LATEST NEWS:

5-8-08: A number of web updates today:

• MARTA (Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) info has been added to the Hotel page.
• Tony Amendola's and John Levene's autograph and photo sessions have been added to the Schedule page
• A list of confirmed fan tables has been added to the Events page (a list of dealers is coming soon!)
• Registration hours of operation have been posted on the Memberships page
• Video from our interview on WREK is now online (see below)

5-6-08: Reservations for our hotel room block has come to an end. Today (midnight on Tuesday night) was the final day for booking rooms. THANK YOU to everyone who pre-registered for the con and to everyone who booked a room at our hotel. Our pre-reg and our hotel booking went VERY well; we're really pleased and extremely excited about the response that we've gotten. It looks like we're going to have a really good crowd at TimeGate this year! Let's get the party started!!

5-1-08: TimeGate got a lovely mention in the newest issue (#109) of Podshock, the Doctor Who podcast, in an interview with our Guest of Honor, John Levene. To access the 'cast, or to subscribe to it via iTunes, please visit their site: http://www.podshock.net/portal/

4-30-08: Memberships—IMPORTANT: Early registration has now ended! Thank you so much to all the people who pre-registered! Memberships can now only be purchased at the door; rates are available on the Memberships page.

Note: Visit the Schedule page to see all the great stuff that we have planned for the weekend!

• Tony Amendola ("Master Bra'tac", Stargate SG-1)
• John Levene ("Sergeant Benton", Doctor Who)
• Dr. Kevin Grazier (science advisor for Battlestar Galactica and Eureka)
• Lars Pearson (Doctor Who author and publisher, Mad Norwegian Press)
• Christa Dickson (Buffy and Angel author)
• Louis Robinson (former Doctor Who film editor)
• Jana Oliver (fantasy / paranormal author)
• NEW! David Harmer (Game designer)
• The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company
• The Might Rassilon Art Players
• Hyperdrive

Virtual Guest:

• Elizabeth Christensen (author, Stargate Atlantis novels)—read our exclusive interview with Elizabeth here!

MORE GUEST ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING SOON!

Please visit the Guests page for more on each of these fine folks.

Our hotel is the beautiful Holiday Inn Select on Ashford-Dunwoody Road, just inside 285. Its easily accessible from two MARTA stations, and the hotel runs regular complimentary shuttles to both. We're conveniently located amongst many dining and shopping options. As soon as room bookings are available online, we'll post it here. Visit the Hotel page for updates!

We'll have three Programming Tracks running throughout the weekend:

• The Gallifrey Portal (Doctor Who panels and events),
• The Abydos Portal (Stargate panels and events),
• The OtherWorlds Portal (General SF/F panels and events)

We've got a ton of great stuff already planned for each of these portals, and there's more still to come! We're only just gettin' started, folks! Visit the Events page to see what all is planned, and the Schedule page to see how we're fitting it all into one weekend!

A few of our staff members were invited to do a an interview on radio station WREK last week. Watch the whole thing here (18 minutes):

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TimeGate is a special event co-sponsored by Stargate Atlanta and The Atlanta Gallifreyans. It began life in early 2005 when opportunity presented itself: we had a venue booked for March 26 for a different event, that event got cancelled, but the reservation on the hall was non-refundable. So we decided 'hey, what the heck, let's throw the one-day event we've always wanted to do!' We had about 2 weeks to plan and promote the first TimeGate. We had no idea what to expect, especially with such short notice. To our surprise, we had around 80 people show up! We were completely floored. And in an amazing stroke of luck or cosmological alignment, March 26 ended up being the day that the first episode of the new Doctor Who series aired on BBC (we didn't know that when we booked the hall for the original event, no air date had yet been announced at the time). So many disparate pieces fell together to make that first TimeGate extremely special! We hosted two additional mini-cons that year, in July and in November.

Our 4th TimeGate was October of 2006, almost a full year after the previous one. We drew our biggest attendance yet. We had the pleasure of having Atlanta Radio Theatre Company perform a special set for us, and we also had Barrie J. Clark and his wife Cookie do a very well-attended workshop on Dalek building. We introduced a LaserTag event, thanks to Adrian Havens, and Adam Levenstein conducted a Team Trivia event that was a huge success.

In July of 2007 we held our fifth TimeGate. Our guests this time were Louis Robinson, former BBC Film Editor who'd worked on many shows including Doctor Who, and Keith Adams, Visual Effects Designer for both Stargate series, in addition to Barrie J. Clark, Adrian Havens and Prof. Satyre's Sci-Fried Side Show. During the day we announced plans to expand TG to a full-weekend convention, and that we'd already signed an agreement with our hotel.