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Friday
, May 25
Annapolis 3
3:30pm •
Movies: Science Fiction Shorts
4:30pm •
Movie: Centralia, Pennsylvania's Lost Town
6:30pm •
Movie: Malice: Emergence
9:00pm •
Movie: Flora
Annapolis 4
9:00am •
Educators Workshop
LIMITED
3:00pm •
Costuming/Cosplay 101
4:00pm •
Hand Sewing 101
5:00pm •
Cheesy Line-Reading Contest
6:00pm •
Fantasy Flight Games Presents: Cosmic Encounter®
10:00pm •
Late Night Karaoke
Baltimore 1
3:00pm •
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These (1 - 3)
4:30pm •
Steins;Gate 0 (1-3)
Baltimore 2
3:00pm •
Streaming 101 : Mixing it up
4:00pm •
Exploring the Wired: The Ideas Behind Serial Experiments Lain
Baltimore 3
5:00pm •
YA Science Fiction Writing Workshop
FILLING
8:30pm •
Ogre Battles in Washington, DC
8:30pm •
Gaming After Dark
Woodrow Wilson A
3:00pm •
War of the Worlds, 2018
5:00pm •
Movie: A Year in Space
7:00pm •
Pop Parliament
8:15pm •
Doctor Whose Line Is it Anyway?!
10:30pm •
Space Party & Dance
Woodrow Wilson B
3:00pm •
Future War: Other Worlds or Other Worldly?
4:00pm •
How Science Fiction Inspired Exploration Achievements
5:00pm •
Simulating Near-Future Conflicts
6:00pm •
Will Asteroid Mining Solve our Resource Shortages?
Woodrow Wilson C
3:00pm •
The Westerner's Guide to Mobile Suit Gundam, the "Star Trek of Japan"
5:00pm •
Giant Robots: Crushing your Misconceptions
Woodrow Wilson D
3:00pm •
Earth Rise: 50 years
4:00pm •
Edgar Rice Burroughs, His Worlds and His Influences
6:00pm •
Frankenstein’s Monster: 200 Years Later
7:00pm •
Legacy Launch Party!
10:00pm •
Super Art Fight
Exhibit Hall - B18 (Stage)
3:00pm •
DC Stunt Coalition
6:00pm •
Dance Workshop- Hip Hop
Exhibit Hall - Booth A2 (Cosmic Encounter)
12:00pm •
Cosmic Encounter®: Quick Start / Alien Combos / Play Designers
12:00pm •
Cosmic Encounter World Champion Jack Reda’s Home Brews
Exhibit Hall - Booth B16 (Cal Poly Architecture Design Project)
4:00pm •
Cal Poly Architecture Designs for the Museum of Science Fiction
6:00pm •
Cal Poly Architecture Designs for the Museum of Science Fiction
Exhibit Hall - Booth C18 (Art Way Alliance)
2:00pm •
The Good of Gaming: Using video games to expose STEAM fields to the next generation! with TAG Labs
FILLING
3:30pm •
Drawing Characters with S.T.E.A.M. with C. Edward Sellner of Visionary Comics
LIMITED
4:30pm •
Draw Dr. Who Characters with Keir Lyes
LIMITED
5:30pm •
Comic Covers Design 101 with Dan Nokes
LIMITED
Exhibit Hall - Booth C20 (MOSF Education)
4:00pm •
Slime Station
Saturday
, May 26
Annapolis 3
12:00am •
Movie: Planet of the Apes
10:00am •
TV: Scienstars
11:00am •
In Saturn's Rings with NASA! A Journey for IMAX theaters
12:00pm •
Movie: Black Wake
2:00pm •
The 50th Anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey
3:00pm •
2001 Book Signing: Rob Godwin and Adam Johnson
4:00pm •
Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey
10:30pm •
Late Night Karaoke
Annapolis 4
9:00am •
Video Game Programming and Development: It's More than Syntax
10:00am •
The 7 Dwarves (OK, TRAPPISTS)
11:00am •
Humans, Cyborgs, Androids: Companions in the Exploration of Other Worlds
12:00pm •
Touch the Sun
1:00pm •
Cosmic Encounter® Alien Secrets
2:00pm •
Comparative Alien Anatomy
3:00pm •
Cyborfication and Memetic Warfare
4:00pm •
Interview with a “Vampyre”... A Conversation with the Creators of Nightmares
5:00pm •
Zombae: The Evolution of Zombies in Popular Culture
10:30pm •
Super Art Fight
Annapolis Prefunction
12:00pm •
Greg Bear Autograph Signing
2:00pm •
Morgan Gendel Autograph Signing
Baltimore 1
9:00am •
Outlaw Star (1 - 10)
2:00pm •
Aldnoah Zero (1-5)
4:00pm •
Active Raid (1-5)
6:00pm •
Space Brothers (1-5)
8:00pm •
Ergo Proxy (1-5)
10:00pm •
Code Geass:Lelouch of the Rebellion (S1 1-5)
Baltimore 2
11:00am •
Ghost in the Matrix
12:00pm •
A Puppet Without a Ghost: the Evolution of Cyberpunk Anime
1:00pm •
Cloud Age Symphony: Steampunk and Anime
2:00pm •
Everything You Wanted to Know About Worbla Armor Fabrication But Were Afraid to Ask
3:00pm •
Giant Robots and Space Pirates: How Science Fiction helped Bring Anime to America
8:30pm •
Cosplay Pitfalls: When Things in Cosplay Don’t Go Your Way
9:30pm •
Re-telling of stories of the Rising Sun: Japanese Space Operas
Baltimore 3
12:00am •
Movie: Ghostbusters Quote-Along
9:00am •
Boolean Girl Coding Workshop A
LIMITED
10:00am •
Boolean Girl Coding Workshop B
LIMITED
11:00am •
Boolean Girl Coding Workshop C
LIMITED
12:00pm •
Ghostbusters Tech in the Real World
1:00pm •
Costuming Cosmetics
2:00pm •
Exoplanets as Seen Through Video Games
3:00pm •
Costuming/Cosplay 201
4:00pm •
A World Where Apes Evolved from Men?
8:30pm •
Gaming After Dark
Woodrow Wilson A
10:00am •
Greg Nicotero on The Walking Dead and 2001: A Space Odyssey
11:00am •
Other Worlds According to Greg Bear
12:00pm •
The Future According to David Brin
1:00pm •
World-Building for Writers
2:00pm •
Think Outside the Can
5:30pm •
Costume Fashion Show Tech Rehearsal
6:30pm •
Escape Velocity Keynote, Film Awards, and Fashion Show/Costume Competition Awards
9:00pm •
Cosplay Dance Off
10:45pm •
Space Dance
Woodrow Wilson B
9:00am •
Creating Other Worlds for Science Fiction Films
11:00am •
Blerdcon presents: Blerd is the Word
12:00pm •
SPAAACE! And Why It's Awesome!
1:00pm •
Heroes, Villains, and Healing
2:00pm •
Law of Star Wars
3:00pm •
Creating a Sci-Fi Comic
5:30pm •
EV Cocktail Hour, open to all!
11:30pm •
Movie: Rocky Horror Picture Show Doors Open
Woodrow Wilson C
11:00am •
A Brief History of Anime
1:00pm •
The Present and Future of 3D Printing: Cosplay, Manufacturing, and More
2:00pm •
The Future Looks a Lot Like...the Past?
3:00pm •
A Science Fiction Fan's Guide to Anime
4:00pm •
A Very Special Recording of The Cosplay Cast -- Cosplay and STEM
8:30pm •
Sci-fi Anime Worth Watching
9:30pm •
Tables in Space! An Overview and History of Science Fiction Tabletop RPGs
10:30pm •
Cards against Anime : SYFY!
Woodrow Wilson D
9:00am •
Unsettling "The Eternal Feminine" and Other Gender Myths
10:00am •
Sci-Fi Languages, Dialects, and Slang
11:00am •
Female Embodiment in the Post-Apocalyptic Survival Narrative
1:00pm •
Faith and Reason: Can Science Fiction Encompass Both?
2:00pm •
Afrofuturism Returns: Black Superhuman and Otherhuman Identities
4:00pm •
Returning to the Moon
9:00pm •
The National Security Decision-Making Game (Science Fiction Edition)
Exhibit Hall - B18 (Stage)
12:00pm •
Dance Workshop- Fusion Dancing
1:00pm •
The Science of Frankenstein
2:00pm •
Movement Analysis for Character Development
3:00pm •
The Circus Siren Pod Presents: Alien Mermaid Meet, Greet, and Swim!
4:00pm •
DC Stunt Coalition
5:00pm •
Geek Rock with Miss Nerdstiles
Exhibit Hall - Booth A2 (Cosmic Encounter)
10:00am •
Cosmic Encounter®: Quick Start / Alien Combos / Play Designers
2:00pm •
Cosmic Encounter®: Play in TableTop Simulator with Cosmic Encounter Designer Bill Eberle
3:00pm •
Cosmic Encounter®: Into The Future
Exhibit Hall - Booth B16 (Cal Poly Architecture Design Project)
11:00am •
Cal Poly Architecture Designs for the Museum of Science Fiction
5:00pm •
Cal Poly Architecture Designs for the Museum of Science Fiction
Exhibit Hall - Booth C18 (Art Way Alliance)
11:30am •
Pokemon Go & Draw
FULL
1:00pm •
The History and Art of Anime Styles with Pauil Kohberger
FILLING
2:30pm •
Finding My Identity in Cosplay with Kurenai Kiba
LIMITED
4:00pm •
Be Your Own Superhero with C. Edward Sellner of Visionary Comics
FULL
5:30pm •
Hit Confirm: a Brief History of Character Design for Video Games with Tyrone Barnes
FILLING
Exhibit Hall - Booth C20 (MOSF Education)
10:00am •
Robot Dance School
12:00pm •
Minecrafting
FULL
1:00pm •
Sci-Fi Dough Ornaments
2:00pm •
Minecraft Stop Motion Animation
FULL
Sunday
, May 27
Annapolis 3
10:00am •
Science Fiction Writing Workshop for Teens
LIMITED
12:00pm •
Winners, Escape Velocity Film Festival
Annapolis 4
9:00am •
Be Your Own Intelligence Analyst in the Era of Fake News
10:00am •
Artist Alley Stage Fright: Running Your First Table
11:00am •
The Futurism of Walt Disney
12:00pm •
Artificial Bodies in Contemporary Media
1:00pm •
Desperately Seeking 21st Century Sci-Fi
2:00pm •
Changing The World Through (Fan-)Fiction
Baltimore 1
9:00am •
Full Metal Panic: Invisible Victory (1-5)
11:00am •
Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans (Season 2:26-32)
Baltimore 2
11:00am •
The Toxic Jungle: The Shadow of the Atomic Bomb over Sci-fi Anime
12:00pm •
Rebuilding History: Gundam Style
Baltimore 3
9:00am •
The National Science Foundation’s Night of the Living Limb- How Bioengineering Can Solve the Zombie Apocalypse Problem
10:00am •
How Not To Build a Renegade Computer: HAL 2018
11:00am •
What the U.S. Navy Taught Me About Starfleet
12:00pm •
Electromagnetic Rail Guns, Fact and Fiction, History and Potential
1:00pm •
No Man's Sky - Every Developer's Dream and Nightmare
2:00pm •
Starship Troopers: What’s All the Fuss?
3:00pm •
A Brave New World - For Video Games
Woodrow Wilson A
9:00am •
NASA's Saturn Mission: Exploring Saturn and its Moons
10:00am •
In Saturn's Rings, a film for IMAX theaters: The Kubrick, Science & Tech
11:00am •
Butterfly Kisses Screening and Q&A
Woodrow Wilson B
12:00am •
Movie: Rocky Horror Picture Show
9:00am •
Envisioning Sustainable Futures in Science Fiction Film
10:00am •
Cosplay for Everyone
11:00am •
The Hunt for Groot: Astrobiology at NASA
12:00pm •
Color Theory for Costuming and Cosplay
1:00pm •
A Wrinkle in Time Open Forum
2:00pm •
Board Games... in SPAAAAAACE!!!
3:00pm •
How Did They Make That?!
Woodrow Wilson C
11:00am •
Harry Potter vs. Spike Spiegel: Comparing Mythic Tropes in Japanese Anime vs. the West
12:00pm •
Seminal Sketch SciFi
1:00pm •
A Very Special Episode of the Cosplay Cast -- Anime Cosplay vs. Western Cosplay
Woodrow Wilson D
9:00am •
Science Fiction and Fantasy Characters as Dramatis Personae
10:00am •
Do You Believe in Magic?: The Narrative Construction of Magical Worlds, Creatures, and Characters
12:00pm •
6 Blind Men, or How Will we Know Life on Other Planets?
1:00pm •
Disability in Science Fiction
2:00pm •
Why Are They Spiritual Machines? AI and Religion
3:00pm •
Transtemporal and Transdimensional Worlds
Exhibit Hall - B18 (Stage)
2:00pm •
DC Stunt Coalition
Exhibit Hall - Booth A2 (Cosmic Encounter)
10:00am •
Cosmic Encounter®: The Days of Future Past
10:00am •
Cosmic Encounter®: Quick Start / Alien Combos / Play Designers
Exhibit Hall - Booth B16 (Cal Poly Architecture Design Project)
11:00am •
Cal Poly Architecture Designs for the Museum of Science Fiction
2:00pm •
Cal Poly Architecture Designs for the Museum of Science Fiction
Exhibit Hall - Booth C18 (Art Way Alliance)
11:30am •
Intro to Game Design Theory (So You Want To Make Games?) with Jake Heagy
FULL
1:00pm •
Fight of the Century: Sports in Science Fiction with Nick Allen & Troy-Jeffrey Allen
LIMITED
2:30pm •
World Development in Fantasy & Sci-Fi Story Telling with Tyrone Selby
FILLING
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