At the Con ... Mon 07:00

Last Day ... Yeahhhhhh!

The awards went off well last night. Winners were:

Marg Hughes Award (WASFF)
  • Dale Verdi
  • Emma Hawkes
Tin Ducks
  • Professional Fiction: Stephen Dedman, 'The Facts in Dr Van Helsing's Case', ASIM 11
  • Fan Fiction: Cathy Cupit, 'Falling Stars', www.livejournal/users/cupidsbow
  • Non-Fiction: Gina Goddard, 'Loving the Vampire', Gynaezine 2
  • Professional Production: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue 11
  • Fan Production: Gynaezine 2
  • Art: Sarah Xu, 'Emotions', Gynaezine 2

I'll do the other awards later...


At the Con ... Sun 08:00

Things still seem to be proceeding smoothly. Unless having the smoke machine for the masquerade setting of the fire alarm counts as excitement.

We had 8 day members yesterday and we have 5 pre-booking for today. Highlights for today will be the WASFF business meeting (allright, so I just lied) and the awards ceremonies tonight. Maybe I should mention market day, the auction, and everything else as well.


At the Con ... Sat 06:30

Everything is happening according to schedule (or thereabouts).

We are now reserving about 10 day memberships for each day and we sold only 5 yesterday. We are monitoring the space situation but it isn't as bad as I had feared.


At the Con ... Fri 07:30

Well it seems the main site is down. Suprise Suprise. Thank WASFF for this little debacle.

The con is going well so far. Crowding is not an issue but we still have about a quarter of the members still to register.

Weekend memberships are $130 at the door.

Day memberships are $50 each day for Fri, Sat, Sun and if you have a membership for any of those days you get Monday free.

We have around 7 day memberships available for each day.


Progress Report Four released.

Progress Report Four has now been released. Including the Penultimate Program, Tin Duck voting forms, details for the Thursday night LARP and Pizza Friday.

Links will be emailed to people shortly and those people who have requested a paper copy will receive one in the mail. The Progress Report is also available online as Rich Text (1.1MB) or PDF (247kB) files.


Dinner with Charles de Lint

The dinner with Charles de Lint has been moved to Tuesday March 22nd.

Dinner with the fantastic Charles de Lint, author of over 50 books, and creator of the genre "Urban Mythology" is coming to Perth for Swancon 30! To kick off our Thirtieth Birthday, Tuesday the 22nd of March we are heading off to the lovely Sado Island Restaurant in Claremont. More details and booking information is available here.


Progress Report Three released.

Progress Report Three has now been released. Among other things, it includes a draft program, details for the Dinner with Charles de Lint and Tin Duck Nomination information. Links will be emailed to people shortly and those people who have requested a paper copy will receive one in the mail. The Progress Report is also available online as Rich Text (1.1MB) or PDF (234kB) files.


Progress Report Two released.

Progress Report Two has now been released, and links will be emailed to people shortly. Those people who have requested a paper copy will receive one in the mail. The Progress Report is also available online as Rich Text (2.7MB) or PDF (311kB) files.


Membership Rate Rise

As we warned in Progress Report One the membership rates are on the way up. From today ( 24th October ) the rate is $110. In order not to oversell the memberships we will withdraw all the receipt books once the membership count reaches 200. Further memberships will only be available via the committee. A this point there are 10 memberships available before the books are withdrawn.


Swancon Wine Sales

Sarah Parker, our fundraising mavin, has organised discount wine supplies for Swancon.


Progress Report One released.

Progress report one has been mailed out. There are also online versions as Rich Text (750Kb) or PDF (60Kb) files.


20th June 2004

The Video Committee are seeking any Fan works out there to be viewed or listened to; films, movies, cartoons, anime, audio stories, commercials, or any other Visual or Audio work that you have done.

If you believe you have something that you wish to be played or shown, to the masses (er Fans), then email me (Craig) at the following address: Swancon30@westnet.com.au