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Tag Archives: Swancon 21
Festival of the Imagination 1996 – April 1995 Newsletter
Here’s the (presumably final) progress report for Festival of the Imagination 1996. It’s two yellow A4 sheets folded to A5 and staple-stitched. It starts, unsurprisingly, with a front cover: FESTIVAL OF THE IMAGINATION 1996Australia’s National Science Fiction Literature Conference and … Continue reading
Festival of the Imagination 1996 – March 1996 Newsletter
Transcribed and summarised by Elaine Walker. Sections of it may be blogged in more detail later. The newsletter is A4 pages folded into A5 size. The colour is mostly yellow except for some inserts in the middle. The front page … Continue reading
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Tagged Natcon, newsletter, Perth, SwanCon, Swancon 21, The Festival of The Imagination 1996
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Festival of the Imagination 1996 – January 1996 Newsletter
Transcribed and summarised by Elaine Walker. Sections of it may be blogged in more detail later. The newsletter is A4 pages folded into A5 size. The colour is mostly buff except for some inserts in the middle. The front page … Continue reading
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Tagged Natcon, newsletter, Perth, SwanCon, Swancon 21, The Festival of The Imagination 1996
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The Ditmar Reporter – V1, #2 – December 1995
In all our our collections of Australian fannish ephemera, we appear to have a single issue of ‘The Ditmar Reporter’. Why this is issue 2 (of volume 1), and no issue 1 exists in the collection, one can only blame … Continue reading
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Tagged awards, Ditmars, Swancon 21, The Festival of The Imagination 1996
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Festival of the Imagination 1996 – July 1995 Newsletter
Transcribed and summarised by Elaine Walker The newsletter is A4 pages folded into A5 size. The colour is mostly buff except for some inserts in the middle. The front page has a drawing which appears to be by Shaun Tan, … Continue reading
Posted in Conventions, NatCon, SwanCon
Tagged Natcon, newsletter, Perth, SwanCon, Swancon 21, The Festival of The Imagination 1996
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must see
Here’s another clipping from The West, on Friday March 29 1996 (grr…) under “must see”. Under a photo of Robocop, it says, in all italics, You don’t need to be rapt in RoboCop or dotty about Daleks — but it … Continue reading
Light side to a dark writer
In our archive is a clipping from The West Australian, Wednesday April 3 1996. (This immediately makes me want to criticise The West for using stupid middle-endian date format, but this is a problem I will cope with on my … Continue reading
1996 national awards nomination form(s)
summary by Anna Hepworth From the depths of our archives, we have extracted an A4 (yellow, ~80 gsm bond, double sided) sheet laid out as two side-by-side A5 pages, with voting forms and official information for the a) 1996 Australian … Continue reading
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Tagged ASFMAs, awards, Ditmars, nominations, Swancon 21, The Festival of The Imagination 1996
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