Rallye
Sessions in which Rallye attends
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Sundowner Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Esplanade Park, across the road
- 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM | 3 hours 30 minutes
- This year Swancon will kick off with a Sundowner Social in the park. The formal programming will start on Friday, so this will be an ...
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Console Gaming Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Orion Room
- 10:30 AM - 11:55 PM | 13 hours 25 minutes
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Miyazaki’s heir: Contemporary anime cinema Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- For several decades the director Hayao Miyazaki held a lofty position as the most pre-eminent filmmaker of animation in Japan. Now with him leaning...
- Panel
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- A few good cons Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- You Win or You Die: The End of Game of Thrones Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Within just a few weeks, HBO's groundbreaking and phenomenally successful fantasy Game of Thrones will broadcast its final episode. Now that we are...
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Tech Support Laughs and Mishaps Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Funny stories about what your IT support technician did (or didn't) do and other funny behind the curtains shenanigans. What happens ...
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
- Travis and Grant go to the Movies Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour
- Film critics Travis Johnson and Grant Watson have a lot of opinions about science fiction, fantasy, and horror cinema, and they are not afraid to s...
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Console Gaming Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Orion Room
- 9:30 AM - 11:55 PM | 14 hours 25 minutes
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- One Woman's Skribbles Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 2 hours
- Animator, artist, geek, gamer, teacher, and untrained, unqualified paleontologist: Tanya Beeson will take you through the basics of how to draw ...
- Workshop
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Swancon 2020 Launch Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- The Videogames Canon Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- A panel of gaming experts will gather with one task in mind: to assemble the 10 most important videogames of all time. If you had never encountered...
- Panel
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Console Gaming Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Orion Room
- 9:30 AM - 11:55 PM | 14 hours 25 minutes
- Isao Takahata: The underappreciated gems Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour
- Anime director Isao Takahata died in 2018, leaving behind a creative legacy of 12 films made between 1968 and 2013. With much of his output coming ...
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Not everything needs a 3D printer Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- A look at how to use (and abuse) assorted hand tools and other things from the hardware store in making and cosplay. Not everything cool needs thou...
- Talk
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Who Wants to Live Forever: Implications of Immortality Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Immortality is a common element in science fiction and fantasy, but what would it actually be like? What would you need to do and think abou...
- Panel
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- WASFF Annual General Meeting Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 2 hours
- NOTICE OF 2019 WASFF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGAt Swancon, at The Esplanade hotel in Fremantle on Sunday the 21st of April, 4pm.
- Panel
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Retro computing Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- 16 bits should be enough for anybody! Come meet several enthusiastic collectors of old computers and consoles. We discuss buying, repairing, main...
- Panel
9:30 PM
9:30 PM
- Speculative Fiction in Kpop Music Videos Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 1 hour
- Continuing the now annual tradition of showcasing speculative fiction video clips within the highly competitive Korean music market, and the earwor...
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Unknown Anime of the 1970s Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- In this second part of Unknown Anime, we look at those Anime from the 1970's that never reached the English speaking world after first screening in...
- Talk
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Star Trek: Discovery, and the future of the final frontier Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- The Star Trek franchise, which has fractured and transformed in recent years due to the separation of CBS and Paramount, has been back on te...
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Anime Today Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Internationally, Japanese animation has made the shift from cult favourite to mainstream entertainment. How has this changed the kind of animation ...
- Panel
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Grading Blade Runner: The art of predicting the future Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner was set in the year 2019. Now that the real world has caught up with the fictional, how accurate was t...
- Panel