There is always AT LEAST one room reserved for open filking during the entirety of the con. Friday & especially Saturday evenings this expands enormously, and it is not uncommon for over 6 different open filks to be going on simultaneously.
For those who wish to tape at open filking, please read the OVFF Taping Policy on the Concerts page.
There will be an Early Bird Open Filk on Thursday night (Oct 19).
This gives members who arrive a day early the chance to gather with other filkers and unwind from their travels and to sing and listen before the hustle and bustle of the convention begins in earnest.
Tentatively scheduled to be in the Metro Club, time and final details to be announced.
OVFF schedules a few open filks to have a particular theme, usually based on the predisposition of one or more of the Honored Guests. At themed filks, songs are expected to fit the theme in some manner. Whether a song fits the theme is often a matter of how creative the person wanting to perform (or hear) that song is in rationalizing how the song fits.
Along with the scheduled themed filks, some time slots are set aside for member-selected themed filks, where the theme is decided by someone who signs up for the slot at the registration table.
Throughout the convention, there will be open filks that are hosted or moderated (depending on the host's preferences) by one or more of the Honored Guests. These may or may not be themed.
This is the most common form of Open Filk at OVFF, and for the most part, in the midwestern United States, or at least anywhere near the Great Lakes. At a chaos filk, anything goes. You have a follower? Sing it! You want to change the mood? Go for it! Of course, it's best to be polite about it. Don't jump in too often, or continually go against the mood of the room, but beyond that, there really are no fixed rules.
Most of the all-night open filks are chaos filks.
After the convention is officially over and you've had something to eat on Sunday evening, it is time to get back to the business of singing until the last person leaves for home, falls asleep mid-refrain, or is carried off to bed. In recent years, this has gone on past 5:00am! (The record is 8:30am.)
Many people consider this to be the best open filking of the entire convention each year, so it's worth sticking around for if you can.
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