool: Is that a Tartan Rocket?

On this glorious 1st of April—a day of fools and frivolity—Glasgow 2024 would like to share with you something fantastically foolish. A silly surprise to bring joy and to show that we take what we do very seriously but we want to have fun with it. The most Scottish of conventions really needed a tartan […]

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Crafting Poetry with Pride

As some of you may know, the bid team for Glasgow in 2024 chose Silk & Steel: A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology for an informal book club @Balticon on Sat May 29th. I really loved these stories! One that particularly moved me was “The Scholar of the Bamboo Flute” by Aliette de Bodard. It’s a love story

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Glasgow, Scotland - August 8-12, 2024

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