Thursday 29 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

6:30 PM

Opening Ceremony

1 hour, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Keynote

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Wolf Bylsma (Participant)

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Foz Meadows (Participant)

Barbara de la Hunty (Participant)

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...

Open console gaming

5 hours, 6:30 PM - 11:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

7:30 PM

Con-going 101

1 hour, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Workshop

Doug Burbidge (Participant)

What you need to know as a first-time con-goer. How to maximise your con experience and have a fabulous time. This discussi...

Swancon movie screenings of the past year: the good, the bad and the unwatchable.

1 hour, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Collaborative

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Participant)

Did you go to a Swancon movie screening? What did you really think about the movie? Come along and join the panel in a vigorous and bracing review ...

Spotlight on CSI

1 hour, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

Ms Jessica Davey (Participant)

Jessica presents on

8:30 PM

Classic Who: Season 10. Jon Pertwee From Three Doctors to The Green Death

1 hour, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Talk

Damian Magee (Participant)

Mrs Heather Magee (Participant)

Colin Sharpe (Participant)

Mr Aaron Creaser Aaron (Participant)

Classic Who- Season 10: End of Exile. The Anniversary Season Damian looks back on a classic season of class Who. The Doctor meets his other sel...

Music in Fandom: Making Everything Even Better

1 hour, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Participant)

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Participant)

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 ...

Reliving Our Childhoods- The influence of the 70s and 80s on SF

1 hour, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

RIchard McAllister (Participant)

Sally Beasley (Participant)

Ian Nichols, Miskatonic University (Participant)

From long-running SF franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek to the visual design of Blade Runner, the 70s and 80s have cast long shadows over cont...

9:30 PM

Geek singalong!

1 hour, 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Collaborative

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Participant)

Nuke's SF Trivia Quiz - “Klaatu barada nikto!”

1 hour, 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Collaborative

Nuke, AntipodeanSF (Participant)

Friday 30 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

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

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 ...

DIY electronics - building your own future without the IOT

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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

How to be the Doctor’s Companion- Practical skills to take into space.

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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

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

Lunch

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

Closed

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

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...

Data is Beautiful: Data visualisation can tell a story

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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

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

Fighting Arcade fun

3 hours, 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

4:00 PM

Beyond the Binary: Alternatives to patriarchy and other binary models of society

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 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

From Ecocatastrophe to Anthropocene fiction: full circle or new terrain?

30 minutes, 4:30 PM - 5:00 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

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...

How stars work, what happens over a star's lifetime, and why

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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

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

Dinner

1 hour, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Closed

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

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...

Online safety Facebook, cyber-security and identity theft

1 hour, 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM

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

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...

Saturday 31 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

9:00 AM

Welcome to Swancon

1 hour, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Workshop

Jack Bridges Jack (Participant)

Ms Jess Bridges (Participant)

You've been here a day, and now there's things you want to know. Or you skipped Friday, and today is your first day! Meet some friendly (and possib...

Open console gaming

1 hour, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

art show set up

1 hour, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meetings on 5 foyer

Closed

10:00 AM

NovelPersepctive: a machine learning reading tool

30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Talk

Frames White (Participant)

Presenting NovelPerspective, a tool for transforming (modifying) e-books, based on the point of view character. Epic fantasy novels are notable for...

Live action board games!

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Collaborative

Fern Clarke (Moderator)

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

Play 'DropMix'!

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Collaborative

Brendan Ragan Brendan "LordMortis" Ragan, Lumi Interactive (Participant)

Kit Kat Jenga

30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Collaborative

Mario Kart

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

Young people in publishing

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Panel

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Emma Hall, IngramSpark (Participant)

Lyss Wickramasinghe, The Never Never Book Box (Participant)

With the changing landscape of the publishing industry, how can young content creators and editors approach their dream jobs? The panel looks at so...

Mining the Mundane

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6

Panel

Satima Flavell (Participant)

Nanci Nott (Participant)

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...

Paranormal Romance vs Urban Fantasy

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Panel

Shona Husk (Participant)

Michelle Diener (Participant)

Daniel de Lorne (Participant)

Anna Hackett (Participant)

Not sure if you write fantasy with romantic elements, urban fantasy or paranormal romance? It’s more than just the species or style of magic. Delve...

Objective Secured, Demo Tabletop Games

4 hours, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 4

Collaborative

Quiet spaces

8 hours, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 1

Collaborative

Art show

7 hours 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meetings on 5 foyer

Keynote

10:30 AM

Laser Maze

30 minutes, 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Collaborative

Make a spy maze replacing the lasers with wool (sorry!) and try to sneak through without setting off the alarm. Some spies may have to evade ...

11:00 AM

Technohorror

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Linda McAllister (Moderator)

Kat Clay, Mrs. (Participant)

Robert Hood (Participant)

Stephen Dedman (Participant)

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...

Changing Nature of Fan Communities

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Barbara de la Hunty (Participant)

Sally Beasley (Participant)

Dave Luckett (Participant)

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...

Writing the Romantic

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

Shona Husk (Participant)

Carol Ryles (Participant)

Michelle Diener (Participant)

Anna Hackett (Participant)

How do authors handle romance well when writing other genres? SF or fantasy with romantic elements are popular with readers, but getting the balanc...

Book Reading

30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Talk

Writing is a Marathon, not a Sprint

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Edwina Harvey, Peggy Bright Books (Participant)

Ian Nichols, Miskatonic University (Participant)

Writing is hard. How do writers deal with the practicalities of managing a job as a writer when bits of them won't cooperate? The panelists delve i...

Engaging Your Readers

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Panel

Amanda Bridgeman (Participant)

Emma Hall, IngramSpark (Participant)

A shiny cover image and a snappy pull quote for your book won't work unless you can encourage your readers to look. The panellists talk through mai...

Common Mistakes of Early Career Writers, and How Not to Make Them- writing workshop

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 3

Workshop

Satima Flavell (Participant)

Satima Flavell's workshop deals with the most common mistakes of first-time writers(and sadly, sometimes second or third time writers too!) Ove...

11:30 AM

Harry Potter Yoga

30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

Lyra Telfer (Participant)

Book launch: Survival by Rachel Watts

30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6

Book Signings

Rachel Watts (Participant)

Join Rachel Watts to celebrate the launch of Survival, a young adult novella.Ignorance is cheap. And then it costs you everything...

12:00 PM

Ryan J Griffen Guest of Honour event

1 hour 30 minutes, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Keynote

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Moderator)

Project Runway Swancon

1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Kate Williams (Participant)

Bec H (Participant)

Julia Watts Julia, PathWest - Royal Perth Hospital (Participant)

Designers, you have a challenge awaiting you. You must design your outfit, choose your fabric, make your item and dress your model. You have ...

1:00 PM

Lunch

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

Closed

1:30 PM

Smash Bros

2 hours, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

2:00 PM

UNISFA is how old?!

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

FE Waters (Participant)

Shay Telfer (Participant)

Gina Goddard (Participant)

Frames White (Participant)

UNISFA turns 40 this year. Join several generations of UNISFAns as they remininisce, contemplate, anecdote and laugh. Middle age has never looked s...

Thirteen

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Participant)

We’ve all heard the online controversy about the newest incarnation of Dr Who, due to the change in gender of the Doctor. Is that a relevant concer...

Science fiction, fantasy and animation from the 1950's -1990's with an emphasis on the 1980's

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

Elijah Weighell (Participant)

Post it Art

30 minutes, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

Ms Margaret Watts Margaret (Participant)

Fannish Speed Friend-ating

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom foyer

Mx Anna Hepworth (Participant)

Aurealis Awards Ceremony

2 hours, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Keynote

Aurealis Award Ceremony

2 hours, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6

Keynote

The 2017 Aurealis Awards are for works of speculative fiction by authors, editors and illustrators. The Aurealis Awards are a se...

Aurealis Awards Ceremony

2 hours, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Keynote

The 2017 Aurealis Awards are for works of speculative fiction by authors, editors and illustrators. The Au...

2:30 PM

Finish the Drawing

30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

Ms Margaret Watts Margaret (Participant)

3:00 PM

Real People, Imaginary Stories

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

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Dave Luckett (Participant)

Sarah Parker (Moderator)

Ian Nichols, Miskatonic University (Participant)

Stephen Dedman (Participant)

Contemporary SF illustration and storyboarding

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

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Stefanie Palladino (Participant)

Wolf Bylsma (Participant)

The panelists explore the three way intersection of story, visual art and technology, possibly with illustrations. How can art be used to tell stor...

Disney from the kids' seats

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

Rosalie Chilvers (Participant)

Lyra Telfer (Participant)

Quiet Time

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

3:30 PM

Pokken tournament

1 hour 30 minutes, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

Strong Beginnings- writing workshop

2 hours, 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Signup required

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 3

Workshop

Glenda Larke (Participant)

Strong Beginnings- writing workshopGlenda Larke, author of The Forsaken Lands, is offering an advanced writing workshop at Swancon.T...

4:00 PM

Swancon 2019 launch set-up

30 minutes, 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Closed

Linda Sengsourinho (Participant)

Jay Watson (Participant)

Mrs Davina Watson (Participant)

FE Waters (Participant)

Mr David Gunn (Participant)

Dianne Watson (Participant)

Masquerade set-up

3 hours, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Closed

Print on Demand: It's more than just printing.

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

Emma Hall and Julie-ann Harper present on self publishing and print-on-demand. They discuss the growth of self publishing; the importance of invest...

Geek singalong - Disney edition

45 minutes, 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Collaborative

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Participant)

Indian Speculative Fiction - what's hot

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Panel

Maia Bobrowicz (Participant)

Maia chats about the best of contemporary Indian speculative fiction, including these stories:The Woman who Thought She was a Planet by Vandana...

How to write academic papers

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6

Collaborative

Mx Anna Hepworth (Participant)

Art Diggle Art (Participant)

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...

From an image to an ending- writing workshop for all writers

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Workshop

Amanda Bridgeman (Participant)

They say a picture tells a thousand words, but the truth is, they can tell an infinite amount more if you let your imagination run wild. Whether ph...

4:30 PM

Swancon 2019 Launch

30 minutes, 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Keynote

FE Waters (Participant)

Jay Watson (Participant)

Mrs Davina Watson (Participant)

Linda Sengsourinho (Participant)

Mr David Gunn (Participant)

Dianne Watson (Participant)

5:00 PM

Masquerade set-up

2 hours, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Closed

Drawing Characters 101

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Workshop

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Always wanted to draw characters? Been drawing for a while, but looking to sharpen your character drawing skills? Emily Smith will take you through...

Kids Masquerade

30 minutes, 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Collaborative

Soul Calibur

1 hour 30 minutes, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

Swancon 1: Prisms of Memory

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Talk

Anthony Peacey (Participant)

5:30 PM

Sample Hague Publishing's 2018 releases

1 hour, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6

Talk

Andrew Harvey, Hague Publishing / Science Fiction Author (Participant)

Andrew Harvey reads excerpts from forthcoming works with Hague Publishing:There's No Place Like Hell by Janis Hill (the sequel to

Book Launch: The Time of the Stripes, Amanda Bridgeman

1 hour, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Book Signings

Amanda Bridgeman (Participant)

Amanda Bridgeman launches her latest novel, The Time of the Stripes, a standalone SF novel. Amanda will read an excerpt and chat about her w...

6:00 PM

More than glitter

1 hour, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

Lyss Wickramasinghe, The Never Never Book Box (Participant)

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...

7:00 PM

Dinner

1 hour, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Masquerade

5 hours, 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Collaborative

Masquerade

5 hours, 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Collaborative

8:00 PM

Halo Madness

3 hours 30 minutes, 8:00 PM - 11:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

Masquerade chill out space

2 hours, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

cheshirenoir@gmail.com (Participant)

Masquerade Chill-out room

2 hours, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6

Collaborative

Masquerade chill-out room

2 hours, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Collaborative

9:00 PM

Kpop with Candice

2 hours, 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

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

A guided tour through a year of Kpop. The spectacle continues. Mini movies, drama, and beautiful people with more coordination than seems feasible....

Filking

1 hour 30 minutes, 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Collaborative

Filking is folk singing of pop songs with fandom-related lyrics, much like Weird Al’s ouvre. Both experienced filkers and novices are welcome to co...

Sunday 1 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

9:00 AM

Welcome to Swancon

1 hour, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Workshop

Jack Bridges Jack (Participant)

Ms Jess Bridges (Participant)

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...

Open Console Gaming

1 hour, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

9:30 AM

Easter Egg Hunt

30 minutes, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Rosalie Chilvers (Participant)

10:00 AM

With a whimper, not a bang

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Rachel Watts (Participant)

Elaine Walker (Ariaflame) (Participant)

Cat Sparks (Participant)

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...

Live Action Quidditch

2 hours, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Collaborative

Fern Clarke (Moderator)

The WA Quidditch Association are bringing their expertise and equipment to Swancon!Under the supervision of people Who Know What They Are D...

Knitting 101

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Collaborative

Mrs Davina Watson (Participant)

Liam Orton (Participant)

Ms Jess Bridges (Participant)

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...

The Cup Shanty

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

Ms Margaret Watts Margaret (Participant)

Lara . Lara (Participant)

Retro Morning!!

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

Faery

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Panel

Satima Flavell (Participant)

Helen Jekabsons (Helen J) (Participant)

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 ...

Quiet spaces

8 hours, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 1

Collaborative

Art show

7 hours, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meetings on 5 foyer

Workshop

11:00 AM

AI/Machine learning: a guide

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Talk

Frames White (Participant)

Kitchen Transformations: Crafting with Drain Cleaner and Germs

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

Lara . Lara (Participant)

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 ...

The Science in The Martian movie

30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Talk

Science fiction's boneyard

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Panel

PRK (Moderator)

Cat Sparks (Participant)

Nuke, AntipodeanSF (Participant)

Carol Ryles (Participant)

Foz Meadows (Participant)

Does science fiction even exist anymore? The panellists examine how reality has caught up with and overtaken anything storytelling has to offer. Ho...

What to do until the Messiah arrives?

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Panel

Jack Bridges Jack (Participant)

Liam Orton (Participant)

Barbara de la Hunty (Participant)

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...

11:30 AM

Furniture Parkour

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

Dave Chandler (Participant)

Luke Chandler-Hopkins (Participant)

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...

12:00 PM

Creating the Cleverman Comics: Emily Smith's and Wolf Bylsma's Guest of Honour event

1 hour 30 minutes, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Talk

Fern Clarke (Moderator)

Wolf Bylsma (Participant)

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Emily Smith and Wolf Bylsma give a presentation on the creative and practical processes behind developing the Cleverman comics, explaining how the ...

Evolution of Table Top Games

1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Panel

Robert Masters rdm (Participant)

Leece (Participant)

1:00 PM

Lunch

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

Closed

1:30 PM

Co-op games

2 hours, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

2:00 PM

Fans of Sport Panel

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Mrs Davina Watson (Participant)

Deb Costello (Participant)

Mr Michael Cogan, Swancon (Participant)

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...

Ryan Griffen's commentary for Cleverman S2 E3 "Dark Clouds"

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Talk

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Moderator)

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Ryan Griffen provides commentary and background details for "Dark Clouds", Cleverman S2 E3. Parental Advisory warnings for violence ...

Damian's Diabolical Video Quiz!

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

Damian Magee (Participant)

Mrs Heather Magee (Participant)

Bush Skills

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Talk

Barbara de la Hunty (Participant)

Book Covers: Art or Money?

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Panel

Emma Hall, IngramSpark (Participant)

Rebecca Laffar-Smith, Sci Fi Fantasy Author (Participant)

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Amanda Bridgeman (Participant)

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...

3:00 PM

Taking a Videogame Company to the Australian Securities Exchange

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

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Talk

Fern Clarke (Moderator)

Vee Pendergrast (Participant)

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...

Comics -> TV/movies VS TV/movies -> comics

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

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Wolf Bylsma (Participant)

Frames White (Participant)

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...

Fan Fund Auction

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

Amanda Bridgeman (Participant)

Jay Watson (Moderator)

The Fan Funds represented at the convention auction memorabilia and trinkets to raise funds for the next great adventure. Come along, buy amazing a...

Quiet Time

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Collaborative

Post-Worldcon debrief and gloat

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Collaborative

PRK (Participant)

Leece (Participant)

Sally Beasley (Participant)

Robert Masters rdm (Participant)

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...

Murdoch library: Collection formation, academic transformation, and fannish terrorism?

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Talk

Grant Stone (Participant)

3:30 PM

Blur

3 hours, 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

4:00 PM

Anime with adult protagonists: a guide

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

J Dalziel (Participant)

Mr John Samuel John Samuel (@arcadiagt5) (Participant)

Sean Ambrose (Participant)

Orbits don't work that way

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

David Horton (Participant)

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...

Fresh Air

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Collaborative

Chocolate Tasting

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Workshop

Sandra Norman Sandra (Participant)

Deb Costello (Participant)

Kate Wilhelm: a retrospective

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6

Collaborative

Mx Anna Hepworth (Participant)

Kate Wilhelm was a Hugo Award winning author, with a speculative fiction writing career that spanned five decades. With Wilhelm's recent death, thi...

Advanced Fanfic Analysis

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Foz Meadows (Participant)

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Participant)

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

WASFF Business Meeting

3 hours, 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Workshop

Doug Burbidge (Moderator)

Frames White (Participant)

Evil Kenevil BRIAN JOHNSON, Lindentech (Participant)

Ms Margaret Watts Margaret (Participant)

Jack Bridges Jack (Participant)

PRK (Participant)

Laura Hodge (Participant)

Mrs Davina Watson (Participant)

Mrs Andrea Johnson (Participant)

5:00 PM

Bicentential Monster- Shelley's Frankenstein

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Robert Hood (Participant)

Stephen Dedman (Participant)

Cat Sparks (Participant)

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

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

Grant Stone (Participant)

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...

The Colours Out of Space

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Talk

Ian Nichols, Miskatonic University (Participant)

art show close down

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meetings on 5 foyer

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Participant)

6:00 PM

Cross-fertilising, from genre to aesthetic

1 hour, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Moderator)

Lyss Wickramasinghe, The Never Never Book Box (Participant)

Carol Ryles (Participant)

Rebecca Laffar-Smith, Sci Fi Fantasy Author (Participant)

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Cross-fertilising genres gives awesome results like the SF spy novel and the supernatural romance. The panel discusses why these combinations are s...

7:00 PM

Dinner

1 hour, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Closed

8:00 PM

The Mystery of Murdoch

1 hour, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Sandra Norman Sandra (Participant)

Deb Costello (Participant)

Gina Goddard (Participant)

WA Awards Ceremony (Tin Ducks)

30 minutes, 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Keynote

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...

Can you trust that Dog?

1 hour, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Collaborative

Maia Bobrowicz (Participant)

Take a trip down memory lane and ask yourself an important question - CAN YOU TRUST THAT DOG?Including but not limited to: Sirius (Stapledo...

More Halo Madness

3 hours 30 minutes, 8:00 PM - 11:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

8:30 PM

National Awards Ceremony (Ditmars)

30 minutes, 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Keynote

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...

9:00 PM

Swancon History Panel

1 hour, 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Anthony Peacey (Participant)

Grant Stone (Participant)

Barbara de la Hunty (Participant)

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...

Murdoch Mysteries

1 hour, 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

Damian Magee (Participant)

Fern Clarke (Participant)

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...

Monday 2 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

9:00 AM

Open console gaming

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom (main floor)

Collaborative

10:00 AM

Desiree’s Music Chill-out Room

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Participant)

Live action board games!

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Collaborative

Fern Clarke (Moderator)

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

How to Write a Song

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

10:30 AM

Natcon Business Meeting

2 hours, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

11:00 AM

Apocalyptic outback Australia

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Moderator)

Mrs Davina Watson (Participant)

Rachel Watts (Participant)

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Jack Bridges Jack (Participant)

Some non-urban regions of Australia seem like the apocalypse has already arrived. (Ever driven through a small wheatbelt town on a Sunday afternoon...

Steven Universe

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Drhoz Drhoz (Participant)

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Participant)

Rallye (Participant)

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 ...

My Little Pony viewing

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Collaborative

Ms Margaret Watts Margaret (Participant)

12:00 PM

Transfinite to Mastery: Barb de la Hunty's Guest of Honour event

1 hour 30 minutes, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Talk

Barbara de la Hunty (Participant)

Fanfic as a gateway to canon

1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Ms Belinda Forbes (Gemfyre) (Participant)

Fern Clarke (Participant)

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Participant)

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...

The UnGame

1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Collaborative

Ms Margaret Watts Margaret (Participant)

12:30 PM

The investigation in to flight on mars.

30 minutes, 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Talk

1:00 PM

Lunch

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

Closed

Cthulu LARP

3 hours, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Collaborative

Bronwyn McDougall, n/a (Participant)

2:00 PM

New Who Season 10

1 hour 30 minutes, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Talk

Damian Magee (Participant)

Mrs Heather Magee (Participant)

Mr Aaron Creaser Aaron (Participant)

Mr Michael Cogan, Swancon (Participant)

In the final Peter Capaldi season as The Doctor, as he meets a new companion, fights new and old enemies, meets the original First Doctor. We...

Philosophy of Mind in SF

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Panel

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Moderator)

Luke Chandler-Hopkins (Participant)

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Sally Beasley (Participant)

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...

Random crafting

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Workshop

3:00 PM

Swancon Feedback Panel

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman

Workshop

Mrs Davina Watson (Participant)

Jay Watson (Participant)

Linda Sengsourinho (Participant)

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-...

Tidy up and pack away

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

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Collaborative

4:00 PM

Closing Ceremony

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Keynote

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Barbara de la Hunty (Participant)

Foz Meadows (Participant)

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Wolf Bylsma (Participant)

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 ...

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