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Montana A |
Montana B |
Cocktail Lounge |
Gaming Room |
Fan Lounge |
| 3.30 - 4.30 |
Registration
Swancon Committee |
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DINNER |
| 8.00 - 9.00 |
Cocktail Party
Swancon Committee |
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Art Show setup |
| 9.00 - 10.00 |
Rocket Boys and Rocket Girls - Is the dream a reality?
John Samuel |
Good, Bad and Forgettable - Buffy Review
Kitty Hemsley, Kat Griffiths, PRK |
Ticonderoga Book Launch
Russell Farr |
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| 10.00 - 11.00 |
Sex and Evolution - The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Margaret Dunlop |
Trailer Park 2010
David Gunn |
Vampires Are Just Sooo Dead
Richard Harland, Stephen Dedman, Sue Isle, Ian Irvine |
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| 11.00 - 12.00 |
Geek Sing-a-long
Desiree Heald |
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| FRIDAY |
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Montana A |
Montana B |
Cocktail Lounge |
Gaming Room |
Fan Lounge |
| 9.30 - 10.30 |
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Aikido Warm Up
Wing Chung |
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Art Show
Drhoz |
| 10.30 - 11.30 |
Opening Ceremony
Swancon Committee |
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| 11.30 - 12.30 |
Welcome to Your First Con
Sarah Parker, John Samuel |
Parasites: What are you Carrying?
Scott Sigler, Drhoz, Coreynn Tan |
Children's TV Shows: Live Action from 60s and 70s
Damian Magee |
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| 12.30 - 1.30 |
LUNCH |
| 1.30 - 2.30 |
Exiled to Earth: Dr Who's 7th Season
Damian Magee, Heather Magee, Colin Sharpe, David Gunn |
LARP Presentation - Introduction
Mel, Sara |
Robin & Sidekicks in comics
Zoe Wadsworth, Narelle Harris |
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| 2.30 - 3.30 |
Scott Sigler - GOH Speech
Scott Sigler |
Dark Fantasy
Ju Landéesse |
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| 3.30 - 4.30 |
Getting Published
Ian Irvine |
AussieCon Promotion
Emma Hawkes, Karen Babcock |
The Fleischer Brothers 'Superman'
David Medlen |
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| 4.30 - 5.30 |
Safe Spaces
Ju Landeese, Sarah Parker, Elaine Kemp |
Lost? The End is Near
Tom Eithelhuber, Graeme Watson, Tina Eitelhuber, Helen Balfour |
Perfectly Packaged: Designing Science Fiction
Alisa Krasnostein, Amanda Rainey |
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| 5.30 - 6.30 |
Disability in Science Fiction
Sophie MacFarland |
The Future of Television - Does it have a future?
Damian Magee? |
Getting to Know Narelle
Narelle Harris |
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| 6.30 - 8.00 |
DINNER |
| 8.00 - 9.00 |
Auction
Anna Hepworth, Chris Creagh, Helen Creagh |
Making the Magic in Fantasy Novels work
Sarah Parker, Sonia Helbig, Stephen Dedman, Carol Ryles, Richard Harland |
3D Printers
Caspian Maclean |
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Andy Warhol and Fan Re-mixing
Cathy Cupitt, Emily Turner |
Sandbox Vs Theme Park: MMOs Types
Brendan Ragan, David Cake |
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The Iron Brain Competition
Coreynn Tan |
Scary Kisses Anthology
Liz Grzyb |
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| SATURDAY |
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Montana A |
Montana B |
Cocktail Lounge |
Gaming Room |
Fan Lounge |
| 9.30 - 10.30 |
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Improvised Drama Games
Susan Ackermann |
GOH Reading
Ian Irvine |
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Art Show
Drhoz |
| 10.30 - 11.30 |
Market Day |
No you can't have a f… flying car; You couldn't get it to the market and it wouldn't sell anyway!
Nick Evans, Rohan Wallace |
Haven't a Thing to Wear...
Coreynn Tan |
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| 11.30 - 12.30 |
The New Who
Michael Cogan, Aaron Creaser, Narelle Harris, Damian Magee |
Gynaecon 10th Anniversary
Gynaecon Collective |
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| 12.30 - 1.30 |
LUNCH |
| 1.30 - 2.30 |
What's New and Notable in Child and Young Adult Sci Fi and Fantasy
Gina Goddard |
NASAs Budget Proposal
John Parker, Paul Talbot, Andrew Williams |
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| 2.30 - 3.30 |
Ian Irvine - GOH Speech
Ian Irvine |
Modernising Classic Horror
Andrew Sharp, John Parker, Mike Sharp, Kendra Swaine |
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| 3.30 - 4.30 |
Xena - A Retrospective View
Nancy Lorenz |
The Square Kilometre Array
Dr Andrew Williams |
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| 4.30 - 5.30 |
The Blockbusters of Shame
Gina Goddard, Stephanie Bateman-Graham |
Comics You Should be Reading
Tom Eithelhuber, Damian Magee |
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| 5.30 - 6.30 |
Rumble in the Prose
Kaneda, Wing Chung, Stephen Dedman, Scott Sigler |
LARP Makeup Presentation
Mel, Sara |
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| 6.30 - 8.00 |
DINNER |
| 8.00 - 9.00 |
Masquerade |
An Introduction to Vlad Taltos
Craig Stephenson, John Samuel |
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Art Show teardown |
| 9.00 - 10.00 |
Dating the Undead
Narelle Harris |
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| SUNDAY |
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Montana A |
Montana B |
Cocktail Lounge |
Gaming Room |
Fan Lounge |
| 9.30 - 10.30 |
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Yoga
Satima Flavell |
Book Reading
Scott Sigler |
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Girl Genius
John Parker, Samara Morgan |
| 10.30 - 11.30 |
Future War - Vision of Neuromancer
Wing Chung |
2009 in film
Tom and Tina Eitelhuber |
How did they do that?
Coreynn Tan |
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Editing... How it works
Anna Hepworth, Gina Goddard, Narelle Harris |
| 11.30 - 12.30 |
Avatar - Where do we go from here?
Richard Harland, Ian Irvine |
The Speed of Science
Anna Hepworth |
Looking back at classic Children Sci Fi/Fantasy Literature
Damian Magee, Heather Magee |
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Rock Star, Sun
Trevor Phillips |
| 12.30 - 1.30 |
LUNCH |
| 1.30 - 2.30 |
Rebel Empire Lightsaber Workshop: Stage combat with a twist
Kaneda Cruz |
World War II and Alternative Histories
Andrew Sharp, John Parker, Mike Sharp |
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Torchwood
Cathy Cupitt, Emily Turner |
| 2.30 - 3.30 |
Sue & Gina's Excellent...Adventure
Sue Ackermann, Gina Goddard |
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The Best and Worst of Anime
Lionel, Ross |
| 3.30 - 4.30 |
Promoting Your Book
Ian Irvine, Narelle Harris |
Steampunk: Is it the Next Big Thing?
Richard Harland |
Astroboy: New Century, New Visions
Andrew Phillips, Colin Sharpe |
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Fiction of Anthropomorphic Animals
Anna Hepworth, Desiree Heald |
| 4.30 - 5.30 |
How about Heinlein?
Gina Goddard, John Samuel, Emma Hawkes |
Lone Genius
Anna Hepworth, Sophie MacFarland |
Geek Away
Desiree Heald, Owen Wylde |
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Inside the Sci Fi B-Movie
Peter Kelly |
| 5.30 - 6.30 |
Swancon 2011 Launch
Swancon 2011 Committee |
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| 6.30 - 8.00 |
DINNER |
| 8.00 - 9.00 |
Awards Ceremony
Anna Hepworth, Ju Landéesse |
Top SF&F Movies of the Decade 2000-09
Tom Eitelhuber |
Van Girling about Female Characters
Desiree Heald |
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Rats! Foiled Again
Drhoz |
| 9.00 - 10.00 |
Video Quiz
Damian Magee |
Anime Archetypes
John Samuel |
Star Trek: Chat time
Stephanie Bateman-Graham, Matthew Bateman-Graham |
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Project Runway: Swancon
Liz Grzyb, ??? Williams |
| 10.00 - 1100 |
Sing Star Idol
Desiree Heald |
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| MONDAY |
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Montana A |
Montana B |
Cocktail Lounge |
Gaming Room |
Fan Lounge |
| 9.30 - 10.30 |
American Spaceflight: Where to next?
Michael Cogan, Ryan Burley |
WASFF AGM
WASFF |
Book Reading
Narelle Harris |
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So young and hot! What lies behind the upsurge of Young Adult Speculative Fiction?
Richard Harland, Ian Nichols |
| 10.30 - 11.30 |
Looking back on the X-Files
Damian Magee |
World Without End
Ian Nichols |
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Anyone can write a thousand-page novel, it's writing short stories that's difficult!
Richard Harland, Stephen Dedman, Sue Isle, Ian Irvine |
| 11.30 - 12.30 |
Writing techniques for speculative fiction
Richard Harland |
Geek in the High School
Desiree Heald, Samara Morgan |
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Safe LARP Combat
Mel, Sara |
| 12.30 - 1.30 |
LUNCH |
| 1.30 - 2.30 |
Making Science work in your SF novel
Stephanie Bateman-Graham, Carol Ryles, Scott Sigler |
Touch of Strange: Theodore Sturgeon
Drhoz |
Words of Women
Gina Goddard, Sarah Parker, Helen Merrick |
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What's On Television This Year?
Jenny Owens, Graeme Watson |
| 2.30 - 3.30 |
SFF and Romance
Samara Morgan, Elaine Kemp, Satima Flavell, Juliet Marillier |
Swancon 2011 Homework
Andrew Williams, Liz Grzyb |
Stephen King Film Adaptations
Scott Sigler |
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10 Reasons Why We Should Legalise Human Cloning
John Green, Linda Deegan |
| 3.30 - 4.30 |
Closing Ceremony
Swancon 2010 Committee |
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