Title: Project Runway

Status: confirmed

Proposed by: valeskah1

Description:

Project Runway - Swancon edition: Work in teams to transform mundane and boring everyday items into fabulous couture of the 25th century to send down the runway! BYO scissors.

Participate at your own risk!

Room Notes:

Tags: Format: Workshop

Confirmed panellists: Bec Handcock, Kate Williams, Liz Grzyb, Robert N Stephenson

One additional panellist has been suggested.

Room: Oshaneshii

Time: Sunday 5:00 PM

Title: Shakespeare themes in SF

Status: confirmed

Proposed by:

Description:

The Bard has had influence over a lot more than just drama. Kate and Liz discuss Shakespearean ideas and how they have found their way into the SF world. Is this a light sabre I see before me, the handle toward my hand? A force, a force, my kingdom for a force!

Room Notes:

Tags: Books & Literature, Science fiction

Confirmed panellists: Kate Williams, Liz Grzyb

No additional panellists have been suggested.

Room: Oshaneshii

Time: Sunday 10:30 PM

Title: Paranormal romances: Vampires, Werewolves and Warlocks, Oh my

Status: confirmed

Proposed by: valeskah1

Description:

This genre has taken off in the last few years and swamped the romance section. From Anita Blake and her unnatural lovers, to Betsey, the high-maintenance monarch of the undead. How have representations of heroines and hero's changed?

Adult themes.

Room Notes:

Tags: Fantasy, Books & Literature

Confirmed panellists: Kate Williams, Liz Grzyb, Sarah Parker

One additional panellist has been suggested.

Room: Oshaneshii

Time: Sunday 11:30 PM