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Cheryl Lindo Jones@klizana Ugh. And there was some talk about how having this separate stationery fest might alleviate some of the traffic at the pen show because people who go to the pen show for stationery have a different show to go to. I donât think itâll affect pen show attendance whatsoever. I feel like even if this show survives and has a couple more years to straighten out, the pen show wonât be affected because SF is starved for stuff like this.
@jezlyn yeah, I really think nothing will change unless something terrible happen inside the venue.
gene x@genex @klizana I donât know of other major pen or stationery shows in the SF area. There is an SF âpen posseâ meetup group which does weekly-ish local meetups, but I donât usually attend as the timing doesnât work for me. Theyâre a lot more chill, of course, and unstructured. I think thereâs also a journaling group, but I donât know the details. Both groups are on Instagram, and possibly Facebook. The SF pen posse also has a Discord channel.
@genex @klizana I think the issue is that a lot of niche communities organize events like this and are more âscrappyâ in how they handle logistics (I donât mean to offend or diminish their efforts), so when the events get too big, logistics donât scale well. I really think the group behind the SF pen show need to reconsider. Itâs a major international event.