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| Friday 7-8pm | Opening Ceremonies | Stevenson D |
| Friday 8-9pm | Meet and Greet | Stevenson D |
| Fri 7-10pm Sat 10am-10pm Sun 10am-4pm | Open tabletop gaming hosted by Game-itoba | Gaming |
| Fri 4-8pm Sat 10am-6pm Sun 10am-4pm | Vendor Hall (Open to public on Saturday) | Vendor Hall |
| Friday 9pm-1am Sat Noon-1am Sun 1pm-late | Dandy Lion Filk Concerts (details here) | Dandy Lion Con Suite |
| Sat Noon-2pm | Pre-judging for the Masquerade | Executive 4 |
| Sat 6-7pm | Masquerade | Stevenson D |
| Sat 8pm-1am | Social | Stevenson D |
| Sun 11am-1pm | WinSFA Senate AGM | Magellan |
| Sun 3-4pm | Charity Auction | Stevenson D |
| Sun 4-5pm | Closing Ceremonies | Stevenson D |
| Sun 5-6pm | Beefs and Bouquets | Magellan |
New to KeyCon?
| Friday 5-6pm | The Keycon Newcomers Dinner |
| If this is your first or second year at Keycon, or if you’d just like to make the newcomers welcome, join us for a hearty buffet dinner before Opening Ceremonies! | |
| Friday 6.15-7pm | The Keycon Grand Tour |
| If this is your first or second in-person year at Keycon, we invite you to join Keycon veteran Laurie E. Smith for a GRAND TOUR of the Keycon convention space! Laurie will lead you through the hotel space, pointing out important locations, cluing you in to the elements of Keycon that simply should not be missed. | |
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| Friday 5-6pm (Oak & Grain Restaurant) | Keycon Newcomers Dinner – Laurie E. Smith |
| If this is your first or second year at Keycon, or if you’d just like to make the newcomers welcome, join us for a hearty buffet dinner before Opening Ceremonies. | |
| Friday 6-7pm (Magellan) | Tell me a Story- E. Lynn Cormick and Casia Schreyer |
| We’ve gone from oral storytelling, to the written page, to audiobooks. Will sales of audio books one day surpass paper novels and e-books? Will the style of writing novels change to adapt to the new medium? | |
| Friday 6-7pm (Executive 4) | The Non-Toxic Star Wars Round Table – Sean Ennis |
| Let’s have a friendly non-toxic moderated discussion of the State of Star Wars. We have the existing feature films, animated and live action TV series, and upcoming announced additions to the Star Wars Universe. And let’s not forget the ink and paper books. | |
| Friday 6:15-7pm (Hilton Lobby) | The Keycon Grand Tour |
| If this is your first or second in-person year at Keycon, we invite you to join Keycon vetran Laurie E. Smith for a GRAND TOUR of the Keycon convention space! Laurie will lead you through the hotel space, pointing out important locations, cluing you in to the elements of Keycon that simply should not be missed. | |
| Friday 7-8pm (Stevenson D) | Opening Ceremonies |
| Join the Co-chairs and Guests of Honour as we officially start the convention. | |
| Friday 8-9pm (Stevenson D) | Meet and Greet |
| Friday 9-10pm (Stevenson D) | Time to Level Up, Older Protagonists in Fantasy- Jim Butcher, Jennifer Blackstream, RJ Hore (Moderator) |
| Kill off the twenty-somethings and let the experienced people take over. Fantasy is often about a journey, let’s talk about why it’s never too late for an adventure. How does changing the age of the protagonist change the story? How do older protagonists change in contrast to their younger counterparts? What are the advantages of having an older protagonist? | |
| Friday 9-10pm (Magellan) | From the Comics Code to the 21st Century |
| Are comic books still for kids, or has a generation of readers been lost? How has the 90’s boom and bust effected the industry today? Will today’s culture accept a truly heroic hero? What effect has the MCU and DCU had on the industry? | |
| Friday 9-10pm (Executive 4) | Friday Night Stretch- Sheena Morrison Sousa |
| Come for a cool down after the hustle and stress of check in for the convention. ½ hour of stretching and a short yoga sequence before bed. | |
| Friday 9-10pm (Executive 5) | Knots and Thoughts/Costume Finishing Touches- Alex Stornel (3 hours) |
| It’s Friday night and you haven’t finished your costume? Come on up to Executive 5. We have space, a sewing machine, and people to talk to. Just want to talk and work on your current project with fellow knitters, crocheters, sewists? Welcome, welcome, welcome. | |
| Friday 10-11pm (Stevenson D) | Filk 101- Wolfgang Klassen, Dave Clement, Morva Bowman, Alan Pollard |
| “What is Filk” I hear you ask? Come join this fine crew to learn all about this classic nerdy music genre. You might find yourself at the Dandy Lion Inn later for the concerts! | |
| Friday 10-11pm (Magellan) | The SF & F from Asian countries- Linda Ross-Mansfield 18+ (2 hours) |
| Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and China all have great SF & F Movies and TV that are available in a number of dubbed or subtitled streaming services. There are some great stories that are well worth seeing. Here are some suggestions to try, and a chance to talk about what you would recommend to others too. | |
| Friday 10-11pm (Executive 4) | A Danger in the Details- G.M.B. Chomichuk (2 hours) |
| The audience and its brave volunteers join the evil Narrator in creating a story that plays like a game. The audience can choose between: The Incident at Gloom Lake: Agents unknown have been sent to Gloom Lake to investigate an incident. The Incident has attracted hungry UFOs, Reptilian Skinchangers, and Mind Control Agents who seem to have been attracted by the spontaneous development of psychic abilities in a group of small town kids. Kill The Sorcerer!: The sorcerer Azoth, once a great champion of the realm, has gone mad; his mind eaten by the Dream Stone of Carcosa. But Azoth has sent a final dream to his most trusted allies: “You, my dear old friends, must come to the City of Vox Libram, find me, and kill me!” Now you and an infamous few must infiltrate the grand city of knowledge and kill its greatest Sorcerer before he becomes the realm’s greatest threat. | |
| Friday 11-Midnight (Stevenson D) | Joey and Lillian’s Sing along |
| Join Joey and Lillian for the return of some late-night sing along fun. The first 2 hours are PG, after that it is 18+. | |
| Friday Midnight Onwards (Magellan) | Helluva Boss |
| Come one, come all (adults only), and find out what all the fuss is about! Helluva Boss could be described as a cross between a Spanish Tele-Novella and a Broadway musical. Comedy! Doomed romance! Drama! More doomed romance! Unresolved sexual tension! And did I mention the doomed romance part? We might even have a sing along. | |
| Saturday 7-10am (Executive 4) | Saturday Cartoon Cavalcade- Peter Decourcey |
| For all the Gen Xers out there (yes, we are still around)! Remember the good old days of “quietly” creeping down the stairs, pouring a big bowl of the most sugary cereal we could find, and plunking down in front of the TV for hours on end still in your PJs? Those days are back. I will be playing an assortment of some of the cartoons and commercials we grew up with and still hold fondly on to! Come on out and relive the nostalgia and reminisce. Yes, you can wear your PJs. | |
| Saturday 10-11am (Stevenson D) | Idols of Torment- Black Magic Craft (Jeremy Pillipow), Drew Bachand (moderator) |
| Join game creator Jeremy Pillipow as he explores the origins, lore, and setting of “Idols of Torment”. “Idols of Torment” is a unique tabletop miniatures game that blends familiar skirmish gameplay with various tabletop roleplaying game and board game concepts resulting in a profoundly cinematic game with deep themes. | |
| Saturday 10-11am (Magellan) | The More Books the Better? – Jennifer Blackstream and Tanya Huff |
| What do writers and publishers prefer more, a really long book series or stand alone books and trilogies? Can an author get typecast? The challenges of keeping a long series fresh. Publishers are looking for the known and familiar, but are there diminishing returns the longer a series goes on? | |
| Saturday 10-11am (Executive 4) | Joey’s Trivia Extravaganza (Day One) – Joey Wensel and Lillian Bryant |
| It’s Saturday! You know what that means! It’s Trivia Time! Join Joey and Lillian for round one of Trivia Fun. | |
| Saturday 10-11am (Executive 5) | Saturday Morning Stretch -Sheena Morrison-Sousa |
| Morning Glory! Get the blood moving for a day of panels and seeing old friends. Chair and floor stretches and a yoga sequence, followed by a 10 minute relaxation. Then off to seize the day. | |
| Saturday 11-Noon (Stevenson D) | An Interview with Jim Butcher – Jim Butcher, David Derksen (Moderator) |
| Jim Butcher gives us some insights about his career as a writer, what’s coming next, and takes questions from the audience. | |
| Saturday 11-Noon (Magellan) | Costuming with the Klassens – Wolfgang Klassen, Lana Klassen, Anya Klassen |
| Ever wonder how the award winning Klassen family puts their cosplays together? Come join Fan Guest of Honour Wolfgang, his mother Lana, who taught him to sew, and his sister Anya, who has followed in his footsteps. They will have some of their past pieces with them, both displaying them and describing how they came to be. Bring your craft as well! | |
| Saturday 11-Noon (Executive 4) | Um… Actually – Heather Punkert and Chris Wachal |
| A trivia game of fandom minutiae one-upmanship, where nerds do what nerds do best: flaunt encyclopedic nerd knowledge at Millennium Falcon nerd-speed. Come be a contestant or watch in the audience. | |
| Saturday 11-Noon (Executive 5) | Laurie’s Musical Saturday Morning – Laurie E. Smith |
| Join Laurie E. Smith for some toe-tapping music videos to start Your Saturday off right! Singing along and chair-dancing is encouraged (Laurie will lead you through some simple moves)! Bring your coffee and/or come in your jammies, we’re going to have SO much fun! | |
| Saturday Noon – 1pm (Stevenson D) | Leslie Hudson Concert |
| Leslie Hudson is a geek in deep, narrow slices. Currently their favourite obsession is poisonous plants (important information to have for any world-builder) and they will sing you beautiful songs about how deadly they can be. Plants play an essential role in folklore, mythology and all kinds of storytelling, and can teach you more than you think about navigating relationships. Come enjoy the lethal allure of both performer and subject matter, with inspiration from Poison Ivy to Oleander. | |
| Saturday Noon – 1pm (Magellan) | Animal Companions – Dakota Senese, RJ Hore, and Casia Schreyer |
| Cats, dragons and wolves; the magical creatures that we love to write and read about. What do we love about them and what do they represent? And why not dogs, otters or pigeons? | |
| Saturday Noon – 1pm (Executive 4) | Masquerade Pre-Judging 2 hours |
| Saturday Noon – 1pm (Executive 5) | Original Characters in Fan Fiction – Laurie E. Smith |
| Original characters – do they ruin a good piece of fanfic, or add some delightful spice? Come discuss the perils and advantages of OCs in fanfic: the discussion promises to be lively! | |
| Saturday 1-2pm (Stevenson D) | Autograph Session- Jim Butcher, Jennifer Blackstream, Black Magic Crafts, Evan Quiring, Tanya Huff |
| In order to make sure everyone has a chance to get their books signed, we will be limiting the number of books members ask each author to sign to three books the first time through the line. | |
| Saturday 1-2pm (Magellan) | Kids Crafts – Kimberly Mazur |
| Drop in kids crafts. Come and draw, paint, or make some amazing art work that surely will be good enough to keep forever! Or just long enough to make it out the door. | |
| Saturday 1-2pm (Executive 5) | Book Reading – Adam Knight |
| Adam Knight reads from his debut novel, “Cowboy Ending.” Q&A to follow. | |
| Saturday 2-3pm (Stevenson D) | Terrain Building 101 – Black Magic Craft, Drew Bachand (moderator) |
| What are the best projects for a beginner to tackle? What tools and supplies are needed? Master terrain builder Jeremy Pillipow talks about the basics of terrain building and answers questions from the audience about more complex builds. | |
| Saturday 2-3pm (Magellan) | Keycon 2026 (#42) – Sean Ennis and Kevin (Doc) Wilson |
| Find out what’s in store for Keycon next year with Chairs Doc and Sean! What are we doing different, what are we keeping the same, and how can you help? | |
| Saturday 2-3pm (Executive 4) | Roll for Initiative |
| Join the professional game masters of the Manitoba Board Game Designers on a quest to bring your creative role-playing game ideas to life. From classics like Dungeons and Dragons to Indie RPGs, find out how to start playing and designing tabletop RPGs and finally get your creative adventure to the table. Hosted by Christopher J.R.R. Penner. | |
| Saturday 2-3pm (Executive 5) | Totally Inspired – E. Lynn Cormick, Dakota Senese, and RJ Hore |
| It is said that a writer’s need to write exceeds a reader’s need to read. What inspires a writer to write in an increasingly crowded market. | |
| Saturday 3-4pm (Stevenson D) | Read the Book! Adapting Books to the Screen – Jim Butcher, Tanya Huff, Adam Knight (Moderator) |
| Jim Butcher and Tanya Huff discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of seeing their books (Dresden Files and The Blood Books) adapted to the small screen. Also, what are the best and worst adaptations that they’ve seen, and which books would they love to see adapted on the big or small screen. | |
| Saturday 3-4pm (Magellan) | Oobleck, What Even Is It? – Wolfgang Klassen |
| Wolfgang invites you to join him in some physical science! Do some messy, but simple, science that can be done with stuff from around your house. This panel is appropriate for even the littlest ones to start their love of learning the sciences. | |
| Saturday 3-4pm (Executive 4) | Pre-flight Launch |
| From paper to screen and back: An idea originally written for the screen can be recreated and expanded into a literary form that is related, yet a new story. Viewing one of the original webisodes of Preflight Launch will help springboard the discussion of the first novel from the series, and what the series was originally seen as being a forerunner to. | |
| Saturday 3-4pm (Executive 5) | So You Want to Write a Book |
| Using the metaphor of a road trip, this presentation guides aspiring writers in the beginning stages of writing their book, from finding an idea, through choosing a genre and type (graphic novel, book, etc.), outline and tropes, and to writing the first draft. | |
| Saturday 4-5pm (Stevenson D) | Supernatural History – Jennifer Blackstream and Dakota Senese (Moderator) |
| Let’s talk about the crazy, the bloody, and the incredible figures in history that were so intriguing people had to believe they weren’t entirely human. Elizabeth Bathory (vampire?) Rasputin (wizard?) Vlad the Impaler (Dracula?) A talk about authors who have incorporated these figures into their own work and why historians can’t tell some parts of history from mythology. | |
| Saturday 4-5pm (Magellan) | Being Your Own Boss |
| Whether it’s comic books, games or creating content for social media, being your own boss is a labour of love. The joys and pitfalls of making a career as an independent creative, and how to make it all work so that you still love what you’re doing and can pay the bills. | |
| Saturday 4-5pm (Executive 4) | Felix |
| Join cast members from the award-winning podcast Felix: Space Pirate as they reprise their characters in a swashbuckling live-play pulp sci-fi heist, written and run by seasoned Game Master and voice actor Googly Doc Wilson! | |
| Saturday 4-5pm (Executive 5) | Authors of MB Readings – Casia Schreyer and RJ Hore |
| Casia Schreyer reads from her middle grade science fiction adventure novel, “Underground.” Growing up in an underground megacity, Ethan and Shawna have never seen the sun, but that’s not the only way they’ve been kept in the dark. RJ Hore reads from the first novella in the Housetrap Chronicles Omnibus, Volume One, “Housetrap;” a fantasy detective series that ran to twelve novellas. Q&A to follow. | |
| Saturday 5-6pm (Stevenson D) | Nerf Shooting Range – Nancy Fetterman (Host) |
| Come one, come all to test out your Nerf gun skills. There will be a variety of Nerf guns and targets to shoot at. For a donation to CancerCare you may even try out our 25 shot Nerf machine gun. | |
| Saturday 5-6pm (Magellan) | It’s Not Hoarding if it’s Dice – Casia Schreyer & Janelle Schreyer |
| $10 fee to cover the cost of the wooden boxes that each participant gets to take home. Join us for a fun hour of decorating small dice boxes! Paint, brushes, and boxes will be provided along with some fun examples and ideas to get you started. Use your box to store a set or two of dice, or other personal treasures. Just beware the mimics! | |
| Saturday 5-6pm (Executive 5) | Artist Jam – Evan Quiring |
| Join Even Quiring in drawing, sketching, and making art. Paper, pencils, colouring pencils will be provided. | |
| Saturday 6-7pm (Stevenson D) | Masquerade |
| Saturday 7-8pm (Stevenson D) | Room Flip |
| Saturday 7-8pm (Magellan) | Pre-Social Limber Up – Sheena Morrison Sousa |
| Limber up to limbo down. Shake the kinks out before you dance the night away. | |
| Saturday 8-9pm (Stevenson D) | Social (5 hours) |
| Saturday 8-9pm (Executive 4) | A Danger in the Details – G.M.B. Chomichuk (2 hours) |
| “The audience and its brave volunteers join the evil Narrator in creating a story that plays like a game. The audience can choose between: The Incident at Gloom Lake: Agents unknown have been sent to Gloom Lake to investigate an incident. The Incident has attracted hungry UFOs, Reptilian Skinchangers, and Mind Control Agents who seem to have been attracted by the spontaneous development of psychic abilities in a group of small town kids. Kill The Sorcerer!: The sorcerer Azoth, once a great champion of the realm, has gone mad; his mind eaten by the Dream Stone of Carcosa. But Azoth has sent a final dream to his most trusted allies: “You, my dear old friends, must come to the City of Vox Libram, find me, and kill me!” Now you and an infamous few must infiltrate the grand city of knowledge and kill its greatest Sorcerer before he becomes the realm’s greatest threat.” | |
| Saturday 9-10pm (Magellan) | Live Bad Fanfic Reading – Laurie E. Smith 18+ (2 hours) |
| Can YOU make it all the way through reading a page of incredibly awful fan fiction out loud without breaking down or giving up? Past Live Bad Fanfic Readings have produced both tears and screams of mirth, and this year promises to be even better! Come out, read aloud, win prizes –or simply listen as hilarity ensures! (Adults only) | |
| Saturday 10-11pm (Executive 4) | Blood on the Clocktower 101 and Gameplay– Amanda Brant, Leslie Paul Brant |
| ““A long time ago in the sleepy town of Ravenswood Bluff, you hear a scream. You see the blood dripping of the clock hands and onto the cobblestone.” Blood on the Clocktower (BOTC) is an imposter game similar to Werewolf or Mafia. Come learn about the game, its rules and character roles, and the Keycon Script (selected character roles). Once you’ve learned about the game join us for “Knowledge and Cower”, which has been specifically designed for new players. Will you be on the side of good, or be the minion of evil incarnate?” | |
| Saturday Midnight Onwards (Magellan) | Wolfgang Klassen Concert |
| Sunday 7-9am (Executive 4) | Sunday Cartoon Cavalcade- Peter Decourcey (3 hours) |
| The audience and its brave volunteers join the evil Narrator in creating a story that plays like a game. The audience can choose between: The Incident at Gloom Lake: Agents unknown have been sent to Gloom Lake to investigate an incident. The Incident has attracted hungry UFOs, Reptilian Skinchangers, and Mind Control Agents who seem to have been attracted by the spontaneous development of psychic abilities in a group of small town kids. Kill The Sorcerer!: The sorcerer Azoth, once a great champion of the realm, has gone mad; his mind eaten by the Dream Stone of Carcosa. But Azoth has sent a final dream to his most trusted allies: “You, my dear old friends, must come to the City of Vox Libram, find me, and kill me!” Now you and an infamous few must infiltrate the grand city of knowledge and kill its greatest Sorcerer before he becomes the realm’s greatest threat. | |
| Sunday 9-10am (Magellan) | Sunday Morning Stretch – Sheena Morrison Sousa |
| Alanis Morrisette was right, the Sunday morning after can be hard. Give your body a little slow, gentle love with stretches, and if we are up for it a yoga sequence. | |
| Sunday 10am- 11am (Stevenson D) | Freya’s Fabulous 12th Birthday Bash |
| Laurie E. Smith’s kitty Freya turns 12 years old only three days after Keycon! Come watch cool cat videos, bring your donations of cash for CancerCare Manitoba, and eat delicious cake! We’ll also have raffle prizes plus a prize for the most generous donor of the day! (All proceeds go to CancerCare Manitoba’s Guardian Angel Caring Room, which provides free wigs and headwear for cancer patients.) | |
| Sunday 10am- 11am (Magellan) | Explorations in Style and Story – Evan Quiring, Adam Knight |
| A discussion on the similarities and differences in storytelling in comic books, novels, and screenplays. | |
| Sunday 10am- 11am (Executive 4) | Joey’s Trivia Extravaganza (Day Two) – Joey Wensel Lillian Bryant |
| Join Joey and Lillian Sunday morning as they crown the 2025 Keycon Trivia Champion. | |
| Sunday 10am- 11am (Executive 5) | A Whole New World – Casia Schreyer and RJ Hore |
| Out of this world portal fantasy & pop culture. | |
| Sunday 11 Noon (Magellan) | WINSFA Senate AGM |
| Want to find out what the WINSFA Senate is? Come on out to the annual AGM. | |
| Sunday 11 Noon (Executive 4) | Um…Actually – Heather Punkert and Chris Wachal |
| A trivia game of fandom minutiae one-upmanship, where nerds do what nerds do best: flaunt encyclopedic nerd knowledge at Millennium Falcon nerd-speed. Come be a contestant or watch in the audience. | |
| Sunday 11 Noon (Executive 5) | Authors of MB Readings – E. Lynn Cormick, Dakota Senese, and Marjorie Roden. |
| E. Lynn Cormick will be reading from “Der Reizen”, the first book in the Der Reizen series. Herta Tanner inherits the job of being a Gate Guardian and liaison between Earth and the lands beyond the Gate. Dakota Senese reads from “Psy-Chick,” the first book in his Aladon Arboretum Series. Thrust into the world on her sending, Miranda encounters rebels, raves, and an old love interest of hers – will she crash and burn on this final test, or will she soar? Marjorie Roden reads from “Preflight Launch: The Missing Chapters.” Q&A to follow | |
| Sunday Noon – 1pm (Stevenson D) | 3D Printing – Black Magic Crafts (Jeremy Pillipow), Drew Bachand (moderator) |
| The 3D printing hobby is growing by leaps and bounds. How has it changed over the years, where is it now, and where is it going? What should new participants in the hobby look for in 3D printers, and what do they need to know to have the best chance of enjoying the hobby? Join Jeremy Pillipow as he talks about the hobby and takes questions from the audience. | |
| Sunday Noon – 1pm (Executive 4) | Tanya Huff Reading |
| Tanya Huff reads from her latest novel, “Direct Descendant.” Q&A to follow. | |
| Sunday Noon – 1pm (Executive 5) | The Secret to Writing is Writing – Dakota Senese, RJ Hore, and Adam Knight |
| Finding time to write is easier said than done. How to balance work, life, and writing. | |
| Sunday 1-2pm (Stevenson D) | You’re Going to Need a Bigger Budget – Jennifer Blackstream, Jim Butcher, and Casia Schreyer (moderator) |
| A discussion of genre expectations using shark movies as the framework. | |
| Sunday 1-2pm (Magellan) | Watership Down – Laurie E. Smith |
| “Watership Down” by Richard Adams is, on its surface, a charming tale of talking rabbits in the English countryside. Dive deeper, and it tackles themes of war, violence, and authoritarianism. Would you let your child read it? Why or why not? Join us for a lively discussion. | |
| Sunday 1-2pm (Executive 4) | Felix |
| Ever wondered what it’s like to sail the stars with a crew of misfit space pirates? “Felix: Space Pirate” is a thrilling audio drama that blends heart-pounding action, sharp humor, and a touch of existential intrigue as it follows the adventures of Felix and her ragtag crew navigating the mysteries of identity, trust, and survival in a chaotic universe. At this panel, you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of this intergalactic hit, featuring the cast and creators who bring the story to life. Learn how they craft the show’s epic soundscapes, develop complex characters, and tackle the challenges of telling a story that’s equal parts space western and heartfelt drama. Plus, the main cast will be on hand for a live Q&A session, where you can ask about their favourite moments, how they shape their characters, and what really goes into being a space pirate (hint: it’s not just about the cool voices). Whether you’re a longtime audio drama fan or just curious about diving into a bold new universe, this panel promises to be out of this world. Don’t miss this chance to discover the show that’s capturing imaginations across the stars—your new favourite adventure might just start here. | |
| Sunday 1-2pm (Executive 5) | Maureen Castell Reading |
| Maureen Castell reads from her latest book, “A Viking in Atlantis.” Q & A to follow | |
| Sunday 2-3pm (Stevenson D) | Lasers and Magnets |
| Do you want to know what Wolfgang has been busy with in Vancouver? Come and see this lecture designed for the general audience that explains what he’s been working on as he pursues his PhD. | |
| Sunday 2-3pm (Magellan) | Defining Our Genre – Adam Knight and Chris Barsanti (moderator) |
| What makes a story science fiction or fantasy literature, rather than a story that is just dressed up as SF & F? | |
| Sunday 2-3pm (Executive 4) | Fiction in the Age of Climate Change – Jason Pchajek |
| A panel discussing the role media and literature play in discussions and understanding of climate change. More specifically, discussing how emergent genres like climate fiction, and more traditional genres like sci-fi, fantasy, and cyberpunk fit into broader discussions of this existential change, and how creatives can talk about climate change in their work. How will we respond socially, culturally, politically, and technologically to the challenges of Climate Change? From climate refugees fleeing disaster, to building resilient infrastructure, to inevitably trying to turn back the climate clock, media will inevitably play a key role in both being informed by, and informing, our cultural outlook and understanding of these topics. | |
| Sunday 2-3pm (Executive 5) | What Book Would you have in the Afterlife, Just in Case – Dawn Baker |
| What book would you take to the afterlife, just in case? No Tolkien, Rowling, or series allowed. | |
| Sunday 3-4pm (Stevenson D) | Charity Auction |
| Now is your chance to support CancerCare Manitoba. We will have a wide variety of items available to bid on. | |
| Sunday 4-5pm (Stevenson D) | Closing Ceremonies |
| Gather with us to say farewell to our Guests of Honour and to say Hello to next years Con-Chairs. | |
| Sunday 5-6pm (Magellan) | Beefs and Bouquets |
| Come out and let Keycon know what went right and what could use improvement. | |
| Sunday 8-10pm (Stevenson D) | Laurie E. Smith’s Video Faves @ Keycon 41! (PG-13 followed by 18+) |
| Join Laurie E. Smith for a personally curated selection of fun, musical, hilarious, and thought-provoking videos! The first half hour will be PG-13, and after 8:30 pm we’ll be switching to 18+ fare! | |
| Sunday 8-10pm (Magellan) | A Danger in the Details – G.M.B. Chomichuk |
| The audience and its brave volunteers join the evil Narrator in creating a story that plays like a game. The audience can choose between: The Incident at Gloom Lake: Agents unknown have been sent to Gloom Lake to investigate an incident. The Incident has attracted hungry UFOs, Reptilian Skinchangers, and Mind Control Agents who seem to have been attracted by the spontaneous development of psychic abilities in a group of small town kids. Kill The Sorcerer!: The sorcerer Azoth, once a great champion of the realm, has gone mad; his mind eaten by the Dream Stone of Carcosa. But Azoth has sent a final dream to his most trusted allies: “You, my dear old friends, must come to the City of Vox Libram, find me, and kill me!” Now you and an infamous few must infiltrate the grand city of knowledge and kill its greatest Sorcerer before he becomes the realm’s greatest threat. | |