1983 – (May 20-22) – VCON 11:
Guest of Honour: FRANK HERBERT. Toast Master: GEORGES GIGUERE. Artist Guest of Honour: WARREN ODDSON. Fan Guest of Honour: ELIZABETH WARREN,
Venue: Richmond Inn, Richmond.
Attending: ?
CONCOM: Chair ( Chaise Lounge ) – Gay Maddin; Mascot ( Assistant Chair ) – Jerry Gallant; Treasurer – Vaughn Fraser; Registrar – Steve Forty; Hospitality Bar – Tom Waddell & Kay Briggs; Trivia Quiz – Stuart Cooper; Art Show – Chris Bell; Dealers – Tim Boulton & Ken Wong; Films – Grandee Englehart; Publications – Barbara Przeklasa;Technical Support – Alan R. Betz; Bacchanal – Margaret Galbraith-Hamilton; Publicity – Jim Welch & Jo-Anne McBride; Programming – Fran Skene, Gay Maddin, Pat Burrows & David George; Logistics – Ed Kedzierski & Bruce Waddell; Elron Awards – David George.
Sponsored: by BCSFA, the British Columbia Science Fiction Association. Three days of double-track programming with separate rooms for films, art show, dealers, childcare, gaming & hospitality con-suite.
FIRST VCON To feature a Childcare ( Kidcon ) room, & FIRST to program SF Poetry.
FRIDAY included:
– TRIWAG, GIGER & OTHERS slideshow on graphic art in the 70s by Ed Hutchings;
– GAMES FEN PLAY panel moderated by Georges Giguere;
– GRUNGE FANTASY MEETS THE SPACE OPERA panel with F.M. Busby ( mod ) & Mildred Downey Broxon, Stuart Cooper & Jim Welch;
– SCIENCE FICTION AND THE MEDIA panel with Dianne Thompson, FGoH Liz Warren & others;
– THE GREAT TRIVIA QUIZ part 1;
– & AUTHORS RECEPTION.
SATURDAY featured:
– THE GREAT TRIVIA QUIZ part 2;
– NORTHWEST COAST MYTHOLOGY talk by David Vogt of UBC;
– a READING by Cyn Mason;
– HORROR AND TIME IN WELLS, DICK & WOLFE talk by Prof. Mason Harris;
– THE FANDOM PANEL with Georges Giguere, Liz Warren, Mike Finkbiner & others;
– READING by Eileen Kernaghan;
– SCIENCE FICTION POETRY with Eileen Kernaghan, J.T. Stewart & Gene Van Troyer;
– IF YOU LOVE THIS PLANET panel with F.M. Busby ( mod ), Frank Herbert, Marilyn Holt, George Gutheridge & Vicki Mitchell;
– ARE ALL STEVES REALLY SMOFS panel with Steve Fahnestalk ( mod ), Steve Berry, Steve Bieler, Steve Bard & Steve Forty;
– a READING by William Gibson;
– DEAD AUTHORS PANEL with Cyn Mason ( mod ), Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly ( Susan Walsh ), H. Beam Piper ( Warren Oddson ), & H.G. Wells ( Mason Harris );
– THE UNICORNS ARE HUNG OVER THERE art panel with Bill Warren ( mod ), Jon Gustafson & others;
– READING by Steve Bieler;
– READING by Mildred Downey Broxon;
– CARTOONISTS WAR with Bill Warren, Richard Bartrop & others;
– THINGS SCIENCE FICTION DID NOT PREDICT panel with Jon Gufstafson ( mod ), Cyn Mason, Dale Hammell & Ed Beauregard;
– AMATEUR FILM WORKSHOP;
– a talk ON THE MAKING OF DUNE, THE MOVIE by Frank Herbert;
– PORNOGRAPHY, TECHNOLOGY & THE LAW slideshow by Michael Walsh;
– ARTISTS RECEPTION, BACCHANAL & DANCE.
SUNDAY had:
– a SHORT STORY WORKSHOP with George Gutheridge, Gene Van Troyer & others;
– an ART AUCTION,
– an ARTISTS WORKSHOP;
– a BANQUET with SPEECHES, ELRON AWARDS & FILM CONTEST AWARDS;
– repeat of TRIWAG, GIGER & OTHERS slideshow by Ed Hutchings;
– another ART AUCTION;
– a WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE panel on distopias with Frank Herbert, Susan Walsh & others;
– FILM CONTEST entries showing;
– SF & FANTASY IN THE CLASSROOM panel with Mason Harris, J.T. Stewart, Gene Van Troyer, Terry Truscott & others,
– CHILDREN’S SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY panel with Fran Skene ( mod ), George Gutheridge, Jo-Anne McBride, Gael Blackhall, & Susan Walsh;
– & TRIVIA QUIZ FINALS.