The annual Geek Fest sponsored by several Kalamazoo area-libraries is back. And this year’s event is even bigger than those held last year and in 2016. And organizer Stewart Fritz says that means a new location: the Kalamazoo County Expo Center.
“It is a little bit of every kind of geek culture that we could wrangle up, between comics, video games, board games, card games, robots, cosplay, a martial arts demonstration, medieval weaponry.”
Being a geek can be expensive. After attending Chicago Comic Con, Fritz and others decided they wanted to bring a convention to Kalamazoo that didn’t cost so much to attend.
“We decided to get a whole bunch of libraries in the area together and work out how we could do this event for free, and make it family friendly so that everyone who wanted to come to a comic con could do that.”
Fritz says he expects a big turnout. Last year, he says hundreds of people came by, even in the middle of a storm.
“The first two years we had it at the Mattawan Library, and both years we had just under 600 people turn out. And that was including last year when we had a gigantic, torrential thunderstorm, crazy weather. We had to cancel some of our outside events, but we still had hundreds of people show up. We’re hoping for a similar turnout this year.”
The 2018 Geek Fest will be held Saturday, September 29, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Kalamazoo County Expo Center, 2900 Lake Street, in Kalamazoo.
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