My Lunacon program online schedule-by-participant still calls the program a working draft, but since the actual schedule doesn't seem to have changed since last week, I'm going to go ahead and post. I have a light schedule this year, so I hope to have a lot of time to just hang out and chat with people. Make my day by telling be you actually read Rixo! My three pleasingly diverse items:
Body Language and Costume Presentation
Friday, 7:00-8:00pm
Lisa Ashton, Byron P. Connell, Susan de Guardiola, Juanita Nesbitt, David Weingart[M]
Body language can affect costuming; not just how a costume fits and falls, but the entire presentation. Learn to adjust your body language so that your costume in the center of attention, not you. A must for anyone who intends to participate in the Masquerade!
Naturally, I'll come at this one from the perspective of a historical dancer/costumer/reenactor and try to get beyond "princesses don't schlep" to how to stand and move so you look like you wear this sort of thing every day.
Worst. Secret. Organization. Ever.
Saturday, 4:00-5:00pm
Susan de Guardiola, Toni Lay, Misty Pendragon, Meredith Schwartz
In Doctor Who's "The Christmas Invasion," the Prime Minister admits she isn't supposed to know about Torchwood. In Torchwood, even their car has their name on it. Are they too busy shagging folks to remember to be covert, or have they just taken the term "undercover" waaaay too literally? A discussion about the dynamics of the Torchwood team and how they approach aliens, civilian life, and, most importantly, sexuality.
The last sentence of the description pretty much guarantees generic fan squee rather than any sort of sensible discussion. But that's fun too.
Vampires: Soooo Five Minutes Ago
Saturday, 5:00-6:00pm
Susan de Guardiola, Keith DeCandido, Laura Anne Gilman, Michael Grapin, KT Pinto[M]
Are vampires passe? Have Buffy and Angel ruined the genre forever? Have vampires gone from scary things of nightmares to fluffy heroes and brooding lovers? How can we invigorate these ones[sic] terrifying creatures--or do we even want to?
Didn't I just do this panel at Arisia? Yeah, mostly, but we'll have a slight change of personnel. Same moderator, though, and I hope she has some new questions ready. Interestingly, I'm not the only Token Non-Author here: I don't know Michael Grapin (at least not by name), but his bio proclaims him a photographer. With this group I'm hoping I won't have to be the lonely voice reminding people that there are vampires in literature along with on TV and (if I'm lucky) that there were vampires on TV and in movies before Joss Whedon came along.
So what's the secret to getting on panels? I think that could be a fun thing to do at cons... do you just volunteer?
Posted by: Max | March 24, 2008 at 02:23 PM
Max:
Depends on the convention. Having some sort of qualifications helps, and having someone whom they already know recommend you helps.
If you wanted to do panels at one of the SF cons I go to, I could think of some ways to go about it and give you some assistance. For gaming cons, I haven't the foggiest idea what the usual way of doing things is, but I suspect it's similar.
Posted by: Susan de Guardiola | March 24, 2008 at 03:10 PM