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Thursday 18 April, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
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 ...

Friday 19 April, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
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
  • Cyberpunk outside the city
  • Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM  | 1 hour
  • The city seems an integral part of the cyberpunk genre – but how necessary is it? What are the core tropes and themes of cyberpunk, and how might t...
  • Panel
    Science fiction
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
  • Doctor Who: Season 2
  • Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
  • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM  | 2 hours
  • With Doctor Who's second season, the series continued to be popular with the mixture of sci-fi and with some historical stories to take a hu...
  • Panel
    Retrospective
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
  • The Purpose of Critics
  • Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • Critics have always been around to analyse, discuss and consider works of art of all genres. They play a firm role in science fiction, fantasy and ...
  • Panel
    LiteraryTV & Movies
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
  • Video Quiz
  • Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
  • 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM  | 1 hour
  • This award winning event is back for its 13th (yes 13th!) year with clips from various film, TV and music. Can you guess the ...
  • Workshop
    TV & Movies
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
9:00 PM
9:00 PM

Saturday 20 April, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
  • Furniture Parkour
  • Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Abrolhos Room
  • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM  | 1 hour
  • 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 are allowed...
  • Family
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
    Literary
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
  • Coming of the Apes
  • Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM  | 1 hour
  • With the reboot of the planet of the Apes saga, it's time to look back on those three films and compare them with the earlier films and look at how...
  • Talk
    TV & Movies
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
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
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
  • Space rocks
  • Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Abrolhos Room
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • Join the rock-hiding craze. Decorate a rock or two using markers, which then can be released into the park or other communal areas for others to fi...
  • Family
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
    LiteraryWriting
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
  • The 2019 Tin Duck Awards
  • Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
  • 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM  | 1 hour
  • 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
    Fandom
  • 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
    Gaming
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
  • Tin Duck Dance Party
  • Signup required
  • Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
  • 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM  | 2 hours
  • Follow up the 2019 Tin Duck Awards ceremony with an evening of dance, chat, and social mixing for the whole Swancon, with Grant and Travis playing ...

Sunday 21 April, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
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...
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
  • The Best Book
  • Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • Librarians are amongst us, and have strong opinions about gateway genre books.Come along and share your stories about that book - ...
  • Panel
    Literary
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
  • The Cosplay Display
  • Signup required
  • Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • Bring you best- show off your cosplay costume for judging! Share a moment with your fellow cosplayers, admire each others work and enjoy the cospla...
  • Fandom
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
  • LARP
  • Signup required
  • Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Abrolhos Room
  • 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM  | 3 hours
  • Collaborative
    Family
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
    Technology
9:30 PM
9:30 PM

Monday 22 April, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
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
    TV & Movies
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
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
    Writing
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
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