Bec H

Participates in 1 Session

Sessions in which Bec H participates

Saturday 31 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

12:00 PM

Project Runway Swancon

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Kate Williams (Participant)

Bec H (Participant)

Julia Watts Julia, PathWest - Royal Perth Hospital (Participant)

Designers, you have a challenge awaiting you. You must design your outfit, choose your fabric, make your item and dress your model. You have ...

Sessions in which Bec H attends

Thursday 29 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

6:30 PM

Opening Ceremony

1 hour, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Keynote

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Wolf Bylsma (Participant)

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Foz Meadows (Participant)

Barbara de la Hunty (Participant)

Are you ready??? Meet this year’s team, meet the guests, and get the lowdown on all things Swancon 2018.Welcome to Country ceremony will be...

8:30 PM

Classic Who: Season 10. Jon Pertwee From Three Doctors to The Green Death

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

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Talk

Damian Magee (Participant)

Mrs Heather Magee (Participant)

Colin Sharpe (Participant)

Mr Aaron Creaser Aaron (Participant)

Classic Who- Season 10: End of Exile. The Anniversary Season Damian looks back on a classic season of class Who. The Doctor meets his other sel...

Reliving Our Childhoods- The influence of the 70s and 80s on SF

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

RIchard McAllister (Participant)

Sally Beasley (Participant)

Ian Nichols, Miskatonic University (Participant)

From long-running SF franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek to the visual design of Blade Runner, the 70s and 80s have cast long shadows over cont...

9:30 PM

Nuke's SF Trivia Quiz - “Klaatu barada nikto!”

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Collaborative

Nuke, AntipodeanSF (Participant)

Friday 30 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

10:00 AM

DIY electronics - building your own future without the IOT

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

David Horton (Participant)

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

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...

2:00 PM

Let's talk about Star Wars

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

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Luke Chandler-Hopkins (Participant)

Cameron MacFarland (Participant)

Lyss Wickramasinghe, The Never Never Book Box (Participant)

It’s baaaaack! Star Wars has returned to our screens to mixed feelings of delight and dismay. What are the new films doing right? What are we hopin...

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...

4:00 PM

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

Graphic Art in the family room

1 hour, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

Emily K Smith (Participant)

5:00 PM

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...

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...

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)

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

Remembering LeGuin

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

Ursula LeGuin was a giantess of SF, and will be sorely missed. The genre would literally not the be same without her. The Earthsea books, The Lathe...

9:00 PM

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

10:00 AM

Young people in publishing

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Panel

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Emma Hall, IngramSpark (Participant)

Lyss Wickramasinghe, The Never Never Book Box (Participant)

With the changing landscape of the publishing industry, how can young content creators and editors approach their dream jobs? The panel looks at so...

Mining the Mundane

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6

Panel

Satima Flavell (Participant)

Nanci Nott (Participant)

Writers and content creators use a range of sources and techniques to nurture the creative spark. Sometimes these sources are their own lives and h...

Art show

7 hours 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meetings on 5 foyer

Keynote

NovelPersepctive: a machine learning reading tool

30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Talk

Frames White (Participant)

Presenting NovelPerspective, a tool for transforming (modifying) e-books, based on the point of view character. Epic fantasy novels are notable for...

Paranormal Romance vs Urban Fantasy

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Panel

Shona Husk (Participant)

Michelle Diener (Participant)

Daniel de Lorne (Participant)

Anna Hackett (Participant)

Not sure if you write fantasy with romantic elements, urban fantasy or paranormal romance? It’s more than just the species or style of magic. Delve...

11:00 AM

Changing Nature of Fan Communities

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

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Barbara de la Hunty (Participant)

Sally Beasley (Participant)

Dave Luckett (Participant)

Swancon has been running for 43 years, and fandom has changed around the convention during this time. (Or has it?) What was Perth fandom like in th...

2:00 PM

UNISFA is how old?!

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

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

FE Waters (Participant)

Shay Telfer (Participant)

Gina Goddard (Participant)

Frames White (Participant)

UNISFA turns 40 this year. Join several generations of UNISFAns as they remininisce, contemplate, anecdote and laugh. Middle age has never looked s...

Fannish Speed Friend-ating

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom foyer

Mx Anna Hepworth (Participant)

3:00 PM

Disney from the kids' seats

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

Rosalie Chilvers (Participant)

Lyra Telfer (Participant)

Contemporary SF illustration and storyboarding

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

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Stefanie Palladino (Participant)

Wolf Bylsma (Participant)

The panelists explore the three way intersection of story, visual art and technology, possibly with illustrations. How can art be used to tell stor...

4:00 PM

From an image to an ending- writing workshop for all writers

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Workshop

Amanda Bridgeman (Participant)

They say a picture tells a thousand words, but the truth is, they can tell an infinite amount more if you let your imagination run wild. Whether ph...

How to write academic papers

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6

Collaborative

Mx Anna Hepworth (Participant)

Art Diggle Art (Participant)

Anna and Art call on their long careers as research scientists to explain firstly how to avoid writing academic papers, and then when the inevitabl...

Print on Demand: It's more than just printing.

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

Emma Hall and Julie-ann Harper present on self publishing and print-on-demand. They discuss the growth of self publishing; the importance of invest...

Indian Speculative Fiction - what's hot

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Panel

Maia Bobrowicz (Participant)

Maia chats about the best of contemporary Indian speculative fiction, including these stories:The Woman who Thought She was a Planet by Vandana...

4:30 PM

Swancon 2019 Launch

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

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Keynote

FE Waters (Participant)

Jay Watson (Participant)

Mrs Davina Watson (Participant)

Linda Sengsourinho (Participant)

Mr David Gunn (Participant)

Dianne Watson (Participant)

5:00 PM

Kids Masquerade

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Collaborative

Drawing Characters 101

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Workshop

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Always wanted to draw characters? Been drawing for a while, but looking to sharpen your character drawing skills? Emily Smith will take you through...

6:00 PM

More than glitter

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

Lyss Wickramasinghe, The Never Never Book Box (Participant)

We all know the importance of writing and creating a diverse group of characters. The panel focusses on the next step, making the diversity not the...

7:00 PM

Masquerade

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

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Collaborative

Masquerade

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

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Collaborative

8:00 PM

Masquerade chill out space

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

cheshirenoir@gmail.com (Participant)

Sunday 1 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

10:00 AM

Knitting 101

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Collaborative

Mrs Davina Watson (Participant)

Liam Orton (Participant)

Ms Jess Bridges (Participant)

Have you always wanted to knit or crochet? Do you knit, but you haven't brought your yarn and needles to the convention? Come along to Knitting 101...

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

The Science in The Martian movie

30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Talk

AI/Machine learning: a guide

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

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Talk

Frames White (Participant)

Kitchen Transformations: Crafting with Drain Cleaner and Germs

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

Lara . Lara (Participant)

Have you had a think about creating your own soap or cheese, but don’t know where to start? Do you think you need a whole lot of specialised ...

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

Bush Skills

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Talk

Barbara de la Hunty (Participant)

Book Covers: Art or Money?

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Panel

Emma Hall, IngramSpark (Participant)

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

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Amanda Bridgeman (Participant)

Can book covers be both effective marketing tools and art? How does an author navigate a cover art request form successfully? The panel will invest...

3:00 PM

Post-Worldcon debrief and gloat

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Collaborative

PRK (Participant)

Leece (Participant)

Sally Beasley (Participant)

Robert Masters rdm (Participant)

Did you go to Worldcon 75 in Helsinki last year? This panel isn't a panel, it's a get together for people who went, or wished they had. Share photo...

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)

Fan Fund Auction

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

Amanda Bridgeman (Participant)

Jay Watson (Moderator)

The Fan Funds represented at the convention auction memorabilia and trinkets to raise funds for the next great adventure. Come along, buy amazing a...

4:00 PM

Orbits don't work that way

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

David Horton (Participant)

A look at the concept of delta V and how we can use it map and compare fictional works and the space craft that journey through them. We al...

Anime with adult protagonists: a guide

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

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

J Dalziel (Participant)

Mr John Samuel John Samuel (@arcadiagt5) (Participant)

Sean Ambrose (Participant)

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)

8:00 PM

WA Awards Ceremony (Tin Ducks)

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

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Keynote

Western Australia’s own SF/F/etc. Awards since 1982, the Tin Ducks are awarded each year at Swancon. (The name is a play on another WA award, the S...

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...

9:00 PM

Swancon History Panel

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

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Anthony Peacey (Participant)

Grant Stone (Participant)

Barbara de la Hunty (Participant)

Barb de la Hunty, Grant Stone and Tony Peacey were there in the early days of Swancon. They have stories to tell, about how Swancon started and beg...

Monday 2 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

11:00 AM

Apocalyptic outback Australia

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

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Moderator)

Mrs Davina Watson (Participant)

Rachel Watts (Participant)

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Jack Bridges Jack (Participant)

Some non-urban regions of Australia seem like the apocalypse has already arrived. (Ever driven through a small wheatbelt town on a Sunday afternoon...