We’ll be announcing the artists participating in the Future Imperfect art show over the coming weeks. Take a look at the wonderfully creative people that we’ve announced so far:
Participating artists
Sandy Gaskett
Gas Bomb Girl | Facebook page
Jenna
Evil Genius in Residence
Kathleen Jennings
Tanaudel
Christopher Phillips
Catalogue
The next Swancon Thirty Six | Natcon Fifty movie screening will be Creation, starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly. The film is a based on “Annie’s Box,” a biography penned by Charles Darwin’s great-great-grandson Randal Keynes using personal letters and diaries of the Darwin family.
Windsor Cinema, 98 Stirling Highway, Nedlands
Sunday 18 July 2010 [...]
Future Imperfect Art Show
Natcon Fifty will host ʻFuture Imperfect: Exploring the future from the pastʼ, a semi-professional art show to be held over the Easter weekend in 2011 in Perth, Western Australia.
ʻFuture Imperfect: Exploring the future from the pastʼ will explore the way people have historically imagined our present, bringing the past and the future [...]
We’ve just had confirmation that the screening time will be 6.30pm, Thursday 29 April, at Reading Cinema: Cnr Knutsford Ave & Fulham St, Belmont.
Political commentary! Explosions! Robert Downey, Jr!
Tickets are $14 for Swancon36 members & concession-card holders and $16 for everyone else. All are welcome, so bring your friends.
You can pay online in [...]
The first Swancon Thirty Six movie screening will be:
IRON MAN 2
It will be shown on Thursday 29 April 2010 at Reading Cinema: Cnr Knutsford Ave & Fulham St, Belmont. The cinema is yet to confirm the screening time, but it should be around 6.30/6.45pm. We’ll update this post with the time, and if you leave [...]
ʻFuture Imperfect: Exploring the future from the pastʼ will explore the way people have historically imagined our present. We are seeking aspiring and semi professional Australian artists to examine this theme in a tight body of work. In order to be considered, please submit 2-3 low resolution images of your current work that best represents [...]
Congratulations to our earlybird membership draw winners, drawn one hour after launch, who each won a copy of Jack Dann’s “Dreaming Again” anthology, generously donated by Planet Books.
Susan Ackermann
Paul Andinach
Chris Bobridge
Fern Clarke
Kathryn Linge
Sarah Parker
PRK
John Samuel
Rachel Turner
Even though you missed out on that draw, don’t miss out on our earlybird prices! All memberships purchased before 18 [...]
Get ready to party like it’s Easter 2011
Swancon Thirty Six | Natcon Fifty: it’s quite a mouthful and a lot of history. We’re so glad that we have the opportunity to host the fiftieth Australian Natcon at this year’s Swancon. Perth has hosted nine of them already, and we’re ready to make this one the [...]
“Cross Section” was a publication produced for the 3rd Australian Natcon in 1954, which contained messages from international fans to members of the Natcon.
Donald A. Ford from the Cincinnati Fantasy Group wrote a piece in which he describes, amongst other things, the beginnings of the Indian Lake Convention:
This regional con is for the more hardened [...]
Call for Expressions of Interest
Natcon50 would like to invite expressions of interest for the exhibition ʻFuture Imperfect: Exploring the future from the pastʼ, to be held at Easter 2011 in Perth, Western Australia.
ʻFuture Imperfect: Exploring the future from the pastʼ will explore the way people have historically imagined our present. We are seeking aspiring and [...]