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OFFSITE: Geek Fest
October 12 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
OFFSITE: Kalamazoo Expo Center
Geek Fest is a free, all-ages celebration of geek culture in all its forms! Comics and art, table top games, technology, cosplay, and meet our special guest actor Tim Downie!
Downie has worked on films such as award-winning The King’s Speech, Paddington, War Machine, Transformers: The Last Knight, and much more. Other television work includes Outlander, Toast of London, Chewing Gum, Upstart Crow and more. He can currently be seen on Netflix with Geek Girl and Amazon Prime’s Good Omens 2 and the film Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose with Simon Pegg and Minnie Driver.
Last year was his gaming debut playing everyone’s favorite wizard, Gale Dekarios in Baldur’s Gate 3, a game set in a world by fantasy tabletop role-playing system Dungeons & Dragons. Baldur’s Gate 3 won 32 awards last year including, BAFTA Game of the Year, Game Developers Choice Awards, Golden Joystick Awards, PC Gamer and more.!
Geek Fest is hosted by Kalamazoo Public Library, Paw Paw District Library, Portage District Library, Richland Community Library, and Vicksburg District Library.