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18-601: The Sir Julius Vogel Awards are awarded each year at the New Zealand National Science Fiction Convention to recognise achievement in New Zealand science fiction , fantasy , horror , and science fiction fandom . They are commonly referred to as the Vogels . The awards are named for Sir Julius Vogel , a prominent New Zealand journalist and politician, who was Premier of New Zealand twice during

36-734: A Wellington event, followed in 1999 by an event in Melbourne. Over the next 17 years, Armageddon held events in Australia sporadically. In 2007, the first Christchurch Armageddon event was held; Armageddon has also hosted events in other cities in New Zealand including Hamilton, Manukau, and Dunedin. In 2019, in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings , Armageddon changed its policy on weaponry and military attire, banning all realistic depictions. The new policy received some public criticism, however it

54-468: A national convention in 1986, and won the bid for that year's convention. It was then taken for granted that Halleycon in 1986 would be the next national convention - New Zealand's seventh. A few months after Norcon II, a group of Auckland fans decided to stage Orcon at Easter in 1985 and their publicity called it the seventh national convention. A few weeks before Easter 1985 the Halleycon committee contacted

72-586: Is run by a different committee, unaffiliated with any national fannish body. Bids for running the NatCons are voted on by attendees at the NatCon two years ahead. These votes are organised by the current NatCon committee in liaison with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand . In the early years of the national convention, the four main cities (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin) all held

90-560: The 1870s. He also, in 1889, wrote what is widely regarded as New Zealand's first science fiction novel, Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's Destiny . The book, written and published in Great Britain after Vogel had moved from New Zealand, pictured a New Zealand in the year 2000 where most positions of authority were held by women—at the time of writing, a radical proposition. In 2000, New Zealand's Head of State, Governor General, Prime Minister, Chief Justice and Attorney General were all women, as

108-410: The 1987 convention being officially the eighth New Zealand national convention. There are occasionally other science fiction conventions held in New Zealand between national conventions. They were particularly common during the 1980s, when they were used by national convention organising committees for fundraising and as a means for testing their convention organisation. As such, they often took place in

126-618: The Doctor (Doctor Who convention) New Zealand Anime Convention NZ Anime convention Christopher Judge ( Stargate SG-1 and The Dark Knight Rises ), Ray Santiago (Ash vs. Evil Dead), Marina Sirtis ( Star Trek: The Next Generation ), David Nykl (Stargate Atlantis), Ruth Connell (Supernatural) Christopher Judge ( Stargate SG-1 and The Dark Knight Rises ), Marina Sirtis ( Star Trek: The Next Generation ), David Nykl (Stargate Atlantis), Ruth Connell (Supernatural) The Lord of Time From 2015 to 2017, Armageddon also operated

144-536: The NatCon, but in recent years, the conventions have mostly been held in one of the two largest cities, Wellington and Auckland, both in the North Island . In 2020 the 41st NatCon was incorporated into ConNZealand 78th World Science Fiction Convention in Wellington. Note: in this list, websites whose addresses end in sf.org.nz are, in most cases, mirrors of the original websites, some of which have been removed. In

162-656: The New Zealand Comic con in Wellington. Events included: Despite attracting nearly 25,000 guests, the last New Zealand Comic Con was held in 2017. NZ Anime Convention (also known as the Dunedin Anime Experience ) was a commercial anime and manga convention held in Dunedin , New Zealand . It was first held in 2009 in a growing response to include Dunedin into the Armageddon Expo family. The first event

180-496: The Orcon committee and made it clear to them that they had no right to call it a national convention. The Orcon committee accepted this - however, by that point, the convention programme booklet had already been printed which stated it was the seventh national convention. All of Halleycon's progress reports and publicity stated that it was the seventh national convention, and the numbering of national conventions has continued from this, with

198-459: The late 1970s and early 1980s, some convention bids were made only a year in advance. At Norcon II in 1984 there was no bid by any group to hold a national convention in 1985. One reason for this was an assumption that many New Zealanders would instead attend Aussiecon II , the 1985 Worldcon , in Melbourne , Australia . However, a group from Dunedin at Norcon II announced that it was willing to stage

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216-566: The professional science fiction and fantasy community. The current name also dates to 2002. These changes accompanied a change in the organisation of the awards, which are now formally run by national organisation SFFANZ (the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand). Categories change to some extent on an annual basis, but generally include professional awards for best novel, short story, dramatic presentation, and services to science fiction, as well as equivalent fan awards. Due to

234-868: The same centres as the following year's national convention. The Armageddon Expo , an event held annually in several New Zealand cities, is a more commercially orientated event. It is mostly made up of comic, toy, video game and DVD stalls, run by local businesses. Armageddon (convention) Armageddon Expo is a New Zealand owned and operated pop culture convention that holds multiple events around New Zealand in cities including Auckland , Wellington , Tauranga and Christchurch . The event, run by Beyond Reality Media Premier Event Management, has been running continuously since 1995. It has evolved from its roots of comics and trading cards to showcase computer and video gaming, animation, film and television, cosplay, comics, live wrestling, and retailers selling pop-culture merchandise. The convention hosts celebrity guests from

252-535: The size of New Zealand's science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction communities, the awards cover all three of these frequently intertwined genres and attempt to treat each equally. 2022 2023 New Zealand National Science Fiction Convention New Zealand's premier science fiction award, the Sir Julius Vogel Award , is presented each year at the national convention. Unlike the case with many other countries' national conventions, each convention

270-548: The support of the former national fan organisation, the National Association for Science Fiction which nominally ran the awards from 1993. In the early 1990s the awards were briefly known as the Edmund Bayne Awards, after a well-known Wellington fan who had been killed in a road accident, but this name was never formalised. In 2002 the awards were revamped and reorganised, and since that time have been aimed more at

288-520: The worlds of movies, TV shows, animation, cosplay, YouTube , comics and gaming. Event attendees can meet guests, purchase autographs and photo opportunities as well as watch panels featuring the guests. Armageddon Expo is one of the largest public conventions held in New Zealand. Armageddon began in Auckland, New Zealand on the weekend of 2 December 1995, at the Avondale Raceway. In 1997, the expo added

306-764: Was generally well-accepted. Armageddon was expected to celebrate its 25th birthday in 2020, but event plans had to be altered due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand . Armageddon Expo purchased the Auckland -based horror amusement attraction Spookers in 2020. Current show events include: Armageddon hosts a variety of stalls run by companies from around NZ and internationally, with merchandise including comics, gaming, trading cards, anime, steampunk and memorabilia sales. At each event, there are numerous NZ and overseas comic creators and artists also selling their products. Invitational event: Buffy The Vampire Slayer A Day with

324-558: Was the CEO of one of the country's largest companies, Telecom . National awards have been presented annually since 1989, but were initially simply known as the New Zealand Science Fiction Fan Awards , and were originally aimed primarily at fandom rather than at professional science fiction. In these early years the awards were organised on an ad-hoc basis by the organising committees of the national conventions, though with

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