This is StarFest's final year.
. And then there are the aspects that tie the whole collection together: from the hub of the Main Room to the super-popular Federation Ball on Saturday night. Each section of the experience is on-site and available to all attendees.
With the help of family and friends, the first StarFest — then called StarCon — happened over Mother’s Day weekend in 1977. While Walker says having the event on Mother’s Day was a “big mistake,” the timing could not have been better in another respect: about two weeks later, a little something calledwasn’t yet the worldwide pop-culture juggernaut that it’s become, there’s still excitement in Walker’s voice when she talks about it as a factor in StarFest's opening year.
, still operating today out of Kiowa. Likewise, StarFest became a family operation as well. When her husband Stephen came aboard in the early '80s, he made one big change: adding a second annual convention, re-named StarFest, the name that’s stuck. Still, celebrities have been the core draw from year one, which became evident as the event grew in attendance and recognition. In 1988, Patrick Stewart was new to thecanon as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, and made StarFest his first convention appearance; he’d repeat that Denver visit when the show ended. Not to be outdone by Stewart, William Shatner made the first of three appearances at StarFest the very next year.
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