Events in 2018

Below are dates and links for events that René was invited to attend in 2018. You can visit the official websites and sometimes find photos and reviews from the events. We’ll start a new list of events for 2019 soon!

Attended earlier this year:

• January 5-11 and 11-17, 2018 – Star Trek: The Cruise II – Miami to Caribbean
• March 30 to April 1, 2018 – Awesome Con – Washington, DC
• April 27-29, 2018 – Destination Star Trek: Germany – Dortmund, Germany
• June 24, 2018 – Selected Shorts – Aspen, CO
• July 22, 2018 – Star Trek Eire – Dublin, Ireland
• August 5, 2018 – Star Trek Creation Con – Las Vegas, NV
• August 18, 2018 – NovaFrota Star Con – São Paulo, Brazil
• September 14-15, 2018 – Imperial Commissary Collectors Convention – Franklin, TN
• October 19-21 2018 – Destination Star Trek: Birmingham – Birmingham, UK

Event list: 2017

For those interested, here are events that René attended during 2017.

• February 17-19, 2017 – Pensacon – Pensacola, Florida
• April 21-23, 2017 – Starfest – Denver, Colorado
• April 29, 2017 – Salute to René at the USA FilmFestival
• June 2-4, 2017 – Niagara Falls Comic Con – Niagara Falls, Canada
• August 2, 2017 – Creation Star Trek Convention – Las Vegas, Nevada
• August 25-27, 2017 – Avalon Expo 3 – St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
• September 2-3, 2017 – Startopia Star Trek Convention – Mannheim, Germany

Selected Shorts in Los Angeles

René will be one of the readers on Saturday, April 1, for Selected Shorts at the Getty Museum: April Antics: Fictions & Foolery. He is scheduled to be part of the 7:00 p.m. performance, reading  “The Invisible Collection” by Stefan Zweig. Tickets and further information can be found at the Getty Museum website.

50th Anniversary of A.C.T.

The American Conservatory Theatre will be celebrating it’s 50th birthday on March 18 at The Geary Theater (415 Geary Street) in San Francisco with an all-day open house and, in the evening, a reading of Dylan Thomas’s 1954 radio drama Under Milk Wood, featuring René and other actors from the A.C.T. company.

Tickets are FREE but must be reserved in advance: details on the A.C.T. website.

LIVE from NY Public Library Nov. 29

On Tuesday, November 29, René will be reading selections from Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in a program at the New York Public Library. And here’s the good news for those who can’t attend in person: the event will be live streamed!

The program begins at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time – more details and a link to the live stream can be found on the LIVE from NYPL website.

Selected Shorts November 3 and 19

René performed on two Selected Shorts programs this November.

The first was on November 3 at the Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, where René read “The Deep,” by Anthony Doerr on a program titled. “Uncharted Territories”.

Then, on November 19, René read “The King of the Elves” by Phillip K. Dick in the program “Modern Fairy Tales” at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

Listen for these performances to be aired on Selected Shorts on your local public radio station, or subscribe to the Selected Shorts podcast. Schedules can be found on the Selected Shorts website.