Denver Pop Culture Con to Hold DPCC 2020 X-Stream Con Online

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Make no mistake about it, 2020 has been a year filled to the brim with unexpected surprises. For our lives have been turned upside down, and everything we were looking forward to this year event wise, has either been cancelled or postponed or is hanging up the air as we wait to see where the Covid-19 Pandemic is going to take us in the months to come. And this outright uncertainty and unease, have motivated all of us to seek out anything and everything pop culture wise that can take our minds off of the sour news that we receive every single day and thankfully, Colorado’s biggest convention, Denver Pop Culture Con, is fully aware of everyone’s need for escape and entertaining fun.
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Which is why this year’s con is going virtual. Since it affords fans of this con a chance to enjoy the nerdiness that they’ve been craving since last year’s event and well, DPCC has definitely lined up some wonderful programming for us to enjoy in the comfort of our homes over the next few days. For this virtual con is set to take place from July 14 to July 17 and during that time we will be treated to all kinds of live interviews, presentations and demonstrations. Which will include some never before streamed panels, the kind that feature some nerdy talk on the real life science behind sci-fi movies that feature asteroids, how LGBTQ+ individuals are included in pop culture communities and a reunion of the cast of Muppet Babies to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of that iconic show. 

But there was mention of live interview sessions and there are some significant ones happening over the course of this four-day event. Tuesday for instance will feature a little something for the cosplayer in all of us by way of an at home cosplay fabrication panel, one where Brad Frikkers from Reynolds Advanced Materials will answer cosplay related questions in between teaching us some costuming tricks. As for folks who want to learn a little more about marketing and writing techniques, there will be a Q&A session with renowned author Peter Clines (14, The Fold, Paradox Bound) on Wednesday. And the learning doesn’t end with those two panels since Thursday features a panel on how you build stories for video games with the folks from Blizzard Entertainment and Comic Creator Paris Cullins will spend a little time breaking down the value of learning with comics.

However, while all of those panels are going to be amazing in their own right, Friday’s Q&A session definitely caught this writer’s eye, simply because it is safe to say that this is one, we haven’t seen all that often at conventions. For Fantasy author Will Wright and Audible narrator Travis Baldree will take a little time to discuss how audiobooks are made, and with this becoming a growing segment of the creative world, it should be quite interesting to learn what these gentlemen have to say about this industry and all that it has to offer creatives everywhere. But while we’ve talked at length about some of the highlights of this show, and what to expect on what day, there is one critical element we still need to discuss in regard to this digital convention. Specifically, how the heck does one enjoy this phenomenal event?

Well, all you need to do to ‘attend’ this digital convention, is sign up for the con here and tune into Denver Pop Culture Con’s Twitch TV Channel at 1 p.m. Mountain Standard Time on Tuesday afternoon. And as an added bonus, this week’s lineup of panels and general nerdiness doesn’t require a massive commitment of your time. For no daily session exceeds three hours of content and to top it all off, this event is absolutely free. So, all you need to do, is bring your passion to the table and kick back and enjoy the ride, and it really is quite wonderful to see DPCC do their best to bring together the nerdy community during these trying times, and we will see all of you in the digital frontier when X-Stream Con gets underway, tomorrow afternoon!

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