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Round Two: BoroughCon & Five Points Festival To Return In 2018

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Hey my friends, I’m using The Chronicles with a twofold purpose with this post as its half to refer you to some notices that have been posted on PiercingMetal.com and the other being to just make sure that you are in the know over here too. I recently shared the information that BOTH the BoroughCon AND the Five Points Festival would be returning for a second year and each one of these conventions will be moving to the Brooklyn Expo Center over in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. To see the actual press posting about each of them just click their respective images below to be brought to those proclamations on my PiercingMetal website.


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PiercingMetal Went To Five Points Festival!

Hey there members of the loyal readership of “The Chronicles Of Piercing Ken”; I’m taking a moment here on the blog to share the news that I recently attended a brand-new convention called the “Five Points Festival” which was held on the Lower East Side at the Pier 36 event space. I was on point as a member of the press for the PiercingMetal.com website and you can be magically transported to our coverage by clicking the graphic just below.

Piercing Ken Thoughts: I really enjoyed this convention because it was a lot different from the ones that I had been to in the past. There were a ton of boutique designer creators as opposed to every other booth selling Funko Pops (which we still love by the way) along with writers and artists that you don’t always find at NY Comic Con. There wasn’t a lot of cosplay, if any at all during my visit on Saturday which made this a whole new experience for me by comparison. I hope you enjoy that coverage and as always with these signposts, the ability to comment has been turned “OFF” so any thoughts can be left on the appropriate narrative on the PiercingMetal website. Check it out and I will see you soon with more of our regularly scheduled content.

Official Website: http://www.fivepointsfestival.com

Five Points Festival @ Pier 36

There’s a brand new convention in town my friends and its called “Five Points Festival”. Come out and enjoy all sorts of geeky awesomeness with like-minded fans.

Five Points Festival @ Pier 36

There’s a brand new convention in town my friends and its called “Five Points Festival”. Come out and enjoy all sorts of geeky awesomeness with like-minded fans.

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Awesome News! Clutter And Leftfield Announce The Five Points Festival

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So I hope that you managed to get over to PiercingMetal and see all of the NY Comic Con posts that were going live as there were a ton of photos to enjoy. It’s one of my favorite conventions to attend despite the crushing humanity and now it looks like the game is going to be offering up a brand new experience for fans of the medium and that of designer toys with the recently announced “Five Points Festival”. I don’t usually use “The Chronicles” for announcements such as this but I think its going to be a good idea to help raise awareness as the aim to reach more and more people with this Lifestyle Blog becomes a plan. With that said, let’s take a glance at the full press release that I received.

The Press Release:
Clutter Magazine and LeftField Media today announced the debut of the Five Points Festival, a new convention focused on designer toys and comic art launching next year in New York City’s Lower East Side. The first Five Points Festival will take place May 20-21, 2017 inside Pier 36’s Basketball City, and the event presents itself as the antidote to the average con – a showcase for artists, creators, independent brands, and the counterculture they make.

Five Points will bring together influential names across the designer toy and comic worlds, with a roster already pledging their support. Clutter Magazine, a leading voice in the designer toy world, will curate the Five Points Festival’s toy guests and exhibits, with brands Kidrobot, Super7, Popaganda, Cotton Candy Machine, and Toy Tokyo taking part, and Ron English and Tara McPherson leading the art toy luminaries who’ll appear as guests. On the comic side, Five Points will be presented overall by Midtown Comics, the largest comic retailer in America, and confirmed comic artists and writers in attendance – known for their independent, avant garde, and creator-owned work – will include Bryan Lee O’Malley, Amy Reeder, Brandon Montclare, Kate Leth, Cliff Chiang, Ivan Brandon, Christopher Hastings, and James Tynion IV.
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