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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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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

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Festival of The Imagination 1996 December 1995 Newsletter

Post by Doug Burbidge An A5 publication, made of A4 folded. Front cover sheet is blue; remainder of pages are buff. Front cover says Festival of The Imagination 1996 in small caps; and some art including the TARDIS, Judge Dredd, … Continue reading

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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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Things to know (at a glance)

Sometimes, the items in the archive show how things have changed. For instance, there is a lovely A4 (blue, text on one side, map on the other ~80 gsm) sheet, with the above title. Font is lovely and large, and … Continue reading

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T-Shirt The Festival of the Imagination 1996

Post by Chris Creagh T-shirt Design by the award-winning Shaun Tan. Thought you might like to see the shirt to go with the previous post about the badge. This is one of the shirts held in the basement of the … Continue reading

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The Festival Of The Imagination 1996 badge

Post by Doug Burbidge Clearly the problem with previous Swancons was that their names were not long enough, and The Festival Of The Imagination rectified this problem in spades. (Swancon 17 was also subtitled The Festival Of The Imagination, so … Continue reading

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