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MaggieD (Meghan Lancaster)

9:00am PDT

Registration HalseyHelen Umberger

12:00pm PDT

Creating Tactile, 3D Fantasy Environments HawthorneJohn Lovett • Sean Robinson

1:00pm PDT

Coloring Titanium with Electricity WashingtonKenneth Lett

2:00pm PDT

The Art of Theresa Mather Slideshow Jeff/AdamsTheresa Mather Costuming with Unconventional Fabrics SellwoodTheresa Halbert • Betty Bigelow • Sandra King • Andrea Letourneau Bustle Hustle: How to Make a Quick Last-Minute Bustle with Flair and Style WashingtonJoy Knight-Richards Mer People Meet and Greet PoolsideOrchid Cavett • Sally Newman • Rachel Phillips • Yl'luria WaterSong

3:00pm PDT

Tesla Coil Demonstrations 3 SistersDon Anderson Nonconformists and Utopians: the Future of Offworld Settlements Jeff/AdamsDave Davis • Keith Henson • Charlie Stross The Wired Brain HawthorneSonia Lyris • William Hertling • Kenneth Lett • Sean Robinson

4:00pm PDT

Pattern Drafting Software SellwoodAndrea Letourneau Braids, Falls, and Hair Flowers WashingtonWolfcat The Celestia Space Simulation Program HawthorneRoy Torley

5:00pm PDT

Steampunk Mystery Game - Scene 1 WeidlerDanielle Nicole Arthun • Amanda Bednarz

6:00pm PDT

Make Your Own: Sonic Screwdriver, Shades, Lipstick? WashingtonJamie Bear • Karen Black • Emily Brier • Rebecca Ernst • Siobhan Ernst Opening Ceremony Mult/HollAlexander James Adams • Bobak Ferdowsi • David D. Levine • Lea Rush • John Scalzi • Charlie Stross Anticipatory Anthropology HawthorneManny Frishberg • Rhiannon Held • Rhiannon Louve • John Lovett

7:00pm PDT

Going to Mars: What’s the Point? HawthorneBobak Ferdowsi • Kristin Landon • David D. Levine • G. David Nordley

8:00pm PDT

Tiny TARDIS Top Hats and Bow Ties! WashingtonJamie Bear • Emily Brier • Rebecca Ernst • Siobhan Ernst

9:00pm PDT

Vanitys Vaudeville Vixens Mult/HollVanity Thorn

10:00am PDT

The Art of Dress WashingtonHeather Burgess • Chad Budrow • Sheri Budrow • Jess Knight • Joy Knight-Richards • Johanna Mead • Wolfcat

11:00am PDT

Building Art Cars JacksonSamuel Coniglio • Katherine the Great Mer People Meet and Greet PoolsideOrchid Cavett • Sally Newman • Rachel Phillips • Yl'luria WaterSong All Punked Out WeidlerSarina Dorie • Paul Guinan • Andrew P Mayer From Prehistory to Shamanism: Theology in Search of Human Uniqueness HawthorneLiz Argall • Ari Goldstein • Gibbitt Rhys-Jones

12:00pm PDT

GEAR Con Tea Parlour Gearcon ParlourFlori Lima-Steele GoH : John Scalzi Reading Ross IslandJohn Scalzi

1:00pm PDT

GoH Artist: Amusements and Diversions in the Age of Steam Jeff/AdamsTheresa Mather Steampunk Mystery Game - Scene 2 WeidlerDanielle Nicole Arthun • Amanda Bednarz The Scientist vs The Authors: Intellectual Brawl of the Century Mult/HollDavid D. Levine • Bobak Ferdowsi • John Scalzi • Charlie Stross

2:00pm PDT

Power Station Open House 3 SistersDon Anderson Waisted Effort WeidlerLaura Sinclair McShane Conscious and Unconscious Elements of the Creative Process RooseveltKaren Anderson • Mark Chapman • Manny Frishberg • James Glass

3:00pm PDT

Crowdfunding for Artists SellwoodM. Scott Hammond • Hazard • Lee Moyer • Jeff Sturgeon GoH Artist : Docent Tour Art ShowTheresa Mather Fun with Pleather! MorrisonKyle Engen • Carol Mathewson • Kevin Roche • Wolfcat Star Trek Jeopardy Jeff/AdamsBobak Ferdowsi • Paul Guinan • John Scalzi Tesla Coil Demonstrations 3 SistersDon Anderson

4:00pm PDT

Intro to Fandom Quilting WashingtonContessa Paxton Timmerman • Emily Brier • A.M. Brosius

5:00pm PDT

Creativity and Mental Health RooseveltBlythe Ayne • Langley Hyde • Kristin Landon • Erica Satifka

6:00pm PDT

A Tour of Hells and Underworlds JacksonEmily Jiang • Crystal Connor • Charlie Stross • Tom Whitmore Social Justice Warrior Ross IslandFrog Jones • Amber Clark • Jim Minz • Anthony Pryor • Sienna Saint-Cyr The Wild and Wonderful Weird West SellwoodS. A. Bolich • David Boop • Gordon E Frye • Scott Woodard

7:00pm PDT

Steampunk Scrapheap Challenge! WashingtonHazard • Kenneth Lett • Paige Mackmer Masquerade Mult/HollDavid D. Levine • Alexander James Adams • Andrea Letourneau

10:00am PDT

Goggles and Gears and Brown, Oh My SellwoodSteven Criss • Betty Bigelow • JD Hughes • Flori Lima-Steele • Johanna Mead Mars – The Dirt on Dirt HawthorneDave Davis • Dan Dubrick • Loretta McKibben • Sean Robinson

11:00am PDT

Docent Tour: Mark Ferrari Art ShowMark J. Ferrari Mer People Meet and Greet PoolsideOrchid Cavett Vacuum Tubes and the Vacuum Tube Tesla Coil 3 SistersDon Anderson Future Laws HawthorneAri Goldstein • William Hertling • Andrew P Mayer • Sean Robinson • Erica Satifka SF as a Stealth Delivery Platform Ross IslandLiz Argall • Sunni Brock • James Glass • John Scalzi

12:00pm PDT

GEAR Con Tea Parlour Gearcon ParlourFlori Lima-Steele The Amish Approach to Changing Technology: The Error of Presumed Neutrality of Technology HawthorneAri Goldstein • Keith Henson • Guy Letourneau • Sara Stamey Has Star Trek Left Us With an Enduring Mythology? Ross IslandSunni Brock • Sarina Dorie • Langley Hyde • Patrick Swenson

1:00pm PDT

Building Real Steampunk Objects 3 Sisters Kinetic Sculpture Races Art ShowMark Chapman Neologism and Linguicide: How the Dominant Language Mutates and Assimilates Other Languages Ross IslandJason V Brock • Amber Clark • Angela Hardy • John Lovett

2:00pm PDT

Arlin Robins Art Demo Jackson Power Station Open House 3 SistersDon Anderson Hubble HawthorneLoretta McKibben

3:00pm PDT

State Of the Art: Digital Imagery JacksonMark J. Ferrari • Michael Brugger • L. Pierce Ludke Astrobiology and the Problem of the Fermi Paradox HawthorneCtein • Bobak Ferdowsi • James Glass • Jordin Kare

5:00pm PDT

Essential Tips for Fitting Yourself SellwoodWolfcat • Theresa Halbert • Sandra King • Flori Lima-Steele • Richard Stephens

6:00pm PDT

Steampunk Mystery Game - Scene 3 WeidlerDanielle Nicole Arthun • Amanda Bednarz The Cabaret of Curiosities Mult/Holl The Leisure Society: Phantom or Just Around the Corner? Ross IslandBob Brown • Rhiannon Louve • Paige Mackmer • Erica Satifka

7:00pm PDT

Intermediate Prop-Making SellwoodJesse Lagers • Geahk Burchill • Mark Chapman • Chin Chin • Sandra King • Kevin Roche

8:00pm PDT

Make it Work Ross IslandElizabeth Adams • Theresa Mather • Liv Rainey-Smith • Professor DR Schreiber

9:00pm PDT

Match Game SF Jeff/AdamsKevin Standlee • Lynn Gold • Lisa Hayes • David D. Levine • Lee Moyer • Kevin Roche • Andy Trembley • Wolfcat

10:00am PDT

Cosplay or Costuming SellwoodAmber Clark • John Lovett • Johanna Mead • Kevin Roche Baron Munchausen HamiltonNat Saenz The Anthropogenic Extinction HawthorneGregory Gadow • Keith Henson • Charlie Stross

11:00am PDT

Prop-Making 101 SellwoodMark Chapman • Chin Chin • Sandra King Mer People Meet and Greet PoolsideOrchid Cavett

12:00pm PDT

Twisted History SellwoodAndrea Letourneau • Chin Chin • Flori Lima-Steele • Johanna Mead Human Speciation in an Interstellar Culture HawthorneHoward Davidson • Hugh S. Gregory • Loretta McKibben • G. David Nordley Replicator Economics Ross IslandElizabeth Adams • Manny Frishberg • Ken Lizzi • John Scalzi

1:00pm PDT

The Ukrainian Bandura: How Stalin's Henchmen Tried to Destroy a Bardic Tradition OregonJoan Gaustad • Roy Torley Sherlock Holmes on Steampunk WeidlerDanielle Nicole Arthun • Flori Lima-Steele • John Lovett • Mac McGowan Space Travel and Religion HawthorneGregory Gadow • Guy Letourneau • Sean Robinson • Jennifer Willis

2:00pm PDT

Costume Exchange SellwoodAndrea Letourneau