Saturday 5 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

9:00 AM

Audiovisual testing

30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Collaborative

Michael (Instructor)

Adrian Smith (Instructor)

cheshirenoir@gmail.com (Instructor)

Doug Burbidge (Instructor)

Panellists and program participants: are you planning to use AV during your presentation? Come to this item and you can test your laptop, DVD ...

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...

Run through banner

30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Collaborative

Ms Margaret Watts Margaret (Panelist)

Learn a new game: Terraforming Mars

3 hours, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4

Teaching

Mark Sander Mark (Instructor)

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.

10:30 AM

Welcome to your First Con

30 minutes, 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Panel

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...

Frankenplushies

1 hour, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Panel

11:00 AM

OH & S are NOT impressed with your Deathstar

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Panel

cheshirenoir@gmail.com (Panelist)

Shay Telfer (Speaker)

Seatbelts on the Enterprise, Handrails on the Deathstar, Mollyguards on pretty much every control surface, ever.What other (apparently) forgotte...

Looking back at classic TV

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Panel

Damian Magee (Speaker)

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...

11:30 AM

Plushie War

1 hour, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Collaborative

12:00 PM

LUNCH DAY 1

1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

#metoo

1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Discussion

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...

Keeping the chaperones amused: adult content in children's franchises.

1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Discussion

Panelists will dive into the morass of 'children's media' and identify the adult content and jokes included for the adults enduring 'Frozen...

2:00 PM

1950s science fiction films

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Talk

Damian Magee (Speaker)

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...

Roll for Growth: Roleplaying as an aid to mental health

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Michael Keady (Presenter)

Rancho Relaxo

30 minutes, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Learn a new game: Castles of Burgundy

2 hours, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4

Teaching

Mark Sander Mark (Instructor)

2:30 PM

Utilise until failure

1 hour 30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Collaborative

3:00 PM

Cyberpunk 2020 in the rearview mirror

1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

David Cake (Panelist)

Stephen Gunnell (Panelist)

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

1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Ian Nichols, Miskatonic University (Panelist)

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

Caring for your Robot Army: Maker space maintenance from experience

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

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

David Horton (Panelist)

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

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

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Elaine Walker (Ariaflame) (Panelist)

Mx Anna Hepworth (Panelist)

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?

30 minutes, 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

4:30 PM

Space travel is rubbish

30 minutes, 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Panel

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...

We're All Going To Die: Real-life apocalypses

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Ms Margaret Dunlop (Panelist)

Claire Coleman (Speaker)

Moss Wilson (Panelist)

Drhoz Drhoz (Panelist)

"...and then they Jumped the Shark" - The last Straw

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Discussion

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...

6:00 PM

DINNER DAY 1

1 hour 30 minutes, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Indie Computer Games of Australia

1 hour, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Lisa Rye, Pup Up Productions (Panelist)

Matthew Dyet (Panelist)

Brendan Ragan Brendan "LordMortis" Ragan, Lumi Interactive (Panelist)

The Remnants of Story: Story and human memory in free and oppressive societies

1 hour, 7:30 PM - 8:30 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...

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...

8:00 PM

Playtest: 3 Mersenne

2 hours, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4

Demonstration

Paul Simmons (Instructor)

Learn a new game: 7 Wonders

2 hours, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4

Teaching

Mark Sander Mark (Instructor)

8:30 PM

The Obligatory End of Supernatural Discussion

1 hour, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Discussion

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...

Hamilton singalong

1 hour, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Collaborative

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Panelist)

It's Fans all the way down: Representations of Fandom in TV and Books.

1 hour, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Discussion

Fans being represented inside TV and literature can range from outright offensive to lovingly on point. We discuss some good examples in both camps...

9:30 PM

Obsolete Technologies: Gasification

30 minutes, 9:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Stephen Gunnell (Panelist)

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?

1 hour, 9:30 PM - 10:30 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...

10:00 PM

Whoah! An appreciation of Keanu Reeves

1 hour, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

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...

Sunday 6 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

9:00 AM

What's new in boardgames for those who look in every now and then?

1 hour, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Leece (Panelist)

Robert Masters rdm (Panelist)

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

Easter egg hunt

30 minutes, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Collaborative

10:00 AM

Unreliable narrators: a subjective and uncertain discussion

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 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...

Knittin' for Kittens, Crochet for Cats: We Crochet and Knit Blankets for the Cat Haven.

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Workshop

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 ...

Kit Kat Jenga

30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

10:30 AM

Pokemon TCG

1 hour, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

11:00 AM

A Guide to Romance Writers of Australia writing competitions.

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Panel

RWA runs writing competitions for members and non-members, where entrants receive feedback on their submissions. The panel will guide the audience ...

11:30 AM

Mortal Kombat

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

David Chandler Dave Chandler (Performer)

12:00 PM

LUNCH DAY 2

1 hour, 12:00 PM - 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)

Tainted Loves: Problematic SF/Fantasy Classics

1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Panel

Emma Hawkes Emma (Panelist)

Katherine Mcfarlane (Panelist)

Gina Goddard (Panelist)

2:00 PM

Beyond Blinky Bill: Explorations on Early 20th century Australian Fantasy

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Talk

Emma Hawkes Emma (Panelist)

Fountain Pens - Show and Tell with SteveG and Leece

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Leece (Panelist)

Stephen Gunnell (Panelist)

Is the pen mightier than the sword? We think these ones are :-)Steve Gunnell and Leece demonstrate their collection of fountain pens...

Rancho Relaxo

30 minutes, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

2:30 PM

Music afternoon

1 hour 30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Luke Chandler-Hopkins (Performer)

3:00 PM

Writing 001: Help and assistance for new Writers

1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Amanda Bridgeman (Panelist)

Russell B. Farr (Panelist)

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

Glenda Larke (Panelist)

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

1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Chris Creagh, Retired (Panelist)

(my story: your story)Accepted that Climate Change is affecting our lives, how are we, perso...

Learning games that cost less than $30

1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4

Demonstration

Warrren Adams (Presenter)

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...

4:00 PM

Classic Who Season 14- From Journalist to Savage

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

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Panel

Colin Sharpe (Panelist)

Christy Leitch (Panelist)

Mr Aaron Creaser Aaron (Panelist)

Mrs Heather Magee (Panelist)

Damian Magee (Panelist)

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 ...

WASFF AGM

2 hours, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Collaborative

The Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation is the parent organisation that oversees the operations of Swancon. The annual general m...

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...

4:30 PM

Pandemic: Survival - Training Session

1 hour 30 minutes, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Signup required

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4

Tournament

Leece (Instructor)

Elaine Walker (Ariaflame) (Instructor)

Warrren Adams (Judge)

Robert Masters rdm (Instructor)

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...

5:00 PM

Space Trucks - lessons from the Shuttle Program in future and fiction

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

cheshirenoir@gmail.com (Panelist)

David Horton (Panelist)

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

30 minutes, 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Panel

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...

5:30 PM

LAUNCH: Dark Harvest

30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Panel

Cat Sparks (Panelist)

A collection from Cat Sparks.Dark Harvest gathers together Cat’s best short fiction of recent years, as selected by the author herself: fourteen...

6:00 PM

DINNER DAY 2

1 hour 30 minutes, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Tin Ducks Awards

30 minutes, 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Panel

The great big pyjama party

3 hours, 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Damian's Fabulous Video Quiz!

1 hour, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Talk

Damian Magee (Speaker)

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...

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)

Pandemic: Survival - Tournament

1 hour 30 minutes, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Signup required

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4

Tournament

Warrren Adams (Judge)

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...

8:30 PM

Obsolete Technologies: Steam Engines

1 hour, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Stephen Gunnell (Panelist)

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.

1 hour, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Leece (Panelist)

Robert Masters rdm (Panelist)

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

God in Our Image: representations of God/s in media:

1 hour, 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

David Cake (Panelist)

Monday 7 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

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 ...

Build a Camera Workshop

2 hours, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Signup required

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Workshop

Robert Masters rdm (Panelist)

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-...

10:00 AM

Disaster Area: Correcting errors in Survival / Disaster movies and Shows

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 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...

Recipe Horror

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

11:00 AM

People of Colour and Indigenous Authors writing in Australian SF

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Claire Coleman (Panelist)

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

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Cat Sparks (Speaker)

Made up games

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

12:00 PM

LUNCH DAY 3

1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Future imagined

1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

1:00 PM

New Who Season 12- who is the Timeless Child?

1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Panel

Damian Magee (Participant)

Mrs Heather Magee (Participant)

Christy Leitch (Participant)

Mr Aaron Creaser Aaron (Participant)

Mr Michael Cogan, Swancon (Participant)

Pern Free: Anne McCaffery outside of the Pern Universe

1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 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

Chesh and Curzon Chat Comics

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Not A Con - Not A Con - Social

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

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 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...

Happy stories at the end of the world

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Panel

Jonathan Strahan (Panelist)

Heather Salter-Purves (Panelist)

Cat Sparks (Panelist)

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...

Rancho Relaxo

30 minutes, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

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...

Tropeside down. Turning 'tropes on their heads.

1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Heather Salter-Purves (Panelist)

Take a standard story. Put in a recognisable trope, something that the readers/viewers are comfortable with and subconsciously understand. Then ...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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