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Swancon 2009 Programme

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Thursday
	Montana A	Montana B	Acacia	Oshaneshii	Cocktail Lounge	Other
Thursday 4:00 PM			Gaming Room	Art Show setup		Parenting Room Check-in
Thursday 5:00 PM			Gaming Room	Art Registration and Display
Thursday 6:00 PM			Gaming Room	Art Registration and Display		Origami in the Fan Lounge
Thursday 7:30 PM	Opening Ceremony	Opening Ceremony	Gaming Room	Art Show Closed
Thursday 8:30 PM	A Brief History of Time Travel	Safe Spaces at Cons	Monster Games	Art Registration and Display	Computers in SF	Killer Game Kick-off
Thursday 9:30 PM	I Am The Night: A History of the Caped Crusader	Choose your own apocalypse - how our society might collapse	Monster Games	Art Show Closed	Digital art
Thursday 10:30 PM	Lost	First Contact	Monster Games	Art Show Closed	Writing Slash - Tips & Techniques
Thursday 11:30 PM			Monster Games	Art Show Closed
Friday
	Montana A	Montana B	Acacia	Oshaneshii	Cocktail Lounge	Other
Friday 9:00 AM	Dance Dance Revolution	Humour in Speculative Fiction	Gaming Room	Art Registration and Display
Friday 10:00 AM	Anime for casual viewers	Is Space Opera Science Fiction?	The Boardgame Geek - Beyond Settlers	Art Show	Frontiers, Commons and Copyright: Creativity in the Internet Age	Breakfast with John Robertson
Friday 11:00 AM	Top 10 SF&F TV Shows - Vote!	Writing Horror - Tips & Techniques	Invitation to Game	Art Show	The Universe of Liad and the world of Korval
Friday 12:00 PM	Trailer Park	Hard SF with the soft sciences	Invitation to Game	Art Show	How to create an online comic	Lunch at Lido 12:30pm-2pm - Welcome to your first convention!
Friday 1:00 PM	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Art Show	Lunch	Book Club: Hosted lunch
Friday 2:00 PM	Guest of Honour Speech - Richard Morgan	Guest of Honour Speech - Richard Morgan	Invitation to Game	Art Show
Friday 3:00 PM	Tattoo You	Book Signings I	Invitation to Game	Art Show	Banned Books
Friday 4:00 PM	Auction	Strong Women in New Who, the Whedonverse, and SFF	Invitation to Game	Art Show	The Battle for Copyright: Fandom versus Mega Corporations	Reading: The King of the Copper Mountains
Friday 5:00 PM	Auction	Hack Your Hardware (V2.0b)	Invitation to Game	Art Show	Vanity Press	Art Show Judges Visit
Friday 6:00 PM	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner
Friday 7:30 PM	Tintin	Launch of The Priestess and the Slave	Monster Games	Art Show Closed	Accounts and Reflections: Literature on Neil Gaiman and his work
Friday 8:30 PM	Channel Flicking	Grass-Cast Gaming Podcast	Monster Games	Art Show Closed	Where do Swancons come from?
Friday 9:30 PM	Magical Hat of Mysteries	Religion in Fantasy	Monster Games	Art Show Closed	Is there anybody out there?
Friday 10:30 PM	Magical Hat of Mysteries	Gender Gap in Gaming?	Monster Games	Art Show Closed	TV Pilots
Friday 11:30 PM		Readings	Monster Games	Art Show Closed	Web pilots
Saturday
	Montana A	Montana B	Acacia	Oshaneshii	Cocktail Lounge	Other
Saturday 9:00 AM	Market Day Setup	Childhood books you still enjoy	Gaming Room	Art Show	Draw your own cartoon character
Saturday 10:00 AM	Market Day	Quidditch	Print and Play	Art Show	Making the grade
Saturday 11:00 AM	Market Day	Kiddy Combat	Print and Play	Art Show	Ready, Steady, Genesplice!: Build a better Unicorn	Zombie Apocalypse Survival in the Fan Lounge
Saturday 12:00 PM	Market Day	2008 in Film	Gaming Room	Art Show	How does technology create society?
Saturday 1:00 PM	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Art Show	Lunch	Lunch
Saturday 2:00 PM	Market Day	The Future of the Future	Gaming Room	Art Show	Women characters in comics
Saturday 3:00 PM	Market Day	More Than Meets the Eye - The Golden Age of the Transformers	Gaming with Kids	Art Show	I'd like that on a mug
Saturday 4:00 PM	Market Day	Extended Tranformers + TPP Launch set-up	Gaming with Kids	Art Show	Be Kind to Your Editor
Saturday 5:00 PM	Market Day Takedown	New Ceres Nights - Twelfth Planet Press launch	Gaming with Kids	Art Show Auction and Breakdown	The Year - 1969
Saturday 6:00 PM	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner
Saturday 7:30 PM	Masquerade	Masquerade	Monster Games	How to write and/or beta fanfiction	Spy Spoofs	Masquerade Judging: 8pm - 9pm
Saturday 8:30 PM	Masquerade	Masquerade	Monster Games	The Collapse of Civilisation	Vidding 'how to'. Workshop/Presentation	Masquerade Judging: 8pm - 9pm
Saturday 9:30 PM	Masquerade	Masquerade	Monster Games	So why the hell do you want to be a writer anyway?	Trailer Park Anime version
Saturday 10:30 PM	Geek Sing-along	Geek Sing-along	Monster Games		Best and Worst of Anime
Saturday 11:30 PM	Swancon Idol	Swancon Idol	Monster Games
Sunday
	Montana A	Montana B	Acacia	Oshaneshii	Cocktail Lounge	Other
Sunday 9:00 AM	Women at Worldcon - Round Table Discussion	10 Games	Gaming Room	Left Behind the Bush	The Aliens are among us: The science fiction in John Lilly's science
Sunday 10:00 AM	Anime Character Archetypes and Tropes	Holy Respectability, Batman!	Gaming Room	Norma K Hemming Award	WASFF AGM
Sunday 11:00 AM	Walt Disney: Animation's Magic Kingdom	Plagues: Culture Versus Culture	Invitation to Game	Anthropormorphic Fantasy	WASFF AGM
Sunday 12:00 PM	Guest of Honour Speech - Trudi Canavan	Guest of Honour Speech - Trudi Canavan	Invitation to Game	2008 in Books	WASFF AGM
Sunday 1:00 PM	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
Sunday 2:00 PM	Rebel Empire	Rebel Empire	Invitation to Game	Writing in an Aussie voice	Sorcerers and Storytellers
Sunday 3:00 PM	Rebel Empire	Rebel Empire	Invitation to Game	What's hot in Fantasy?	Video Quiz	Cosplay Photo session in the Hotel Lobby
Sunday 4:00 PM	Take-down + setup	Take-down + setup	Invitation to Game	Book Signings II	Changing the Heroes	Cosplay Photo session in the Hotel Lobby Molecular Gastronomy in the Fan Lounge
Sunday 5:00 PM	Swancon 2010 Launch	Swancon 2010 Launch	Invitation to Game	Project Runway	Tolkien Criticism: Some Critical Comments
Sunday 6:00 PM	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner
Sunday 7:30 PM	Awards Ceremony	Awards Ceremony	Monster Games	Battlestar Galactica	Science Fiction and the Sublime
Sunday 8:30 PM	Hayao Miyazaki	Hayao Miyazaki	Monster Games	Non-violent videogames	Writing SF - Tips & Techniques
Sunday 9:30 PM	Hayao Miyazaki Screening - Howl's Moving Castle	Hayao Miyazaki Screening - Howl's Moving Castle	Monster Games	Taking Advantage: Funding Options for Artists and Fans	Fine Fellows of (Spec) Fiction
Sunday 10:30 PM	Hayao Miyazaki Screening - Howl's Moving Castle	Hayao Miyazaki Screening - Howl's Moving Castle	Monster Games	Shakespeare themes in SF	Furry Movies and TV That Won't Freak You Out (Much)
Sunday 11:30 PM			Monster Games	Paranormal romances: Vampires, Werewolves and Warlocks, Oh my
Monday
	Montana A	Montana B	Acacia	Oshaneshii	Cocktail Lounge	Other
Monday 9:00 AM	The Ultimate Fight	A Physicist's Guide to the Afterlife	Gaming Room	Proto-panels - how to run a panel
Monday 10:00 AM	Celebrating bad movies	Fandom, Boobs, and the Internet: Big sister is watching you	Gaming Room	How come vampires are heroes now?	Where is Ivan?
Monday 11:00 AM	Sexuality in Speculative fiction	Homework for Swancon 2010	Gaming Room	Global Warming: Spike vs Precipice	Where is Ivan?	Parenting Room Checkout by 12pm
Monday 12:00 PM	Apollo 11 Turns 40, But Did It Happen At All?	Writing Fantasy - Tips & Techniques	Wings of War		Rock Band
Monday 1:00 PM	Lunch	Lunch	Wings of War	Lunch	Rock Band	Lunch
Monday 2:00 PM	Blade Attraction 4.0	Blade Attraction 4.0	Gaming Room	What's New in SFF for Kids & YA	Rock Band
Monday 3:00 PM	The 17th annual Doctor Who panel	The 17th annual Doctor Who panel	Gaming Room	Writing in a pinch	Swancon QI
Monday 4:00 PM	Closing Ceremony	Closing Ceremony	Gaming Room

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