Please note that this list is alphabetical by FIRST name.

A Chronological Program Listing is also available.

Fri 1:00 pm, Salon C

Gaming conventions: why attend?

Fri 1:00 pm, Salon C

Gaming conventions: why attend?

Sat 11:00 am, Salon F (T3)

A Paintbrush in the Door: the Artist/Editor Relationship

Sat 12:00 pm, Autograph table

Autographs 12:00 Alan M. Clark - Elton T. Elliot

Sat 2:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 2:00 Alan M. Clark / 2:30 Ken Scholes

Sat 3:00 pm, Art Show

Tapping the Creative Well: Strange & Unexpected Inspirations

Sat 6:00 pm, Art Show

The Business of Art

Fri 2:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Supernatural TV: Why the new fad?

Fri 3:00 pm, Columbia Room

Bad SF movies you watch anyway. Come pick up a new recommendation or two, bring some of your own.

Fri 5:00 pm, Eugene

Best and worst of the summer films.

Fri 5:00 pm, Salon D

The web in 2015 - a look ahead

Fri 6:00 pm, Eugene

The web in 2015 - a look ahead

Sat 11:00 am, Salon B

How to work on a sci-fi con and remain sane

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon F (T1)

Magic realism in film

Sat 4:00 pm, Salon B

The rating system for games: Is the violence too much for kids to handle?

Sun 10:00 am, Portland

"We`ve already lost Europe": Can liberal democracy resist Islam?

Sun 11:00 am, Portland

Protecting the Internet from censorship

Fri 4:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Building Near Historic Worlds

Fri 5:00 pm, Portland

What makes a strong character in SF?

Fri 7:00 pm, Salon D

The Bush administration and the demise of public education

Sat 10:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Balancing Writing with Family/Real Life -- Deadlines vs. diapers

Sat 11:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Writing fiction in collaboration

Sat 2:00 pm, Eugene

What do editors look for in a manuscript?

Sat 4:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Not my job: Does SF predict the future?

Sun 11:00 am, Salon B

Critiquing Writing - Why and How

Sun 1:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 1:00 Amy Sterling Casil

Fri 2:00 pm, Columbia Room

Introduction to filk

Fri 4:00 pm, Eugene

Media songs

Sat 5:00 pm, Eugene

Kinderfilk (mini-concert or concert set for children)

Sun 1:00 pm, Eugene

Harmony Workshop

Fri 9:00 pm, Portland

Tales from the Columbia River Hotel years

Sat 11:00 am, Portland

Alternate History: What events were highly unlikely

Sat 8:00 pm, Salon C

Story Time with Uncle Andy

Sun 10:00 am, Portland

"We`ve already lost Europe": Can liberal democracy resist Islam?

Sun 12:00 pm, Portland

Alternate History: What events really would have made a difference?

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon A

Crying and Whining

Fri 4:00 pm, Art Show

Anina Bennett: Artist G.O.H.Presentation

Fri 8:00 pm, Salon F

Opening Ceremonies

Sat 11:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Writing fiction in collaboration

Sat 2:00 pm, Salon A

Making Comics

Sat 6:00 pm, Columbia Room

Sex Toys of the Future: Will robotics and biotech make dating obsolete?

Sun 1:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

Real World Utopias - Possible/Desirable?

Fri 3:00 pm, Columbia Room

Bad SF movies you watch anyway. Come pick up a new recommendation or two, bring some of your own.

Fri 5:00 pm, Eugene

Best and worst of the summer films.

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon B

Game Masters: the Good, the Bad, + the Ugly

Sat 3:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Bashing your way through: accurate portrayal of fights and battle scenes

Sat 4:00 pm, Columbia Room

Serenity: Firefly Lives Again on the Big Screen

Sat 8:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Whose Line Is It, Anyway?

Sat 9:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Whose Line is it anyway? Part 2

Sun 12:00 pm, Salon B

How to write for the RPG industry

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon B

Geek Like Me: Gamer Culture, Tradition and Recent Events

Fri 7:00 pm, Salon D

The Bush administration and the demise of public education

Sat 10:00 am, Eugene

Inventing Languages: Alien Linguistics

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon D

Wearable Art

Sat 12:00 pm, Columbia Room

Jam in the key of R

Sat 5:00 pm, Eugene

Kinderfilk (mini-concert or concert set for children)

Sat 7:00 pm, Columbia Room

Filk Concerts: Steve Dixon (7:00) / Callie Hills (7:30)

Sun 12:00 pm, Eugene

Filk classics

Sun 1:00 pm, Eugene

Harmony Workshop

Fri 4:00 pm, Salon D

Pros At Cons: Honored Guests or Hired Entertainers?

Sat 12:00 pm, Eugene

Running Conventions: Effective Internet Communications

Sat 4:00 pm, Portland

Fake lives and real crime: The dangers of cyberspace

Sun 11:00 am, Salon A

Re-writing our Past: Alternate histories

Sun 3:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Are ethics different in cyberspace? - Should they be?

Fri 3:00 pm, Columbia Room

Bad SF movies you watch anyway. Come pick up a new recommendation or two, bring some of your own.

Fri 5:00 pm, Salon C

Elvish Pick-Up Lines

Sat 10:00 am, Eugene

Inventing Languages: Alien Linguistics

Sun 11:00 am, Salon D

Costuming as an Addiction/Lifestyle -Confessions of costumers and those who love them.

Sun 12:00 pm, Art Show

Art Auction

Sun 1:00 pm, Art Show

Art Auction

Fri 7:00 pm, Salon C

Props from Junk

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon B

99 cent costume workshop and competition

Sat 4:00 pm, Salon A

Scary Elements in Costume Design -Why do Darth, Xenopmorphs and Cenobites scare you.

Sun 12:00 pm, Salon F (T1)

Texture in costume

Fri 4:00 pm, Salon C

Tapping the creative process

Fri 8:00 pm, Salon F

Opening Ceremonies

Sat 1:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

GOH Presentation: Herbert/Anderson - DUNE

Sat 4:00 pm, Autograph table

Autographs 4:00 Brian Herbert - K.J. Anderson

Sat 5:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 5:00 Brian Herbert / 5:30 Rebecca Moesta

Sat 7:00 pm, Salon A

Are Writers, Artists, etc., really crazier than"normal" people?

Fri 6:00 pm, Salon D

Making an original costume: What you need to get started

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon D

Costuming 101: Pattern bashing for beginners

Sun 11:00 am, Salon D

Costuming as an Addiction/Lifestyle -Confessions of costumers and those who love them.

Fri 4:00 pm, Salon C

Tapping the creative process

Fri 8:00 pm, Salon C

KAFKA’S UNCLE AND OTHER STRANGE TALES - Book Launch

Sat 2:00 pm, Salon F (T1)

Exploring modern magical realism

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

Magical realism - contempory, fantasy, or fabulist fiction?

Fri 12:00 pm, Salon D

Harry Potter: How will it end?

Fri 7:00 pm, Columbia Room

Filk Concerts: Rhianon Louve (7:00 pm) / Cecilia Eng (7:30pm)

Fri 8:00 pm, Columbia Room

Filk Concert: Frank Hayes (8:00 pm) / Cecilia Eng (8:30)

Sat 12:00 pm, Columbia Room

Jam in the key of R

Sat 1:00 pm, Portland

When Christianity and Islam die, what will replace them?

Sat 4:00 pm, Columbia Room

Serenity: Firefly Lives Again on the Big Screen

Sun 12:00 pm, Eugene

Filk classics

Sun 1:00 pm, Salon B

When Help is `Just a phone call away` and you don`t have phones: How fragile are our lifelines? What can we can we learn from Katrina?

Sat 11:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Writing fiction in collaboration

Sat 12:00 pm, Portland

Writing for Young Adults and Bringing in the new readers

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 1:00 P. Irene Radford / 1:30 Christina F. York

Sat 3:00 pm, Autograph table

Autographs 3:00 Dianna Rodgers - Christina F. York

Sat 4:00 pm, Columbia Room

Serenity: Firefly Lives Again on the Big Screen

Sun 12:00 pm, Columbia Room

How to write media fiction.

Sun 1:00 pm, Columbia Room

Writing As a Business: Keeping Track of the Numbers

Fri 6:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 5:00 John Bunnell / 5:30 Craig English

Sat 10:00 am, Salon F (T3)

Nice Guys, Bastards and Soulful Men : The Psychology of the Male Character

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

Co-authoring: The Art of Collaboration

Sat 2:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

How to do a fantastic reading

Fri 3:00 pm, Columbia Room

Bad SF movies you watch anyway. Come pick up a new recommendation or two, bring some of your own.

Fri 4:00 pm, Portland

"I made that run in 2 parsecs": Bad science in SF

Sat 3:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Bashing your way through: accurate portrayal of fights and battle scenes

Sat 4:00 pm, Portland

Fake lives and real crime: The dangers of cyberspace

Sun 12:00 pm, Portland

Alternate History: What events really would have made a difference?

Sat 12:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

The rest of the world`s last year in space/Japanese Space Program. What they`ve done, what they are doing, what they have planned.

Sun 10:00 am, Salon D

The rest of the world`s last year in space/Japanese Space Program. What they`ve done, what they are doing, what they have planned.

Fri 3:00 pm, Salon D

Game Design 101

Sat 10:00 am, Salon F (T1)

Flash fiction: What can you say in 500 words (and why should you try)?

Sat 11:00 am, Salon B

How to work on a sci-fi con and remain sane

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon A

Practical privacy in the electronic age

Sat 2:00 pm, Salon B

`Want to Play a Game?` Teaching Other People to Play

Fri 5:00 pm, Columbia Room

Battlestar Galactica: I thought Starbuck was a guy?

Fri 10:00 pm, Salon D

Pagan Circle

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon B

Game Masters: the Good, the Bad, + the Ugly

Sat 10:00 pm, Salon D

Pagan Circle

Fri 9:00 pm, Portland

Tales from the Columbia River Hotel years

Sat 12:00 pm, Eugene

Running Conventions: Effective Internet Communications

Sat 2:00 pm, Art Show

Digital Art - Art in electronic medium

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon A

Crying and Whining

Fri 1:00 pm, Salon D

How to write about something you don`t really know about

Fri 4:00 pm, Salon C

Tapping the creative process

Fri 5:00 pm, Portland

What makes a strong character in SF?

Sat 11:00 am, Autograph table

Autographs 11:00 Michael L. Wentz - David W. Goldman; 11:30 Rebecca Moesta - P. Irene Radford

Sat 1:00 pm, Eugene

Translating Technospeak: Explaining Science to Non-Scientists

Sat 4:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 4:00 David W. Goldman / 4:30 Lizzy Shannon

Sun 11:00 am, Salon B

Critiquing Writing - Why and How

Sun 1:00 pm, Salon A

Stop procrastinating and just write

Sat 10:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Balancing Writing with Family/Real Life -- Deadlines vs. diapers

Sat 11:00 pm, Salon C

Midnight Horror Readings II

Sun 12:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 12:00 Devon Monk / 12:30 Elton T. Elliot

Sun 1:00 pm, Salon A

Stop procrastinating and just write

Sat 10:00 am, Salon C

Reading: 10:30 Dianna Rodgers

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon D

Stress and the creative lifestyle

Sat 2:00 pm, Portland

Portraying workplaces in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Sat 3:00 pm, Autograph table

Autographs 3:00 Dianna Rodgers - Christina F. York

Sat 4:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

Inside the Villian`s Mind

Sat 11:00 pm, Salon C

Midnight Horror Readings II

Sun 11:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Scum and Villainy: The bad guys

Sun 1:00 pm, Salon A

Stop procrastinating and just write

Fri 5:00 pm, Portland

What makes a strong character in SF?

Sat 11:00 am, Salon C

Reading: 11:00 Renee Stern / 11:30 Donna McMahon

Sat 1:00 pm, Columbia Room

The City as Character

Sat 2:00 pm, Portland

Portraying workplaces in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Sat 4:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Not my job: Does SF predict the future?

Sun 11:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Scum and Villainy: The bad guys

Sat 10:00 am, Salon F (T2)

Fine Jewelry as Art

Sat 1:00 pm, Art Show

Beyond technique: getting the message and emotion into a piece of art.

Sat 4:00 pm, Art Show

Art Jam - Everybody Draws

Fri 7:00 pm, Eugene

The splatter effect: are gore and violence a substitute for horror?

Sat 7:00 pm, Salon D

Polyamory

Sat 8:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Whose Line Is It, Anyway?

Sat 9:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Whose Line is it anyway? Part 2

Sun 12:00 pm, Salon A

Ultra Low Budget Film Making

Fri 12:00 pm, Salon D

Harry Potter: How will it end?

Sat 11:00 am, Salon F (T2)

Beaded netting on Fabric

Sat 2:00 pm, Salon D

Fabric manipulation-How to twist, dye, stitch, fold, pleat and otherwise bully your fabric into submission.

Sat 3:00 pm, Salon D

Fabric manipulation-How to twist, dye, stitch, fold, pleat and otherwise bully your fabric into submission.2

Sun 11:00 am, Salon D

Costuming as an Addiction/Lifestyle -Confessions of costumers and those who love them.

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon D

Wearable Art

Fri 12:00 pm, Salon D

Harry Potter: How will it end?

Fri 5:00 pm, Eugene

Best and worst of the summer films.

Sat 12:00 pm, Autograph table

Autographs 12:00 Alan M. Clark - Elton T. Elliot

Sat 11:00 pm, Salon C

Midnight Horror Readings II

Sun 10:00 am, Portland

"We`ve already lost Europe": Can liberal democracy resist Islam?

Sun 12:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 12:00 Devon Monk / 12:30 Elton T. Elliot

Fri 2:00 pm, Columbia Room

Introduction to filk

Fri 8:00 pm, Columbia Room

Filk Concert: Frank Hayes (8:00 pm) / Cecilia Eng (8:30)

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon A

Practical privacy in the electronic age

Sat 1:00 pm, Eugene

Translating Technospeak: Explaining Science to Non-Scientists

Sat 4:00 pm, Portland

Fake lives and real crime: The dangers of cyberspace

Sat 5:00 pm, Eugene

Kinderfilk (mini-concert or concert set for children)

Sun 2:00 pm, Columbia Room

The Closet Luddite`s Revenge: Why we don`t use computers

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon F (T1)

Magic realism in film

Sun 11:00 am, Art Show

My inspiration - My art: Why I did what I did

Sat 5:00 pm, Salon A

Films of 2006 - 2008 (1)

Sat 6:00 pm, Salon A

Films of 2006 - 2008 (2)

Fri 2:00 pm, Salon C

When is enough research too much?

Fri 4:00 pm, Columbia Room

Murdering stemcells and frankenfood: modern biology and the far left and right

Fri 5:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

What impact does technology really have on history

Sat 10:00 am, Eugene

Inventing Languages: Alien Linguistics

Sat 1:00 pm, Eugene

Translating Technospeak: Explaining Science to Non-Scientists

Sat 4:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Not my job: Does SF predict the future?

Sat 5:00 pm, Portland

Globalism and outsourcing: economic oppression or the emerging world culture

Sun 11:00 am, Salon C

Reading: 11:00 Gerald David Nordley

Sun 1:00 pm, Salon F (T1)

Fear of the future: Is science fiction too conservative?

Fri 4:00 pm, Columbia Room

Murdering stemcells and frankenfood: modern biology and the far left and right

Fri 5:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

What impact does technology really have on history

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon A

Practical privacy in the electronic age

Sat 4:00 pm, Portland

Fake lives and real crime: The dangers of cyberspace

Sat 5:00 pm, Portland

Globalism and outsourcing: economic oppression or the emerging world culture

Sat 7:00 pm, Salon D

Polyamory

Sun 11:00 am, Portland

Protecting the Internet from censorship

Sun 12:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Boffers!:

Sun 1:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Boffers!: 1

Fri 1:00 pm, Salon C

Gaming conventions: why attend?

Fri 3:00 pm, Salon D

Game Design 101

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon D

Stress and the creative lifestyle

Sat 2:00 pm, Salon B

`Want to Play a Game?` Teaching Other People to Play

Sat 3:00 pm, Salon F (T2)

Games; Threat or Menace? Games, pop culture and politics

Sat 4:00 pm, Salon B

The rating system for games: Is the violence too much for kids to handle?

Sun 12:00 pm, Salon B

How to write for the RPG industry

Sun 2:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Stupidity as a plot mechanism - But, NO!! We have to go back for Fluffy!!

Fri 9:00 pm, Salon D

Fanfic Fake Trailers

Sat 11:00 am, Portland

Alternate History: What events were highly unlikely

Sat 2:00 pm, Art Show

Digital Art - Art in electronic medium

Sat 3:00 pm, Salon F (T1)

Making Navigation Instruments

Sat 4:00 pm, Salon F (T1)

Rebuilding Lost Technologies

Sat 6:00 pm, Eugene

Do you need to meet your teacher?: online education

Sat 7:00 pm, Salon B

How to make AMVs and other music videos

Sat 8:00 pm, Salon B

How to Make AMVs and other Music Videos 2

Sun 12:00 pm, Salon D

Anime music video parody trailers

Sun 1:00 pm, Salon D

General and Comedy AMVs

Sun 2:00 pm, Columbia Room

The Closet Luddite`s Revenge: Why we don`t use computers

Fri 4:00 pm, Portland

"I made that run in 2 parsecs": Bad science in SF

Sat 1:00 pm, Eugene

Translating Technospeak: Explaining Science to Non-Scientists

Sat 4:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Not my job: Does SF predict the future?

Sat 6:00 pm, Columbia Room

Sex Toys of the Future: Will robotics and biotech make dating obsolete?

Sun 2:00 pm, Columbia Room

The Closet Luddite`s Revenge: Why we don`t use computers

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon D

Stress and the creative lifestyle

Sat 1:00 pm, Autograph table

Autographs 1:00 J. Steven York

Sat 3:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 3:00 Jean Lamb / 3:30 J. Steven York

Sat 10:00 am, Salon F (T3)

Nice Guys, Bastards and Soulful Men : The Psychology of the Male Character

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

Co-authoring: The Art of Collaboration

Fri 6:00 pm, Salon D

Making an original costume: What you need to get started

Sat 11:00 am, Salon D

Period costumes beyond Victorian and medieval: Why don`t we see more eras?

Sat 2:00 pm, Salon D

Fabric manipulation-How to twist, dye, stitch, fold, pleat and otherwise bully your fabric into submission.

Sat 3:00 pm, Salon D

Fabric manipulation-How to twist, dye, stitch, fold, pleat and otherwise bully your fabric into submission.2

Fri 7:00 pm, Portland

The Creative Lifestyle and Stress

Sat 11:00 am, Art Show

I`m not bad--I just draw that way. Why Royalty Free Clip Art is Your Friend.

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

Electronic fanzines and other time-sinks

Sat 3:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 3:00 Jean Lamb / 3:30 J. Steven York

Sat 4:00 pm, Salon D

Women and Gaming - is it just a testosterone fest?

Sat 1:00 pm, Art Show

Beyond technique: getting the message and emotion into a piece of art.

Sat 4:00 pm, Art Show

Art Jam - Everybody Draws

Sun 3:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 3:00 Jeff C Goetz

Fri 2:00 pm, Columbia Room

Introduction to filk

Fri 3:00 pm, Salon C

Old Filk Remedies (tips/tricks for improving your singing voice)

Sat 5:00 pm, Eugene

Kinderfilk (mini-concert or concert set for children)

Sun 1:00 pm, Eugene

Harmony Workshop

Sun 2:00 pm, Eugene

Songwriting workshop

Fri 4:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Building Near Historic Worlds

Fri 5:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

What impact does technology really have on history

Fri 7:00 pm, Salon F

Endeavour Awards Ceremony (doors open at 7:30)

Sat 11:00 am, Portland

Alternate History: What events were highly unlikely

Sat 1:00 pm, Portland

When Christianity and Islam die, what will replace them?

Sat 4:00 pm, Eugene

How Quinine Changed the World (Medicine & History)

Sun 11:00 am, Salon A

Re-writing our Past: Alternate histories

Sun 12:00 pm, Portland

Alternate History: What events really would have made a difference?

Fri 2:00 pm, Columbia Room

Introduction to filk

Fri 6:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 5:00 John Bunnell / 5:30 Craig English

Sat 10:00 am, Salon F (T1)

Flash fiction: What can you say in 500 words (and why should you try)?

Sat 12:00 pm, Portland

Writing for Young Adults and Bringing in the new readers

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

Electronic fanzines and other time-sinks

Sun 11:00 am, Salon B

Critiquing Writing - Why and How

Sat 10:00 am, Salon A

Why I blog

Sat 6:00 pm, Portland

Filk: TBA (6;00) / John Hedke (6:30)

Sat 7:00 pm, Salon A

Are Writers, Artists, etc., really crazier than"normal" people?

Sat 9:00 pm, Columbia Room

Filk Concert Hedtke/ Filking: Chaos Circle

Sun 1:00 pm, Columbia Room

Writing As a Business: Keeping Track of the Numbers

Sun 3:00 pm, Salon D

Editing 101 -- What they do + Why, explaining the inexplicable

Fri 7:00 pm, Eugene

The splatter effect: are gore and violence a substitute for horror?

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon D

Stress and the creative lifestyle

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon A

Sci-Fi and Fantasy in theater

Sat 6:00 pm, Eugene

Do you need to meet your teacher?: online education

Sun 1:00 pm, Salon A

Stop procrastinating and just write

Sun 2:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Stupidity as a plot mechanism - But, NO!! We have to go back for Fluffy!!

Sat 11:00 am, Salon D

Period costumes beyond Victorian and medieval: Why don`t we see more eras?

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon B

99 cent costume workshop and competition

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon D

Costuming 101: Pattern bashing for beginners

Sat 4:00 pm, Salon A

Scary Elements in Costume Design -Why do Darth, Xenopmorphs and Cenobites scare you.

Sat 12:00 pm, Columbia Room

Jam in the key of R

Sat 5:00 pm, Eugene

Kinderfilk (mini-concert or concert set for children)

Sun 10:00 am, Salon F

Do you miss Steve Barnes? - Yoga with Karin Waller

Sat 10:00 am, Salon B

Mask making with Karyn - make your own mask (all ages)

Fri 1:00 pm, Salon D

How to write about something you don`t really know about

Fri 4:00 pm, Salon C

Tapping the creative process

Fri 5:00 pm, Columbia Room

Battlestar Galactica: I thought Starbuck was a guy?

Sat 1:00 pm, Columbia Room

The City as Character

Sat 2:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 2:00 Alan M. Clark / 2:30 Ken Scholes

Fri 4:00 pm, Salon D

Pros At Cons: Honored Guests or Hired Entertainers?

Fri 8:00 pm, Salon F

Opening Ceremonies

Sat 11:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Writing fiction in collaboration

Sat 1:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

GOH Presentation: Herbert/Anderson - DUNE

Sat 2:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

GOH Presentation: Things I wish some pro had told me when I was just starting out

Sat 4:00 pm, Autograph table

Autographs 4:00 Brian Herbert - K.J. Anderson

Sat 6:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 6:00 Kevin J. Anderson

Sun 1:00 pm, Columbia Room

Writing As a Business: Keeping Track of the Numbers

Fri 4:00 pm, Salon D

Pros At Cons: Honored Guests or Hired Entertainers?

Sat 11:00 am, Salon B

How to work on a sci-fi con and remain sane

Sat 12:00 pm, Eugene

Running Conventions: Effective Internet Communications

Sat 3:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

How to start a fan group and keep it going

Fri 5:00 pm, Art Show

Drawing what you see

Sat 1:00 pm, Art Show

Beyond technique: getting the message and emotion into a piece of art.

Sat 3:00 pm, Art Show

Tapping the Creative Well: Strange & Unexpected Inspirations

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon D

Wearable Art

Sat 1:00 pm, Art Show

Beyond technique: getting the message and emotion into a piece of art.

Sat 3:00 pm, Art Show

Tapping the Creative Well: Strange & Unexpected Inspirations

Sun 11:00 am, Art Show

My inspiration - My art: Why I did what I did

Fri 5:00 pm, Salon D

The web in 2015 - a look ahead

Fri 6:00 pm, Eugene

The web in 2015 - a look ahead

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon A

Practical privacy in the electronic age

Sat 4:00 pm, Portland

Fake lives and real crime: The dangers of cyberspace

Sun 12:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

Thought control, theory and practices

Sun 1:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

Real World Utopias - Possible/Desirable?

Sat 2:00 pm, Eugene

What do editors look for in a manuscript?

Sat 4:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 4:00 David W. Goldman / 4:30 Lizzy Shannon

Fri 6:00 pm, Salon D

Making an original costume: What you need to get started

Fri 10:00 pm, Salon D

Pagan Circle

Sat 11:00 am, Salon D

Period costumes beyond Victorian and medieval: Why don`t we see more eras?

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon A

Practical privacy in the electronic age

Sat 10:00 pm, Salon D

Pagan Circle

Sun 11:00 am, Salon D

Costuming as an Addiction/Lifestyle -Confessions of costumers and those who love them.

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

Magical realism - contempory, fantasy, or fabulist fiction?

Sat 10:00 am, Salon A

Why I blog

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon D

Stress and the creative lifestyle

Sat 3:00 pm, Eugene

Food in SF

Sat 5:00 pm, Portland

Globalism and outsourcing: economic oppression or the emerging world culture

Sat 7:00 pm, Salon C

Broad Universe - Readings

Sun 11:00 am, Salon A

Re-writing our Past: Alternate histories

Sun 1:00 pm, Salon A

Stop procrastinating and just write

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 2:00 Mike Shepherd Moscoe / 2:30 M.K. Hobson

Fri 3:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Perverting historical fiction: altering the past to support a political agenda.

Fri 5:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

What impact does technology really have on history

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 12:00 Madeleine Robins / 12:30 Richard A. Lovett

Sat 1:00 pm, Columbia Room

The City as Character

Sat 2:00 pm, Portland

Portraying workplaces in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Sat 4:00 pm, Eugene

How Quinine Changed the World (Medicine & History)

Sat 8:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Whose Line Is It, Anyway?

Sat 9:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Whose Line is it anyway? Part 2

Sun 1:00 pm, Portland

Sustaining fantasy elements in a modern setting

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

Magical realism - contempory, fantasy, or fabulist fiction?

Fri 5:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

What impact does technology really have on history

Sat 5:00 pm, Portland

Globalism and outsourcing: economic oppression or the emerging world culture

Sat 6:00 pm, Eugene

Do you need to meet your teacher?: online education

Sun 11:00 am, Portland

Protecting the Internet from censorship

Sat 5:00 pm, Salon B

Improv `do it yourself Whose line is it anyway` (90 mins)

Sat 6:00 pm, Salon B

Improv `do it yourself Whose line is it anyway (90 mins) pt 2

Sat 9:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Whose Line is it anyway? Part 2

Fri 4:00 pm, Salon D

Pros At Cons: Honored Guests or Hired Entertainers?

Fri 7:00 pm, Portland

The Creative Lifestyle and Stress

Sat 12:00 pm, Eugene

Running Conventions: Effective Internet Communications

Sat 3:00 pm, Art Show

Tapping the Creative Well: Strange & Unexpected Inspirations

Sat 5:00 pm, Art Show

Selling the Offspring: Your Emotional Investment in Your Art and How Much do You Charge for It?

Sat 6:00 pm, Art Show

The Business of Art

Fri 7:00 pm, Portland

The Creative Lifestyle and Stress

Sat 10:00 am, Portland

Christian Fandom

Sat 11:00 am, Portland

Alternate History: What events were highly unlikely

Sat 3:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

How to start a fan group and keep it going

Fri 7:00 pm, Salon F

Endeavour Awards Ceremony (doors open at 7:30)

Sat 11:00 am, Portland

Alternate History: What events were highly unlikely

Sat 1:00 pm, Eugene

Translating Technospeak: Explaining Science to Non-Scientists

Sat 3:00 pm, Portland

Medieval history

Sat 4:00 pm, Eugene

How Quinine Changed the World (Medicine & History)

Fri 4:00 pm, Portland

"I made that run in 2 parsecs": Bad science in SF

Fri 7:00 pm, Eugene

The splatter effect: are gore and violence a substitute for horror?

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon F (T1)

Best fantasy and sf for children

Sat 3:00 pm, Salon B

fun with high voltage

Sun 10:00 am, Salon C

Meteorites

Sun 3:00 pm, Salon B

lego robotics

Sat 10:00 am, Art Show

Colored Pencil Demo

Sat 1:00 pm, Columbia Room

The City as Character

Sat 4:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

Inside the Villian`s Mind

Sun 1:00 pm, Portland

Sustaining fantasy elements in a modern setting

Fri 1:00 pm, Salon A

Dealers` Storage 8 a.m. until done.

Sat 11:00 am, Salon B

How to work on a sci-fi con and remain sane

Sat 3:00 pm, Portland

Medieval history

Sat 4:00 pm, Salon D

Women and Gaming - is it just a testosterone fest?

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon A

Crying and Whining

Sat 3:00 pm, Salon A

How to remain sucessfully underpuplished

Sat 7:00 pm, Salon A

Are Writers, Artists, etc., really crazier than"normal" people?

Sun 11:00 am, Salon B

Critiquing Writing - Why and How

Sun 3:00 pm, Salon D

Editing 101 -- What they do + Why, explaining the inexplicable

Sat 11:00 am, Autograph table

Autographs 11:00 Michael L. Wentz - David W. Goldman; 11:30 Rebecca Moesta - P. Irene Radford

Sat 12:00 pm, Columbia Room

Jam in the key of R

Sat 2:00 pm, Columbia Room

MAIN CONCERT: Escape Key

Sun 12:00 pm, Eugene

Filk classics

Sun 1:00 pm, Eugene

Harmony Workshop

Sun 2:00 pm, Eugene

Songwriting workshop

Fri 4:00 pm, Columbia Room

Murdering stemcells and frankenfood: modern biology and the far left and right

Fri 5:00 pm, Portland

What makes a strong character in SF?

Sat 1:00 pm, Portland

When Christianity and Islam die, what will replace them?

Sat 2:00 pm, Autograph table

Autographs 2:30 Mike Sheperd Moscoe - S. D. Perry

Sat 4:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Not my job: Does SF predict the future?

Sat 6:00 pm, Columbia Room

Sex Toys of the Future: Will robotics and biotech make dating obsolete?

Sun 10:00 am, Portland

"We`ve already lost Europe": Can liberal democracy resist Islam?

Sun 12:00 pm, Portland

Alternate History: What events really would have made a difference?

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 2:00 Mike Shepherd Moscoe / 2:30 M.K. Hobson

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon F (T2)

Easy professional-quality masks

Sat 6:00 pm, Art Show

The Business of Art

Fri 3:00 pm, Art Show

Using Your Imagination to Write and Draw

Fri 7:00 pm, Salon D

The Bush administration and the demise of public education

Sat 1:00 pm, Portland

When Christianity and Islam die, what will replace them?

Sat 2:00 pm, Eugene

What do editors look for in a manuscript?

Sat 4:00 pm, Salon F (T2)

Grammar? Aww, That`s for Chumps

Sun 12:00 pm, Salon F (T3)

Thought control, theory and practices

Fri 2:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Supernatural TV: Why the new fad?

Fri 3:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Perverting historical fiction: altering the past to support a political agenda.

Fri 5:00 pm, Columbia Room

Battlestar Galactica: I thought Starbuck was a guy?

Sat 11:00 am, Autograph table

Autographs 11:00 Michael L. Wentz - David W. Goldman; 11:30 Rebecca Moesta - P. Irene Radford

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 1:00 P. Irene Radford / 1:30 Christina F. York

Sat 2:00 pm, Eugene

What do editors look for in a manuscript?

Sat 4:00 pm, Columbia Room

Serenity: Firefly Lives Again on the Big Screen

Sun 11:00 am, Salon B

Critiquing Writing - Why and How

Sat 2:00 pm, Eugene

What do editors look for in a manuscript?

Sun 3:00 pm, Salon D

Editing 101 -- What they do + Why, explaining the inexplicable

Fri 9:00 pm, Portland

Tales from the Columbia River Hotel years

Sat 11:00 am, Eugene

Orycon Hotel:"you sold our what??"

Sat 6:00 pm, Eugene

Do you need to meet your teacher?: online education

Fri 4:00 pm, Salon D

Pros At Cons: Honored Guests or Hired Entertainers?

Fri 8:00 pm, Salon F

Opening Ceremonies

Sat 11:00 am, Salon F (T3)

A Paintbrush in the Door: the Artist/Editor Relationship

Sat 12:00 pm, Art Show

Paul Guinan: Artist G.O.H.Presentation

Sat 4:00 pm, Portland

Fake lives and real crime: The dangers of cyberspace

Sun 3:00 pm, Salon A

Art: Erotic or Pornographic?

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon F (T2)

Poetry and Prose

Sat 2:00 pm, Art Show

Digital Art - Art in electronic medium

Sun 11:00 am, Portland

Protecting the Internet from censorship

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon F (T1)

Rendering Photography to Art Media

Sun 3:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Are ethics different in cyberspace? - Should they be?

Fri 4:00 pm, Salon D

Pros At Cons: Honored Guests or Hired Entertainers?

Fri 8:00 pm, Salon F

Opening Ceremonies

Sat 10:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Balancing Writing with Family/Real Life -- Deadlines vs. diapers

Sat 11:00 am, Autograph table

Autographs 11:00 Michael L. Wentz - David W. Goldman; 11:30 Rebecca Moesta - P. Irene Radford

Sat 12:00 pm, Portland

Writing for Young Adults and Bringing in the new readers

Sat 2:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

GOH Presentation: Things I wish some pro had told me when I was just starting out

Sat 5:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 5:00 Brian Herbert / 5:30 Rebecca Moesta

Sun 12:00 pm, Columbia Room

How to write media fiction.

Sun 1:00 pm, Columbia Room

Writing As a Business: Keeping Track of the Numbers

Sun 3:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Are ethics different in cyberspace? - Should they be?

Fri 2:00 pm, Salon C

When is enough research too much?

Fri 4:00 pm, Portland

"I made that run in 2 parsecs": Bad science in SF

Sat 12:00 pm, Portland

Writing for Young Adults and Bringing in the new readers

Sat 2:00 pm, Portland

Portraying workplaces in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Sun 2:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Stupidity as a plot mechanism - But, NO!! We have to go back for Fluffy!!

Fri 2:00 pm, Salon C

When is enough research too much?

Fri 4:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Building Near Historic Worlds

Sat 11:00 am, Salon C

Reading: 11:00 Renee Stern / 11:30 Donna McMahon

Sat 3:00 pm, Portland

Medieval history

Sun 11:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Scum and Villainy: The bad guys

Sun 1:00 pm, Portland

Sustaining fantasy elements in a modern setting

Fri 1:00 pm, Salon C

Gaming conventions: why attend?

Fri 3:00 pm, Salon D

Game Design 101

Fri 7:00 pm, Columbia Room

Filk Concerts: Rhianon Louve (7:00 pm) / Cecilia Eng (7:30pm)

Sat 3:00 pm, Portland

Medieval history

Sat 4:00 pm, Salon D

Women and Gaming - is it just a testosterone fest?

Sat 6:00 pm, Columbia Room

Sex Toys of the Future: Will robotics and biotech make dating obsolete?

Sun 1:00 pm, Portland

Sustaining fantasy elements in a modern setting

Sun 3:00 pm, Salon A

Art: Erotic or Pornographic?

Fri 1:00 pm, Salon D

How to write about something you don`t really know about

Fri 4:00 pm, Portland

"I made that run in 2 parsecs": Bad science in SF

Fri 5:00 pm, Portland

What makes a strong character in SF?

Sat 12:00 pm, Salon C

Reading: 12:00 Madeleine Robins / 12:30 Richard A. Lovett

Sat 2:00 pm, Portland

Portraying workplaces in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Sat 3:00 pm, Eugene

Food in SF

Fri 2:00 pm, Salon C

When is enough research too much?

Fri 4:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Building Near Historic Worlds

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon A

Sci-Fi and Fantasy in theater

Sat 3:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Bashing your way through: accurate portrayal of fights and battle scenes

Sun 11:00 am, Salon A

Re-writing our Past: Alternate histories

Sun 12:00 pm, Salon F (T2)

Mining world cultures

Fri 7:00 pm, Eugene

The splatter effect: are gore and violence a substitute for horror?

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon B

Game Masters: the Good, the Bad, + the Ugly

Sat 2:00 pm, Salon F (T2)

Digital quicksand: Changing data to match an agenda

Sat 7:00 pm, Salon A

Are Writers, Artists, etc., really crazier than"normal" people?

Sun 3:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Are ethics different in cyberspace? - Should they be?

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon A

Sci-Fi and Fantasy in theater

Fri 3:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Perverting historical fiction: altering the past to support a political agenda.

Fri 7:00 pm, Eugene

The splatter effect: are gore and violence a substitute for horror?

Sat 9:00 am, Salon F

Do you miss Steve Barnes? - Basic Martial Arts Exercise

Sat 3:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Bashing your way through: accurate portrayal of fights and battle scenes

Sat 5:00 pm, Salon F (T2)

Police policies on use of force

Sat 7:00 pm, Salon A

Are Writers, Artists, etc., really crazier than"normal" people?

Sat 10:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Balancing Writing with Family/Real Life -- Deadlines vs. diapers

Sat 12:00 pm, Portland

Writing for Young Adults and Bringing in the new readers

Sat 2:00 pm, Autograph table

Autographs 2:30 Mike Sheperd Moscoe - S. D. Perry

Sun 12:00 pm, Columbia Room

How to write media fiction.

Fri 1:00 pm, Salon D

How to write about something you don`t really know about

Fri 4:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Building Near Historic Worlds

Fri 7:00 pm, Salon F

Endeavour Awards Ceremony (doors open at 7:30)

Sat 10:00 am, Eugene

Inventing Languages: Alien Linguistics

Sat 11:00 am, Portland

Alternate History: What events were highly unlikely

Sat 3:00 pm, Eugene

Food in SF

Sun 11:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Scum and Villainy: The bad guys

Sun 12:00 pm, Portland

Alternate History: What events really would have made a difference?

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon F (T2)

Mythology -- Common roots for uncommon beings and subjects

Sat 5:00 pm, Salon B

Improv `do it yourself Whose line is it anyway` (90 mins)

Sat 6:00 pm, Salon B

Improv `do it yourself Whose line is it anyway (90 mins) pt 2

Fri 5:00 pm, Eugene

Best and worst of the summer films.

Fri 7:00 pm, Salon D

The Bush administration and the demise of public education

Sat 1:00 pm, Eugene

Translating Technospeak: Explaining Science to Non-Scientists

Sat 2:00 pm, Salon B

`Want to Play a Game?` Teaching Other People to Play

Sat 4:00 pm, Columbia Room

Serenity: Firefly Lives Again on the Big Screen

Sat 6:00 pm, Eugene

Do you need to meet your teacher?: online education

Fri 4:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Building Near Historic Worlds

Fri 7:00 pm, Salon F

Endeavour Awards Ceremony (doors open at 7:30)

Sat 11:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Writing fiction in collaboration

Sat 3:00 pm, Portland

Medieval history

Sun 11:00 am, Salon B

Critiquing Writing - Why and How

Fri 8:00 pm, Salon F

Opening Ceremonies

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon A

Crying and Whining

Fri 10:00 pm, Eugene

Flirting 101: Beginning Flirting

Sat 9:00 am, Salon F

Do you miss Steve Barnes? - Basic Martial Arts Exercise

Sat 3:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Bashing your way through: accurate portrayal of fights and battle scenes

Sat 10:00 pm, Eugene

Flirting 301: Intermediate Flirting

Sun 12:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Boffers!:

Sun 1:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Boffers!: 1

Sun 3:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Are ethics different in cyberspace? - Should they be?

Sat 10:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Balancing Writing with Family/Real Life -- Deadlines vs. diapers

Sat 11:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Writing fiction in collaboration

Sat 1:00 pm, Columbia Room

The City as Character

Sun 11:00 am, Mt. Hood Room

Scum and Villainy: The bad guys

Sun 12:00 pm, Columbia Room

How to write media fiction.

Sun 2:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Stupidity as a plot mechanism - But, NO!! We have to go back for Fluffy!!

Sat 5:00 pm, Eugene

Kinderfilk (mini-concert or concert set for children)

Sat 7:00 pm, Columbia Room

Filk Concerts: Steve Dixon (7:00) / Callie Hills (7:30)

Fri 10:00 pm, Salon D

Pagan Circle

Sat 12:00 pm, Eugene

Running Conventions: Effective Internet Communications

Sat 1:00 pm, Salon D

Costuming 101: Pattern bashing for beginners

Sat 2:00 pm, Salon D

Fabric manipulation-How to twist, dye, stitch, fold, pleat and otherwise bully your fabric into submission.

Sat 3:00 pm, Salon D

Fabric manipulation-How to twist, dye, stitch, fold, pleat and otherwise bully your fabric into submission.2

Sat 10:00 pm, Salon D

Pagan Circle

Sun 11:00 am, Salon D

Costuming as an Addiction/Lifestyle -Confessions of costumers and those who love them.

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon D

Wearable Art

Fri 5:00 pm, Columbia Room

Battlestar Galactica: I thought Starbuck was a guy?

Sat 11:00 am, Salon F (T1)

What has What The Bleep done for us?

Fri 2:00 pm, Salon C

When is enough research too much?

Fri 4:00 pm, Salon C

Tapping the creative process

Fri 7:00 pm, Portland

The Creative Lifestyle and Stress

Sat 10:00 am, Salon A

Why I blog

Sat 1:00 pm, Portland

When Christianity and Islam die, what will replace them?

Sat 6:00 pm, Columbia Room

Sex Toys of the Future: Will robotics and biotech make dating obsolete?

Sat 7:00 pm, Salon D

Polyamory

Sun 11:00 am, Portland

Protecting the Internet from censorship

Sun 1:00 pm, Salon F (T1)

Fear of the future: Is science fiction too conservative?

Sun 3:00 pm, Salon A

Art: Erotic or Pornographic?

Fri 8:00 pm, Salon F

Opening Ceremonies

Sat 11:00 am, Columbia Room

Speedfilking with Tom Smith

Sat 3:00 pm, Columbia Room

MAIN CONCERT: Tom Smith

Sat 8:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Whose Line Is It, Anyway?

Sat 9:00 pm, Mt. Hood Room

Whose Line is it anyway? Part 2

Sat 12:00 pm, Columbia Room

Jam in the key of R

Sat 8:00 pm, Columbia Room

Filk concerts: Tony Fabris

Sun 1:00 pm, Eugene

Harmony Workshop

Sun 2:00 pm, Eugene

Songwriting workshop

Sun 2:00 pm, Salon A

Crying and Whining

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