One of Hudson’s early films was in Penitentiary II starring Leon Isaac Kennedy. After various TV guest roles on shows such as The Dukes of Hazzard and The A-Team, Hudson went on to bigger fame playing Winston Zeddemore, who enlists with the Ghostbusters in the 1984 film Ghostbusters and its 1989 sequel, as well as Warden Leo Glynn on HBO’s Oz. On Oz, his son Ernie Hudson Jr. co-starred with him as Muslim inmate Hamid Khan. He appeared as the character Munro in Congo, and he starred in the 1994 film The Crow as Sergeant Albrecht. He switched gears when he played a preacher opening the eyes of a small town prejudice in the 1950s in Stranger in the Kingdom. He is also known as Harry McDonald, the FBI superior of Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality. He appeared in the Stargate SG-1 episode “Ethon” as Pernaux. He had a major supporting role as the mentally challenged Solomon in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. Hudson also appeared as Reggie in the film The Basketball Diaries alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. In 2008, he began a recurring role as Dr. Fields in The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Hudson also had a recurring role on the final season of Law & Order as Lt. Anita Van Buren’s boyfriend and then husband.

Don’t miss meeting this amazing author. Bring your books to get signed as well, she will be signing autographs. Although often asked by inquiring fans, she does not, in fact, have any tattoos.

She has also appeared in John Carpenter‘s They Live, and shows such as Quantum Leap, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, and Miami Vice.

DarkCon is very pleased to have her join us in 2012!

Madame M cast a spell on the comic world with the lovable super-hero vampire, “Super Vamp.” She continues to concoct a cavalcade of kooky comic characters with the magnificent macabre musings contained within the “Madame M Presents” branding, including her “Comicards” line of greeting cards/mini-comics, “Boo Bankie,” and “Glamour Ghouls” books www.madamempresents.com www.supervampcomic.com

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Mark Greenawalt has done body paintings at many of the local sci-fi conventions and the Dark Ones have been faithful attendees at every one of them.  This, however, is his maiden voyage for the DarkCon event and he is planning to set sail on a sea of Liquid Latex.

Mark will be screening 4 of his recent film projects on Thursday night at the film festival as well doing his amazing Live Body Painting Friday night at DarkCon.

Greenawalt has created an extensive portfolio of artwork on the living canvases of live models.  His interest in the sci-fi and fantasy genres have been evident in many of his projects and this time will continue this tradition with a bodypainting themed around the dark fantasy of steampunk.  Attendees will see the creation of a bodypainting image from the first brush stroke to the final photography.  To see more of his work, visit http://www.futureclassx.com

DarkCon 2012 has a variety of fun and interesting things to to After Hours. Here are some of those events, classes/panels & parties for you to consider. (A few, BUT NOT ALL,  of these you will note, are for 18 years old and over.)

Descriptions can be found at the bottom of this page.  Also keep in mind that our Gaming Area is open 24 hours a day from 2 pm Thursday until Sunday evening as well.

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Hysterical Paroxysm
A tongue in cheek look at turn of the century medical phenomenon of Hysteria and its various treatments and cures.

ROLE PLAYING: Actualizing Your Wildest SM Fantasies    [18 years+ Only Event]
Have you ever wanted to play out your wildest SM fantasies, but didn’t know quite where to start? Come join Miss Chris as she presents “Role Playing: Actualizing Your Wildest SM Fantasies”. Learn basic to advanced tips and techniques on how to leverage attire, speech, body language, props, and the five senses to evoke different scene stages. Learn how to assume a character, improvise, create a backstory, and to suspend reality for a scene. Role Play examples will be presented throughout the class, and an interactive exercise at the end allows everyone to get their hands dirty with a basic role play you can play with and eventually incorporate into your own bag of tricks!

Sacred and Profane    [18 years+ Only Event]
We are going to discuss how things non-religious can be both sacred and profane. How they can co-exist in the same space. Example: the sacredness of humiliation, the veneration of a slave to its Master, how we can consider the profane with a sacred regard. Remember what is sacred to one is profane to another and vice a versa.

VICTORIAN DISCIPLINE: Proper in Public, Perverted in Private    [18 years+ Only Event]
Most everyone has heard of the repressed, highly moralistic, prim and proper ways they did things back in Victorian England. But do you think they were all that way? Hell no! Come join Miss Chris/Cap as she discusses how kinky and perverted those Victorians really were! This class will go through a brief history and accounting of the prevailing attitudes of the day. Historic roles and expectations, attire, implements and punishments will be discussed next. And finally we’ll get to laugh at the language and wording those pervy Vics used to talk about the things they weren’t supposed to talk about. Wear your Victorian, Edwardian or Steampunk best, if you have it, and expect to feel a new kinky kinship with your forefathers after this workshop!

A Lifestyle Dynamic Roundtable    [18 years+ Only Event]
Roundtable discussions open to all, to help better understand why we do what we do. This will also clarify by discussion just what are those terms and titles really mean to us. Why do we insist on boxes and labels to put things into even when some of those names and actions inherently shun or rebel being confined. We use an inexact language called English, and we use verbiage that not all understand because of regional or historical discontinuity. Let us explore some historical reasons for some of the words/terms we use and to better demystify the titles, monikers that we use.

“Kushiel’s Dart: The Longest Night“ [Live Art Demo] [Saturday 11:00 PM]   [18 years+ Only Event]
This performance art piece is a brand new piece created and customized in honor of DarkCon Author Guest of Honor, Jacqueline Carey.  This performance art piece recreates and interprets the pivotal Longest Night scene in Kushiel’s Dart between Phadre and Melisande.

Whips and Floggers    [18 years+ Only Event]
Master Dennis will give a brief history, talk about the care and maintenance of, and demonstrate on real “victims” the uses and techniques of various whips and floggers.

DarkCon Pajama Party
Sometimes the end comes with a vision of new horizons, So it is at the DarkCon Pajama Party. We will meet in our night ware (pajamas and such) one more time to see an end(s) as glimpses of  unseen horizons come nearer.  [18+ after 9:00 pm]

1.) We have confirmed an appearance by the ‘Blender Children’
2.) Prizes for both best and most memorable outfits.
a.) two (2) main prizes will be 1/5th scale models from the Anime “Queens blade” of the characters Claudette (Thundercloud) and Leina
3.) Eight (8) other pillow party vote pillow prizes.
4.) The blanket fort (how can you have a Pajama Party and NOT build a fort out of blankets etc)
5.) Aliens Sex Toys game. [10:00  pm] Alien archeologists (you) from a far away galaxy have discovered a variety of artifacts that they believe to be sex toys for humans. Come and guess the uses of the sex toy for the humans.
6.) Queens blade 2 “The Evil Eye” playing later in the evening.
7.) Warming treats, perhaps also “Hot Toddies?”, **”Dr Leho’s warm Toddies”

Dr. Leho

**A hot toddy is a mixed drink, (usually including alcohol), that is served hot.
Hot toddies (such as mulled cider) are traditionally drunk before going to bed, or in wet or cold weather.

Barry Bard’s At the Movies [Thursday 8:30 PM & Sunday 10:00 AM]

This is a favorite Darkcon event where you will get a sneak peak at trailers for some exciting new upcoming movies.  After the trailer presentation we will hold a lottery for FREE movie promotional material (T-shirts, baseball caps, special posters and whatever else the studios have sent us).
Sponsored by CASFS.org (Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society).  CASFS’ purpose is to promote interest in science fiction, fantasy and science. Please check their website for more info.   Participants: Len Berger, Richard Bolinski, Mark Boniece

The Shotgun Diaries
Time: All DarkCon Long! — January 12th thru 15th, 2012

NERO Phoenix – Fantasy
10:00 am – 2:00 pm — Saturday, January 14th, 2012

Houses of the Blooded – Blood and Tears
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm — Saturday, January 14th, 2012

A Valley by Night – Vampire the Masquerade
7:00 pm - Midnight — Saturday, January 14th, 2012

NERO  Phoenix – Fantasy – Live Action Role Play

10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Saturday, January 14th, 2012
Based in the Canyon Room
This game is rated PG-14 (See below)
~~Pre-registration is at the bottom of this page~~

NERO Phoenix is one of the newest chapters in the NERO LARP organization and has been running Live Action Roleplaying Games in the Phoenix area since 2008. We are a fantasy LARP game with a rule system that was first created in the late 70′s early 80′s.

The Inorian Empire has seen many setbacks in the last few years with the ravaging by an army of the undead to the rebellion by members of the royal family. His Grace Duke William Gates of the Duchy of Harthorn has sent out a call to all able bodied adventurers within the land to come to a gathering in the Ducal capital of Golden Wood for a Ducal Tournament as a means of boosting moral among the citizenry. Festivity’s include a Fighters tournament as well as a casters tournament. Prizes are not yet known however his Grace has promised prizes that will be very useful.

More information about NERO Phoenix

Normaly NERO Phoenix event fee’s are $20 per day for an event however due to this event being at a convention we will be waiving the fees for this event. NERO is a PG14 game and as such we cannot allow players under the age of 14 to play without adult supervision. a number of weapons and additional supplies will be available for players wishing to participate who are unfamiliar with LARP.

Here you can immerse yourself in a completely interactive fantasy environment dealing with everything from goblins and trolls to Liche’s and extra-planer creatures. Our events offer players a near never ending stream of experiences and character development. In fact nearly all of our players have contributed in some manner to the stories we have run over the last few years and continue to do so even to this day.
Our staff with over 30 years combined LARP and Theatre experience strives to bring its best to every event we run.

As part of the National NERO organization players to a NERO Phoenix game can take their character anywhere in the country where a NERO event is being held and play the same character with the same skills and same rules system.

Our games are specially designed to allow for the skills of every player race and character class to come into use throughout an event.
Come to one of our events throughout the year (We run events throughout the state ofArizona), and experience NERO Phoenix for yourself.

“Your imagination has found a Home.”

More information available @ www.nerophoenix.com

The Shotgun Diaries: Live Action Role Play

Time: All DarkCon Long!
January 12th thru 15th, 2012
Based in the Gaming Room
~~NO Preregistration is required for this game – All are welcome!~~

The Shotgun Diaries Larp
The zombie apocalypse is here! How long will you survive?
A brutal and deadly live action game that runs throughout the entire convention.
Once you’re in the apocalypse, you can’t get out until its all over!

Join up at the John Wick Presents booth.