Complete (Tentative) Schedule

MisCon 24

Friday Registration (ConCom)

Fri, 10:00 - 19:00 PM, (The Gate)
Pros and Guests: Kristina Brakebush

Rummage Sale (Miscellaneous)

Fri, 12:00 - 15:00 PM, (The Outer Space)
Pros and Guests: Sharon McDaniel

Donate your Type I Phaser, or buy someone else's!

Early Bird Round Table (ConCom)

Fri, 13:00 - 14:00 PM, (Secondary Nexus)
Pros and Guests: CthulhuBob Lovely

Gather with the early Geeks and discuss what books you're reading, shows you're watching, games you're playing, etc.

Gizmo Make and Take (Miscellaneous)

Fri, 14:00 - 15:00 PM, (Secondary Nexus)
Pros and Guests: Jim Johnson, Joe Taylor

Ever wanted to scratch build a ray gun, chrono-manipulator, or dimensional rift-atron? Well, this is your chance. All materials are provided but feel free to bring your own old paper towel rolls, dish liquid caps and non-functioning VCRs.

Cowardice in RPGs (Gaming)

Fri, 14:00 - 15:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: Justin Farrington, CthulhuBob Lovely, Greg Schneider

The costs and benefits of character cowardice, as well as reaction from other P.C.s and players. "I escape into the darkness."

Kid's Make and Take (Spawn Con)

Fri, 15:00 - 16:00 PM, (Secondary Nexus)
Pros and Guests: Jim Johnson, Joe Taylor

Joe and Jim will help a group of kids build some sort of creative monstrosity. Parents, please use discretion and, if your children are under 12, you must be in attendance at all times.

How To Steampunk-ify Your Nerf Gun (Costuming)

Fri, 15:00 - 16:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests:

Panelists TBA

Meet Harry Turtledove (Writing)

Fri, 16:00 - 17:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: Eben Brooks, Sarah Clemens, Harry Turtledove

Come meet Harry Turtledove, MisCon 24's Author Guest of Honor.

Meet Sarah Clemens (Art)

Fri, 17:00 - 18:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: Eben Brooks, Sarah Clemens, Harry Turtledove

Come meet Meet Sarah Clemens, MisCon 24's Artist Guest of Honor.

Meet Eben Brooks (Filk)

Fri, 18:00 - 19:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: Eben Brooks, Sarah Clemens, Harry Turtledove

Come meet Meet Eben Brooks, MisCon 24's Filk Guest of Honor.

Opening Ceremonies (Schedule and Programming)

Fri, 19:00 - 20:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: Realms of Avalon , Justin Barba, Margaret Bonham, Chuck Bordell, Kristina Brakebush, Patricia Briggs, Eben Brooks, Heidi Carstens, C.J. Cherryh, Sarah Clemens, John Dalmas, Ben Donnelly, M.J. Engh, Jane Fancher, Justin Farrington, Diana Pharaoh Francis, Gail Glass, James Glass, John Goff, Lenora Good, Andrea Howe, Parris ja Young, Jim Johnson, Dan Lehn, CthulhuBob Lovely, Michael McClintock, Sharon McDaniel, Vicki Mitchell, Kevin Noel Olson, Alina Pete, Greg Schneider, Keith Seyffarth, Justin Stanchfield, Joe Taylor, Tiffany Toland, Harry Turtledove, Josh Wagner, Robin Walker, William R. Warren, Lisa Williams, Ray Worley

Attend this locus of space and time and gather information regarding the corporeal entities of esteem. Experience concurrent edification. (Come meet our GoHs and Pros. It'll be fun.)

Reading: Margaret Bonham (Writing)

Fri, 20:00 - 21:00 PM, (1960's Boardroom)
Pros and Guests: Margaret Bonham

Maggie will be reading from one of her recent works.

Sarah Clemens -- Art Presentation (Art)

Fri, 20:00 - 21:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: Sarah Clemens

Come get all jazzed up for Sunday evening's Art Auction by seeing digital projections of a bunch of Sarah Clemens's crazily great artwork.

Anime Music Videos (Media)

Fri, 22:00 - 23:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: Ben Donnelly

Ben Donnelly will amaze and entertain with various anime music videos. Kids must have an adult.

Anatomy of the Face (Art)

Sat, 10:00 - 11:00 AM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: Sarah Clemens

Sarah gives us advice on how to properly represent the face, and provides examples.

The Write Time and Place (Writing)

Sat, 10:00 - 11:00 AM, (Secondary Nexus)
Pros and Guests: John Dalmas, Jane Fancher, Parris ja Young, Kevin Noel Olson

Our panelists discuss how to create an environment that stimulates your creative muse.

Writer's Workshop B (Writing)

Sat, 11:00 - 14:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests:

All participants meet in the Boardroom. MisCon's World Famous Writer's Workshop. Submit your writing to us a month before MisCon, show up at the hotel, and meet with our professional critiquing authors and editors.

Writer's Workshop A (Writing)

Sat, 11:00 - 14:00 PM, (1960's Boardroom)
Pros and Guests: Justin Barba, Margaret Bonham, Patricia Briggs, C.J. Cherryh, M.J. Engh, James Glass, Andrea Howe, Vicki Mitchell, Harry Turtledove

All participants meet in the Boardroom. MisCon's World Famous Writer's Workshop. Submit your writing to us a month before MisCon, show up at the hotel, and meet with our professional critiquing authors and editors.

Writer's Workshop C (Writing)

Sat, 11:00 - 14:00 PM, (Fireside)
Pros and Guests:

All participants meet in the Boardroom. MisCon's World Famous Writer's Workshop. Submit your writing to us a month before MisCon, show up at the hotel, and meet with our professional critiquing authors and editors.

Fresh Air and Filk (Filk)

Sat, 11:00 - 12:00 PM, (The Outer Space)
Pros and Guests: Eben Brooks

Eben Brooks regales us with some of his repertoire.

Dynamic Form in Static Art (Art)

Sat, 11:00 - 12:00 PM, (Secondary Nexus)
Pros and Guests: Tiffany Toland, William R. Warren

Learn how to create still art that conveys motion, emotion, and activity

?Kid Vids? (Spawn Con)

Sat, 11:00 - 13:00 PM, (Holodeck)
Pros and Guests:

*Placeholder Event* If the relevant departments wish, this will be a 2-hour block of videos for kids.

Hint, Hint, Death. (Gaming)

Sat, 12:00 - 13:00 PM, (Secondary Nexus)
Pros and Guests: Justin Farrington, John Goff, CthulhuBob Lovely, Greg Schneider, Keith Seyffarth

How do you impress upon a player that in-game danger is actually dangerous to his/her character?

SCA Fighting Demo (Miscellaneous)

Sat, 12:00 - 14:00 PM, (The Outer Space)
Pros and Guests:

Sword and Shield, Cloak and Dagger. Come see firsthand how our medieval ancestors fought and died on the field of honor and how you too can learn to wield the weapons of ancient and honorable combat.

Print-Making (Art)

Sat, 13:00 - 14:00 PM, (Secondary Nexus)
Pros and Guests: Sarah Clemens, Parris ja Young, Tiffany Toland, William R. Warren

Find out how art prints are made, how artists decide how many prints to a run and how many runs to make, how matting is done, and whether a print-run affects the value of the original.

Write What You Know (Writing)

Sat, 14:00 - 15:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: John Dalmas, Jane Fancher, Diana Pharaoh Francis

Generally, life experience is necessary to give you material and vivid, living, imagery for your writing. This panel addresses how to gather what you experience, and what to do if you are not quite yet worldly.

Reading: Lenora Good (Writing)

Sat, 14:00 - 15:00 PM, (1960's Boardroom)
Pros and Guests: Lenora Good

Lenora will be reading from one of her recent works.

Theremin For Beginners (Miscellaneous)

Sat, 15:00 - 16:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: Sarah Clemens

Sarah Clemens demonstrates how to play the theremin, used by several bands and to make cool special effects-y sounds for various science fiction movies. Try your hand at playing this wacky device.

Video Audience Award Festival (Video and Film Festival)

Sat, 16:00 - 18:00 PM, (Holodeck)
Pros and Guests: Dan Lehn

Help determine the Audience Award Winner in the MisCon 24 Video Festival.

Space and Time For Writers (Writing)

Sat, 16:00 - 17:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: C.J. Cherryh, Andrea Howe, Michael McClintock

Learn how to track where your characters are at any given time, and the passage of time, to ensure smooth story flow. Plus hear amusing anecdotes of how authors fail to do this.

Convention Art Shows (Art)

Sat, 16:00 - 17:00 PM, (Secondary Nexus)
Pros and Guests: Chuck Bordell, Heidi Carstens, Tiffany Toland, Robin Walker, William R. Warren

Learn how to buy your favorite art, or sell your own work, at a convention, and how convention art auctions work.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Music (Miscellaneous)

Sat, 17:00 - 19:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests:

Ray takes us on a journey through the music of genre films.

Reading: Vicki Mitchell (Writing)

Sat, 17:00 - 18:00 PM, (1960's Boardroom)
Pros and Guests: Vicki Mitchell

Vicki will be reading from one of her recent works.

Arguing About Punctuation, (Writing)

Sat, 18:00 - 19:00 PM, (Secondary Nexus)
Pros and Guests: Patricia Briggs, John Dalmas, M.J. Engh, Andrea Howe

Patty Brigg's, John Dalmas, M.J. Engh, and Andrea Howe politely discuss theories of punctuation; theories.

Costume Pageant Prep (Costuming)

Sat, 19:00 - 20:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: Lisa Williams

Costume Contest Participants and Judges (Only) will prepare for the Costume Contest, will will be held at 8:00.

Wedding (Miscellaneous)

Sat, 19:00 - 20:00 PM, (The Outer Space)
Pros and Guests:

Help us celebrate the union of Mary and Michael at MisCon's first on-site wedding. Yeah, I know RadCon already did it.

Reading: M.J. Engh (Writing)

Sat, 19:00 - 20:00 PM, (1960's Boardroom)
Pros and Guests: M.J. Engh

M.J. will be reading from one of her recent works.

Costume Pageant (Costuming)

Sat, 20:00 - 22:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: Eben Brooks, Lisa Williams

Entities from various points in space and time grace us with their native garb. Attend and enjoy. Eben Brooks will entertain while the judges make their decisions.

Reading: Diana Pharaoh Francis (Writing)

Sat, 20:00 - 21:00 PM, (1960's Boardroom)
Pros and Guests: Diana Pharaoh Francis

Diana will be reading from one of her recent works.

Reading: Jane Fancher (Writing)

Sat, 21:00 - 22:00 PM, (1960's Boardroom)
Pros and Guests: Jane Fancher

Jane will be reading from one of her recent works.

1st Annual MisCon Drag Show (Costuming)

Sat, 22:00 - 23:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests:

Geeky Queens (the "Drag" kind, not the "married to the King" kind) strut their stuff to see who will be crowned the first ever "Queen of MisCon!"

Writer's Workshop Debrief (Writing)

Sun, 11:00 - 12:00 PM, (Secondary Nexus)
Pros and Guests: Justin Barba

Writer's Workshop Participants Only. This is an opportunity for the submitters to the Writer's Workshop to hobnob and discuss one another's submissions and critiques.

Artist's Workshop (Art)

Sun, 11:00 - 14:00 PM, (1960's Boardroom)
Pros and Guests: Heidi Carstens

Our entrants will have their work critiqued by professional artists. If you would like to participate next year, contact our Art Chair, Heidi Carstens, at art@miscon.org or just find her her at the con.

Eben Brooks, Live in Concert (Filk)

Sun, 11:00 - 14:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: Eben Brooks

Come enjoy our Filk Guest of Honor, Eben Brooks, and he displays his musical talents.

Barbeque (ConCom)

Sun, 14:00 - 18:00 PM, (The Outer Space)
Pros and Guests: CthulhuBob Lovely

Join us in the Picnic Area for some BBQ and great entertainment, featuring Filk by Eben Brooks!

Reading: Patricia Briggs (Writing)

Sun, 14:00 - 15:00 PM, (1960's Boardroom)
Pros and Guests: Patricia Briggs

Patty will be reading from one of her recent works.

Reading: C.J. Cherryh (Writing)

Sun, 15:00 - 16:00 PM, (1960's Boardroom)
Pros and Guests: C.J. Cherryh

C.J. will be reading from one of her recent works.

Reading: James Glass (Writing)

Sun, 16:00 - 17:00 PM, (1960's Boardroom)
Pros and Guests: James Glass

James will be reading from one of her recent works.

Reading: Kevin Noel Olson (Writing)

Sun, 17:00 - 18:00 PM, (1960's Boardroom)
Pros and Guests: Kevin Noel Olson

Kevin will be reading from one of her recent works.

Reading: Harry Turtledove (Writing)

Sun, 18:00 - 19:00 PM, (1960's Boardroom)
Pros and Guests: Harry Turtledove

Author GoH Harry Turtledove will be reading from one of her recent works.

Art Auction (Art)

Sun, 19:00 - 21:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: Heidi Carstens, CthulhuBob Lovely

Come bid on your favorite piece from the Art Show.

Reading: Josh Wagner (Writing)

Sun, 19:00 - 20:00 PM, (1960's Boardroom)
Pros and Guests: Josh Wagner

Josh will be reading from one of her recent works.

Reading: Sarah Clemens (Writing)

Sun, 21:00 - 22:00 PM, (1960's Boardroom)
Pros and Guests: Sarah Clemens

Artist GoH Sarah Clemens will be reading from one of her recent works. Yes, we really mean that.

Closing Ceremonies (Art)

Mon, 15:00 - 16:00 PM, (Great Hall)
Pros and Guests: Realms of Avalon , Justin Barba, Margaret Bonham, Chuck Bordell, Kristina Brakebush, Patricia Briggs, Eben Brooks, Heidi Carstens, C.J. Cherryh, Sarah Clemens, John Dalmas, Ben Donnelly, M.J. Engh, Jane Fancher, Justin Farrington, Diana Pharaoh Francis, Gail Glass, James Glass, John Goff, Lenora Good, Andrea Howe, Parris ja Young, Jim Johnson, Dan Lehn, CthulhuBob Lovely, Michael McClintock, Sharon McDaniel, Vicki Mitchell, Kevin Noel Olson, Alina Pete, Greg Schneider, Keith Seyffarth, Justin Stanchfield, Joe Taylor, Tiffany Toland, Harry Turtledove, Josh Wagner, Robin Walker, William R. Warren, Lisa Williams, Ray Worley

Catch a sneak peek at what’s in store for you next year at MisCon 25, the 27th to 30th of May, 2011.

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