FilkContinental is a filk convention held annually each fall in Germany. These German filk conventions have been held in youth hostels; from 2000 through 2012 they were held at the castle Freusburg near the city of Siegen. Many of the guests have been from North America.
The Freusburg changed management in 2013, and the new terms were no longer viable for the convention, so it skipped 2013. Starting in 2014, it has been held in the Jugendherberge (Youth Hostel) Wernigerode. In 2018 and 2019, when Kirstin Tanger could not chair the convention, an equivalent convention was held, with a different chair and different name but the same venue and general style.
In 2020 the committee held FilkC-ON-tinental, an online convention, using dedicated streaming and Discord chat.
| Convention |
Dates |
GoHs
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| FilkContinental 1997 |
September 26-28, 1997 |
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| FilkContinental 1998 |
October 16-19, 1998 |
Phoenix
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| FilkContinental 1999 |
September 3-6, 1999 |
Leslie Fish
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| FilkContinental 2000 |
September 29-October 1, 2000 |
Joey Shoji
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| FilkContinental 2001 |
September 28-30, 2001 |
Puzzlebox, Steve Macdonald (Special Guest)
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| FilkContinental 2002 |
October 4-7, 2002 |
Minstrel
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| FilkContinental 2003 |
October 3-5, 2003 |
Heather Alexander
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| FilkContinental 2004 |
October 1-3, 2004 |
Cosmic Trifle
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| FilkContinental 2005 |
September 30-October 2, 2005 |
Urban Tapestry
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| FilkContinental 2006 |
September 29-October 2, 2006 |
Talis Kimberley, Judith Hayman (Special Guest)
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| FilkContinental 2007 |
September 28-October 1, 2007 |
Dandelion Wine, Heather Dale (Special Guest)
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| FilkContinental 2008 |
October 3-5, 2008 |
Kristoph Klover and Margaret Davis
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| FilkContinental 2009 |
October 9-11, 2009 |
Jeff Bohnhoff and Maya Bohnhoff
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| FilkContinental 2010 |
October 8-10, 2010 |
Kathy Mar
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| FilkContinental 2011 |
September 30-October 2, 2011 |
Wilderwood, Hopeful Romantics (Ed Stauff and Mary Ellen Wessels) (Special Guests)
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| FilkContinental 2012 |
September 28-30, 2012 |
Tricky Pixie
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| FilkContinental 2014 |
October 3-5, 2014 |
Michelle Dockrey, Tony Fabris, Seanan McGuire (Special Guest)
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| FilkContinental 2015 |
October 2-4, 2015 |
Tim Griffin, The Crooklets (Special Guests)
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| FilkContinental 2016 |
September 30-October 2, 2016 |
Barry Childs-Helton and Sally Childs-Helton
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| FilkContinental 2017 |
September 29-October 2, 2017 |
Playing Rapunzel, Stone Dragons, W. Scott Snyder
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