Whether you want to learn puppetry, celebrate puppetry classics like Sesame Street, or build a puppet with your kids, Director Beau Brown and Dragon Con’s Puppetry Track team have got something for you! Panels, puppet slams, workshops, improv shows, and musicals are just a few of the events lined up for Dragon Con’s puppetry fans.

Guests for 2015 include Sesame Street veteran Caroll Spinney; a puppeteer for over 40 years, Kathleen O’Shea David; BJ Guyer and Steve Troop, co-owners of Puppet Design Studio; Cheralyn Lambeth, a puppet builder whose work includes The Muppet Christmas Carol; and more!

Visit the Puppetry Track’s website for more information.

Welcome to a world where things are seldom what they seem: the guy across the room could be a vampire, your next-door-neighbor may be a werewolf, or perhaps the nice lady working at the local drugstore is a demon. Join Director Carol Malcolm and Dragon Con’s Urban Fantasy team for an exploration of these worlds.

This year’s guests include Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, and David Ramsay of Arrow; Lost Girl’s Rachel Skarsten, Ksenia Solo, Paul Amos, Zoie Palmer, and Kris Holden-Reid; from Bitten, actors Steve Lund and Greg Bryk; best known for the Anita Blake series, author Laurell K. Hamilton; the Dark Hunter series author, Sherrilyn Kenyon; author of The Codex Alera and The Dresden Files, Jim Butcher; author S. M. Stirling; award-winning author Jonathan Maberry; and many many more!

Head over to the Urban Fantasy Track website for more information.

Dragon Con is fun for the whole family and Director Jill Maddox and her Kaleidoscope Track team bring the kid-friendly fun to the con!

For 9-13 year olds and their families, the Kaleidoscope Track offers Disney Pin Trading, Kid-Themed Team Trivia, Tuff topics for Parents, Comics for Kids, programming from Disney, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network. The ultimate event: the Big Hero 6 Family Friendly Dance!

Guests include Omari Newton of Disney XD’s Max Steel; Sam Marin, Courtenay Taylor, and William Salyers of The Regular Show; Charlie Schlatter of Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil; Tara Platt and Yuri Lowenthal of the Ben 10 Omniverse; and more!

Check out the Kaleidoscope Track website for more info.

Where science fact meets science fiction, you’ll find Director Stephen Granade and the Dragon Con Science Track team!

In 2015, the Science Track brings you topics such as human decision-making, the science behind pop culture, regenerative medicine and biosystems, science education, astronomy, science journalism, and more. Guests include neuroscientists Gregory Berns and Scicurious; biologist Eric Spana; chemist Raychelle Marie Burks; CEO of Trailhead Biosystems, Michael Gilkey; science educators Professor Boggs and Dr. Donna Governor; and more!

Find more information about guests, events, lectures and panels at the Science Track website.

The Internet is a big place, but more importantly, it’s a place where you can be free to do as you wish without fear of interference or surveillance. Or can you?

The Electronic Frontiers Forums Track, under the direction of Scott Jones, brings you panels, guests and professionals to discuss topics such as intellectual property, copyright law, online activism, privacy, security, freedom of expression, online publishing, marketing, even gaming.

Some of this year’s guests include Senior Staff Attorney at Public Knowledge, John D. Bergmayer; Kit Walsh, Dave Maass, and Nadia Kayyali of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; BitPay Senior Software Engineer, Gordon L. Hall; and more.

Check out EFF’s website for more information.

You have a deep love of dramatic and sometimes silly characters, giant monsters and massive robots, and intense battles between good and evil. You learned to read tiles from right to left. Your manga collection takes up 3 bookcases and your hard drive is full of anime. You are intensely curious about voice acting for anime.

If this describes you, Anime/Manga Track Director Jake Tarbox and his team have got a Dragon Con weekend full of your favorite things planned! The Anime/Manga Track panels cover voice acting and breaking into the biz, animation, history of anime, and more. Keep your eyes peeled for the Anime Video Room schedule and, as always, visit the Artists Alley, Art Show, and Vendors Room for the newest mangas and unique art!

For more information about the Anime/Manga Track, visit their website or pop into their Facebook page.

If you love a good space opera, can’t get enough military sci fi, and destroy your opponents in which-theoretical-spaceship-wins-the-battle debates, Director Sue Phillips and the Science Fiction Literature Track team have got you covered! With games, panels featuring your favorite science fiction authors, and a whole lot of chances to meet fellow sci fi lovers, be sure to carve out time in your con schedule for Sci Fi Lit track events.

In 2015, the Sci Fi Lit track is pleased to present to fans author of the Lost Fleet and Lost Stars series, Jack Campbell; Alexandra Duncan, author of the YA sci fi novel Salvage; author of the Nebula-nominated, 2014 Compton Crook Award-winning, nationally bestselling novel Fire With Fire, Dr. Charles E. Gannon; Rescue Mode author, Les Johnson; Nebula Award-winning author, Elizabeth Moon; author John Ringo; and the All-Time Leading award winner, living or dead, for short science fiction, Mike Resnick!

For more about the Sci Fi Lit Track team’s work, check them out on Facebook (Dragoncon Sci Fi Literature) or visit their website.