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Sally Beasley

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Participates in 1 Session

Sessions in which Sally Beasley participates

Saturday 5 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
The Evolution of Conventions
1 hour, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Doug Burbidge (Panelist)

Stephen Dedman (Panelist)

Sally Beasley (Panelist)

Stephen Gunnell (Panelist)

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...

Sessions in which Sally Beasley attends

Not scheduled

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
WA Awards (Tin Duck) ceremony
1 hour 30 minutes, 1 hour 30 minutes

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...

Saturday 5 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Opening Ceremony
30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Keynote

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...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
A writer's view of the pandemic
1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Samantha Murray (Panelist)

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

Amanda Bridgeman (Panelist)

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...
The Side Hustle Panel
1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Wuffie Levingston Wuffie, Wuffie's Fluffies (Panelist)

Helen Creagh (Panelist)

Sarah Parker (Panelist)

Getting started setting up a "side business" based on your loves and hobbies, for enjoyment and extra spending money (To spend on your loves and ho...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Michael Keady (Presenter)

5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Keeping the love alive
1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Panel

Glenda Larke (Panelist)

Amanda Bridgeman (Panelist)

How to keep the spark alive in the long term relationship between you and your book series. Authors talk about how they have sustained narratives o...
7:30 PM
7:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Panel

Heather Salter-Purves (Panelist)

Mx Anna Hepworth (Panelist)

How we use story to preserve memories, and how quickly those memories can be removed if stories are suppressed. Panelisted will explore The Madolor...
9:30 PM
9:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Discussion

How are we going to make ourselves feel good in the future? The panelists speculate about technological advances in sex toys, options for more plea...

Sunday 6 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
10:00 AM
10:00 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Panel

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

Stephen Dedman (Panelist)

Unreliable narrators: a subjective and uncertain tour through the story-telling options for introducing biased narrators, not limited to accidental...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Guest of Honour Speech
1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Keynote

Claire Coleman (Speaker)

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Panel

Emma Hawkes Emma (Panelist)

Katherine Mcfarlane (Panelist)

Gina Goddard (Panelist)

2:00 PM
2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Talk

Emma Hawkes Emma (Panelist)

4:00 PM
4:00 PM
The Geek Guide: An introduction
1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Helen Creagh (Presenter)

The Geek Guide is a freshly launched bi-annual publication made by geeks for geeks. We are working with the fandom community to provide a listing o...
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
The great big pyjama party
3 hours, 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

The Tenth Circle: Newer maps of Hell
1 hour, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Stephen Dedman (Panelist)

David Cake (Panelist)

9:30 PM
9:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

David Cake (Panelist)

Monday 7 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
The Hydrogen Economy: a guide
1 hour, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Talk

A guide to the practical applications of hydrogen power storage and the hydrogen economy. Renewable Energy (RE) resources will play ...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Ian Nichols, Miskatonic University (Panelist)

Sarah McFarlane Sarah (Panelist)

You all know the scenario. You're watching a scene and you think "What the heck? That's not how it works?" and you find yourself sucked...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Emma Gill (Panelist)

Stephen Gunnell (Panelist)

Katherine Mcfarlane (Panelist)

Anne McCaffery is probably most famous for her "Pern" novels full of SF Dragons and interesting characters, but that's not the only stories she wro...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Stephen Dedman (Panelist)

Emma Gill (Panelist)

Claire Coleman (Speaker)

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...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Those that passed:Karen Babcock and others
1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Bec Handcock (Panelist)

Robert Masters rdm (Panelist)

Leece (Panelist)

Craig Macbride (Panelist)

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

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Collaborative

Ms Margaret Watts Margaret (Speaker)

The good, the bad and the unlikely—feedback for 2020 and 2021 committee. A short presentation of the declining financial state and the dwin...

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Talk

Bec Handcock (Panelist)

Dr Bec Handcock will present a slide-show on her experiences as part of the largest ever expedition of women to Antarctica at the end of 2019 (ther...
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Closing ceremony
30 minutes, 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Collaborative

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...