Sandra Norman Sandra

Participates in 2 items

Sessions in which Sandra Norman Sandra participates

Sunday 1 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

4:00 PM

Chocolate Tasting

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Workshop

Sandra Norman Sandra (Participant)

Deb Costello (Participant)

8:00 PM

The Mystery of Murdoch

1 hour, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Sandra Norman Sandra (Participant)

Deb Costello (Participant)

Gina Goddard (Participant)

Sessions in which Sandra Norman Sandra attends

Thursday 29 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

8:30 PM

Music in Fandom: Making Everything Even Better

1 hour, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Participant)

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Participant)

How does music fit in to our fannish lives? The panellists look at the place of music in fannish enjoyment and transformative fan art. How do some ...

9:30 PM

Geek singalong!

1 hour, 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Collaborative

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Participant)

Friday 30 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

10:00 AM

Believing Impossible Things

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Stephen Dedman (Participant)

Chris Creagh, Retired (Participant)

Dr Andrew Williams (Participant)

Luke Chandler-Hopkins (Participant)

Humans are good at believing improbable, or even impossible, things. This panel will sort out the degrees of impossibility involved in key science ...

11:00 AM

Captain America vs America (and Australia)

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Mx Anna Hepworth (Moderator)

Robert Hood (Participant)

Stephen Dedman (Participant)

Lyss Wickramasinghe, The Never Never Book Box (Participant)

What do we find so hot about the idea of a superhero? How does this compare to how we view humans who have ‘super’ power in the form of extreme wea...

How to be the Doctor’s Companion- Practical skills to take into space.

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Mr Aaron Creaser Aaron (Participant)

Rachel Turner Rachel (Participant)

Ruth Turner (Participant)

What does it take to be the Doctor's companion? How would a person go about training for the role? What are essential skills in a companion? What s...

12:00 PM

Foz Meadows' Reading, and Q and A session

1 hour 30 minutes, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Keynote

Foz Meadows (Participant)

PRK (Moderator)

Guest of Honour, Foz Meadows, will give a reading, and then be interviewed by PRK on their work and plans. An audience Q and A will follow, and a s...

2:00 PM

Jewelry Making

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Participant)

Data is Beautiful: Data visualisation can tell a story

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

Dr Andrew Williams (Participant)

Mx Anna Hepworth (Participant)

STUART FINLAY (Participant)

Humans are inherently bad at seeing the patterns in numbers, but really good at picking visual patterns. Data visualisation is one of the tools tha...

3:00 PM

Australian TV: Early days to Cleverman

1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Moderator)

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Damian Magee (Participant)

The style of storytelling in Australian TV has changed radically from the early days of Homicide to Cleverman. The panellists look at the changes, ...

4:00 PM

Mammoth Speculations

30 minutes, 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Talk

Matt Chrulew (Participant)

Matthew ChrulewCentre for Culture and Technology, Curtin UniversityThe woolly mammoth has often appeared in speculative fiction as ...

Beyond the Binary: Alternatives to patriarchy and other binary models of society

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Workshop

PRK (Moderator)

Foz Meadows (Participant)

Mx Anna Hepworth (Participant)

The panel work their way through historical, theoretical and fictional alternatives to the shitshow we are in. Then they get angry. Then they make ...

4:30 PM

From Ecocatastrophe to Anthropocene fiction: full circle or new terrain?

30 minutes, 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Talk

Cat Sparks (Participant)

Anthropocene fiction/Cli Fi is being touted as the contemporary literature of our Earth in transformation, exploring impacts and effects of climate...

5:00 PM

Never, ever underestimate a library

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Nuke, AntipodeanSF (Moderator)

David Medlen (Participant)

Ms Jessica Davey (Participant)

Ms Jess Bridges (Participant)

Edwina Harvey, Peggy Bright Books (Participant)

The internet has brought a decreased need to travel to a physical place to find facts or even fiction. Freed from these housekeeping tasks, what am...

Kdrama with Candice

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

First Hierarch Candice Of the Church of Cha, First and Holy Church of Cha (Participant)

Ellora Ker (Participant)

A Kdrama year in review. Netflix has made Korean dramas much more accessibl, with both easily accessed shows worth watching, and harder ones worth ...

How stars work, what happens over a star's lifetime, and why

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Talk

Dr Andrew Williams (Participant)

All you need to know about astrophysics without the equations.Andrew Williams presents: There's an awful lot of science fiction featuri...

6:00 PM

Horror Movie: It's the 6.30 News

1 hour, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Cat Sparks (Participant)

Stephen Dedman (Participant)

Robert Hood (Participant)

Authorial Voice and Writing the Other

1 hour, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

PRK (Moderator)

Jack Bridges Jack (Participant)

Foz Meadows (Participant)

Writers spend a lot of time worrying about how to write marginalised voices without, well, marginalising the voices. How do writers who are Other w...

Australian Landscapes as Characters

1 hour, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Moderator)

Shasta Calvo (Participant)

Mx Anna Hepworth (Participant)

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

From the deserts to the suburbs*, Australian landscapes have been turned into important characters in their own right, particularly in YA sf and fa...

8:00 PM

Evolution of Humanity

1 hour, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Talk

Ms Jessica Davey (Participant)

Jessica presents on

Here be dragons...?

2 hours 30 minutes, 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Skye Ogden (Participant)

Sarah Searle (Participant)

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Wolf Bylsma (Participant)

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Moderator)

9:00 PM

Safe Spaces LARP

1 hour, 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

Maia Bobrowicz (Participant)

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 ...

Online safety Facebook, cyber-security and identity theft

1 hour, 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

Evil Kenevil BRIAN JOHNSON, Lindentech (Participant)

Ben Hindmarsh (Participant)

Alastair Irvine (Participant)

Recent events in online fan spaces have shown that your fan identity is easily linked to your government assigned identity, and that this can have ...

Saturday 31 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

11:00 AM

Technohorror

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Linda McAllister (Moderator)

Kat Clay, Mrs. (Participant)

Robert Hood (Participant)

Stephen Dedman (Participant)

How do horror writers and film-makers deal with advances in tech such as cell phones - giving characters a light source and the ability to call...

12:00 PM

Ryan J Griffen Guest of Honour event

1 hour 30 minutes, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Keynote

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Moderator)

7:00 PM

Masquerade

5 hours, 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Collaborative

Sunday 1 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

10:00 AM

With a whimper, not a bang

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Rachel Watts (Participant)

Elaine Walker (Ariaflame) (Participant)

Cat Sparks (Participant)

Rather than ending in a loud, messy apocalyptic bang, what if climate change turns out to be a slow, terrible descent into poor drinking water, mos...

11:00 AM

Science fiction's boneyard

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Panel

PRK (Moderator)

Cat Sparks (Participant)

Nuke, AntipodeanSF (Participant)

Carol Ryles (Participant)

Foz Meadows (Participant)

Does science fiction even exist anymore? The panellists examine how reality has caught up with and overtaken anything storytelling has to offer. Ho...

12:00 PM

Creating the Cleverman Comics: Emily Smith's and Wolf Bylsma's Guest of Honour event

1 hour 30 minutes, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Talk

Fern Clarke (Moderator)

Wolf Bylsma (Participant)

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Emily Smith and Wolf Bylsma give a presentation on the creative and practical processes behind developing the Cleverman comics, explaining how the ...

2:00 PM

Fans of Sport Panel

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Mrs Davina Watson (Participant)

Deb Costello (Participant)

Mr Michael Cogan, Swancon (Participant)

Sport: it’s like a game! Many of us bookish types reflexively recoil from sport (possibly because of memories from school), but sport has plenty to...

3:00 PM

Murdoch library: Collection formation, academic transformation, and fannish terrorism?

1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Talk

Grant Stone (Participant)

Comics -> TV/movies VS TV/movies -> comics

1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Wolf Bylsma (Participant)

Frames White (Participant)

We’re used to media changing format, comics to TV or movies, or back the other way. Is there a difference in the kinds of stories told, dependi...

4:00 PM

Chocolate Tasting

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Workshop

Sandra Norman Sandra (Participant)

Deb Costello (Participant)

4:30 PM

WASFF Business Meeting

3 hours, 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Workshop

Doug Burbidge (Moderator)

Frames White (Participant)

Evil Kenevil BRIAN JOHNSON, Lindentech (Participant)

Ms Margaret Watts Margaret (Participant)

Jack Bridges Jack (Participant)

PRK (Participant)

Laura Hodge (Participant)

Mrs Davina Watson (Participant)

Mrs Andrea Johnson (Participant)

5:00 PM

Bicentential Monster- Shelley's Frankenstein

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Robert Hood (Participant)

Stephen Dedman (Participant)

Cat Sparks (Participant)

Mary Shelley is the grandmother of science fiction, founding en entire genre 200 years ago with her novel, Frankenstein. Does the novel's cu...

Grant Stone’s Swancon History via T-shirts

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

Grant Stone (Participant)

Come along and listen to Grant Stone reminisce about Swancons past, prompted by the t-shirt designs of the day. This panel really needs its own t-s...

6:00 PM

Cross-fertilising, from genre to aesthetic

1 hour, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Moderator)

Lyss Wickramasinghe, The Never Never Book Box (Participant)

Carol Ryles (Participant)

Rebecca Laffar-Smith, Sci Fi Fantasy Author (Participant)

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Cross-fertilising genres gives awesome results like the SF spy novel and the supernatural romance. The panel discusses why these combinations are s...

8:00 PM

The Mystery of Murdoch

1 hour, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Sandra Norman Sandra (Participant)

Deb Costello (Participant)

Gina Goddard (Participant)

8:30 PM

National Awards Ceremony (Ditmars)

30 minutes, 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Keynote

Australia’s national SF awards since 1969, the Ditmars are awarded each year at the Natcon, which this year is Swancon.These fan-voted awards i...

Monday 2 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

12:00 PM

Fanfic as a gateway to canon

1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Ms Belinda Forbes (Gemfyre) (Participant)

Fern Clarke (Participant)

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Participant)

The expectation is that we consume the canon, then dive into the fan creations. Except, sometimes, we slide sideways into canon through fic or vids...