Minnie Muffins is has a passion for education and community engagement. A teacher by trade, she also volunteers her time outside the classroom to teach hobby crafts and home skills. Using thrift and determination to promote fabric arts and skills to the community at large, Minnie Muffins stives to help everyone enjoy crafting.
Inspired by the famous subreddit. Panelists will each tell a story from the perspective of a famous character from seafaring film, TV, comics, or literature and ask the audience to guess who they are, then decide if they are indeed the a**hole.
Upcycling has long been part of creative costuming and prop building. Cosplayers often transform everyday objects and discarded materials into entirely new creations. This panel explores the benefits and challenges of upcycling within the cosplay community. Learn how to get started and how similar techniques have been used in film and television prop making for decades.
It’s Bingo with a beat! Trade in your numbered balls for chart-topping hits in this high-energy, interactive game. Instead of listening for "B-12," you’ll be listening for song snippets from your favorite movies, TV shows, and radio anthems. When you hear a song that matches a square on your card, mark it off!
Many classic myths and folktales had adult content long before modern adaptations sanitized them. This panel uncovers the darker, weirder, and more mature origins of beloved stories—and how creators use these themes in today’s fantasy, comics, and games. Creepy, clever, and very After Dark.
In this lighthearted panel, panelists and the audience will ponder the absence of mothers for many of our favorite Disney princesses and characters. And talk about the mothers who do appear, and why they're often villains.
In honor of Fathers Day we're ranking pop-culture Dads, Daddies, and Zaddies. How does Goofy stack up to Gomez Addams? Is Homer a good dad after all? What does it take to be a true father?