9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Welcome to Swancon Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1 hour
- If you don't manage to make it to these program items which are designed to welcome newcomers, here's the ultra-short version: if you have question...
- Workshop
- Open Console Gaming Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Easter Egg Hunt Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes
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
- Live Action Quidditch Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 2 hours
- The WA Quidditch Association are bringing their expertise and equipment to Swancon!Under the supervision of people Who Know What They Are D...
- Collaborative
- 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
- The Cup Shanty Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Workshop
- Retro Morning!! Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)
- 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Collaborative
- 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
- Quiet spaces Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 1
- 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | 8 hours
- Collaborative
- Art show Pan Pacific Perth - Meetings on 5 foyer
- 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 7 hours
- Workshop
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- AI/Machine learning: a guide Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Talk
- Kitchen Transformations: Crafting with Drain Cleaner and Germs Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Have you had a think about creating your own soap or cheese, but don’t know where to start? Do you think you need a whole lot of specialised ...
- Talk
- The Science in The Martian movie Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Talk
- 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
- What to do until the Messiah arrives? Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- A short and gritty stroll through some of the practical skills that might keep us alive after the apocalypse. We're going to need more than a utili...
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Furniture Parkour Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The hit panel of last years family program is back! Learn how to parkour. Getting around the lounge room has never been so fun, and you...
- Workshop
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
- Evolution of Table Top Games Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Lunch
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Closed
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
- Co-op games Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)
- 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | 2 hours
- Collaborative
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
- Ryan Griffen's commentary for Cleverman S2 E3 "Dark Clouds" Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Ryan Griffen provides commentary and background details for "Dark Clouds", Cleverman S2 E3. Parental Advisory warnings for violence ...
- Talk
- 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
- Taking a Videogame Company to the Australian Securities Exchange Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Vee Prendergast says:I will detail the work that I have given over the past three years as I have been directly seeking major investment in...
- 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
- 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
- Quiet Time Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
- 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
- Murdoch library: Collection formation, academic transformation, and fannish terrorism? Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Talk
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Blur Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)
- 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM | 3 hours
- Collaborative
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Anime with adult protagonists: a guide Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- 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
- Fresh Air Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
- Chocolate Tasting Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Workshop
- Kate Wilhelm: a retrospective Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Kate Wilhelm was a Hugo Award winning author, with a speculative fiction writing career that spanned five decades. With Wilhelm's recent death, thi...
- Collaborative
- Advanced Fanfic Analysis Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- We all know classic fics, the stories that linger long after the fandom fades away. The panellists will dive into some of the classic fics of the p...
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
- The Colours Out of Space Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Talk
- art show close down Pan Pacific Perth - Meetings on 5 foyer
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
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
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
- 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
- Can you trust that Dog? Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | 1 hour
- Take a trip down memory lane and ask yourself an important question - CAN YOU TRUST THAT DOG?Including but not limited to: Sirius (Stapledo...
- Collaborative
- More Halo Madness Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)
- 8:00 PM - 11:30 PM | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Collaborative
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
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
- 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