Jess Fleury
Sessions in which Jess Fleury attends
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Opening Ceremony Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour
- Welcome to Swancon 44: The Future is Now, featuring guests of honour Charlie Jane Anders, Jonathan Strahan, and Travis Johnson! Come along to the o...
- Keynote
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Craft time Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Abrolhos Room
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- Console Gaming Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Orion Room
- 10:30 AM - 11:55 PM | 13 hours 25 minutes
- Board Games Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Pleiades
- 10:30 AM - 11:55 PM | 13 hours 25 minutes
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Party-pooping science: Why your favourite novel is probably impossible Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- As readers of science fiction we may love all of the tales of faster-than-light travel, hyperspace, anti-gravity, laser guns, time travel, and othe...
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Charlie Jane Anders Reading and Q&A Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Quiet activities Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Abrolhos Room
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Weird Nature for Weird Fiction Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Our planet hosts an incredibly diverse population of plant and animal life, and at the margins things can become really unexpected and dizzyingly w...
- Panel
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Writing workshop
- Signup required Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM | 3 hours
- Join Stephen Dedman for an intensive writing workshop and Q&A. Bring a draft you are working on if you have one, bring writing tools, brin...
- Workshop
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
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- How we edit Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Behind every professionally published short story, anthology and novel there is an editor, working with the author to improve, develop and transfor...
- Panel
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
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Pushing the Limits: Extreme Biology Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Life finds a way. Sometimes that way isn't the obvious or easiest way.The panelists discuss some of the oddities of biological life...
- Panel
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Cosplay workshop Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 3 hours
- From dress forms, pattern drafting and concept to foam crafting, sewing and accessories. An overview of cosplay creation from concept to display. I...
- Console Gaming Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Orion Room
- 9:30 AM - 11:55 PM | 14 hours 25 minutes
- Board Games Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Pleiades
- 9:30 AM - 11:55 PM | 14 hours 25 minutes
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Made in Abyss: Episodes 1-2 Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- Screening
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Crowns and Swords: The Intertwined Worlds of Fantasy and Monarchy Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- With so many fantasy novels based in a setting drawn from medieval Europe, it’s no surprise to see so many stories based around monarchies - kings ...
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- The best literary science fiction of 2018 Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Soon it will be time for nominations to be submitted and votes decided for this year’s speculative fiction awards. What were the best novels and sh...
- Panel
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
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- A Survivor's Guide to the Apocalypse Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour
- Panel
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
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Just Imagine: costume design in SF films Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- By examining the costumes in some early examples of SF films we will explore how a visual language for 'Science Fiction' was established and how...
- Talk
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- A Matter of Context Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Ever wandered how Macgyver sees the world, what it feels like to endure starvation, jump from a plane, suffer from frostbite and so forth? Now try ...
- Panel
- Required reading and set texts Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- The Swancon2020 committee chat with you about how best to prepare for next year's convention. Come along and find out what to read, watch and do to...
- Collaborative