Programming
Hi! This is your Friendly Neighbourhood Programming Team here, and we've got a whole fun in store you this year. Items include mass autographings, science programming, presentations from GoH and other Pros who are attending plus so much more. You have check out the expanded program book to see it all.
Volunteers Needed
We have lots of Programming Panel ideas - one tiny little problem... we are still looking for volunteers to be on the panel discussions. We have a growing list of programming topics which are listed below - check them out. So, if you see a panel topic that you're interested in, and you have an opinion that you're ready to share with a panel audience, or if you're willing to be a panel moderator, please let us know by sending an e-mail, or let us know using the submission form.
Panel Ideas
- But Is It Art?: SF&F art and literature; will it ever be accepted by 'serious' critics? Should we care?
- Comic Books and Films: Bat Man and Hell Boy, The Punisher and Cat Woman. Turning comics into film, what works, what doesn't, and why?
- The Biology of the Fan Club: Or how computers killed the fan club. Or did they? How do fan clubs start, what helps them grow, and why do some fade away?
- Tell Me A Story: Fans talking about their favorite books.
- Fandom; Now and Then: How has fandom changed in Winnipeg in the last 25 years? "Then" had 20 people sleeping in a hotel room, lurches, van loads to ValleyCon and MiniCon, and Blue Stuff. What makes fandom a community today? How has that community changed?
- Anime SF vs Western SF in film: Does hollywood even make proper SF films anymore, or is it just action-adventure in space? Do you have to look to Japanese Anime if you want to find SF using science and warning us about where our current roads could lead us to in the future?
- Harry Potter vs Lord of The Rings: Why has Harry Potter opened the door for several children's fantasy films, but hardly any adult fantasy has been made in Hollywood since LOTR?
- Anime for People Over the Age of 30: There's more to Anime than Pokemon and Naruto. A discussion.
- Firefly: If I were Josh Whedon, what would I do for a sequal?
- Anime and Youth: Or, what isn't western animation doing right?
- Sex in Science fiction: Google will get you 962,000 hits. Everything from issues of gender to hot sweaty sex. Discuss?
- Gender roles in Science Fiction and Fantasy across the media: Do we perpetuate gender stereotypes or do we shatter them?
- Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy poetry readings and discussion: Come and share your own writings or those of favourite authors. Dirty limericks may be tolerated
- Mundane Science fiction: What is it?
- Hidden science fiction: Have we infiltrated? A discussion of where science fiction is. for example, is the show "Lost" actually Sci Fi?
- Alternative lifestyles in SF&F: from books to reality.
- Are geeks and dorks more or less tolerant than the general public?: The fandom and gaming community has a reputation for being very tolerant of differences, and "odd" people. Do we live up to our reputation?
Friday
| Time | Ballroom B | Peregrine | Portage | Assiniboine | Manitoba E/W | Prairie N/S | Ballroom A | Crocus | Board |
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| 18:00 | Art Show set-up |
Dealers set-up |
Gaming | Open Programming and overflow |
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| 19:00 | Luke Ski & Worm Quartet Concert | ||||||||
| :30 | Movie: TBA |
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| 20:00 | Art Show | Mode 7: Winnipeg's new video game tribute band |
Colinization: Climate & other hazzards Anderson, Dyck |
Fantasy is all fluff & has no bearing on the real world. Right? Kurtz, Anna (mod) | Autograph Session #1: Kaufmann, Armstrong, Sawyer, Liana K | Newbies Tour of Keycon |
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| 21:00 | Writing the juicy bits (that means sex & death, kids) Katehrine Kurtz, Kelley Armstrong, Viola & Tam Sheehan | Making a living as an artist in 2009 sub topic computers in art? Kauffman Pasternak? | Marketing yourself Sawer & Trenholm |
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| 22:00 | So you want to be a DJ? | How to write funny Music: Luke Ski & Shoebox | The Auroras Sawyer, Trenholm, Sheehan, Liana |
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Saturday
| Time | Ballroom B | Peregrine | Portage | Assiniboine | Manitoba E/W | Prairie N/S | Ballroom A | Crocus | Board |
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| 10:00 | Art Show | Dealers | Gaming | Fun Foam Door Hangers | Draw your sword! (Duelling, fighting & combat in fantasy) Kurtz Sheehan (mod) | Anime Cons Walling, WPG Anime | Art Show 101 Caskey, Bourget Kensley | Hat making 101 Connie Lyon | Open Programming and overflow |
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| 11:00 | Tour Kaufmann |
Clay & Play-doh Creations | The Geek Glass Ceiling Stromberg & the Kerzners | How to run a con-suite, Nancy Viola Kim Sean? | Writing for Young Fans Kelley Armstrong Anna (mod) | Pulp Fiction Heroes 'ED' Speelman Thompson | Masquerade registration | ||
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| 12:00 | Art Show | Movie: TBA | The Future of Energy Will we run out of oil? If we don't what are the consequences for the world? If we do, are there any real alternatives? And what does that mean for our future? Trenholm Dyck | Gaming in Winnipeg: Why is there no dedicated con to general gaming? Mike Major Brian Mitchell | Comedy Music Fandom: Dr. Demento, the FuMP, & more! The Great Luki Ski & ShoEboX | Believable magic & tech (Making it make sense doesn't take the wonder away) Kurtz Armstrong | Painting Minatures demo Christian | ||
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| 13:00 | Dr. Who & Gallafrey Robbie Bourget |
Extra-solar planets- they're everywhere Kaufmann | The Future of Government Ayn Rand & Karl Marx were both wrong- the State isn't going away anytime soon. Trenholm Barsanti | Marketing & Legalities in gaming Stromberg | learn to pose like a pinup model Liana K |
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| 14:00 | Puzzles/ Games/ Colouring | Meet Kelley Armstong reading & interview |
Comic books: The Good the bad & the adult. Steve K, Renee Walling MacNair (moderator) | Autograph Session #2 (Kurtz, Kaufmann, Trenholm, The great Luke Ski & Worm Quartet) | Armouring panel: Perdro Bedard & Dallas Holett | Brian Baldwin Panel | |||
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| 15:00 | Kids in Motion | The evolution of Vidoe Games Shoebox & Steven | Villains, like fine wine. (favourites, how to build 'em, who they're based on & more) Kurtz. Trenholm | Firefly, whats next? Wensel, Brian | World cons: So you want to throw a party for 3500+ of your friends? Walling, Mansfield, Bourget | Art Jam: Figure drawing edition Kauffman | |||
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| 16:00 | Bead Geckos | Masquerade Walk through | Games for Women: Liana K | This Month's Skies, & Their Gods & Heroes. Lindsey Price |
Dark fantasy, urban fantasy, what's with all these subgenres? Kelley Armstrong Sheehan Anna | Art Jam | |||
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| 17:00 | Dinner Break |
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| 19:00 | Regular Masquerade | Open Programming and overflow |
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| 21:00 | Dance | So you want to run the Zoo? John Mansfield & Co. A con running game. | |||||||
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| 22:00 | Worm Quartet Unrated! |
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Sunday
| Time | Ballroom B | Peregrine | Portage | Assiniboine | Manitoba E/W | Prairie N/S | Ballroom A | Crocus | Board |
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| 10:00 | Art Show | Dealers | Gaming | Popsicle Stick Building | 3 Artist Paint Off: Kauffman, Pasternak? | Canadian Con Runners | Food in fantasy Kurtz, Viola | Green room | |
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| 11:00 | Autograph Session #3 (Kurtz, Armstrong, Sawyer, Ed & Red, The great Luke Ski & Worm Quartet) | Wicca Laurie Smith & Co. | Senate AGM_ Elections of Senators from the floor | ||||||
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| 12:00 | Close for Auction Setup |
Movie: TBA | The women's self esteem through High Fantasy Images Liana K | Future Economies . local, global and beyond Trenholm | Set up for Art Auction | Future of Keycon | |||
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| 13:00 | Art Show Tear-down |
Breaking into the Gaming Industry Stomberg Edward Moyer Mike Major | Tarot for all levels 'Mom' | Art Auction | Robert Sawyer: Reading from 'Wake' | ||||
| :30 | Painting Clay Creations | ||||||||
| 14:00 | Joey's Fantastic Trivia contest! | Where is everybody? (The ancient world was populated with fairies, ghosts and goblins. Where did they go? Does magic still have a place in our lives?) Armstrong Sheehan | Luke Ski's Spoken Word Performance: | ||||||
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| 15:00 | Art Show Pick-up |
Kids in Motion | Deryni Rising: The Movie! Kurtz | Working in TV: Liana K & Steven | Closed for Dinner set-up |
Space art- some doo's & don'ts Kaufmann | |||
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| 16:00 | Closing Ceremonies | ||||||||
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