5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Dinner
- 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Art Show Registration & Set Up Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South Rear (Art Show)
- 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Closed
6:30 PM
6:30 PM
- Hitchhiker's Guide to Swancon (Opening Ceremony) Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Rooms
- 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour
- Public announcement: We wish to inform you at this time that your planet, locally known as The Earth has been listed for demolition. W...
- Panel
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- Welcome To Swancon Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Panel
- Quilting with Davina Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- Workshop
- Meet The AV Crew Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Rooms
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- If you're using AV at a program item later in the convention and you're not sure of the set up, meet our AV expert(s) here, and let them understand...
- Panel
- Board Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South (Gaming)
- 7:30 PM - 4:00 AM | 8 hours 30 minutes
- Collaborative
- Art Show Registration & Set Up Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South Rear (Art Show)
- 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Closed
- Open Console Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 7:30 PM - 11:00 PM | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Collaborative
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- Safe Spaces Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Panel
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Patrick Troughton Remembered Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- The Fantastic History of Wearable Art Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Cathy talks about some of the globe-spanning adventures beads can undertake, while running a workshop in which you can make your own simple piece o...
- Workshop
- Immortal Futures: Living On A Post-death Planet Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Rooms
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Medical technology continues to advance. The human life expectancy extends further every year. Previously fatal diseases are being cured or mitigat...
- Panel
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
- Room Closed Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South Rear (Art Show)
- 9:00 PM - 11:30 PM | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Closed
9:30 PM
9:30 PM
- Geek Sing-along: The Return of the Sing Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 9:30 PM - 11:30 PM | 2 hours
- It’s time to put the screen up/ It’s time to dim the lights/ It’s time to put the lyrics on the geeky songs tonight! It’s time to sing w...
- Collaborative
- Douglas Adams: A Life Remembered Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Rooms
- 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 1 hour
- From Dirk Gently to Doctor Who and of course The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. Douglas Adams gave the world so much entertainment. We remember n...
- Panel
10:30 PM
10:30 PM
- Hanna- Barbara: The Final Years Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Rooms
- 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM | 1 hour
- They gave us The Flintstones, The Smurfs, Scooby-Doo, and much more, filling our screens with cartoons from the 1940s to the 1980s. But where are t...
- Panel
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Board Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South (Gaming)
- 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM | 5 hours
- Collaborative
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Art Show Registration & Set Up Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South Rear (Art Show)
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1 hour
- Closed
- Open Console Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- 42 Years of Swancon Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Reading and Q & A Session with Wesley Chu Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Join our remote internation guest of honour Wesley Chu as he reads us one of his favourite sections of one of his works and then answers your quest...
- Keynote
- The Regeneration Game Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- 50 years ago the BBC took the extraordinary step of replacing the lead actor of their popular children’s drama Doctor Who not with a looka...
- Panel
- Origami with Sanny Ang Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Workshop
- Traders Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama North
- 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | 8 hours
- Art Show Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South Rear (Art Show)
- 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | 8 hours
- Collaborative
- Run Through Banner Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
- Forza Horizon 3 Time Trials Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM | 3 hours
- Collaborative
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Walt Disney: The Second Renaissance Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM | 2 hours
- In 2004 Walt Disney Animation was in ruins: its films were losing the studio money, competitors had sprung up and overtaken them at the box office ...
- Panel
- Modern Medieval in Perth Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Perth people love medieval things! Find out about the many medieval groups & activities in Perth, such as sword fighting, archery, feasting, costum...
- Panel
- Xenobiology Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- An investigation and analysis of alien physiology and anatomy in film and fiction. Using modern scientific understanding we look back on decades of...
- Talk
- Agnostic Photographer: Learning Your Camera Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Learning to love your dials, and taking your camera off AUTO. Do terms like Aperture, ISO, Shutter Speed, or Depth of Field make you...
- Workshop
- Frankenplushies Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Buffy: An Appreciation Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- It is hard to believe that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is 20 years old this year. As we meet for this appreciation of this groundbreaking show we cons...
- Panel
- Best & Worst Reads of 2016 Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Agnostic Photographer: Practical Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Let's take these babies out for a test drive! After going over the basics, we will take our camera of choice out and put into practic...
- Workshop
- Plush Toy Wars Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Lunch
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Cloning Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Talk
- Girls und Panzer: Der Panel Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- An exploration of one of the most bizarre and enjoyable Anime to come out in recent years. Ostensibly a "Sports Anime" by genre, Girls und Panzer, ...
- Panel
- Joyce Chng/Damask GOH Speech Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
- Role Playing Workshop (Beginners) Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Once again the great people at Final Frontiers are generously giving some of their time to bring to Swancon the world of RPG. In this intro session...
- Workshop
- Board Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South (Gaming)
- 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 4 hours
- Collaborative
- Flower Garden Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 2:00 PM - 2:59 PM | 59 minutes
- Collaborative
- Pokemon Tounament Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Collaborative
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- More on Breast Feeding Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- A rambling discussion about the current state of human lactation research at UWA. May include discussions of hyper-immune milk, how milk compositio...
- Talk
- Doorways to the Imagination Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Based on her blog post http://fandelyon.com/how-to-write-a-thousand-words-or-maybe-more-by-amanda-bridgeman/ Amanda Bridgeman talks about som...
- Panel
- Joyce Chng / Damask Signings Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Book Signings
- Quilting with Davina Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Workshop
- Lie around and Listen Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 3:00 PM - 3:59 PM | 59 minutes
- Collaborative
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Mario Kart WiiU Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Collaborative
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Solar Passive Housing Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Talk
- G Rated Trailer Park Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Panel
- Alan Baxter GOH Speech Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
- Trailers for G Rated Movies Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Collaborative
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- Trailer Park Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What are the best movies for the whole family this year? There will be a 10 minute gap at end of G-rated Trailer Park to allow room to...
- Panel
- Cartooning Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Page To Screen: The New Wave of Anime Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- In recent years the Japanese film industry has capitalised on adapting numerous anime and manga to live-action. While it’s certainly a hugely succe...
- Panel
- Alan Baxter Signings Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Book Signings
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
- Paper Planes Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Collaborative
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Dinner
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Room Closed Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 6:00 PM - 11:30 PM | 5 hours 30 minutes
- Closed
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- Room Closed Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Closed
- Wearable Tech Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Video Quiz Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Board Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South (Gaming)
- 7:30 PM - 12:00 AM | 4 hours 30 minutes
- Collaborative
- Room Closed Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South Rear (Art Show)
- 7:30 PM - 11:30 PM | 4 hours
- Closed
- Super Smash Bros Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 7:30 PM - 11:30 PM | 4 hours
- Collaborative
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- Aurealis Awards Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- The Potterheads HP Quiz Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- A short quiz spanning all seven books and movies in the Harry Potter universe. Whether Muggle or Pureblood, grab a small group of up to six and pit...
- Panel
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
- How Fan Clubs Have Adjusted to the Internet Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour
- As the popularity of the internet and streaming services has risen over the years how has this impacted local fan clubs? Are they doing anything di...
- Panel
9:30 PM
9:30 PM
- Late Night with Davina & Danny Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 9:30 PM - 11:30 PM | 2 hours
- Join the wonderful Davina Watson as she attempts to educate, interact with, and generally amuse the audience. Be a contestant for the inaugural...
- Panel
10:00 PM
10:00 PM
- Safe Spaces LARP Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- We've had some great discussions over the years and it's time to walk that talk. This workshop is an opportunity to examine difficult situations an...
- Collaborative
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Board Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South (Gaming)
- 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM | 5 hours
- Collaborative
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Open Console Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Mind of a Murderer Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Looking into the psychology and mind of murderers with particular focus on serial killers and mass murderers. Looking at common back grounds, exper...
- Talk
- Laughter Yoga Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Workshop
- Kung Fu Academy with Alan Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Kung Fu: who would have thought we would ever have a panel about it at a Swancon? Well, this is what our awesome guest Alan brings to us. Let's all...
- Panel
- Fandom Through the Years Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Fandom has always changed. Every year brings new technology and resources. Once it could be incredibly hard to find others that shared your pa...
- Panel
- Traders Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama North
- 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | 8 hours
- Art Show Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South Rear (Art Show)
- 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | 8 hours
- Collaborative
- Kit Kat Jenga Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Collaborative
- Halo 4 Team Co-OP Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM | 3 hours
- Collaborative
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Making a Thing for 2018 Launch Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Workshop
- Make a Thing Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Why So Little Hopeful Near Future Fiction? Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- There is a definite lack of near future positive spec fic stories, despite the free availability of data and info about sustainability, etc. Part o...
- Talk
- Traci Harding GOH Speech Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
- Should Women be Freemasons? Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Come along and meet a couple of women from secret societies and hear their stories and about other trailblazing famous Australian's doing their par...
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- The Ancient Art of Wayfinding Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Collaborative
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Fanzines & Murdoch SF Collections Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Murdoch University has an awesome collection of fanzines, dating back to the '30s and 40's. Find out about some of the hidden treasures of this col...
- Talk
- New Who Panel with Michael Troughton Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Traci Harding Signings Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Book Signings
- Speculative Fiction KDramas with Candice & Ellora Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Korean serials come in a wide variety of genres; from period dramas, to magazine empires, and action packed stories of reporters or vigilantes. Can...
- Panel
- Finish the Drawing Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Collaborative
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
- Five Go Mad with Post-its Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Collaborative
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Lunch
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- How Developing Countries Are Tackling the Impact of Climate Change Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 2 hours
- Adaptation to climate change did not receive much attention in the first years of the international climate change studies, where there was more fo...
- Talk
- 1977: The Year That Was Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- We take you back with the books, Music,TV, and the films that came out the stir the audiences, like Star Wars Close Encounter and Saturday Night F...
- Panel
- Book Launch: Crow Shine Collection Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Ticonderoga publishing is turning 21 years old this year and as part of their celebrations they are launching Alan Baxter's Crow Shine Collection. ...
- Panel
- Cartoons from Our Childhood Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Seventy-five thousand generations ago, our ancestors set this program in motion and after all that time all its come up with, is Saturday morning C...
- Panel
- Board Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South (Gaming)
- 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 4 hours
- Collaborative
- Superhero Capes Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Workshop
- Bayonetta 2 Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Collaborative
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Costuming Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Cosplay is the actualisation of the imagination. One is never too old to dress up. Join us for a discussion on how to get started in costuming, ...
- Panel
- Michael Troughton GOH Speech Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- In an interview and Q&A Michael talks about his career and how wrote his biography on his late father Patrick Troughton with some clips of his appe...
- Keynote
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- From the brain of Douglas Adams came the story of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. This awesome book has now been turned into a Netflix ser...
- Panel
- Lie Around and Listen Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- DS Fun-rama Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Collaborative
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Readings: With Joyce & Alan Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
- Debate This?! Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Michael Troughton Signings Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Book Signings
- Norma K Hemming / Nerina Hillard Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Norma K Hemming science fiction short stories have received some academic interest in recent years, but her romance novels have – like virtually al...
- Panel
- Geekling Singalong Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Collaborative
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- 2018 Launch Set Up Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Closed
- Kids Masquerade with photos taken Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Kids Masquerade at 5pm - this is so that young children or children who won't be able to attend the grown up Masquerade later can show us their cos...
- Collaborative
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Swancon 2018 Launch Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
- Soul Calibur 4 & 5 Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Dinner
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- Age of Wonder Woman Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- Wonder Woman debuted in 1941, and turned 75 last year. Inspired by early feminists, Wonder Woman has been part of the feminist landscape ever since...
- Panel
- The Restaurant At The End of The Universe (Masquerade Ball) Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Rooms
- 7:30 PM - 11:30 PM | 4 hours
- Halfway through our quest to find the meaning of this convention we find ourselves at a strange little restaurant at the end of the universe. Here ...
- Collaborative
- Board Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South (Gaming)
- 7:30 PM - 12:00 AM | 4 hours 30 minutes
- Collaborative
- Room Closed Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South Rear (Art Show)
- 7:30 PM - 11:30 PM | 4 hours
- Closed
- Wikipalooza! Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 2 hours
- Community/fandom wiki editing event - come and add details to the SF fannish wiki about cons you’ve been to (or run), community organisations ...
- Collaborative
- Halo 4 Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 7:30 PM - 11:30 PM | 4 hours
- Collaborative
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- The Awesome YouTube Party Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Collaborative
10:00 PM
10:00 PM
- BeefCake Go! Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Board Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South (Gaming)
- 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM | 5 hours
- Collaborative
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Open Console Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Out of the Baupark Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Animals (on this planet anyway) might seem to come in a staggering variety, but the actual anatomy they use is limited in variety. A discussion on ...
- Talk
- Shared Cinematic Universes Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- When Marvel Studios embarked on their ambitious plan for an inter-related franchise of comic book adaptations, it was seen as a tremendous financia...
- Panel
- The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Arthur Dent, Zaphod, Ford Prefect.. we all know and love these characters. We love them so much we based an entire Swancon around this series ( I m...
- Panel
- Role Playing Workshop (Advanced) Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM | 3 hours
- Come to this extended session with Final Frontieers and learn... Best conduct at the table (how to be a good player, good game master ...
- Workshop
- Traders
- Available Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama North
- 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM | 6 hours
- Art Show Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South Rear (Art Show)
- 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | 8 hours
- Collaborative
- Easter Egg Hunt Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Collaborative
- Co-Op Madness Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM | 3 hours
- Collaborative
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Laser Maze Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Serial Killers & Me Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- A compare and contrast of fictional serial killers and their real life counter parts. Looking at who was based on who and how the stories compare. ...
- Talk
- Bayeux to Bayou: A Geek Odyssey Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- In 2016, two women journeyed through Europe and the USA, on the trail of WW2 paratroopers, fanfics, super-soldiers, and the ten dollar founding fat...
- Panel
- Davina Watson GOH Speech Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Official Book Defiling Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 11:30 AM - 11:59 AM | 29 minutes
- Normally you are not allowed to ruin a book. You will get a book of your own that you are allowed to do whatever you like - rip, scribble, cut, gl...
- Workshop
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Classic Dr Who Season 17 Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Tom Baker returns as the Fourth Doctor, with Romana and K9 as the trusty companions, in this 1979 season of Classic Who. Come and find out about th...
- Talk
- Writing: From Idea to Page Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Have you had a story in your head for ages you want to tell the world but not sure where to begin? Join our panelists who have been there and done ...
- Panel
- Readings with Sean & Traci Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Panel
- Furniture Parkour Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
- Book Launch: Lotus Blue by Cat Sparks Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Panel
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Lunch
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Neural Networks: Less Man than Machine Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- There has been a lot of excitement about neural networks creating works lately. For example: Recipes: https://goo.gl/yF2THM Movie...
- Talk
- Cooking Stories Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Our guest Joyce is not only an awesome author but she is also an enthusiastic cook. Here she will tell us about stories that combine both of her pa...
- Panel
- Sean Williams GOH Speech Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
- The Gehenna Memo (A Laundry Files Freeform) LARP Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 4 hours
- Bletchley Park. The most secret place in the British War effort. Cracking the Enigma code is a secret but more secret is what is happening in Hut 1...
- Collaborative
- Board Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South (Gaming)
- 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 4 hours
- Collaborative
- Nature Treasure Hunt Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
- Blur Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Collaborative
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Medicine Doesn't Work That Way! Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Inspired by last year's 'Science Doesn't Work That Way'. Some tropes and cliches so ubiquitous in film and television that they might endanger your...
- Talk
- From Script to Performance Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- With 42 years of acting behind him Michael Troughton has had years of experience of taking words on a script and turning them into masterful peform...
- Panel
- Sean Williams Signings Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Book Signings
- Lie Around and Listen Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Halo Speed Run! Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Collaborative
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- World Building: The Near Future Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Think-tank covering not only technological but also social adaptation. Come and share your ideas as we build the future together in which not only ...
- Talk
- WASFF AGM Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 2 hours
- We report on our finances and activities, elect new board members, and select the Swancon 2019 committee. Full meeting notice at
- Keynote
- Gender Swapping with Art Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Ghostbusters, Star Wars, Thor, Captain America... Previously white-male-led franchises and fiction entities are being flipped at an increasing rate...
- Panel
- Traders and Swapmeet Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama North
- 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 2 hours
- Exchange your items for money, exchange your money for items. $5 a table for sellers. Free space will be provided for people wishing to fundraise f...
- Make a Noise Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- In the Wash: Fighting Appropriation Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Controversy over the casting of Scarlett Johansson in the anime ...
- Panel
- Fan Fiction: an Introduction Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Dinner
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Traders Pack Down and Bump Out Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama North
- 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Closed
- Art Show: Art collection, Auction and Bump Out Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South Rear (Art Show)
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Collaborative
- Room Closed Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 6:00 PM - 11:30 PM | 5 hours 30 minutes
- Closed
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- Awards Ceremony Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- Come and help us celebrate science fiction in WA. This is where we'll give the Tin Duck awards. It's also where we'll award 20-year and 33-year pin...
- Keynote
- Things I Learned in Arduino So You Don't Have To Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- A collection of ways that your Arduino/electronics project can go horribly wrong, and maybe some advice on avoiding them. Mostly on what goes wrong...
- Panel
- Sci-fi in KPop Music Videos Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 2 hours
- The success of a song in the Korean music industry is measured with many metrics - including YouTube hits. The way to get more YouTube hits is to m...
- Panel
- Star Wars: 40 Years Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Board Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South (Gaming)
- 7:30 PM - 12:00 AM | 4 hours 30 minutes
- Collaborative
- Art Show Closed Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South Rear (Art Show)
- 7:30 PM - 11:30 PM | 4 hours
- Closed
- Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 7:30 PM - 11:30 PM | 4 hours
- Collaborative
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Keeping it in the Family: Sci-fi in Our Solar System Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- In recent years satellites have revealed enormous amounts of information about our solar system, and the geography and atmospheres of all manner of...
- Panel
- Prepping - 30 Days After Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Surviving for the first month after the apocalypse is going to be rough. The panel wrestle with some of the monsters in the darkness, then get the ...
- Panel
- Go Boldly: The Case of Star Trek in the 21st Century Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama North
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Star Trek turned 50 in 2016, although there hasn’t been a Star Trek television series on the air in close to 12 years. How m...
- Panel
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
- Your Game Pick of 2016 Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Panel
9:30 PM
9:30 PM
- The Great Swancon Improve Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
10:30 PM
10:30 PM
- Horror Movies of 2016 Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Trailer Park 18+ Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM | 1 hour
- What is the best Horror, and otherwise not child friendly, films coming out in the next few years? There will be a 10 minute gap at st...
- Panel
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Open Console Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM | 4 hours
- Collaborative
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- The Ethics of Bio Hacking Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Talk
- Big Finish Panel with Michael Troughton Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Big Finish Productions make science fiction audio plays (and a few other things besides). They are most famous for their Doctor Who audio plays. Mi...
- Panel
- MCU & Chill Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 2 hours
- It’s Monday morning. You’re tired, but you still want to do stuff at Swancon? Come chill with us and listen to selections from the ever increasi...
- Panel
- Don't Judge a Book by its Cover Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- We all like to say 'Don't judge a book by its cover', but we happily judge all the time! Let's look at the role of covers in representing and ma...
- Panel
- Swancon 2018 Homework Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama North
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Board Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South (Gaming)
- 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM | 3 hours
- Collaborative
- Space Blobs Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Our Favourite Fics Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- TV Shows Based on Film Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Since the early days of television, executives have thought that TV versions of famous films would be winners, but not all of these TV version...
- Panel
- Publishing: Where to Begin? Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Kiss, Marry, Kill: Swancon 2018 Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama North
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Is there a panel you’ve always wanted to see at Swancon, but has never been run? Is there a panel you wish would never be run again? Is there a goo...
- Panel
- My Little Pony Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Sean On Ice Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, Black
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
- What's Geeky in Your Town Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Room, White
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Find out from our guests Joyce and Traci what geeky things there are to do in Singapore and Brisbane. Also we can give them some insight what the c...
- Panel
- The Art of the Chase Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Some of the most exciting moments in cinema come when the characters give chase. Running away from someone, pursuing someone in a car, racing throu...
- Panel
- Sci-Fi Tech in the Real World Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Upcoming Events & Conventions Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama North
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Charades and Other Games Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Lunch
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Perth Observatory and its History Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Always: Alan Rickman Remembered Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Sherlock on Screen Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Rooms
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- This powerpoint presentation bring you the history of the world's most famous detective on the big and small screen, From the silents to sound...
- Panel
- Random Guest Chat 1 Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama North
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Board Gaming Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama South (Gaming)
- 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 2 hours
- Collaborative
- Craft the Heck out of it Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
- Room Closed for Pack Down Metro Hotel Perth - Board Room
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 3 hours
- Closed
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Swancon Screenings of 2016 Metro Hotel Perth - City Lights
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Minecraft Mods: Machines, Magic and Miscellanea Metro Hotel Perth - Cygnet Room
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Minecraft is a great game. Adding mods can make it even better. Adding convenience, challenge, replayability and more. Our panelists talk about wha...
- Panel
- Random Guest Chat 2 Metro Hotel Perth - Panorama North
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Tidy Up and Pack Away Metro Hotel Perth - Hovia Room
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Room Set Up for Closing Ceremony Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Rooms
- 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Closed
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- So Long and Thanks for All The Fish (Closing Ceremony) Metro Hotel Perth - Swan Rooms
- 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Well we have reached the end of our journey and discovered the meaning of Swancon 42. Come and help us say goodbye to our wonderful g...
- Keynote