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Bec H

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Sessions in which Bec H participates

Saturday 31 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
  • Project Runway Swancon
  • Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • Designers, you have a challenge awaiting you.  You must design your outfit, choose your fabric, make your item and dress your model. You have ...
  • Family

Sessions in which Bec H attends

Thursday 29 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
6:30 PM
6:30 PM
  • Opening Ceremony
  • Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
  • 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM  | 1 hour
  • 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...
  • Keynote
    Main
    CoreGuest of Honour
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
9:30 PM
9:30 PM

Friday 30 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
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
    scienceScience fiction
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
  • Let's talk about Star Wars
  • Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • 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...
  • Panel
    TV & MoviesScience fiction
    star warsMovies
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
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
    Futurism
    TechnologyFuturism
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
  • 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
    Science fictionWriting
    WritingReadingAustraliaGuest of Honour
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
  • Remembering LeGuin
  • Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
  • 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • 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...
  • Panel
    Science fictionRetrospective
    Science fictionretrospective
9:00 PM
9:00 PM

Saturday 31 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
  • Young people in publishing
  • Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM  | 1 hour
  • With the changing landscape of the publishing industry, how can young content creators and editors approach their dream jobs? The panel looks at so...
  • Panel
    Writing
    Writing
  • Mining the Mundane
  • Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM  | 1 hour
  • 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...
  • Panel
    Creative Arts
    Writingneeds panelists
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
  • Changing Nature of Fan Communities
  • Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • 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...
  • Panel
    FuturismRetrospectiveFandom
    Fandomretrospective
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
  • UNISFA is how old?!
  • Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • UNISFA turns 40 this year. Join several generations of UNISFAns as they remininisce, contemplate, anecdote and laugh. Middle age has never looked s...
  • Panel
    Fandom
    Fandomretrospective
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
  • Contemporary SF illustration and storyboarding
  • Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • The panelists explore the three way intersection of story, visual art and technology, possibly with illustrations. How can art be used to tell stor...
  • Panel
    Creative ArtsScience fiction
    WritingArtScience fictionGuest of Honour
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
  • How to write academic papers
  • Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • 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...
  • Collaborative
    AcademicWriting
    WritingAcademic
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
  • Drawing Characters 101
  • Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • Always wanted to draw characters? Been drawing for a while, but looking to sharpen your character drawing skills? Emily Smith will take you through...
  • Workshop
    Creative Arts
    ArtWorkshop
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
  • More than glitter
  • Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • 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...
  • Panel
    Writing
    Writing
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
8:00 PM
8:00 PM

Sunday 1 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
  • Knitting 101
  • Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM  | 1 hour
  • 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...
  • Collaborative
    Creative Arts
    TechnologyDIY
  • 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
    Science fictionFuturism
    Science fictionclimate changeWriting
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
  • Book Covers: Art or Money?
  • Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • 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...
  • Panel
    Creative ArtsWriting
    WritingArt
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
  • Post-Worldcon debrief and gloat
  • Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • 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...
  • Collaborative
    Fandom
    Fandom
  • Fan Fund Auction
  • Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • The Fan Funds represented at the convention auction memorabilia and trinkets to raise funds for the next great adventure. Come along, buy amazing a...
  • Panel
    Fandom
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
  • Orbits don't work that way
  • Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • 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...
  • Panel
    Science fiction
    scienceScience fictionneeds panelists
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
  • WA Awards Ceremony (Tin Ducks)
  • Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
  • 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM  | 30 minutes
  • 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...
  • Keynote
    CoreAwardsFandom
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
    Fandom
    CoreAwards
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
  • Swancon History Panel
  • Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
  • 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • 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...
  • Panel
    RetrospectiveFandom
    Fandomretrospective

Monday 2 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
  • Apocalyptic outback Australia
  • Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • Some non-urban regions of Australia seem like the apocalypse has already arrived. (Ever driven through a small wheatbelt town on a Sunday afternoon...
  • Panel
    Science fiction
    Science fictionAustraliaWriting