- Photon Tide
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Photon Tide is a
science fiction society fromNovi Sad ,Serbia . They held a first everStar Trek convention in Serbia, featured in a documentaryfilm "Trekkies 2 ".History
Formed in 1997 as a small informal
Trekkie club, steadily growing in numbers, which warranted its chartering as aNGO in 2002. In 2003, the filming crew of "Trekkies 2" documentary visited Serbia to film Star Trek fans. Fans from several Balkan states converged to Novi Sad to attend the first-ever Star Trek convention in this part of the world, "TREK>NS", organized by Photon Tide.Denise Crosby of fame, star and narrator of "Trekkies 2", was the special guest of this convention.In 2006, Photon Tide was included in the program of the Exit music festival, co-hosting the special "Supernova" stage with "
Lazar Komarcic " fiction fan club fromBelgrade , Serbia. The stage program was devoted to science fictionin Serbia. Photon Tide also took part in the final tournament ofWorld Cyber Games 2006 in Belgrade, holding a stand along with several other Serbian science fiction societies.Activities
The society publishes its
fanzine "Nova" as an insert to the monthlyscience magazine "Astronomija" (Astronomy), reaching readers in Serbia andother former Yugoslav republics. The Photon Tide [http://www.photontide.org/ website] (in Serbian) is asource of science fiction news in Serbian, and its bulletins are beingsyndicated by severalnews aggregator websites. A science fiction workshop is in development,aimed to provide means for creative teamwork of talented people, creatingtheir own science-fiction-themed comics, animations, amateur movies, shortstories andradio drama s.There are also somewhat regular get-togethers and outdoor activities, eitheropen-attendance or organized exclusively for the Photon Tide members, whichtake place all over Serbia. Aside from online communication, open fanmeetings are the most persistent form of organized effort, taking placesince the society's inception in 1997. They are most frequent in Novi Sadand Belgrade, where the majority of members are located.
See also
Science fiction in Serbia External links
* [http://www.photontide.org/ Official website]
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