I love Douglas Adams! How can I get involved?

• Help spread the word about Towel Day (#towelday): tweet, blog, post in forums, share a link in Facebook, make art, etc.
  
  
• Tell us about events you organize on Towel Day, and we will announce them here!
  
  
• On Towel Day, carry a towel. Where? Everywhere.
  
  
• Proudly show the world you've observed Towel Day! Post for example a photo or video with your towel on the Towel Day Facebook page and enjoy other people's. Some alternatives are the Flickr group for pictures and of course YouTube for videos.

What is happening on Towel Day 2024?

This list is just getting started and very incomplete. Know about any Towel Day events we should add? Please mail us!

ONLINE EVENTS

• On the RPRepository.com forum, a community of 44780 gamers, writers and artists who love to role play, there's a proposal to create a thread for Towel Day art submissions and perhaps a little art museum based on H2G2. This is a good example of something you can do if you're very active in a forum where many Douglas Adams fans may be found!
• Galactic Zine Zone is requesting contributions for something they plan to release on Towel Day on multiple online platforms. If you're interested, find and message them on Twitter or Tumblr. If you have an original art piece or something to say about the Hitchhiker's Guide, they're doing conversational interviews and surveys, some jokes and art and articles, and even fanfiction, if you're up for it. Check it out! Updates on the project posted frequently. It's unpaid but for camaraderie and credit to your work, but a beautiful project none the less!

LOCATION BASED EVENTS

AUSTRALIA

• In Perth, the observatory hosts a Towel Day Night Tour! Bring your towel and come to the Perth Observatory for an unforgettable night! Our volunteers will be ready to take you on a grand tour of the Southern Hemisphere's sky with a wide range of targets including nebulae, planets, dying stars, and enormous star clusters. As Douglas Adams wrote, a towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Book your tickets here!
  RSVP and details on Facebook

• In Recife - PE, on 24, 25 and 26 May, the 12th edition of the Power-Kon Convention takes place and as usual Towel Day and Nerd Pride day will be celebrated. The annual event created in 2013 by Brazilian producer Kelmer Luciano started as a fan meeting but has now become a large business fair mixed with entertainment, updated for the technology and pop culture market, where more and more geeks, gamers, fans of comics, music and cinema. It keeps expanding and will now for the first time be held in Bairro da Tamarineira, at the Ferreira Costa Home Center event complex. It will be divided into several categories. Pop (entertainment culture, whether in comics, cartoons, video games, technology, films, series, games, Influencers in the digital universe, otaku culture, books, etc.). Towel Day and Nerd Pride Day are celebrated on May 25th as a tribute to Douglas Adams and t commemorate the release of Star Wars. With a program of more than 30 attractions this convention also marks 27 years of the company's career, which is linked to entertainment and leisure for the whole family in Brazil. The event is free, but the production thanks those who can participate in the donation campaign by bringing 1kg of non-perishable food.
  You can look forward to super attractions, such as geek stands from all over Brazil, well known special guests, themed geek environments and exhibitions for participating public, cosplay parade, nerd gourmet food court, shows, new talents, digital influencers, voice actors, Kpop contest, talkshow lectures with special guests, Japanese cuisine, dance competition, booths, video game championships, nerd Festival with attraction musical, among other things.
  Date: 24.25 and 26/May 2024, from 11am to 8pm.
  Location: Ferreira Costa Home Center-Unidade Tamarineira (4th Floor- R. Cônego Barata, 275 - Bairro Tamarineira, Recife - PE, 52051-020).
  Information: By phone/whatsapp +5581-98704.5450 (Kelmer Luciano-Producer) or on the event's Instagram

• In Edmonton from 9pm there's the Towel Day Bass Genre Blender, with LØSTRONAUT, Seaglass, SKZM, Meeberz, Mike Panic and Miss Kitty. Genres: bass house, cyberpunk, drum and bass, dubstep, psybass.
  Details and RSVP on Facebook

• In Copenhagen, The Social Geek CPH once more hosts a picnic (if weather allows) in a park. They're hoping to enjoy the outdoors and the sun with some hoopy froods. Save the Date for this special SATURDAY Towel Day. Details and RSVP on Meetup.com and on Facebook

• In Berlin at 20:00 Towel Day is celebrated at C-base, a non-profit association for learning about software, hardware and networks. This tradition has been going on for over a decade now. Music, visualizations, drinks and games related to Douglas Adams... and the reveal of ShaderAmp 1.0! Details
• In Hamburg at PON - Platz ohne Namen, Towel Day celebrations will start at 18:42. Every life form is welcome to share some Pangalactic Gargle Blasters, listen to readings, get scientific enlightments, eat 42 peanuts & all the rest. They still accept submissions in the form of more Adams readings, Vogon poems, towel origami, intergalactic lectures & planetary workshops, please contact them via their webpage. Things are going to happen if you make them happen. Bring your towel, a lawn chair and don't panic!
• In Hannover, once more a fireworks competition will be held in the Herrenhäuser Gärten. Some hitchhikers will gather there with a towel and a bottle of gargle blaster in the picnic basket, and will be very happy to see other guests carrying towels.

• In Ravenna, at the Planetarium at 4:30pm there is a Galactic Guide for Mini Space Travelers Show with Amalia Persico (recommended age is 8 years old). Reservation is recommended. Under the dome of the planetarium. A conference-show on the occasion of Towel Day. We will ask ourselves why the science fiction writer Douglas Adams of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" chose the towel as a fundamental element for those wishing to travel in our galaxy. Using his book as inspiration and the planetarium as a map, we will discover the physical characteristics of our galaxy, the current knowledge of the objects they contain and the possibilities of future space travel. Full admission: 5 EUR, reduced admission: 2 EUR.
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• In Rotterdam, from 17:40-23:40, fans of Douglas Adams and/or Terry Pratchett are welcome at Cafe Pardoen, Spaansekade 62. Bring a towel, wear the lilac. In honour of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. Rotterdam Editie The 9th Edition will feature: Pangalactic Gargleblasters, Vogon Poetry Contest, Dwarfish Battle Bread Battle, Elvish Impersonation Contest, Dirk Gently's Holistic Treasure Hunt and much, much more! Prizes galore!" Details and RSVP on Facebook

• In London, at 14:30 (2:30pm), at Gunnersbury Park Museum, documentary director, writer and animator Kevin Jon Davies will discuss all things "Hitchhikers" with actor David Learner ("Marvin the Paranoid Android"). There will also be the opportunity to see a display of original cels from the BBC series' BAFTA winning animation sequences. Get your tickets here!
• The next day in Cambridge at 13:00 at the railway station, David Haddock awaits you for his traditional Douglas Adams themed Cambridge Tour. RSVP and details on Facebook

• In Roswell, NM, Roswell Galacticon presents Roswell Towel Day, at the Roswell Convention Center! Special Guest: Odfel as Trillian!
  Planned Events include: Vogon Poetry reading, Dinner Theatre @ The End of The Universe, Odfel workshop, more cosplay, vendors...
  There's also an informal Vogon poetry event on Friday night.
  Details: roswelltowelday.com
• In Wayne, MI, from 12.30pm to 1.30pm you can join the Wayne Public Library as they paint and stamp towels, so you'll always know where your towel is! Source
• In Pittsburgh, PA, at 5pm Melanie Todoroff hosts a Karaoke BBQ called "Karaoke BBQ 8: The BBQ at the end of the Universe". If you want to attend, you need to contact Melanie first (we imagine space is limited). Hey all you Hoopy Froods, grab your towel and head on over to the first karaoke BBQ of the year, which happens to fall on Towel Day!
  • bring your towel and a dish to pass and/or whatever you want to drink
  • karaoke by Parioke
  • pangalactic gargle blaster cocktails by Eric
  • dogs and burgers, vegan options provided
  • game TBA
  • hitchhikers guide playing outside
  Details and RSVP on Facebook AND PLEASE GET IN TOUCH via Facebook Messenger at Melanie Todoroff or todoroffmel@gmail.com if you want to come.
• In Tampa, FL, at Shuffle a Towel Day Celebration Show start at 7:30pm. "What better way to celebrate Towel Day in honor of the late Douglas Adams than a live show at Tampa's favorite shuffleboard bar? Shuffle in the Tampa Heights neighborhood features indoor and outdoor shuffleboard courts, a full bar, and tasty burgers, wings, and other pub fare. The mini-amphitheater stage in the large back yard is a great addition for live music. Please join us for a fun evening while we make some noise. Music will start at 7:30pm. As always, don't forget your towel."
  Details and RSVP on Events.in
• In Wilkesboro, NE, Wilkes County Public Library is celebrating Towel Day. Drop in for photo ops! Don't forget to brint your towel!
• In Peoria Heights, IL, the public library runs a Towel Drive for the local animal protective services, Peoria County Animal Protective Services (AKA PCAPS). They will encourage the public to donate a towel the week of May 20th, because they are closed on Towel Day.
  Details here
• In Sayville, NY, the Sayville Library presents Cricut Crafts: Towel Day. "Don't Panic! Celebrate Towel Day by personalizing your own towel in case of interstellar emergency". This event runs from 3pm to 5pm and requires a payment of $5.00 per registrant to attend. Registration will close on May 28, 2024 @ 3:00pm. At the time of writing there were 3 seats remaining.
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• In Lincoln, NE, from 13-26 May, software engineering company Don't Panic Labs runs their annual towel drive. They collect new and used towels for the People's City Mission, that has a constant need for towels. Towels are collected in numerous locations, and financial contributions for towels are also accepted. The company's name was inspired by Adams' best-known novel, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where the words Don't Panic are printed on the cover of the Guide.
  Details here
• In Tampa, FL, some hitchhikers have put together a Towel Day celebration at a local shuffleboard-themed bar called Shuffle in the Tampa Heights neighborhood. Shuffle has a full-service bar, kitchen that serves up tasty concession stand-style food (pizza, burgers, dogs, tots, etc...), indoor and outdoor shuffleboard courts, and a large back yard with a mini-amphitheater for live music. Music will start at 7:30pm. As always, don't forget your towel!
  Details and RSVP on Facebooks
• In Washington DC, don't miss Towel Day 2024: A Party at the End of the Universe! Come celebrate author Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fandom with a raucous evening of nerdiness.
  Don't be a strag! Power up your infinite improbability drive for an evening of mostly harmless fun before the universe ends (again) or Earth is bulldozed to build a hyperspace bypass (again)!
  • Buffet and cash bar (beer, wine, Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters*)
  • Best Towel contest
  • The worst Vogon poetry recitation this side of the MeagaBrantis star cluster
  • Galactic dance party
  • Sci-Fi cosplay hearily encouraged!
  
  It's at the Astro Beer Hall from 7-11pm. Get your tickets now!
  Details and tickets on Eventbrite
  *never drink more than two Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters unless you are a thirty ton mega elephant with bronchial pneumonia.
• In Albuquerque, NM, the Public Library of Albuquerque-Bernalillo County is having a Towel Drive for Towel Day! "May 25 is Towel Day, a celebration of the life of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Participate in Towel Day by donating to our towel drive! Drop off your new or gently used towels at the branches listed from May 21 through May 25. Please drop off donations when the library is open Towels will be donated to Watermelon Mountain Ranch, Animal Humane New Mexico, and Healthcare for the Homeless. Healthcare for the Homeless appreciates white towels, but any color is accepted! They will also accept washcloths.
  Details including branches taking towel donations here