SWANCON XXX

A Festival of the Imagination, A Carnival of the Senses

Easter  March 24-28 2005
www.swancon.com

Emerald Hotel, 24 Mount Street, Perth

Guest of Honour:  Charles de Lint
	
Fan Guest: 	Anna Hepworth

Fictional Guest: Simono, the  Most Beautiful Fan in the World

Special Guests

MaryAnn Harris		Grant Watson

Invited Guests

Shaun Tan		Terry Dowling

PROGRESS REPORT FOUR:  March 2005

Have You Got Your Membership Yet?

Receipt books will be withdrawn on Friday, March 18th; after that, memberships will only be available from the committee.  A registration form is enclosed with this PR with the Tin Duck voting form. Memberships are currently $110, but will increase to $130 on Tuesday, March 22nd.
Day memberships, if available, will cost $20 for Thursday, and $50 for Friday, Saturday or Sunday.  Monday is free for anyone who’s bought a $50 day membership.  

Dinner with Charles de Lint

Has been rescheduled for the night of Tuesday, March 22rd, at the Sado Island Japanese restaurant.  Two menus are available, one for $40 and one for $50.  Places should be pre-booked via Sarah Parker at callisto@gmail.com or on 0414 762 904.

Program (Penultimate)

The program has been mutating faster than a fruit-fly at Chernobyl, but the final version is expected to look a lot like this. It features more than sixty participants, including a number of visiting writers and editors - Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Richard Harland, Robert Hood, Glenda Larke, Cat Sparks, and more – as well as local academics, writers, editors, artists and other luminaries.

Thursday

Time	George Room	Conference	Bar	
1600-1700	The Sights and Sounds of Space. Andrew Williams	Erotica Writers’ Workshop. Cathy Cupitt		
1700-1800	Do Sf Writers Have Crystal Balls? Erika Pearson, Zara Baxter, Anna Hepworth		Hunter S. Thompson Memorial.  	
1800-1900	Dinner	Dinner		
1900-2000	Opening Ceremony			
2000-2100	Concert. Charles de Lint, MaryAnn Harris			
2100-2200				
2200-2300	Hen’s Night Party. Sarah Parker, Lyn Triffitt	Neo! A guide for first-timers. Grant Stone	LARP. Evvyn Malcolm	

Thursday night’s LARP will be a game of high fantasy with Noble Knights, Fair Maids,  Dashing  Heroes and  Vile Villains. Costuming is highly encouraged and mediocrity of any form is frowned upon and huffed at. Central Characters are available for the first 16 people available, but like any great drama all the juicy stuff actually happens in the chorus. A costumed ball hosted by Machievelli, Faust, and Charlie Chaplin.  Any interested players, please contact Tori at amarillion@gmail.com

Friday

Time	George 1	George 3	Conference	Art show	
1000-1100	Tai Chi. Ruth Turner	TV Vampires. Magee, Griffiths	Historical Costuming. Handcock, Dart-Thornton	Art show opens	
1100-1200	Martial arts demo. Wing Chung	Drugs in Science Fiction. Coman, Farr	Three Faces of Astroboy. Watson, Magee		
1200-1300	Blade attraction. Kaneda Cruz	Open Mike 	Lunch		
1300-1400	Balancing Writing with your Day Job (and knowing when to quit). de Lint, Hood, Sparks, Luckett, Battersby	Lunch	Science Fiction and the Sublime.  Darren Johnson 		
1400-1500	Fan GoH Interview.   Anna Hepworth, Grant Watson	Books (etc.) That Should Never Be Filmed. Magee, Harland, Szumskyj	The Prisoner: Who is Number 1?  Lee Battersby, Lyn Triffitt		
1500-1600	Short Fiction: Why Do We Still Write It? de Lint,  Dowling, Battersby, Hood, Sparks,  Dedman		Fannish Parenting. Ian Nichols, Sally Beasley, Elaine Kemp		
1600-1700	Fashions fantastic, fannish and future. Swain, Green, Chrywenstrom, Schilder, Simono	Norma Hemmings Play. Emma Hawkes, David Medlen	It Came From the Slushpile! Beasley, Triffitt, Sparks, Nichols, Baxter, Hepworth		
1700-1800	Economies of (Dragon)Scale. Larke, Dart-Thornton, Luckett Kidd	Harry Harrison. Scot Snow	Cult Movie, Bad Movie? Battersby, Cake, Chung		
1800-1900	Dinner (Pizza)	Dinner		Art show closes	
1900-2000	Trailer Park: The Good, the Bad, and the Sequels. Watson, Gunn, Oxwell, Battersby,  Kidd			
2000-2100	Alternate History Game Show. Lee Battersby			
2100-2200	The Simono Show. Simono and guests			
2200-2300	The XXX Files. Danny Oz, Alyxia			

Pizza dinner: we’re ordering 40 10-slice pizzas - Hawaiian, Supreme, Vegetarian, Italian, Meat Supreme, Mexican Fiesta, and Satay Beef - to be served and eaten al fresco in Florence Hummerston Park. Expected cost is $5/mouth. Book early!

Saturday

Time	George 1	George 3	Conference	Art show	Bar	
1000-1100	‘Tis But a Scratch! Kidd, Luckett, Chung	The Horror Fiction of Robert Hood. Szumskyj, Hood	Terry Nation Retrospective. David Medlen, Damien Magee	Art show opens	Breakfast of Champions. Cathy Cupitt, Elaine Kemp	
1100-1200	Looking Backwards: 2105-1969. Watson, Cake, A. Williams	Unified Theory of Slash. Cathy Cupitt	Robert E. Howard; King of an age Undreamed. Charles de Lint,  Benjamin Szumskyj			
1200-1300	Book launch 	Lunch	Open Mike. Glenda Larke			
1300-1400	Fannish Courtship Rituals. Kemp, Green, Baxter, Simono	Remaking Films, or if it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It. Hood, Wilson, Szumskyj	Sensoria: More than 21 Senses, or How Aliens Might See Us. Heald			
1400-1500	Psi-Fi. Larke, Hepworth, Pearson, Peacey	What if Star Trek had never been made? Magee, Medlen	Conversation with Occasional Music.  Charles de Lint, MaryAnn Harris			
1500-1600	How to Make a Television Series. Watson	What is Nanowrimo? Kemp, Pearson				
1600-1700	Wedding Set-Up

	Art auction and close	Fannish Taste Test. Cathy Cupitt, Sarah Parker, prk	
1700-1800	Wedding. Lee Battersby, Lyn Triffitt			
1800-1900	Dinner			
1900-2000	Masquerade
				
2000-2100					
2100-2200		ConSensual III launch. 			
2200-2300		Erotica Writing. Dedman, Kidd, Kemp, Cupitt			
Sunday

Time	George 1	George 3	Conference	Bar	Artshow	
1000-1100	Practicing what they Preach. Baxter, Harland, Peacey, Satima	From MUD to MMRPGs. Phillips,  Schilder, Dalziel	Lafcadio Hearn. Medlen	WASFF AGM	Children’s Program	
1100-1200	Shaun Tan: Works in Progress. Tan	Computer Games. Dowling, Tori	Godzilla as Urban Renewal Project. Magee, Hood			
1200-1300	Zine Launch 	Open Mike. Nichols	Lunch	(WASFF)		
1300-1400	The care, feeding, and proper use of monsters. Hood, Harland, Dart-Thornton		Wonder Women. Pearson, Larke, Cupitt, Hepworth		Lunch	
1400-1500	Writing for YA. de Lint, Luckett, Burstynski, Stone		Extrasolar Planets. A. Williams		Children’s Program and clean-up	
1500-1600	Iron Writer. Kidd, Baxter, Dart-Thornton, Kemp		Inventing Languages. Harland, Peacey, Beasley	CD Launch. Scot Snow		
1600-1700	Auction. 	The Future of War. Nichols, Kidd, Bivens	The Meaning of Smell in the Buffyverse. Goddard		Slashcon 
	
1700-1800		Underused mythologies. Harland, Dedman, Szumskyj	Best Buys…in Swords, Steeds, etc. Burstynski, Baxter, Luckett	The Secret History of Swancons. Ian Nichols		
1800-1900	Dinner					
1900-2000	Swancon 31 launch	Dinner			
2000-2100	Charles de Lint reading			Dinner	
2100-2200	Award ceremony. Gina Goddard				
2200-2300				Erotic Dance Workshop.	

Monday

Time	George 1	Conference	
1000-1100	Fan Olympics. Dave Luckett
	Surrealism and Fantasy. Richard Harland	
1100-1200	Writers Workshops: Do They Work? Sparks, Baxter, Larke, Peacey	Man and Super-Monster. Robert Hood	
1200-1300	Quidditch. Richards, Hawkes	Open Mike	
1300-1400	The Carnival is Over, or What to do between Swancons?	The Banality of Evil. Larke, Kidd, Harland, Peacey	
1400-1500	Keeping the Artistic Imagination Fresh. de Lint, Dowling, Tan, Harland	We Were Right: the 13th Annual DOCTOR WHO Panel. Oz, Magee, Oxwell, Sharpe, Watson	
1500-1600	Closing Ceremony	

For details of the Art Show, Auction, and Children’s Program, please see Progress Report Two, available at www.swancon.com

Our Guests:  Latest News

Shaun Tan has just won the Spectrum 12 Gold Award for fantastic art.  Ask him about it at the con!

Volunteers needed (you, you and you!)

We need volunteers to: act as tour guides/chauffeurs for guests Charles de Lint and MaryAnn Harris before and during the convention, plus other drivers: act as day managers and gophers; and supervise art show, children’s program, open mike sessions, and video room
	To volunteer for these or other tasks, please e-mail our volunteer wrangler, AlistairMcKie@gmail.com .

The Committee

Elaine Kemp, Con Chair and Venue Liaison; Stephen [Steveg] Gunnell, Treasurer; Stephen Dedman, Programmer and Guest Liaison; Craig Greenbank, Video Stream; prk and Tori, Gaming Stream; Cathy Cupitt, Academic Stream Co-ordinator; Alistair McKie, Volunteer Wrangler; Sarah Parker, Fundraising; Jay Watson, Movie Screenings; Ghoti Dalziel, Chief Minion

Contacting the Committee:  Swancon30@westnet.com.au

Swancon XXX Logo © Brian Choo.  Thanks, Brian			

2004 Tin Duck Voting Form

PROFESSIONAL FICTION				
[  ]	Lee Battersby, ‘Tales of  Nireym’, Orb 6
[  ]	K.A. Bedford, Orbital Burn
[  ]	Shane Jiraiya Cummings, ‘Sobek's Tears’, Aurealis 33 – 35
[  ]	Stephen Dedman, ‘The Facts in Dr Van Helsing's Case’, ASIM 11
[  ]	Simon Haynes, Hal Spacejock: Just Desserts	
[  ]	Dave Luckett, ‘By The Sweat of Your Brow’, Borderlands 3	
[  ]	Adam Weiland, ‘A Life in Art’, Shadowed Realms
[  ]	No Award

FAN FICTION			
[  ]	Lily Chrywenstrom, ‘The Snow Queen’, Gynaezine 2
[  ]	Cathy Cupitt, ‘Falling Stars’, www.livejournal/user/cupidsbow
[  ]	Liz Grzyb, ‘Cabbages & Singing Candlesticks’, Fables & Reflections 6
[  ]	No Award
	
NON-FICTION			
[  ]	Gina Goddard, ‘Loving the Vampire’, Gynaezine 2
[  ]	Michael McAvan, ‘Men and Wolves: Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time and the New Age Men's Movement’, Borderlands 3
[  ]	Grant Watson, ‘Bad Film Diaries’, Borderlands 3
[  ]	No Award

PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTION	
[  ]	Alicia Smith Wonderful Things (Web-shop/Gallery)	
[  ]	Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue 11
[  ]	Borderlands: Australian Science Fiction – Fantasy –Horror  Issue 3	
[  ]	Shadowed Realms Magazine	
[  ]	No Award

FAN PRODUCTION
[  ]	Fables & Reflections 6				
[  ]	Gynaezine 2			
[  ]	Swancon XXX Launch Video
[  ]	No Award

ART
[  ]	Troy Kealley, ‘The Snow Queen’, Gynaezine 2
[  ]	Colin Sharpe, Illustration for "Unreal City", Borderlands 3.
[  ]	Alicia Smith, ‘Skein Dogs’, Fables & Reflections 6
[  ]	Alicia Smith, Mythmeet (Colour Version)	
[  ]	Tiki Swain, Cover Art, Gynaezine 2
[  ]	Sarah Xu, ‘Emotions’, Gynaezine 2
[  ]	No Award

Please number in descending order of preference, starting with [1].  All votes must be legibly signed, and reach our tally room by Saturday March 26th.  Only members of Swancon XXX are eligible to vote.

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SWANCON XXX
Easter  March 24-28 2005
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