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Mar 2022
Last Updated: 06/03/2022
Harrogate Convention Centre to hold board gaming festival
The AireCon board gaming festival began with just 20 attendees in 2015 and is now one of the biggest festivals of its kind in the UK.
A three-day board gaming festival will take place next weekend at Harrogate Convention Centre.
AireCon 2022, one of the biggest board gaming festivals in the UK, will run from March 11 to 13.
Attendees can expect a wide variety of games, product launches and special guests.
Guests include the creator of popular game CoraQuest and gaming YouTubers.
The festival was founded in 2015 when Mark Cooke set up a private mini-convention attended by friends in his Yorkshire flat. It has expanded each year and moved into Harrogate's convention centre after selling out a smaller venue in 2016.
Mark said;
"The first public AireCon sold out and the entire venue was full. Every year it just keeps going beyond what we possibly could have imagined.
There's something about board gaming that brings people together; it breaks down barriers between people, it's a lot of fun and it's time away from screens."
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In 2017 the festival gained support from Nabil Homsi, who owns the board game store Travelling Man. The store now has several branches across the UK.
Travelling Man will provide more than 600 games for the event.
New to this year is the AireBus, a shuttle bus travelling from London to Harrogate with built in board gaming tables.
There are still a limited number of tickets left which can be bought here.
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