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
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Faery Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- 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 ...
- Panel
Sessions in which Helen Jekabsons (Helen J) 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...
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
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Lunch
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Closed
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- 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
- 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
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
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- 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
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
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
- Worst Movies We Ever Saw Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Panel
10:00 PM
10:00 PM
- Beard or no beard? Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Collaborative
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- 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
- Play 'DropMix'! Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
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
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
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Lunch
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Closed
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Real People, Imaginary Stories Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Indian Speculative Fiction - what's hot Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Maia chats about the best of contemporary Indian speculative fiction, including these stories:The Woman who Thought She was a Planet by Vandana...
- Panel
- Geek singalong - Disney edition Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM | 45 minutes
- Collaborative
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- Swancon 2019 Launch Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
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
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- Dinner
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 1 hour
- Masquerade Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM | 5 hours
- Collaborative
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- Masquerade Chill-out room Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6
- 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 2 hours
- Collaborative
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
- Kpop with Candice Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM | 2 hours
- A guided tour through a year of Kpop. The spectacle continues. Mini movies, drama, and beautiful people with more coordination than seems feasible....
- Talk
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Faery Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- 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 ...
- Panel
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Lunch
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Closed
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Damian's Diabolical Video Quiz! Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Talk
- Bush Skills Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Talk
- 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
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
- 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
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- 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
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- Dinner
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 1 hour
- Closed
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
- Murdoch Mysteries Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Panel
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Steven Universe Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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 ...
- Panel
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Transfinite to Mastery: Barb de la Hunty's Guest of Honour event Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Talk
- 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
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Lunch
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Closed
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Philosophy of Mind in SF Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Panel
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Swancon Feedback Panel Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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-...
- Workshop
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Closing Ceremony Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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 ...
- Keynote