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Friday 30 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
Welcome to Swancon
1 hour, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Workshop

Jack Bridges Jack (Participant)

Ms Jess Bridges (Participant)

Open console gaming
1 hour, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

10:00 AM
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 ...
Live action board games!
1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Collaborative

Fern Clarke (Participant)

Come along and play large scale board games. We have:Hungry, hungry hippo!Foosball!Kerplunk!(But not Operation. No ...

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

David Horton (Participant)

Run Through Banner
1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

Emma Hawkes Emma (Participant)

Mario party
2 hours 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

11:00 AM
11:00 AM

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...
That was the year that was: 1988
1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Talk

Damian Magee (Participant)

Mr Michael Cogan, Swancon (Participant)

1988. What were you doing in 1988? Do you remember? Home and Away had just started, and Slyvester McCoy was the Doctor. The first signs that the co...
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...
Mad Max Plushies
1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

Choose a plushie and bling it up ready for the plush toy wars that will follow this panel.  Design and add weapons, armour, camouflage, mods.....
12:00 PM
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...
Plush Toy Wars
1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Collaborative

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

Closed

1:30 PM
1:30 PM
DS Fun-o-rama
2 hours, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

2:00 PM
2:00 PM
SF movies that engage the brain
1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Nuke, AntipodeanSF (Participant)

Ian Nichols, Miskatonic University (Participant)

Laura Gladstone (Participant)

One of the most notable elements of written science fiction is the focus on exploring ideas in depth and speculating about the effects of technolog...
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...

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...
Jewelry Making
1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Participant)

3:00 PM
3:00 PM
D20s, halberds and online streaming
1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Mr Aaron Creaser Aaron (Participant)

Elaine Walker (Ariaflame) (Participant)

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Dungeons and Dragons has evolved from a table top game played privately, on through MMORPGs, and now has a new face, as performed entertainment by ...
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, ...
Making your cosplay glow
1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

David Horton (Participant)

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Collaborative

3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Fighting Arcade fun
3 hours, 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

4:00 PM
4:00 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 ...
Mammoth Speculations
30 minutes, 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Talk

Matt Chrulew (Participant)

Matthew ChrulewCentre for Culture and Technology, Curtin UniversityThe woolly mammoth has often appeared in speculative fiction as ...
Miyazaki: a retrospective
1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

Shasta Calvo (Participant)

Miyazaki Hayao is one of the biggest names in animation, and in Japanese cinema. In this panel we explore his history, starting with his early days...
Prancercising
30 minutes, 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

Ms Margaret Watts Margaret (Participant)

4:30 PM
4:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Talk

Cat Sparks (Participant)

Anthropocene fiction/Cli Fi is being touted as the contemporary literature of our Earth in transformation, exploring impacts and effects of climate...
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
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...

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...
Kdrama with Candice
1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

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

Ellora Ker (Participant)

A Kdrama year in review. Netflix has made Korean dramas much more accessibl, with both easily accessed shows worth watching, and harder ones worth ...
6:00 PM
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...
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...
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Dinner
1 hour, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Closed

8:00 PM
8:00 PM
Here be dragons...?
2 hours 30 minutes, 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Skye Ogden (Participant)

Sarah Searle (Participant)

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Wolf Bylsma (Participant)

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Moderator)

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
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...
Left 4 Dead Marathon
3 hours 30 minutes, 8:00 PM - 11:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

9:00 PM
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...

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 ...
Safe Spaces LARP
1 hour, 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

Maia Bobrowicz (Participant)

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 ...
10:00 PM
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...
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