Sandra Norman Sandra
Participates in 2 items
Sessions in which Sandra Norman Sandra participates
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Chocolate Tasting Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Workshop
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- The Mystery of Murdoch Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
Sessions in which Sandra Norman Sandra attends
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Music in Fandom: Making Everything Even Better Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- 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 ...
- Panel
9:30 PM
9:30 PM
- Geek singalong! Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Believing Impossible Things Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Humans are good at believing improbable, or even impossible, things. This panel will sort out the degrees of impossibility involved in key science ...
- Panel
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Captain America vs America (and Australia) Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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. Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Panel
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Foz Meadows' Reading, and Q and A session Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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...
- Keynote
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Jewelry Making Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Workshop
- Data is Beautiful: Data visualisation can tell a story Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Panel
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Australian TV: Early days to Cleverman Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- The style of storytelling in Australian TV has changed radically from the early days of Homicide to Cleverman. The panellists look at the changes, ...
- Panel
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Mammoth Speculations Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Matthew ChrulewCentre for Culture and Technology, Curtin UniversityThe woolly mammoth has often appeared in speculative fiction as ...
- Talk
- Beyond the Binary: Alternatives to patriarchy and other binary models of society Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- The panel work their way through historical, theoretical and fictional alternatives to the shitshow we are in. Then they get angry. Then they make ...
- Workshop
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- From Ecocatastrophe to Anthropocene fiction: full circle or new terrain? Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Anthropocene fiction/Cli Fi is being touted as the contemporary literature of our Earth in transformation, exploring impacts and effects of climate...
- Talk
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Never, ever underestimate a library Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Panel
- Kdrama with Candice Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- A Kdrama year in review. Netflix has made Korean dramas much more accessibl, with both easily accessed shows worth watching, and harder ones worth ...
- Talk
- How stars work, what happens over a star's lifetime, and why Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- All you need to know about astrophysics without the equations.Andrew Williams presents: There's an awful lot of science fiction featuri...
- Talk
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Horror Movie: It's the 6.30 News Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Authorial Voice and Writing the Other Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Panel
- Australian Landscapes as Characters Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour
- From the deserts to the suburbs*, Australian landscapes have been turned into important characters in their own right, particularly in YA sf and fa...
- Panel
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- Evolution of Humanity Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | 1 hour
- Jessica presents on
- Talk
- Here be dragons...? Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM | 2 hours 30 minutes
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
- Safe Spaces LARP Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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 ...
- Workshop
- Online safety Facebook, cyber-security and identity theft Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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 ...
- Panel
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Technohorror Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Panel
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Ryan J Griffen Guest of Honour event Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- Masquerade Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM | 5 hours
- Collaborative
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- With a whimper, not a bang Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Panel
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Science fiction's boneyard Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Does science fiction even exist anymore? The panellists examine how reality has caught up with and overtaken anything storytelling has to offer. Ho...
- Panel
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Creating the Cleverman Comics: Emily Smith's and Wolf Bylsma's Guest of Honour event Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Emily Smith and Wolf Bylsma give a presentation on the creative and practical processes behind developing the Cleverman comics, explaining how the ...
- Talk
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Fans of Sport Panel Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Panel
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Murdoch library: Collection formation, academic transformation, and fannish terrorism? Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Talk
- Comics -> TV/movies VS TV/movies -> comics Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Panel
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Chocolate Tasting Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Workshop
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- WASFF Business Meeting Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM | 3 hours
- Workshop
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Bicentential Monster- Shelley's Frankenstein Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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 Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Talk
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Cross-fertilising, from genre to aesthetic Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour
- Cross-fertilising genres gives awesome results like the SF spy novel and the supernatural romance. The panel discusses why these combinations are s...
- Panel
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- The Mystery of Murdoch Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- National Awards Ceremony (Ditmars) Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM | 30 minutes
- 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...
- Keynote
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Fanfic as a gateway to canon Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Panel