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Friday
, July 1
3 Sisters
3:00pm •
Tesla Coil Demonstrations
4:00pm •
Photo Booth
4:00pm •
19th C. Medical Quackery
5:00pm •
Goofy Patents of the Steampunk Age
Art Show
2:00pm •
Docent Tour: Lee Moyer
3:00pm •
Docent Tour: John Lovett
Autographs
3:00pm •
Autographs
4:00pm •
Autographs
5:00pm •
Autographs
Ballroom Lobby
12:00pm •
Fan Tables
1:00pm •
Westercon On-site Voting
Broadway
1:00pm •
Exploring Intersections between Games and Science Fiction: A Game Lab Panel
2:00pm •
Here There Be Dragaroos!
3:00pm •
Pre-Masquerade Meeting
Event
7:00pm •
Pod Carts
8:00pm •
Brewery Crawls
Exhibit Hall across from the main lobby
2:00pm •
Art Show
2:00pm •
Dealers' Room
Gather
7:00pm •
Literary Beer
8:00pm •
Literary Beer
9:00pm •
Literary Beer
10:00pm •
Literary Beer
11:00pm •
Literary Beer
Gearcon Parlour
4:00pm •
Meet the Steampunks!
8:00pm •
2016 Endeavor Awards Hosted by GEAR Con
Halsey
9:00am •
Registration
Hamilton
5:00pm •
Friday Fright Night
5:30pm •
Friday Fright Night
6:00pm •
Friday Fright Night
6:30pm •
Friday Fright Night
7:00pm •
Friday Fright Night
7:30pm •
Friday Fright Night
8:00pm •
Friday Fright Night
8:30pm •
Friday Fright Night
9:00pm •
Late Night Anime
Hawthorne
12:00pm •
Creating Tactile, 3D Fantasy Environments
2:00pm •
New Horizons
3:00pm •
The Wired Brain
4:00pm •
The Celestia Space Simulation Program
5:00pm •
How Being an Engaged Patient Can Save Your Life
6:00pm •
Anticipatory Anthropology
7:00pm •
Going to Mars: What’s the Point?
8:00pm •
What Happened to Virtual Reality?
Hotel Lobby, near the coffee bar
9:00am •
Info Desk
Jackson
4:00pm •
Jeff Sturgeon Art Demo
5:00pm •
M. Scott Hammond Art Demo
Jeff/Adams
2:00pm •
The Art of Theresa Mather Slideshow
3:00pm •
Nonconformists and Utopians: the Future of Offworld Settlements
5:00pm •
Mad Science
9:00pm •
Match Game SF
Lincoln
3:00pm •
Forgiving History
4:00pm •
Battle Scenes
5:00pm •
Short Fiction Markets
Madison
3:00pm •
Curtis Chen Reading
3:30pm •
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff Reading
4:00pm •
Diana Pharaoh Francis Reading
4:30pm •
Andrew Fuller Reading
5:00pm •
Carol Berg Reading
5:30pm •
David Boop Reading
6:00pm •
Anthony Pryor Reading
6:30pm •
Sue Bolich Reading
7:00pm •
Patrick Swenson Reading
10:00pm •
Sienna Saint-Cyr Reading
10:30pm •
Late Night Horror Reading: Charles Mason
11:00pm •
Late Night Horror Reading: Mike Chinakos
Morrison
3:00pm •
Open Crafts Hour
4:00pm •
Write A Story: Monsters & Heroes
5:00pm •
Storytelling Games
6:00pm •
Costumed Critters Dance Party
Mt Bachelor/Mt Hood
2:00pm •
Academia Duellatoria: Italian Knife Fighting and Knife Defense
3:30pm •
Academia Duellatoria: English Style Sabre
4:30pm •
Academia Duellatoria: Spanish Sabre
6:00pm •
LARP: Dystopia Rising
9:00pm •
LARP: MES: Requiem
Mt St Helens
12:00pm •
Gaming
3:00pm •
Steamcraft
7:00pm •
Turn of the Card RPG Demo
Mult/Holl
6:00pm •
Opening Ceremony
7:00pm •
Around the World In 80 Days
9:00pm •
Vanitys Vaudeville Vixens
Multnomah
3:00pm •
Friday 3pm Kaffeeklatsch
4:00pm •
Friday 4pm Kaffeeklatsch
PNW Ballroom
4:00pm •
Bard Class 101: Presence and Presentation
5:00pm •
Intro to Filk and a Guide to the Westercon Filk Track
6:00pm •
Concert: North of the Black Sea
7:00pm •
Concert: PDX Broadsides
8:00pm •
GoH Concert: Alexander James Adams: Requests and Q&A
9:00pm •
Open Filking: 'Filkbeast' Bardic
Poolside
2:00pm •
Mer People Meet and Greet
4:00pm •
Mermania 101
Room 1555
7:00am •
Hospitality - Breakfast
11:00am •
Hospitality - Lunch
6:00pm •
Hospitality - Dinner
Roosevelt
2:00pm •
Fannish Inquisition
4:00pm •
Choosing a Writing Workshop
5:00pm •
If the Pen is Mightier Than the Sword, What Have You Stabbed Lately?
6:00pm •
How Many Pages Do You Need to Sell Your Book?
Ross Island
1:00pm •
Conventions of the Pacific Northwest
2:00pm •
3D Gun Printing: When You Can Print Your Own, How Do You Regulate It?
3:00pm •
GOH: David D. Levine Reading
4:00pm •
What is a Furry?
5:00pm •
Book Discussion: The Stars My Destination (1956) by Alfred Bester
6:00pm •
Queer Identities After the Apocalypse: Trans Health Care & Queer Reproductive Choices
7:00pm •
Amateur Radio Meetup
8:00pm •
Flirting 101
9:00pm •
Sex Positivity
Sellwood
11:00am •
Makeup Tips and Techniques
12:00pm •
Crafted into a Corner!
1:00pm •
Core Sewing Skills: The Next Set
2:00pm •
Costuming with Unconventional Fabrics
3:00pm •
Basics of Leatherwork
4:00pm •
Pattern Drafting Software
5:00pm •
Embellishments
6:00pm •
Intermediate Costume Construction
7:00pm •
Stump the Master Costumer
8:00pm •
Epic Pose Workshop
9:00pm •
Costume Improv Event
Washington
12:00pm •
Second Skin: Finding the Perfect Face for Your Cosplay
1:00pm •
Coloring Titanium with Electricity
2:00pm •
Bustle Hustle: How to Make a Quick Last-Minute Bustle with Flair and Style
3:00pm •
Star Wars Origami
4:00pm •
Braids, Falls, and Hair Flowers
5:00pm •
Literary Games for Double-Digits
6:00pm •
Make Your Own: Sonic Screwdriver, Shades, Lipstick?
7:00pm •
Yarning for the Doctor: Intro to Knitting, Crocheting, and Hoop Weaving
8:00pm •
Tiny TARDIS Top Hats and Bow Ties!
9:30pm •
Gallifreyan Lessons from the Time Lord Academy
10:00pm •
Doctor Who Fandom Celebration: Tiptoe Through the TARDIS
11:00pm •
Stand Up for Geeks
Weidler
12:00pm •
The Mechanical Shutter
12:30pm •
The Coincidence Rangefinder
1:00pm •
sTEAmpunk!
2:00pm •
Three Days, One Suitcase
3:00pm •
Steampunk for the Casual Fan
4:00pm •
Behind the Scenes: Vintage Tomorrows
5:00pm •
Steampunk Mystery Game - Scene 1
6:00pm •
Steampunk Media Recommendations
Saturday
, July 2
3 Sisters
11:00am •
Nikola Tesla and the Tesla Coil
12:30pm •
High Tech Victorian Firearms
2:00pm •
Power Station Open House
3:00pm •
Tesla Coil Demonstrations
4:00pm •
Photo Booth
4:00pm •
Steampunk Author Readings 1
5:00pm •
Paper Modelling with SketchUp
Art Show
11:00am •
Art Docent Tours: Joni Dashoff
3:00pm •
GoH Artist : Docent Tour
5:00pm •
Art Docent Tours: Ctein
Autographs
10:00am •
Autographs
11:00am •
Autographs
12:00pm •
Autographs
1:00pm •
Autographs
2:00pm •
Autographs
Ballroom Lobby
10:00am •
Fan Tables
11:00am •
Westercon On-site Voting
Broadway
10:00am •
Pre-Masquerade Meeting
2:00pm •
Colossus, Skynet, or the Culture?
Event
7:00pm •
Touring Beer Establishments
Exhibit Hall across from the main lobby
10:00am •
Art Show
10:00am •
Dealers' Room
Gather
7:00pm •
Meet and Greet Your Local Oregon L5 Society
8:00pm •
Literary Beer
9:00pm •
Literary Beer
11:00pm •
Literary Beer
Gearcon Parlour
12:00pm •
GEAR Con Tea Parlour
Halsey
9:00am •
Registration
Hamilton
10:00am •
Film Festival: New Worlds
10:30am •
Film Festival: New Worlds
11:00am •
Film Festival: New Worlds
11:30am •
Film Festival: New Worlds
12:00pm •
Fan Films, oh My!
12:30pm •
Fan Films, oh My!
1:00pm •
Fan Films, oh My!
2:00pm •
Gravestone Entertainment Presents
3:00pm •
Documentaries
4:00pm •
Features
6:00pm •
Animation from Around the World
6:30pm •
Animation from Around the World
7:00pm •
Animation from Around the World
8:00pm •
Junk Drawer: This and That
9:00pm •
Late Night Anime Saturday
Hawthorne
10:00am •
International Space Flight – A New Cold War
11:00am •
From Prehistory to Shamanism: Theology in Search of Human Uniqueness
12:00pm •
Laser Weapons: Reality or Myth?
1:00pm •
The Search for Water on Mars
2:00pm •
Disasters, Crises, and Resultant Industrial Progress
3:00pm •
Ecology in Action
4:00pm •
Does an Advanced Civilization Really Need Sex?
5:00pm •
Xenoarchaeology in SF
6:00pm •
The Changing Face of the Computer Interface
8:00pm •
How Much Math Is Really Necessary?
Holladay
3:00pm •
Masquerade Practice
Hotel Lobby, near the coffee bar
9:00am •
Info Desk
Jackson
10:00am •
Faina Lorah Art Demo
11:00am •
Building Art Cars
12:00pm •
Cover and Interior Illustration Art in the Age of Digital Publishing
1:00pm •
Recent Scientific Breakthroughs
2:00pm •
Violence in Fantasy
3:00pm •
Paranormal Romance
4:00pm •
Book Discussion: Fail-Safe (1962) by Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler
5:00pm •
Arlin Robins Art Demo
6:00pm •
A Tour of Hells and Underworlds
Jeff/Adams
12:00pm •
Peelers, Coppers, and Lawdogs: Justice in Victoria
1:00pm •
GoH Artist: Amusements and Diversions in the Age of Steam
2:00pm •
Victorian Working Girls: History of Victorian Prostitution
3:00pm •
Star Trek Jeopardy
5:00pm •
Victoria's Other Secret
6:30pm •
Vintage Tomorrows
Lincoln
10:00am •
F*** Your Knight and the Horse He Rode in on: Fantasy Series Not Based on Medieval European Culture
11:00am •
Open Read and Critique
12:00pm •
Contract Pitfalls to Avoid
3:00pm •
Plotting vs. Pantsing
4:00pm •
Physical Intuition and the Suspension of Disbelief
5:00pm •
Super-Powered Television
8:00pm •
Romance in Young Adult Novels
Madison
10:00am •
A.M. Brosius Reading
10:30am •
Langley Hyde Reading
11:00am •
James Glass Reading
11:30am •
Rhiannon Held Reading
12:00pm •
Stoney Compton Reading
12:30pm •
Tina Connolly Reading
1:00pm •
Keffy R. M. Kehrli Reading
1:30pm •
Sonia Lyris Reading
2:00pm •
Ctein Reading
2:30pm •
Daniel H. Wilson Reading
3:00pm •
Raven Bond
3:30pm •
Gerald D. Nordley Reading
4:00pm •
Andrew P Mayer Reading
4:30pm •
Shannon Page Reading
5:00pm •
Cat Rambo Reading
5:30pm •
Lizzy Shannon Reading
6:00pm •
William Noland & Jason Brock Reading
6:30pm •
Erica Satifka Reading
7:00pm •
Phyllis Irene Radford Reading
10:30pm •
Late Night Horror Reading: John Shirleys
11:00pm •
Late Night Horror Reading: Crystal Connor
Morrison
9:30am •
Box Fort Play Time
10:30am •
Story Time: Aliens and Spaceships
11:00am •
Mad Science: Curious Concoctions
12:00pm •
Construction Toy Play Time
1:00pm •
Paper Armor
3:00pm •
Fun with Pleather!
4:00pm •
Dexterity Games Kids Tournament
5:30pm •
WesterKids Costume Parade
6:00pm •
Monsters Pajama Party: Stories and Crafts
7:00pm •
Family Game Time
Mt Bachelor/Mt Hood
12:00am •
LARP: Graveyard - Friday
10:00am •
Academia Duellatoria: French Victorian Physical Culture
11:00am •
Academia Duellatoria: English Bare Knuckle Pugilism
12:00pm •
Academia Duellatoria: Victorian Era Grappling for Self-Defense
1:00pm •
Academia Duellatoria: Victorian Cane Self-Defense Systems
2:00pm •
Academia Duellatoria: Victorian Self-Defense Against the Knife
3:00pm •
Academia Duellatoria: Wrist and Joint Locks as Self-Defense
4:00pm •
Academia Duellatoria: Victorian Self-Defense Swords for Scribes
6:00pm •
LARP: Dying Light
10:00pm •
LARP: Dystopia Rising
Mt St Helens
8:00am •
Gaming
Mult/Holl
1:00pm •
The Scientist vs The Authors: Intellectual Brawl of the Century
7:00pm •
Masquerade
Multnomah
10:00am •
Saturday 10am Kaffeeklatsch
11:00am •
Saturday 11am Kaffeeklatsch
12:00pm •
Saturday Noon Kaffeeklatsch
Outside the Ballroom Lobby entrance
11:00am •
Visiting Food Carts
PNW Ballroom
11:00am •
Parody Song Writing Techniques
12:00pm •
Two Shots: Group One
1:00pm •
Concert: Riona
3:00pm •
Concert: Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff
4:00pm •
Concert: Andrew Ross
5:00pm •
Concert: Jordin Kare
6:00pm •
Concert: Steve Savitsky
7:00pm •
Concert: Cecilia Eng
8:00pm •
Theme Circle: Space Songs
9:00pm •
Open Filking: Chaos
Poolside
11:00am •
Mer People Meet and Greet
Room 1555
7:00am •
Hospitality - Breakfast
11:00am •
Hospitality - Lunch
6:00pm •
Hospitality - Dinner
Roosevelt
10:00am •
How Do You Change History?
11:00am •
Long Series - Why We Love Them, Why We Hate Them
12:00pm •
More Than Just Black and White: Humanizing Heroes and Villians
1:00pm •
World Building: Science Fiction vs Fantasy
2:00pm •
Conscious and Unconscious Elements of the Creative Process
3:00pm •
How Do You Get Published Today?
4:00pm •
How to Revise
5:00pm •
Creativity and Mental Health
Ross Island
10:00am •
Empathetic Diversity Chat
11:00am •
Westercon Business Meeting
12:00pm •
GoH : John Scalzi Reading
1:00pm •
Grimm Discussion
2:00pm •
Warlocks 101
3:00pm •
LGBT in Fandom
4:00pm •
Drones - Who Decides Who and When They Kill?
5:00pm •
SF and Slavery
6:00pm •
Social Justice Warrior
7:00pm •
Obligatory Paranoia Panel
8:00pm •
Flirting 102
9:00pm •
Interstellar Art Trade
Sellwood
11:00am •
The Patent Office as a Historical Research Tool
12:00pm •
Costuming 101
1:00pm •
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Costuming in Hollywood
2:00pm •
Indie Publishing 101
3:00pm •
Crowdfunding for Artists
4:00pm •
The Past Year in the Rest of the World in Space
6:00pm •
The Wild and Wonderful Weird West
6:00pm •
Masquerade Photography
9:00pm •
Cosplayers
Washington
10:00am •
The Art of Dress
11:00am •
Hunger Games: Make Your Own District Pin!
11:30am •
Ears for Wigs
12:30pm •
Costume in Harness: A Historical Approach to Costume Armor
1:30pm •
I May Be Bad, but I Am Perfectly Good at It
3:00pm •
Why the Goggles? Steampunk Technology and Life During the Industrial Revolution
4:00pm •
Intro to Fandom Quilting
5:30pm •
Heroes in the Making
7:00pm •
Steampunk Scrapheap Challenge!
10:00pm •
Welcome to Fanfic
11:00pm •
Bowie Tribute, From Jareth to Ziggy
Weidler
11:00am •
All Punked Out
12:00pm •
Beyond Victoriana - A Multicultural Perspective on Steampunk
1:00pm •
Steampunk Mystery Game - Scene 2
2:00pm •
Waisted Effort
3:00pm •
Satire to Striptease: The History of Burlesque in the Victorian Era
4:00pm •
Steampunk Horror
5:00pm •
Cross-Genre Steampunk
6:00pm •
Roll Film
7:00pm •
Spiritualism & the Victorian Occult
Sunday
, July 3
3 Sisters
11:00am •
Vacuum Tubes and the Vacuum Tube Tesla Coil
12:00pm •
Lasers to Rayguns - Fictional Weapons in Pop Culture
1:00pm •
Building Real Steampunk Objects
2:00pm •
Power Station Open House
3:00pm •
Tesla Coil Demonstrations
4:00pm •
Steampunk Author Readings 2
5:00pm •
Victorian Underwear
6:00pm •
The Conjuring Connection: The History of Science's Influence on Magic
Art Show
11:00am •
Docent Tour: Mark Ferrari
1:00pm •
Kinetic Sculpture Races
3:00pm •
Docent Tour: M Scott Hammond
4:00pm •
Docent Tour: Mark Roland
Autographs
10:00am •
Autographs
11:00am •
Autographs
12:00pm •
Guest of Honor Autograph: Charlie Stross
1:00pm •
Guest of Honor Autograph: John Scalzi
2:00pm •
Guest of Honor Autograph: David Levine
3:00pm •
Autographs
Ballroom Lobby
10:00am •
Fan Tables
Broadway
10:00am •
Baen Traveling Roadshow
11:00am •
Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading
12:00pm •
Starting the Engine of Your Author Platform
1:00pm •
Parties at Cons
2:00pm •
Evolution of fandom
3:00pm •
Books Into Audiobooks
Event
8:00pm •
Touring Beer Establishments
Exhibit Hall across from the main lobby
11:00am •
Art Show
11:00am •
Dealers' Room
Gather
8:00pm •
Literary Beer
9:00pm •
Literary Beer
10:00pm •
Literary Beer
11:00pm •
Literary Beer
Gearcon Parlour
12:00pm •
GEAR Con Tea Parlour
Halsey
9:00am •
Registration
Hamilton
10:00am •
Documentaries
12:00pm •
World of Steampunk
12:30pm •
World of Steampunk
1:00pm •
World of Steampunk
2:00pm •
World of Steampunk
3:00pm •
Fan Films
6:00pm •
SF&F Films
9:00pm •
Late Night Anime Sunday
Hawthorne
10:00am •
Mars – The Dirt on Dirt
11:00am •
Future Laws
12:00pm •
The Amish Approach to Changing Technology: The Error of Presumed Neutrality of Technology
1:00pm •
Is Gibson Getting Out of Hand?
2:00pm •
Hubble
3:00pm •
Astrobiology and the Problem of the Fermi Paradox
4:00pm •
Power Satellites: Replacing Fossil Fuels with Solar Energy from Space
5:00pm •
Terminator or Wall-E: What is the Future of AI?
Hotel Lobby, near the coffee bar
9:00am •
Info Desk
Jackson
11:00am •
Cosmic Horror in Mainstream Media
12:00pm •
From Parts to a Whole: Turning a Bunch of Essays into a Unified Book
1:00pm •
One Man's Villian Is Another Man's Hero
2:00pm •
Arlin Robins Art Demo
3:00pm •
State Of the Art: Digital Imagery
4:00pm •
GoH : Charles Stross Reading
Jeff/Adams
2:30pm •
Historical Conjuring Show
4:00pm •
Regency Dance
9:00pm •
Match Game SF
Lincoln
10:00am •
Fantasy In the City
11:00am •
Open Read and Critique
12:00pm •
Suborbital Tourism
1:00pm •
Writing Workshops and Critique Groups: What to Look For
2:00pm •
Zombies, Vampires, and Capitalism
3:00pm •
Book Discussion: Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
8:00pm •
3 Unwise Men Livecast
Madison
10:00am •
Emily French Reading
10:30am •
Sara Stamey Reading
11:00am •
Frog Jones Reading
11:30am •
Bob Brown Reading
12:00pm •
Wendy Wagner Reading
12:30pm •
Devon Monk Reading
1:00pm •
Nina Kiriki Hoffman Reading
1:30pm •
Johanna Mead Reading
4:00pm •
Lindsay Schopfer Reading
Morrison
9:30am •
Box Maze Play Time
10:30am •
Story Time: Dragons! Castles! Princesses!
11:00am •
Kinderfilk Concert
12:00pm •
How To Draw, By Not An Artist
1:00pm •
Mermaids
2:00pm •
Zombie Conga and More
3:00pm •
Design and Play Your Own Game
4:00pm •
Strategy Games Kids Tournament
5:30pm •
Art and Other Awards
6:00pm •
Retro Robots Dance
Mt Bachelor/Mt Hood
1:00am •
LARP: Dystopia Rising
10:00am •
Academia Duellatoria: Women's Self-Defense Seminar
12:30pm •
Academia Duellatoria: Presentation on Film and Rapier
1:00pm •
Academia Duellatoria: The Rapier System of Gerard Thibault
2:30pm •
Academia Duellatoria: The Rapier System of Vincent Saviolo
4:00pm •
Swords for Scribes: Rapier Fighting
6:00pm •
LARP: MES: Lost/Requiem
9:00pm •
LARP: MES: Accord
Mt St Helens
8:00am •
Gaming
Mult/Holl
1:00pm •
Professional Steampunks Dogpile
3:00pm •
GoH Concert: Alexander James Adams: Main Concert
6:00pm •
The Cabaret of Curiosities
Multnomah
10:00am •
Sunday 10am Kaffeeklatsch
11:00am •
Sunday 11am Kaffeeklatsch
Outside the Ballroom Lobby entrance
11:00am •
Visiting Food Carts
PNW Ballroom
12:00pm •
Bard Class 102: Voice
1:00pm •
Open Jam: All Instruments Welcome
4:30pm •
Band Scramble Check-in
5:00pm •
Band Scramble
6:00pm •
Concert: Frank Hayes
7:00pm •
Concert: Lynn Gold
9:00pm •
Open Filking: Poker Chip Bardic
Poolside
11:00am •
Mer People Meet and Greet
12:00pm •
Mermania 102
3:00pm •
Life of a Mermaid
Room 1555
7:00am •
Hospitality - Breakfast
11:00am •
Hospitality - Lunch
6:00pm •
Hospitality - Dinner
Roosevelt
10:00am •
Formidable Women
11:00am •
Realistic Dialogue
12:00pm •
Successfully Writing About Horrible Things
1:00pm •
Young Adult Fantasy We Read
2:00pm •
Worldbuilding
3:00pm •
Space Battles - Where Do They Happen?
4:00pm •
Challenges and Joys of Collaboration
5:00pm •
Sex Scenes in Writing
Ross Island
11:00am •
SF as a Stealth Delivery Platform
12:00pm •
Has Star Trek Left Us With an Enduring Mythology?
1:00pm •
Neologism and Linguicide: How the Dominant Language Mutates and Assimilates Other Languages
2:00pm •
Radio Intelligence During the Prohibition
3:00pm •
Craft of Game Design
4:00pm •
Toxic Masculinity as Villain
5:00pm •
Hayao Miyazaki Discussion
6:00pm •
The Leisure Society: Phantom or Just Around the Corner?
7:00pm •
Science Fiction Movies
8:00pm •
Make it Work
9:00pm •
Furry Terminology
Sellwood
10:00am •
Goggles and Gears and Brown, Oh My
11:00am •
I Want to Make a Costume!
12:00pm •
Bead Embroidery Workshop
2:00pm •
Fiber Arts
3:00pm •
Armor Making
4:00pm •
Up Close and Personal
5:00pm •
Essential Tips for Fitting Yourself
6:00pm •
Unconventional Costuming Tools
7:00pm •
Intermediate Prop-Making
8:00pm •
Costuming for the Full Figure
9:00pm •
Costuming from Your Kitchen
Washington
10:00am •
I Am Not Just a Parent: Bringing One's Kids to Con and Cosplaying!
11:00am •
Cosplay for People of All Abilities
12:00pm •
Black Cinderella and the New Jim Crow: Media Representation in Post-Racial America
1:00pm •
Surviving Cons with Disabilities
2:00pm •
Gender Roles in Steampunk Fiction and Victorian Moral Climates
3:00pm •
Anime Theme Songs, From 'Tank!' to 'Take My Revolution!'
4:00pm •
Harry Potter Fandom Celebration: Accio Sequels and Prequels!
5:00pm •
The End is Now: Images of the World After in Popular Media
6:00pm •
Cosplay Show & Tell
7:00pm •
Crossplay, Gender, and You
8:00pm •
Quiz Show: Can You Survive a Journey Through Time?
10:00pm •
Putting the Oomph into Your Smut: a Fanfic Writing Panel
Weidler
12:00pm •
Game Design With Steampunk
2:00pm •
Steampunk Costuming
3:00pm •
Wonder-Cabinets Then & Now
4:00pm •
Doctor Who for Steampunks
4:30pm •
Steampunk for Whovians
5:00pm •
Ultimate Steampunk: Could the Victorians Have Built a Flying Carriage?
6:00pm •
Steampunk Mystery Game - Scene 3
Monday
, July 4
3 Sisters
11:00am •
Technology of the Tesla Coil
1:00pm •
Tesla Coil Demonstrations
Art Show
11:00am •
Art Docent Tours
Autographs
10:00am •
Autographs
11:00am •
Autographs
12:00pm •
Autographs
Ballroom Lobby
10:00am •
Fan Tables
Broadway
10:00am •
Copyright: What You Need to Know
11:00am •
SFWA Business Meeting
1:00pm •
How the Hugo Awards Work
2:00pm •
Whither conventions?
Exhibit Hall across from the main lobby
9:00am •
Art Show
10:00am •
Dealers' Room
Halsey
9:00am •
Registration
Hamilton
10:00am •
Baron Munchausen
12:00pm •
Beyond the Mask
Hawthorne
10:00am •
The Anthropogenic Extinction
11:00am •
Australian Aboriginals as First Astronomers
12:00pm •
Human Speciation in an Interstellar Culture
1:00pm •
Space Travel and Religion
Hotel Lobby, near the coffee bar
9:00am •
Info Desk
Jeff/Adams
11:00am •
GoH: Science Tourism Experiences
7:00pm •
GoH Science : Juno Viewing Party
Lincoln
10:00am •
Scifaiku: Haiku
11:00am •
Adapting for Comics
12:00pm •
How to Get and Keep an Agent
Madison
10:00am •
Loretta McKibben Reading
12:00pm •
Peter Wacks Reading
Morrison
10:00am •
Story and Song Time with the Mer-People
11:00am •
Open Crafts/Construction Toy Play Time
12:00pm •
Extreme Games
1:00pm •
T-Shirt Costumes
2:00pm •
Post-Apocalyptic Crafts
Mt Bachelor/Mt Hood
12:00am •
LARP: Graveyard - Sunday
10:00am •
Academia Duellatoria: German Pole Axe
11:00am •
Academia Duellatoria: Italian Two-Handed Sword
12:00pm •
Academia Duellatoria: Introduction to the Bolognese Sword and Buckler System
1:00pm •
Academia Duellatoria: German Longsword
2:00pm •
Academia Duellatoria: Swords for Scribes: Arms vs. Armor Swords
4:00pm •
Academia Duellatoria: Swords for Scribes: Rapier Fighting
Mt St Helens
8:00am •
Gaming
Mult/Holl
12:00pm •
Art Auction
3:00pm •
Closing Ceremonies
Oregon
12:00pm •
Two Shots: Group Two
1:00pm •
The Ukrainian Bandura: How Stalin's Henchmen Tried to Destroy a Bardic Tradition
2:00pm •
Theme Circle: The Odd Corners of Your Songbook
8:00pm •
Open Filking: Dead Dog
PNW Ballroom
12:00am •
Open Filking: Chaos
Poolside
11:00am •
Mer People Meet and Greet
12:00pm •
Mermania 103
Room 1555
7:00am •
Hospitality - Breakfast
11:00am •
Hospitality - Lunch
Roosevelt
10:00am •
Indie and Hybrid Authors
11:00am •
Publishing Coops: The BookView Cafe
12:00pm •
Is Big Publishing Necessary?
1:00pm •
Someone Else's Universe
Ross Island
11:00am •
Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?
12:00pm •
Replicator Economics
1:00pm •
Geeks and Feminism
2:00pm •
Onion and Orchids
Sellwood
10:00am •
Cosplay or Costuming
11:00am •
Prop-Making 101
12:00pm •
Twisted History
1:00pm •
How to Make Fairy Wings
2:00pm •
Costume Exchange
Washington
10:00am •
Broadsword Swinging and Etiquette
11:00am •
NIWA (Northwest Independent Writers Association) Meet & Greet
12:00pm •
The 52 Project: Writing a Short Story Every Week for a Year (and Publishing the Best!)
1:00pm •
MemeTown Express
2:00pm •
Local Food Sustainability & Community-Building
3:00pm •
Kitten Kaboodle: Portrayals of Cats and Their People in Popular Culture
Weidler
11:00am •
Gear Profiles for Art and Science
1:00pm •
Sherlock Holmes on Steampunk
3:00pm •
Steampunk In Portland
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