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Sessions in which Adrian Smith participates
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Audiovisual testing Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Panellists and program participants: are you planning to use AV during your presentation? Come to this item and you can test your laptop, DVD ...
- Collaborative
Sessions in which Adrian Smith attends
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Audiovisual testing Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Panellists and program participants: are you planning to use AV during your presentation? Come to this item and you can test your laptop, DVD ...
- Collaborative
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Opening Ceremony Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Are you ready??? Meet this year’s team, meet the guests, and get the lowdown on all things Swancon 2020.Welcome to Country ceremony will be...
- Keynote
- Learn a new game: Terraforming Mars Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4
- 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM | 3 hours
- Learn to play the smash hit co-peditive game Terraforming Mars with Mark Sander. Goes to 5 players, first in, best dressed on the day.
- Teaching
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- OH & S are NOT impressed with your Deathstar Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Seatbelts on the Enterprise, Handrails on the Deathstar, Mollyguards on pretty much every control surface, ever.What other (apparently) forgotte...
- Panel
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- A writer's view of the pandemic Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- How will the COVID-19 affect you, the writer? Have to throw away a script that was "Too soon"? More familiar with the effects of isolation? Did the...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Roll for Growth: Roleplaying as an aid to mental health Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Learn a new game: Castles of Burgundy Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4
- 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 2 hours
- Teaching
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Cyberpunk 2020 in the rearview mirror Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Cyberpunk 2020 is now not only retrofuturism, but also counter-history.Looking at what it got right (credsticks) and what it got wrong (neural i...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Caring for your Robot Army: Maker space maintenance from experience Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- 3D printers, LASER cutters and other maker machines are complex devices with various special needs that are often not clearly explained in the shin...
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- The Evolution of Conventions Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- Conventions are always changing. Things that were "Rock Solid, Must Have" fall by the wayside and new things replace them. We look at examples of t...
- Indie Computer Games of Australia Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- Learn a new game: 7 Wonders Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4
- 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 2 hours
- Teaching
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- What's new in boardgames for those who look in every now and then? Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1 hour
- Are you confused by your boardgaming mates' latest babblings? Come to get the lowdown on what's trending in the boardgaming community. And what we ...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Unreliable narrators: a subjective and uncertain discussion Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Unreliable narrators: a subjective and uncertain tour through the story-telling options for introducing biased narrators, not limited to accidental...
- Panel
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Guest of Honour Speech Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Writing 001: Help and assistance for new Writers Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Are YOU a new writer, or want to become a writer? Are YOU looking for guidance and/or information about where to go with your "Work in Progress"...
- Learning games that cost less than $30 Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- On a tight budget? Short on space? Learn some classics of modern boardgaming that don't cost the earth, or consume a huge amount of space on the bo...
- Demonstration
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- The Tenth Circle: Newer maps of Hell Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- The great big pyjama party Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 3 hours
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Everything old is new again... Boardgames rebooted. Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Do you have fond memories of a game from your youth that you thought you'd never see again? Do your older gaming friends talk fondly about ga...
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- The Hydrogen Economy: a guide Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1 hour
- A guide to the practical applications of hydrogen power storage and the hydrogen economy. Renewable Energy (RE) resources will play ...
- Talk
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- People of Colour and Indigenous Authors writing in Australian SF Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Our panelists discuss the importance and impact of Indigenous voices, and those of People of Colour on explorations of the present and future. The ...
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Future imagined Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Reichmarked the Stars: Representations of Colonialism in Space Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Far too many SF/F stores, particularly those of a certain age, often portray "empires" and "colonies" that seem awfully similar to a lot of the act...
- Chesh and Curzon Chat Comics Not A Con - Not A Con - Social
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- John (Chesh) and Michael (Curzon) discuss comics. What we're reading, how we're reading it and what we want to read.Join Zoom Meeting...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Tropeside down. Turning 'tropes on their heads. Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Take a standard story. Put in a recognisable trope, something that the readers/viewers are comfortable with and subconsciously understand. Then ...
- Those that passed:Karen Babcock and others Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- This year, we lost a very valuable part of the SwanCon community, with Karen Babcock passing from COVID related illness.She will be missed. This...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Feedback panel and the future of Swancon Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- The good, the bad and the unlikely—feedback for 2020 and 2021 committee. A short presentation of the declining financial state and the dwin...
- Collaborative
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Closing ceremony Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 30 minutes
- It’s three 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...
- Collaborative