{"id":1174,"date":"2026-09-12T13:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2026-09-12T13:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:28:55","slug":"edmonton-expo-featuring-bane-janzen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"EDMONTON EXPO &#8211; Featuring Bane Janzen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edmonton Expo is a three-day Comics, sci-fi, horror, anime, and gaming event that attracts tens of thousands of people at the Edmonton Expo Centre. They offer family-friendly attractions, events, and world-renowned celebrities including John Cena, Temuera Morrison (Jango and Boba Fett), John Rhys-Davies (Gimli in <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>), Jed Brophy (Nori in <em>The Hobbit<\/em>, and many others I don&#8217;t recognise!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/fanexpohq.com\/edmontonexpo\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>My Presentations<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the Medieval Multiverse exhibit, I shall be giving two talks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-info wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Galdalf&#8217;s Wizard Academy<\/strong><br><em>Sunday, Sept. 20th, at 10:30-11:00 in room 109A<\/em><br>What differentiated real-life sorcerers, witches, and wizards? Could you summon demons or cast Fireball? Find out what magic was like in medieval Europe and how it shaped modern fantasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left is-style-info wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Plague Doctor Certification Course<\/strong><br><em>Sunday, Sept. 20th, at 3:30-4:00 in room 109A<\/em><br>So you wish to become a plague doctor? Take our course to learn medieval medicine: where to find employment, what equipment you need, which rules to ignore, and how to properly apply leeches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I shall also be giving a swordfighting demonstration with the Society for Creative Anachronism at 12:30-1:00 and 2:30-3:00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/fanexpohq.com\/edmontonexpo\/our-schedule\/\">here<\/a> for a schedule for all the events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For all my friends in the Edmonton area, I invite you to join me next weekend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NOTE: I recognise that Gandalf never canonically teaches anyone magic. I didn&#8217;t choose the name for my talks lol. I wanted &#8220;The Medieval School of Witchcraft and Wizardry&#8221; but political stuff surrounding Rowling shot down that idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edmonton Expo is a three-day Comics, sci-fi, horror, anime, and gaming event that attracts tens of thousands of people at the Edmonton Expo Centre. They offer family-friendly attractions, events, and world-renowned celebrities including John Cena, Temuera Morrison (Jango and Boba Fett), John Rhys-Davies (Gimli in The Lord of the Rings), Jed Brophy (Nori in The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/?p=1174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EDMONTON EXPO &#8211; Featuring Bane Janzen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banejanzen.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}