Eastercon Schedual
Apr. 18th, 2009 05:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cdaveThis isn't going to be a con-report. Just noting down what was happening, which comes to several hundred words in itself. I'm not sure if I'll do a full report on LJ or save it for a fanzine. Or given the length a full report would be, do a highlights bit for a fanzine?
Key:
* Item I was on.
x Item I was helping with / Gophering
– Item I went to.
. Not programme item.
Friday
* 15:30 - 16:00 Making the most of your Eastercon.
– 16:30 - 16:45 Opening Ceremony
– 17:00 - 17:30 Gopher Briefing
* 19:00 - 20:00 Make your own Music
* 20:00 - 21:00 Dr. Horrible Internet Phenomena
. Dinner
X 22:00 - 23:00 Burns Night
– 23:00 - 02:00 Disco
Saturday.
* 10:00 - 11:00 Fake a moon landing.
. Main Bar, with Moon landing Cap Com.
– 12:30 - 13:45 Eoin Colfer talks about the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
. Lunch
– 14:00 - 15:15 Fanzines 101
– 15:30 - 16:45 The Battle of Kettering
* 17:00 - 18:00 The great egg race.
* 19:00 - 20:00 Zip, Boing, Bounce.
X 20:00 - 21:00 Gopher art show door, then distribute newsletters.
– 21:00 - 22:00 Symphonic Fantasy
(This was the second half. The Pastoral Symphony.)
– 22:00 - 23:00 Conrunning Disaster stories.
– 23:00 - 01:00 Werewolf
Bar.
Definitely not a drunken newsletter.
Sunday.
10:00 - 11:00 Hanging about in ops doing some final tidying up on the complete Ansible long list (which wasn't needed in the end) for:
* 11:00 - 12:00 Best Con Ever
X 12:30 - 13:00 Pirates Vrs Jedis
Which I remembered I wasn't running, so shamelessly ran away to the last half of:
- 13:00 - 13:30 Kitchen Science.
. Lunch
– 15:30 - 15:45 Steampunk Tea Party
Which I abandoned to catch most of:
– 15:45 - 16:45 BSFA lecture
but I turned up too late to hear about the hedgehog.
X 17:00 - 17:30 Blowing things up set up.
– 17:40 - 18:00 Blow things up.
X 19:00 - 20:00 Play set up, and distribute newsletters.
. Dinner
X 20:30 - 22:00 Play: "Insidious"
* 22:00 - 23:00 Baron Munchausen - An Extraordinary In Memoriam.
X 23:00 - 24:00 Rock Band: Battle of the Bands
The Towels. We rocked so hard we broke the game!
Hang out in Newsletter control.
Upper Bar. Much Astral pole. Think this was night I didn't leave until gone 4am.
Monday.
* 10:00 - 11:00 Paper airplane session.
X 11:45 - 12:30 Sell raffle tickets
– 12:30 - 13:45 Punch and Judy Show & Talk.
. Lunch
* 14:00 - 15:00 Dirty Water
– 15:30 - 16:45 Closing Ceremony
. Main Bar.
. Dinner
18:30 Leave
Massive massive thanks to all those who helped make this such a great weekend. The committee, staff, ops crew, gophers, and programme participants. I'd particularly like to thank![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hawkida, Elanor, and Tamar, all three of whom I saw were rarely off duty and missed most of the programming, instead making sure that it all happened for us.
Key:
* Item I was on.
x Item I was helping with / Gophering
– Item I went to.
. Not programme item.
Friday
* 15:30 - 16:00 Making the most of your Eastercon.
– 16:30 - 16:45 Opening Ceremony
– 17:00 - 17:30 Gopher Briefing
* 19:00 - 20:00 Make your own Music
* 20:00 - 21:00 Dr. Horrible Internet Phenomena
. Dinner
X 22:00 - 23:00 Burns Night
– 23:00 - 02:00 Disco
Saturday.
* 10:00 - 11:00 Fake a moon landing.
. Main Bar, with Moon landing Cap Com.
– 12:30 - 13:45 Eoin Colfer talks about the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
. Lunch
– 14:00 - 15:15 Fanzines 101
– 15:30 - 16:45 The Battle of Kettering
* 17:00 - 18:00 The great egg race.
* 19:00 - 20:00 Zip, Boing, Bounce.
X 20:00 - 21:00 Gopher art show door, then distribute newsletters.
– 21:00 - 22:00 Symphonic Fantasy
(This was the second half. The Pastoral Symphony.)
– 22:00 - 23:00 Conrunning Disaster stories.
– 23:00 - 01:00 Werewolf
Bar.
Definitely not a drunken newsletter.
Sunday.
10:00 - 11:00 Hanging about in ops doing some final tidying up on the complete Ansible long list (which wasn't needed in the end) for:
* 11:00 - 12:00 Best Con Ever
X 12:30 - 13:00 Pirates Vrs Jedis
Which I remembered I wasn't running, so shamelessly ran away to the last half of:
- 13:00 - 13:30 Kitchen Science.
. Lunch
– 15:30 - 15:45 Steampunk Tea Party
Which I abandoned to catch most of:
– 15:45 - 16:45 BSFA lecture
but I turned up too late to hear about the hedgehog.
X 17:00 - 17:30 Blowing things up set up.
– 17:40 - 18:00 Blow things up.
X 19:00 - 20:00 Play set up, and distribute newsletters.
. Dinner
X 20:30 - 22:00 Play: "Insidious"
* 22:00 - 23:00 Baron Munchausen - An Extraordinary In Memoriam.
X 23:00 - 24:00 Rock Band: Battle of the Bands
The Towels. We rocked so hard we broke the game!
Hang out in Newsletter control.
Upper Bar. Much Astral pole. Think this was night I didn't leave until gone 4am.
Monday.
* 10:00 - 11:00 Paper airplane session.
X 11:45 - 12:30 Sell raffle tickets
– 12:30 - 13:45 Punch and Judy Show & Talk.
. Lunch
* 14:00 - 15:00 Dirty Water
– 15:30 - 16:45 Closing Ceremony
. Main Bar.
. Dinner
18:30 Leave
Massive massive thanks to all those who helped make this such a great weekend. The committee, staff, ops crew, gophers, and programme participants. I'd particularly like to thank
hawkida, Elanor, and Tamar, all three of whom I saw were rarely off duty and missed most of the programming, instead making sure that it all happened for us.
