Friends! Skeptics! Activists! We are pleased to announce that this year we will be sharing the Expo Center with Friends Against Hunger again! Friends Against Hunger is the group that we shared the Expo Center with last year and their goal is to pack 1 million meals in a three-day Read more
Transportation for your favorite speakers will cost us in the neighborhood of $10,000 this year. All of this will be paid for by donations made by attendees and viewers like yourself. Of course, we are looking into reward programs with airlines and other such discounts but that’s a fair figure for Read more
Dear Internet, We here at Skepticon HQ love our movement. We love that we don’t always agree, are wicked smart and have a penchant for awesome hats. Skepticon has always worked hard to cultivate a conference that celebrates such diversity and awesomeness, doing our best to ensure that any and Read more
Rob Lehr of Hambone Productions has made a donation, on behalf of Skepticon and the atheist community, from the advertising revenue generated from the speaker videos to the Mtaani Centre, an HIV testing facility, in Nairobi, Kenya. The money donated will not only fund the entirety of the center’s expenses Read more
Win a Skepticon Surly-ramic! That’s right – Skepticon now has its own line of Surly-ramics! And for the rest of September, every single person who donates to Skepticon will have the opportunity to win one. Some of these surlies show off our logo, and others feature our website’s little dinosaur (yet Read more
Sheri’s Story I have come out of the closet to my family and, as a result, have experienced a great deal of Christian sermonizing. Whenever possible, I challenge Christians concerning their faith. I’ve attended Skepticon in the past and know first-hand what a wonderful event it is. Now that I’ve Read more
Thanks to your generous donations, we’re able to move forward on our ridiculously adorable billboard! This is our current frontrunner design – but we’re looking for your suggestions and criticisms. By all means, have at it! If we’re able to afford a second billboard, we’ll be using the next most Read more
Richard at the Friendly Atheist recently posted his suggestions for ‘soft sell’ pro-atheist billboards, including: To which we at the Skepticon team say: We’ve priced billboards in the Springfield area and think it can be done for as little as $2,000 – and if we end with more? We’ll put Read more