Update on planning for BiCon 2024 – it's happening, but later!

The first in the series of events we now call BiCon was held at the start of December 1984, so 2024 sees the fortieth anniversary.

With no Pride event happening in London in 1998, this makes BiCon the UK’s longest continuously running annual LGBTQ+ event!

Although there is no-one running a residential BiCon this year, there was no way that we (OK, Ian W) were going to let that record go.

So we are looking to have a BiCon in London, close to the anniversary.

It will be held over a weekend.

It will be non-residential and, if you don’t live in London, you will have to sort out accommodation yourself.

While that will make the event different to recent ones, it makes the event possible: as anyone who has run one knows, dealing with the accommodation for a BiCon is more than half of the work, even after you have found a suitable venue.

The first six BiCons were all non-residential, as were BiCons 8 and 9. Before this year, the most recent non-residential one was 12 which was held in 1994*, so it will be thirty years since the last one.. another significant anniversary!

Don’t miss it.

We should have more information, including the dates, by the end of August. And if you want to help run this, please get in touch!

* if you are wondering how BiCon 12 could happen ten years after the first one, there were two in 1985, the only time that has happened.

Update on planning for BiCon 2025 – team still needed!

Following our last announcement, a potential team came forward to run BiCon 2025, but unfortunately they have now had to withdraw. We are therefore still looking for volunteers to take on planning and running a BiCon next year.

If you are interested, please get in touch. If you do so, please also give us permission to pass on your contact details to others who also get in touch, so that we can speedily link you up.

We are hoping that next year's BiCon can be residential, if possible, but we remain open to new ideas, formats and ways of running the event.

We look forward to hearing from you!