About the Venue
Here Be Dragons will be held at the Burnaby Campus of the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in buildings SE02 and SE06.
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Venue Location
BCIT is located in Burnaby, BC, just south of Hwy 1 at 3700 Willingdon Ave. It is easily accessed by transit, and parking is plentiful. All parking areas are public spaces on Saturdays (i.e., you can ignore any “staff only” notices), and have a flat one-day rate of $9.60 after taxes.
Download the Parking / Transit / Food Map linked below and view the Getting There page for directions by car and transit.
Venue Layout
CONnections will be in rooms and spaces of two BCIT buildings – SE02 (The Student Association Building) and SE06 (School of Business + Media Building). These two buildings run east-to-west and are connected by a small foyer/lounge area between the east end of SE02 and the west end of SE06.
The rooms and spaces in use by CONnections are as shown in the table below. Click the Venue Map image to open a full-size version.
| Room | Building | Number or Name |
|---|---|---|
| Registration | SE06 | Lobby |
| Main Programming | SE02 | Town Square D (Room 214) |
| Small Programming 204 | SE06 | Room 204 |
| Small Programming 205 | SE06 | Room 205 |
| Author Readings | SE06 | Room 206 |
| Marketplace | SE02 | Town Square AB (Room 212) |
| Free Play Tabletop Games | SE06 | Room 104 |
| Scheduled Tabletop Games | SE06 | Rooms 102 & 103 |
Venue Food Services
BCIT Food Services are extremely limited during the event.
What food options are available is dicussed below.
WCSFA Hospitality Snack Table
To mitigate the limited, expensive or distant availability of food options, we will be running a “by donation” Snack Table, located across the hall from the Registration tables.
We plan to offer a mix of healthy food, junk food, soda, juice, water, coffee, & tea, all for whatever you feel is a reasonable donation. There will be both a donation box for cash donations and a QR code to a page where you can make an online donation to WCSFA Hospitality.
Restaurants
There is usually exactly one campus restaurant open on Saturdays—a full-service Tim Horton’s—unfortunately, in a case of perfectly terrible timing, it just closed for renovations as of Wednesday, November 12 (yes, 3 days before the con).
If you have a vehicle (or the stamina and time), there is a strip mall with several restaurants, including a Subway, south of the venue on the southwest corner of Willingdon Ave and Moscrop St (Deer Lake Pkwy to the east).
Vending Machines
There are several vending machines available on the second floors of SE02 & SE06. Five machines are along one wall of the foyer/lounge connecting SE02 to SE06, and three are against a wall across from the Main Programming room. Most are for a wide variety of hot and cold beverages, but two dispense snacks.
BCIT vending machines ONLY accept
CARD and CONTACTLESS payment methods.
Bring Your Own
If you require regular, healthy meals, we advise you to bring your own food, to be on the safe side.
You can even bring items that need to be warmed, as there is a bank of 4 microwaves available in the foyer/lounge area connecting SE02 to SE06 (marked on the venue map above).