Helen Jekabsons (Helen J)

Participates in 1 Session

The unofficial but traditional Tea & Quiet Chats format & day/time for 2021 is yet to be decided, due to the new ANZAC weekend program format. It will be in Helen's hotel room, with all peeps welcome to drop by to share herbal tea and quiet chats. The room number will be put on the main information whiteboard.

Please note: all teas will be herbal and will contain NO caffeine. Some snacks provided. Quietness will be enforced. BYO just yourself. A door notice will tell you if we are still up or have gone to bed, so you can drop by to check, even if it's 1am!

Sessions in which Helen Jekabsons (Helen J) participates

Sunday 1 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

10:00 AM

Faery

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Panel

Satima Flavell (Participant)

Helen Jekabsons (Helen J) (Participant)

We've been telling stories about the fey for a long time, but how have the stories changed over time? What is the fey's role in stories? What does ...

Sessions in which Helen Jekabsons (Helen J) 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...

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...

1:00 PM

Lunch

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

Closed

2:00 PM

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

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 ...

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...

6:00 PM

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...

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

9:00 PM

Worst Movies We Ever Saw

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

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Stephen Dedman (Participant)

Yoli Lawrence (Participant)

Kat Clay, Mrs. (Participant)

Our panelists present their picks for the worst sf, fantasy and horror movies they ever saw. Audience members who can make a convincing case for ev...

10:00 PM

Beard or no beard?

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

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Collaborative

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

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Participant)

Ms Belinda Forbes (Gemfyre) (Participant)

Come along and spend a lot of time looking at photos of extremely attractive people with and without beards. Can we reach consensus on which is bet...

Saturday 31 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

10:00 AM

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...

Play 'DropMix'!

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Collaborative

Brendan Ragan Brendan "LordMortis" Ragan, Lumi Interactive (Participant)

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...

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)

1:00 PM

Lunch

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

Closed

3:00 PM

Real People, Imaginary Stories

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

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Dave Luckett (Participant)

Sarah Parker (Moderator)

Ian Nichols, Miskatonic University (Participant)

Stephen Dedman (Participant)

4:00 PM

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...

Geek singalong - Disney edition

45 minutes, 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Collaborative

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Participant)

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)

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

Dinner

1 hour, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Masquerade

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

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Collaborative

8:00 PM

Masquerade Chill-out room

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6

Collaborative

9:00 PM

Kpop with Candice

2 hours, 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

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

A guided tour through a year of Kpop. The spectacle continues. Mini movies, drama, and beautiful people with more coordination than seems feasible....

Sunday 1 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

10:00 AM

Faery

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Panel

Satima Flavell (Participant)

Helen Jekabsons (Helen J) (Participant)

We've been telling stories about the fey for a long time, but how have the stories changed over time? What is the fey's role in stories? What does ...

1:00 PM

Lunch

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

Closed

2:00 PM

Damian's Diabolical Video Quiz!

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

Damian Magee (Participant)

Mrs Heather Magee (Participant)

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...

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...

5:00 PM

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...

7:00 PM

Dinner

1 hour, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Closed

9:00 PM

Murdoch Mysteries

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

Damian Magee (Participant)

Fern Clarke (Participant)

Why has this series has taken the world by storm? Why is the series still going strong in its 11th season? The panellists explore why they lo...

Monday 2 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

11:00 AM

Steven Universe

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

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Drhoz Drhoz (Participant)

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Participant)

Rallye (Participant)

Steven Universe: why are all my LGBTQ friends going crazy over a kids’ cartoon? The panel discusses the relevance of Steven Universe's themes, and ...

12:00 PM

Transfinite to Mastery: Barb de la Hunty's Guest of Honour event

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

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Talk

Barbara de la Hunty (Participant)

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...

1:00 PM

Lunch

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

Closed

2:00 PM

Philosophy of Mind in SF

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Moderator)

Luke Chandler-Hopkins (Participant)

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Sally Beasley (Participant)

What is the mind? How closely does the mind depend on the biological nature of the brain? The mind/body split has a long and not always noble histo...

3:00 PM

Swancon Feedback Panel

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Workshop

Mrs Davina Watson (Participant)

Jay Watson (Participant)

Linda Sengsourinho (Participant)

Tell us how we did: what bits you loved, what bits we could have done better. We’ll engage in some constructive criticism as to how to rework less-...

4:00 PM

Closing Ceremony

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

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Keynote

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Barbara de la Hunty (Participant)

Foz Meadows (Participant)

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Wolf Bylsma (Participant)

It’s four days later, your tiredness has reached the point where anything is funny, and you’re in a roomful of people you’ve shared the convention ...