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
- Run through banner Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Collaborative
- 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
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Welcome to your First Con Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutes
- So you've managed to make it to your first SwanCon and you have no idea what to do, what the rules are and what you should do next. Stick around fo...
- Panel
- Frankenplushies Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- Panel
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
- Looking back at classic TV Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- As a sequel to looking back at classic film this panel discusses what makes a TV show classic, asks how well do these show travel over the years, a...
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Plushie War Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- LUNCH DAY 1
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- #metoo Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Discussion
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...
- The Side Hustle Panel Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Keeping the chaperones amused: adult content in children's franchises. Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panelists will dive into the morass of 'children's media' and identify the adult content and jokes included for the adults enduring 'Frozen...
- Discussion
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- 1950s science fiction films Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- This presentation looks at the famous, the forgotten and the unusual sci films of 1950s from US, UK and Japan.The films that made afternoons at...
- Talk
- Roll for Growth: Roleplaying as an aid to mental health Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Rancho Relaxo Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Learn a new game: Castles of Burgundy Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4
- 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 2 hours
- Teaching
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Utilise until failure Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Collaborative
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...
- The New MCU Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- WandaVision, Black Widow, Falcon and the Winter Soldier and maybe something that begins with an "X"?What does 2021 hold for a new Phase o...
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...
- The Fluffy Happy Unicorn Panel Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- So let's cover all the good and nice things that happened in 2020! The Silver linings writ large.(We will be armed with soft toys to throw at th...
- Look around you...Can you fashion some sort of rudimentary lathe? Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | 30 minutes
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- Space travel is rubbish Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Panel
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Keeping the love alive Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Panel
- We're All Going To Die: Real-life apocalypses Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- "...and then they Jumped the Shark" - The last Straw Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- When that show you have been putting up with "to get to the end" finally pushes you too far and you rage quit.We compare notes over those "final...
- Discussion
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- DINNER DAY 1
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- Indie Computer Games of Australia Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- The Remnants of Story: Story and human memory in free and oppressive societies Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- How we use story to preserve memories, and how quickly those memories can be removed if stories are suppressed. Panelisted will explore The Madolor...
- Panel
- 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...
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- Playtest: 3 Mersenne Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4
- 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 2 hours
- Demonstration
- Learn a new game: 7 Wonders Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4
- 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 2 hours
- Teaching
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- The Obligatory End of Supernatural Discussion Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Supernatural and its fandom has had a huge impact on our media landscape and fandom history and culture. Let's look at the tension between the show...
- Discussion
- Hamilton singalong Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
- It's Fans all the way down: Representations of Fandom in TV and Books. Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Fans being represented inside TV and literature can range from outright offensive to lovingly on point. We discuss some good examples in both camps...
- Discussion
9:30 PM
9:30 PM
- Obsolete Technologies: Gasification Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 9:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Gasification was the process used to turn coal into natural gas. It was the light source and heat source for the early days of the Industrial Re...
- The Future of Pleasure: What is going to happen at the intersection of culture, biology and technology? Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion
10:00 PM
10:00 PM
- Whoah! An appreciation of Keanu Reeves Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM | 1 hour
- As a young actor, Mr Reeves was often seen as a bit wooden, maybe a bit fluffy.These days, however...There will be discussion of John Wic...
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 ...
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Easter egg hunt Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes
- Collaborative
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
- Knittin' for Kittens, Crochet for Cats: We Crochet and Knit Blankets for the Cat Haven. Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Learn how to knit or crochet in the workshop. Then collect materials for a small blanket to make during the con. Completed blankets will go to Cat ...
- Workshop
- Kit Kat Jenga Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Pokemon TCG Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- A Guide to Romance Writers of Australia writing competitions. Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- RWA runs writing competitions for members and non-members, where entrants receive feedback on their submissions. The panel will guide the audience ...
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Mortal Kombat Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- LUNCH DAY 2
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Guest of Honour Speech Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
- Tainted Loves: Problematic SF/Fantasy Classics Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Beyond Blinky Bill: Explorations on Early 20th century Australian Fantasy Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Talk
- Fountain Pens - Show and Tell with SteveG and Leece Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Is the pen mightier than the sword? We think these ones are :-)Steve Gunnell and Leece demonstrate their collection of fountain pens...
- Rancho Relaxo Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 30 minutes
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Music afternoon Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
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"...
- Climate Change: Adaptation Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- (my story: your story)Accepted that Climate Change is affecting our lives, how are we, perso...
- 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
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Classic Who Season 14- From Journalist to Savage Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- This classic season we farewell beloved Sarah Jane Smith and welcome Leela. It is a season full with influences and from the scenes in Renaissance ...
- Panel
- WASFF AGM Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 2 hours
- The Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation is the parent organisation that oversees the operations of Swancon. The annual general m...
- Collaborative
- The Geek Guide: An introduction Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- Pandemic: Survival - Training Session
- Signup required Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4
- 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Control a combined WHO/CDC taskforce as they attempt to find cures for four highly contagious diseases that have broken out across the world. Se...
- Tournament
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Space Trucks - lessons from the Shuttle Program in future and fiction Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- While the technology has moved on, the laws of physics have not. A look at the various problems confronted in building a space plane and how they m...
- LAUNCH: The Traitor's Reliquary - Chris Moss Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Awaiting execution, Kestel is saved by a group of disgraced soldiers and swept up into a plot of gods, monsters and angels. Now Kestel must learn t...
- Panel
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
- LAUNCH: Dark Harvest Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | 30 minutes
- A collection from Cat Sparks.Dark Harvest gathers together Cat’s best short fiction of recent years, as selected by the author herself: fourteen...
- Panel
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- DINNER DAY 2
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- Tin Ducks Awards Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Panel
- The great big pyjama party Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 3 hours
- Damian's Fabulous Video Quiz! Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- This award winning event is back for its 14th year with clips from various film, TV and music. Can you guess the clue from the clip? Damian will be...
- Talk
- The Tenth Circle: Newer maps of Hell Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- Pandemic: Survival - Tournament
- Signup required Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4
- 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- IMPORTANT1/ Pre-prepared copies of Pandemic will be supplied2/ This is only for people who know how to play the game. If you do n...
- Tournament
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Obsolete Technologies: Steam Engines Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Steam Engines are a lot more complex than you'd expect, deliver a level of performance that is phenomenal of the underlying required technology, an...
- 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...
9:30 PM
9:30 PM
- God in Our Image: representations of God/s in media: Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 1 hour
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
- Build a Camera Workshop
- Signup required Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 2 hours
- You will get to build two simple, but working cameras in this workshop. Both will be very simple, but will record images on a light-...
- Workshop
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Disaster Area: Correcting errors in Survival / Disaster movies and Shows Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Recipe Horror Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
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 ...
- Closer Than Ever: Our World Out of Control—Horror Futures in 70s Science Fiction Cinema Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Made up games Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- LUNCH DAY 3
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Future imagined Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- New Who Season 12- who is the Timeless Child? Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Pern Free: Anne McCaffery outside of the Pern Universe Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- Happy stories at the end of the world Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Cozy fiction centres domesticity, community and care but often we feel guilt for enjoying cozy media as the world burns. Can we balance self-care w...
- Panel
- Rancho Relaxo Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 30 minutes
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- 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...
- 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 ...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Leopard-seals, penguins, and no polar-bears, oh my! It’s an iceberg out there! - a slideshow on Homeward Bound, the largest expedition of women to Antarctica Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Talk
- 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