Swancon 2009
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Swancon 2009: Contact
Swancon 2008 was the 34rd annual West Australian Science Fiction Convention, held on April 9th-13th 2009.
Committee
- Chairperson: PRK
- Vice Chair: Jaunita Landéesse
- Treasurer: Elaine Kemp
- Secretary: Jess Bridges
- Programme Co-ordinator: Maia Bobrowicz
- Academic Programme Co-ordinator: Stephen Dedman
- Design and Publishing: Kathryn Linge
- Queen of Arts: Stephanie Bateman-Graham
- Volunteers Coordinator: Alistair McKie
- Events Co-ordinator: Linda Deegan
- Webmaster and Data Wrangler: Christopher Phillips
Guests
- GoH: Richard Morgan, Trudi Canavan, Theresa Anns
- Fan GoH: Alicia Smith and Rob Masters
Venue
For the fourth year in a row, it's the All Seasons Hotel. The con rates for rooms at the hotel were $115 or $135 per night
Memberships
Memberships were sold before the convention (up to 31st March) at Fantastic Planet, Tactics, Planet Books, White Dwarf, and indiebooksonline.com.
Door prices
- Full: $160
- Concession: $140
- Day: Thursday:$25, Friday:$20, Saturday-Monday:$50
Movie Screenings
Fundraising screenings of the following movies were held:
- The Spiderwick Chronicles
- Iron Man
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
- Speed Racer
- Get Smart
- Hancock
- Dark Knight
- Forbidden Kingdom
- X-Files 2
- Wanted
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Hellboy II (cancelled)
- WALL·E
- Quantum of Solace
- Watchmen
