In contrast to BiCon 2025, which was at the end of November / start of December, this year's BiCon is in the summer. We hope that means it less probable that people will have some sort of infection, including Covid-19.
If you're ill on the days running up to BiCon or even on the day, just email us and we'll give you a full refund.
Turn up while clearly coughing / sneezing / otherwise infectious, and we won't let you in and you won't get a refund.
In an ideal world, it would still be free to get Covid-19 tests and vaccines would be freely available to everyone who wanted them. The decisions of successive governments mean that's not the case in the UK any more.
We could make a big point about encouraging people to be up to date with vaccinations, where medically possible, and to always wear masks in BiCon spaces, but we know that while most people have been vaccinated against Covid-19, it probably wasn't in the past year and it's very unlikely that most people will mask even if we did.
(Yes, that's not great, but pretending otherwise is not going to help anyone.)
If you want people to socially distance from you when in sessions, we'll have some special lanyards to wear as a sign of that. We will try to have some spaced out chairs for such people in the rooms where possible as a bigger hint, but that may not always be possible. (Some of the session rooms this year are not very large.)
If you're running a session and want to insist people attending wear a mask, that's fine. We will help publicise that, so people can either bring one and wear it or not go to your session. (Arguing at the door that it doesn't apply to them or otherwise trying to get in anyway will be treated as a serious Code of Conduct violation.)
We have two separate (but adjacent) buildings this year. The Sixth Form Centre is a conversion of an old house. Ceilings are reasonably high, especially on the ground floor and it has sash-type windows that I am assured open. The Space is a recent (2015) build theatre. The main auditorium has seats on two levels with a circle level above a raked stalls section. Other rooms have somewhat lower ceilings, but I am told the air conditioning system is based on CO2 levels in the room.