Can*Con 2019: The Conference on Canadian Content in Speculative Arts: Grid

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Con Suite	Penthouse A - 75 seats	Rook Creek Books Hosting Space	Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets	Salon B - 20 seats	Salon C - 20 seats	Salon D - 20 seats	Salon E - 60 seats	Salon F - 60 seats

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Bundoran Press Party + Book Launch for Ryan T. McFadden 9:00pm - 10:50pm

Book Launch: The Quantum Garden by Derek Künsken 7:00pm - 7:50pm

Books & Beer Party 9:00pm - 11:30pm

BFTW Recording with David Demchuk and Sandra Kasturi (closed recording - no audience) 3:00pm - 4:50pm

Pitch Sessions: ECW Press (sign up in advance online... 5:00pm - 5:50pm

Blue Pencil Café - Charles de Lint (sign up in advanc... 6:00pm - 6:50pm

Meet the Editor Sessions: Lee Harris (sign up in adva... 7:00pm - 7:50pm

Readings: 16:00 - TBD; 16:30 - Matt Moore 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Readings: 17:00 - Derek Newman-Stille; 17:30 - Sylvai... 5:00pm - 5:50pm

Difficult Passages 6:00pm - 6:50pm

Readings: 19:00 - S.M. Beiko; 19:30 - Charlie Jane An... 7:00pm - 7:50pm

WORKSHOP - Medical Mistakes 101 w/ Melissa Yuan-Innes (sign-up in advance) 10:00am - 11:50am

WORKSHOP - Draw Your Way Out w/ Julie E. Czerneda (sign-up in advance) 1:00pm - 2:50pm

Geology of the Solar System, Unpacked 5:00pm - 5:50pm

How Not to Read Like a Grade Nine Student Forced to R... 6:00pm - 6:50pm

Connect with ORWA 7:00pm - 7:50pm

WORKSHOP - Keep Your Players Hooked! w/ Geoff Gander (sign-up in advance) 10:00am - 11:50am

WORKSHOP - Diving Into Fantasy Locations w/ Derek Newman-Stille (sign-up in advance) 1:00pm - 2:50pm

So This is Your First Con 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Navigating Hell and Infinity: Looking Back to Write F... 5:00pm - 5:50pm

Gender in Spec Fiction 6:00pm - 6:50pm

The Horrible Renaissance 7:00pm - 7:50pm

Snakes and Ladders of Self-Publishing 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Traumas and Triggers: Navigating the Dark Stuff 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Marvel's B-Team Are the True Heroes 5:00pm - 5:50pm

Worldbuilding: Government and Politics 6:00pm - 6:50pm

When To Tweet and When To Flip The Bird 7:00pm - 7:50pm

Fanon Service 8:00pm - 8:50pm

Humanizing Agents 4:00pm - 4:50pm

In Conversation: Lee Harris w/ Kate Heartfield 5:00pm - 5:50pm

18:00 - Opening Ceremonies; 18:30 - Aurora Pin Ceremo... 6:00pm - 6:50pm

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3 Brasseurs Canada	Christchurch Cathedral's Great Hall	Con Suite	Dealers Room	Penthouse A - 75 seats	Rook Creek Books Hosting Space	Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets	Salon B - 20 seats	Salon C - 20 seats	Salon D - 20 seats	Salon E - 60 seats	Salon F - 60 seats

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Launch of Nothing Without Us 3:00pm - 4:00pm

2019 Aurora Award Ceremony 6:00pm - 9:50pm

ChiZine Publications Party 9:00pm - 10:50pm

Signing: Éric Desmarais, Charles de Lint

Signing: Kate Heartfield 12:30pm - 12:55pm

Signing: Kevin Hearne, Ed Willett

Signing: Eric Choi, Tanya Huff, Matt Moore

Signing: James Alan Gardner, Kelly Robson

Signing: Sylvain Neuvel 2:30pm - 2:55pm

Signing: TBD 3:00pm - 3:25pm

Signing: David Demchuk, J.M. Dover

Signing: Julie E. Czerneda 4:00pm - 4:25pm

Science Literacy Track Inauguration and Coffee 10:00am - 10:50am

AI Keynote: Machine Learning Sees You Now 11:00am - 11:50am

Break 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Climate Keynote: It's Worse Than We Think 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Economic Keynote: How Emerging Technologies Change Ou... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Imagining a Zero-Carbon Future 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Technology-Driven Labor Market Disruption: The New In... 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Karaoke Parté! 9:00pm - 11:30pm

Bloody Mary and Books 10:00am - 2:00pm

Kaffeeklatsch w/ Editor GoH Lee Harris (SIGN UP IN AD... 10:00am - 10:50am

Blue Pencil Café - Gerald Brandt, Melissa Yuan-Innes... 11:00am - 11:50am

Pitch Sessions: ChiZine Publications (sign up in adva... 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Kobo One-on-One w/ Tara Cremin (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ON... 1:00pm - 1:50pm

BFTW Recording with Leah Bobet and E. L. Chen (closed room - no audience) 2:00pm - 3:50pm

NaNoWriMo Plan-In 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Ask an Agent Sessions w/ DongWon Song (sign up in adv... 5:00pm - 5:50pm

Kobo One-on-One w/ Tara Cremin (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ON... 6:00pm - 6:50pm

New Voices Reading 10:00am - 10:50am

Readings: 11:00 - Kari Maaren 11:30 KT Bryski 11:00am - 11:50am

Nothing Without Us Reading 12:00pm - 12:50pm

New Voices Reading 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Readings - 16:00 Charles de Lint; 16:30 Ryan T. McFad... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Works in Progress Readings 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Difficult Passages 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Readings: 17:00 - David Demchuk; 17:30 - Phoebe Barto... 5:00pm - 5:50pm

The Indescribable 6:00pm - 6:50pm

Reading - Geoff Hart 7:00pm - 7:30pm

Writing Effective Dialogue 8:00pm - 8:50pm

What's New At Kobo? 10:00am - 10:50am

Witches on the Rise 11:00am - 11:50am

Imagination Architects: Building Worlds From Words 12:00pm - 12:50pm

What Professional Agencies Can Do For You 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Ask Augur Magazine! 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Dramatic Reading Hour! 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Experts of Indie Publishing (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY... 4:00pm - 4:50pm

"SuperCrip": Disabling Comics 5:00pm - 5:50pm

Everything in the Past is Made Up 6:00pm - 6:50pm

Works That Scare Us 7:00pm - 7:50pm

Today's Golden Age of TV 8:00pm - 8:50pm

The Art of the Cover 10:00am - 10:50am

Is Big Data in an Arms Race? 11:00am - 11:50am

Behind the Scenes of Grant Applications 12:00pm - 12:50pm

All Good Things Must Come to An End 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Workshop: Introduction to Interactive Narratives 2:00pm - 2:50pm

The Ace of Possibilities 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Getting Industry Gossip That You Need: Conversation w... 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Designing a Planet Live 5:00pm - 5:50pm

Taxes for Canadian Authors 2019 6:00pm - 6:50pm

Criticizing Criticism 7:00pm - 7:50pm

Advanced Marketing for Indie Authors 8:00pm - 8:50pm

Who's Our Hero, Anyway? 10:00am - 10:50am

Black Gate Magazine Interviews Charlie Jane Anders (w... 11:00am - 11:50am

DAW's Editorial Process 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Dungeons and Dramas: Telling a Story in Tabletop Gami... 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Writing and Resistance 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Back to the Future is a Bunch of Bull 3:00pm - 3:50pm

The Realness of Fabulism 4:00pm - 4:50pm

The Glam Dames of Aurora Short Fiction 5:00pm - 5:50pm

Body Positivity is Slim Pickings 6:00pm - 6:50pm

Glorifying the Villain: From Joker to Punisher to Dea... 7:00pm - 7:50pm

Hijacking YA 10:00am - 10:50am

The Novella Is Now 11:00am - 11:50am

An Expanse of Political Discourse 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Escaping Ageism in SFF 1:00pm - 1:50pm

What the Evolution of Barnes and Noble Means for Writ... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Return of Amazing Stories Magazine 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Podcasting 201 4:00pm - 4:50pm

CBC's Off the Shelf Live! 5:00pm - 5:50pm

D&D One-Shot hosted by Gregory A. Wilson 6:00pm - 8:50pm

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Dealers Room	Penthouse A - 75 seats	Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets	Salon B - 20 seats	Salon C - 20 seats	Salon D - 20 seats	Salon E - 60 seats	Salon F - 60 seats

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Interested in Being On Programming Next Year? 1:00pm - 1:50pm

The Ongoing Permanent Depletion of Water Resources 10:00am - 10:50am

Data is the New Gold Rush 11:00am - 11:50am

Break 12:00pm - 12:50pm

PodCastle Live: Now With Foley Effects! 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Cryptocurrencies to CryptoKitties and Beyond 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Pitch Sessions: Renaissance Press ((sign up in advanc... 10:00am - 10:50am

Kaffeeklatsch w/ Agent GoH DongWon Song (SIGN UP IN A... 11:00am - 11:50am

Kaffeeklatsch w/ Author GoH Charlie Jane Anders (SIGN... 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Blue Pencil Café - Charles de Lint (sign up in advanc... 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Blue Pencil Café - E.C. Bell, Matt Moore (sign up in... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Works in Progress Readings 10:00am - 10:50am

Tesseracts 22: Reading and Q&A 11:00am - 11:50am

Readings: 12:00 - Éric Desmarais; 12:30 - Rebecca Sim... 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Readings: 13:00 - Hayden Trenholm; 13:30 - Sarah Tolm... 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Works in Progress Readings 2:00pm - 2:50pm

CSFFA General Meeting 10:00am - 11:50am

Experts of Indie Publishing (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY... 12:00pm - 12:50pm

CUFF Presents: Turkey Readings - Fran Skene 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Other Covenants Reading and Q&A 2:00pm - 2:50pm

The Stories You Love - Now With Diversity! 10:00am - 10:50am

Old Punk and New Punk 11:00am - 11:50am

Mental Health and Comics 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Posthuman Subjectivities in Vassanji's Nostalgia - Pr... 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Advice to Aspiring Writers on the Craft 10:00am - 10:50am

Ready, Steady, Flash! 11:00am - 11:50am

The Haunting of Hill House: 60 Years Later 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Stealing From Outside SFF 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Worldbuilding Focus: Religion 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Can Fantasy Escape The Real World? 10:00am - 10:50am

Don't Look, Don't Speak: The Politics of Ability in H... 11:00am - 11:50am

Love As A Catalyst 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Hierarchy and Oppression in SFF 2:00pm - 2:50pm