At EarthQuest the primary mission is to educate the public about the environment and wildlife. They are the official charity of CONjuration for 2019!

During the Birds of Prey Presentation expect encounters with owls,  hawks, eagles, falcons and our condor “Storm” up-close and personal! 

Learn to cast and duel in a safe environment, while dealing with friendly and unfriendly competition. Jealousy and true emotions are revealed after things go wrong. Can the students survive each other?
Rules explained, Wands and Characters provided

The game may not be appropriate for children under 12.

An improv show based off Dungeons&Dragons, where the audience build the quest, choose the loot as well as many other quirks and trades throughout the show.

A live-action comedic parody of the 1980s cartoon Dungeons & Dragons.

Potterless is a magical journey following Mike Schubert, a grown man reading the Harry Potter series for the first time, as he sits down with Harry Potter fanatics to poke fun at plot holes, make painfully incorrect predictions, and rant about how Quidditch is the worst sport ever invented. With his uncanny sense of humor, uniquely sharp mind, and an arsenal of witty and insightful guests, Mike Schubert will take you on a journey through your childhood, this time with the rose-tinted glasses off. People are calling Potterless “hilarious and engaging,” “down-to-earth magic!” and “like watching a baby learn to walk.”

He will be doing live podcasting during CONjuration and many other interesting activities throughout the weekend!

Introducing the wonderful world of reptiles through interaction/contact, membership, outreach, and social media. At CONjuration, you can even handle some of the reptiles as well.

Changing Minds

Many people do not understand the need to conserve and protect our native reptiles. These animals are essential to our environment; even venomous reptiles such as diamondback rattlesnakes and copperheads play a crucial part in our ecosystem. Unfortunately, some of these animals end up in the back yards of residential neighborhoods because of habitat destruction. While many people see them as a nuisance or a pest, these animals may not have anywhere else to turn. We would like to do our part in providing information to these folks about alternative ways to remove these animals safely and humanely from their properties and to be relocated to a safer environment.

New for 2019!

Aren’t Thou Ready?? Life is good!

Ren Faire sensations, the Lost Boys, bring their charming mix of celtic folk music and rock and roll tomfoolery to CONjuration 2019! The Lost Boys are a troupe of high energy performers who have joined forces to bring the world a unique blend of original music, and traditional folk tunes, along with contemporary and classic rock n’ roll parodies with a renaissance flair. Reported to have invented rock and roll in the year 1599, the boys have entertained audiences at Renaissance Festivals, theaters, and rock and roll clubs across the country. It’s Spinal Tap meets Shakespeare In Love, and fans of music with comedy and comedy with music will surely enjoy this musical insanity. Accept no substitutes: the Lost Boys!

Irish / Scottish pub band playing all of the favorites and out for a great time!

Back By Popular Demand!

Shinobi School is a group of students and instructors who dedicate themselves to the movement arts, and often times like to add a nerd twist to their adventures! At Shinobi School we firmly believe that athletic skill, combined with courage and altruism, will help our students make themselves and the world around them a better place to live in.

With training, you too can learn to safely and efficiently help yourself and others overcome obstacles in your environment, by embracing the idea of “Being strong, to be useful”. Our student showcases take this training to the next level to bring you a unique show experience featuring aerials, parkour, acro yoga, dance, and movement of all varieties!  We look forward to their magical performances during CONjuration 2019.

Draco & The Malfoys sing from Draco Malfoy’s perspective. 5 full-length albums/1 EP. Both members will be here this year!

Draco & The Malfoys

Formed in 2005 as a “one time joke,” Draco & the Malfoys sing songs about Harry Potter from Draco Malfoy’s perspective. They have released 5 full-length albums and 1 EP and played over 200 shows at libraries, conventions, pizza shops, an indoor soccer arena, a cruise ship and other venues. They been featured on MTV, Fuse, Entertainment Weekly and more.  Their blend of witty humor and love for music has earned them regular appearances at many Harry Potter and many other geeky festivals.  One of their favorite reviews called them, “old enough to know better.”

Wizard Rock and Nerdmusik

These magical masters of musical hi-jinx and mayhem will wizard rock the tea towel right off your house elf. Their unique blend of 80s new wave, 50s do-wop, straight up pop rock and old-timey sing-songy comedy will leave you laughing and crying for more. They draw inspiration from the Harry Potter series, Dr Who, the SCA, medieval fantasy, science fiction and all kinds of delightfully, geeky fandomness.

Scott & Kirsten Vaughan began performing together in 1992 in the SCA, where they are known as Master Efenwealt Wystle and Maîtresse Aénor d’Anjou. With the release of ‘Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows’ in 2007, they decided to form their own wizard rock act and have since played all over the place.  They live in Cary, NC (under the name Sanderz) with two kids and a cat named Rosemerta. (That’s the cat’s name. It would be silly to give our kids the same name as the cat!)

When not out conquering the galaxy with her army of robotic wallabies, Kirsten creates steampunk/medieval/fantasy accessories for her online store, MyFunkyCamelot.etsy.com. And in order to protect his secret past as a renegade heating engineer, Scott pretends to manage communications campaigns for clinical research studies at a small advertising/creative services agency. Their pal Chuck often joins them on bass. Chuck claims to be a mild-mannered IT contract manager but we think he’s really some kind of spy for the Illuminati.

Find them on AmazoYouBookSpotiTunes or at BlibberingHumdingers.com

            They have established themselves as a fixture in the wizard rock and filk/geek rock community, performing as featured artists at ConCarolinas, Misti-Con, and Harry Potter Wizarding Weekends up and down the East Coast!

            This Conjuration, the band is proud to present to you their brand new album, “We are the Wizard Resistance!”.  Don’t be surprised to find yourself dancing and singing along to their fun and infectious music, and falling in love with their ballads as well.

Hawthorn & Holly are the wands of Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter in the book, but in this band stands for the joining of light and dark to create music that appeals to the Slytherin in us all, but also shows that nothing is greater than the power of friendship!

Hawthornandholly.com

@hawthornholly

A Heart tribute band that plays many magically themed songs such as “Magic Man”, “These Dreams, “Dream of the Archer” “Battle of Evermore,” both heavily Tolkien-inspired, and “The Night,” which is based on the Anne Rice vampire novels. These are just a few of the magical Heart cover songs you will hear from them at CONjuration. Check the app and/or program guide for their performance times!

Your Celtic Music and Entertainment Choice

Tradition and Fun, Together in One!

Toucan Dubh is known for fun, high-energy shows with audience involvement.
Performing at Ren Faires, Fantasy & Sci-Fi Conventions, Music Festivals &
Pubs, entertaining with Irish & Scottish music and original comedy songs,
with plenty of jokes & banter to keep everyone smiling.
Toucan Dubh is… Your Celtic music & entertainment choice! 🙂

‘Toucan Dubh’ (pronounced ‘two-can-dew’) are a musical group based in the
Atlanta, Georgia area. Toucan Dubh is known for fun, high-energy shows with
tons of audience involvement.  Performing at Ren Faires, Fantasy & Sci-Fi
Conventions, Music Festivals & Pubs, and entertaining with Irish & Scottish
music, and original comedy songs, with plenty of jokes & banter to keep
everyone smiling & coming back for more!

The Toucan bird represents the fun, whimsical side of Irish and Celtic
music that this group brings to their performances. ‘Dubh’ is a Gaelic word
meaning ‘black’. The ‘Toucan Dubh’, the ‘black toucan’, blends the
traditional, the mystical, and the delightful together into one.  The
perfect symbol for this group!  (And… We like Guinness! 🙂 )
Whether you like Irish music or fun original tunes, be sure to see this
band live! It’s an experience you won’t want to miss!

An awarded author, filker, mounted archer & so much more!

C.S. Marks is best known for her trilogy of high fantasy novels (Elfhunter; Fire-heart; Ravenshade). Her books have earned acclaim from a wide range of readers, particularly for depth of character development, compelling storyline, and writing excellence. The kindle versions have enjoyed top 10 seller status in epic fantasy in both the US and UK.

After a year of all titles being “out of print and unavailable”, Chris is now looking forward to the re-release of the newly remastered Elfhunter trilogy, to be followed by comic book and graphic novel adaptations. She is also hard at work on a new Alterran series, The Undiscovered Realms, and the first in a series of novellas, The Alterra Histories, has recently been released (The Fire King).
C.S. Marks Website: CSMarks.com
Eflhunter Website: Elfhunter.net

An amazing woman of so many talents! C.S. Marks holds a doctorate in Life Sciences, and is a Professor at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, where she has taught Equine Science for twenty years. She is a popular panelist, seminar presenter, and lecturer. Her no-nonsense, realistic, practical-yet-good-humored approach has benefited many aspiring authors. She encourages writers who strive for excellence, regardless of the publishing path chosen.

Phoenix Tears Productions is an Orlando based Theatre Company presenting fandom shows at conventions around the country.

A voracious BookWyrm

When it comes to epic adventures, detailed world-building, and thrilling battles, Ellie Raine is your author.

Fueled by coffee-bean concoctions brewed by the finest caffeine alchemists in the land, she only emerges from the depths of these daring tales when she is summoned by her loving king and their darling daughter: the Dragon Princess Felicity.  Her works include the Hard Fantasy Epic series, The NecroSeam Chronicles (Willow of Ashes (Edition I: 2016/ Edition II: 2018), Orbs of Azure (2018), Pearl of Emerald (2018), Phoenix of Scarlet (2019), Princess of Shadow and Dream (2019)) and the paranormal-noir novella entitled Nightingale (published with Pro Se Productions in 2018).  She writes like mad while at home with her family… when her Familiar, ShadowCat Cypher, isn’t sitting on her arms while at the keyboard. She’s a lover of ravens and a dreamer of dragons, but above all else, she is a scribe to the stories that guide her.

Princess of Shadow and Dream

The Interstellar Woman of Mystery

Few can claim the varied background of a winning author Stephanie Osborn, the Interstellar Woman of Mystery.

A veteran of more than 20 years in the civilian space program, as well as various military space defense programs, she worked on numerous space shuttle flights and the International Space Station and counts the training of astronauts on her resume. Her space experience also includes Spacelab and ISS operations, variable star astrophysics, Martian aeolian geophysics, radiation physics, and nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons effects.

Stephanie holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in four sciences: astronomy, physics, chemistry and mathematics, and she is “fluent” in several more, including geology and anatomy.

In addition, she possesses a license of ministry, has been a duly sworn, certified police officer, and is a National Weather Service certified storm spotter.

Her travels have taken her to the top of Pikes Peak, across the world’s highest suspension bridge, down gold mines, in the footsteps of dinosaurs, through groves of giant Sequoias, and even to the volcanoes of the Cascade Range in the Pacific Northwest, where she was present for several phreatic eruptions of Mount St. Helens.

Now retired from space work, Stephanie has trained her sights on writing. She has authored, co-authored, or contributed to over 35 books, including the celebrated science-fiction mystery, Burnout: The mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281. She is the co-author of the Cresperian Saga book series and has written the critically acclaimed Displaced Detective Series, described as “Sherlock Holmes meets The X-Files,” and its pulp-bestselling prequel series, Gentleman Aegis, the very first book of which won a Silver Falchion award. She has dabbled in paranormal/horror as well, releasing the ebook novella El Vengador, based on a true story. Currently, she’s launching into the unknown with the Division One series, her take on the urban legend of the people who show up at UFO sightings, alien abductions, etc. to make things…disappear.

In addition to her writing work, the Interstellar Woman of Mystery now happily “pays it forward,” teaching math and science through numerous media including radio, podcasting, and public speaking, as well as working with SIGMA, the science-fiction think tank.

The Mystery continues.

Musical Storytellers with Artistic Endeavors

Neil – Wanting to do more with my music I started incorporating more score and storytelling elements in my writing. My personal music tends to lean in the direction of a darker folk style, usually accompanied by a narrative or atmosphere, but I also love writing scores for T.V. and film, which opens up opportunities that you normally wouldn’t have otherwise.

​Having trouble speaking most of my life, I was always searching for ways around the stutter. You don’t stutter when you sing, due to the “choral effect”. In singing I found myself freed from the bonds of the stutter, something I haven’t really known. To me music is complete freedom.

Jessica – Being nothing if not a multi-faceted individual, by January of 2010, I was practicing massage, starting my glorious career in accounting, and taking art classes when a classmate heard that his friend Neil needed a female singer for a project he was working on and introduced us.

I’d been in church choirs, taken chorus classes all through high school and college, and regularly belted out tunes by Imogen Heap, Linkin Park, Andrew Peterson, and Broadway staples while driving down the interstate or washing dishes at home… but I’d never been much of a solo singer or been “in a band,” so I was excited about the opportunity.

​Neil and I got along well right away and that one project turned into an ongoing musical relationship, which turned into a deep friendship, and finally a lifelong partnership. We were, at long last, married in 2016.

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R. Alan Siler is an author, editor, and the owner of kOZMIC Press LLC. His published works include three books on Doctor Who (Doctor Who’s Greatest Hits: A Guide to the Best Episodes from Time and Space, Facing the Raven: Doctor Who Series Nine in Review, and Children of Time: The Companions of Doctor Who) and numerous essays on Star Trek, Twin Peaks, The Orville, classic sci-fi and horror films, and various music topics. He has written music, film and television reviews for Target Audience Magazine and 25 Years Later. He’s a librarian, a drummer (currently playing in a Heart tribute band called Heartisans), a hardcore Bowie fan, an SNL aficionado, a bit of a foodie, and a proud Ravenclaw!

Books! My book series is full of magic, adventure, and snarky humor, geared toward fans of authors such as JK Rowling, Gail Carriger, Harper Lin, and Rick Riorden. When not writing or promoting my next book, I enjoy ocarina playing (think Zelda), traditional archery, costume design, and art.

Love, Lies & Hocus Pocus

As an award-winning and USA Today-bestselling author of snark-filled urban fantasy, I thrive on creating characters and worlds you love to love, and hate to leave. I subsist on liberal amounts of dark chocolate and tea, and hate sleep because it keeps me from writing.