Convention history
Baltcon was born after the fall of the Old Regimes in Eastern Europe,
with a “pre-Baltcon” in 1993 (adopting the Baltcon statutes) and the
first official Baltcon in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1994 (with, since,
Baltcons virtually every year, in Lithuania, Sweden, Finland, Latvia,
Estonia, Germany, Poland and Denmark, see list of Baltcons). It is intented as a northern
European regional sf/f convention. There was an earlier, more limited
scheme, the Scancon (altenating between Denmark, Norway and Sweden)
which however faded out in the early 1980’s. And now with open borders
and so on, there’s every reason to connect across the Baltic Sea. The
Baltcon is usually “co-arranged” with another convention, as a
sub-theme, which can be a national con or this case a Eurocon. Baltcon
programming is usually in English, or a local language if voluntary
interpreters can be aquired.
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