Transcribed and curated by Elaine Walker. Transcription attempts to be as accurate as possible. THE NOT-QUITE-FINAL PROGRAMME We, the programmers, are still hoping for people to volunteer items, and for the few remaining blanks to be filled. More importantly, we are hoping for more panelists to volunteer for the timeslots that have been filled. We… Continue reading Swancon 16 – Progress Report 3 – Pages 3-6 – The Not-Quite-Final Programme
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Swancon 14, Programme book — a summary
Descriptions and transcriptions by Anna Hepworth. As ever, typos faithfully replicated, and layouts and formats approximated only as much as can be done with trivial amounts of html. The Programme Book for Swancon 14 was 48 pages (plus yellowish card cover) A4, saddled-stapled. The cover has a drawing of what appears to be a one… Continue reading Swancon 14, Programme book — a summary
Festival of The Imagination 1996 – December 1995 Newsletter – Page 7 – Video Programme
Transcribed by Elaine Walker. If I find any typos I will do my best to reproduce them. Video Programme The bleary-eyed video manager staggers out of the darkened room, into a world of light and colour. Its taken six months, but he has finally recovered. No more dark rooms, with giant video screens. He can… Continue reading Festival of The Imagination 1996 – December 1995 Newsletter – Page 7 – Video Programme
Swancon Twenty3 – 04 Video Programme
This booklet is in keeping with the rest of the series, A4 folded to A5 and stapled along the spine, yellow cover with black writing and textured graphic. Inside there are effectively 15 pages of short summaries of films and telivision series’ arranged in alphabetical order which are complemented by 4 pages of scheduling and… Continue reading Swancon Twenty3 – 04 Video Programme
SwanCon Twenty3: An Assortment
There is a surprising amount of gumph in the SwanCon 23 (or ‘Twenty3’) folder. There are six progress reports, although there should be at least seven – the numbers run 2 through 6, with a wrap up report [ah. nostalgia. There was a time, young whipper-snappers, where one of the inter-con tastes of fandom came… Continue reading SwanCon Twenty3: An Assortment
Borderlands – The World Within – Programme Booklet
Summarised by Elaine Walker. I am going to summarise the programme for the convention giving an indication of what day, and who was involved and the title. I am going to also include the room they were in. SG1 stands for St George One; SG2 for St George 2; SSR for Spring St Room (which… Continue reading Borderlands – The World Within – Programme Booklet
SwanCon XI – The Programme (part 1)
being pages 18 and 19 of the SwanCon XI programme/con book. Transcription by Anna Hepworth Friday TIME MAIN HALL 10 am Days of future passed: Autobiographical words by SF authors Grant Stone examines autobiographical works by SF authors for incriminating overtones. 11 am Challenger memorial service A non-denominational interfaith service of memorial for all those… Continue reading SwanCon XI – The Programme (part 1)
aussiecon two progress report #1 – Membership Statistics by Region
43rd world science fiction convention transcribed by Chris Creagh MEMBERSHIP STATISTICS BY REGION Country Total Attending Supporting Australia: 83 22 61 • Victoria: 40 • New South Wales: 21 • South Australia: 9 • Western Australia: 8 • Queensland: 2 • ACT: 2 • Tasmania: 1 USA: 743 233 510 Canada: 37 13 24 United… Continue reading aussiecon two progress report #1 – Membership Statistics by Region
Swancon 10 – Programme – Page 1 – Contents and Committee
Transcribed by Elaine Walker Swancon 10 There is a picture of a standard looking rocket ship on the left hand side of the page. This claims to be the Programme but seems to contain other various things about the convention. Underneath the 10 of the Swancon 10 heading are numbers counting down from 9 to… Continue reading Swancon 10 – Programme – Page 1 – Contents and Committee
Battye collection
The Battye Library (the State Library of WA) likes to collect periodical publications from organisations like ours, and in various years we’ve conscientiously given them copies of our program book, souvenir book, progress reports, etc. And in various other years we’ve been not quite so conscientious. Rachel Turner ventured into the stacks and returned bearing… Continue reading Battye collection