The ConQuesT 53 Program Schedule is here! We’re looking forward to a great weekend. Registration opens around noon – please be patient if we need a little more time to set up! Dealer’s Room and Art Show open early afternoon. Please check back to find out the exact time. See you soon!
| Friday, May 27, 2022 | Empire A | Empire B | Empire C | Main Programming | Terrace / Mezzanine | Terrace / Mezzanine |
| 2:00 PM | Bowie on the Big Screen | Extraordinary Children in Sf/Fantasy | Building with Batman’s Billions | |||
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| 3:30 PM | Cats in space | Biotechnology in SF | Dating Advice from Disney Princesses | |||
| 4:00 PM | Open Gaming | |||||
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| 5:00 PM | The Sanderson Effect: Can it be Replicated? | Attack of the Killer Bees | Stupid Writing Tricks: Stylistic flourishes in fiction | |||
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| 6:00 PM | Magic the Gathering Sealed Booster Draft | |||||
| 7:00 PM | Opening Ceremonies | |||||
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| 8:30 PM | ConQuesT Name That Tune (or Show) | Body Horror: The Last Ewwww | The Butterfly Effect | |||
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| Saturday, May 28, 2022 | Empire A | Empire B | Empire C | Main Programming | Terrace / Mezzanine | Terrace / Mezzanine |
| 10:00 AM | Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy”: Making memorable antagonists | Designing Magical Systems in Worldbuilding | Story in a Bag | |||
| 10:30 AM | ||||||
| 11:00 AM | ||||||
| 11:30 AM | How to Avoid the Plague | Climate Change Fiction | One-on-One Combat | |||
| Noon | Masquerade Tech Rehearsal | |||||
| 12:30 PM | ||||||
| 1:00 PM | ||||||
| 1:30 PM | Indie Author Buffet | Power Dynamics in Storytelling | The Fifth Element – 25 Years Later | Light Saber Duel | ||
| 2:00 PM | Open Gaming | |||||
| 2:30 PM | ||||||
| 3:00 PM | 50 Years of ConQuesT | Business of freelance art | Using Military Experience to Influence Storytelling | |||
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| 4:30 PM | The Uncanny Power of Weird Fiction | Art Auction | Illustrating a Book | |||
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| 6:00 PM | Vampire the Requiem Introductory Scenario | |||||
| 6:30 PM | Behind the GM Screen | SFF Film Adaptations: The Best and the Worst | From Nemesis to Ally/Friend/Lover | |||
| 7:00 PM | Masquerade Tech Rehearsal | |||||
| 7:30 PM | ||||||
| 8:00 PM | Cursing Creatively in Storytelling | To the stars! The new Ad Astra Center for Science Fiction & the Speculative Imagination | SF/Fantasy Creators Deserving of a Biopic/Biography | Masquerade | ||
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| Sunday, May 29, 2022 | Empire A | Empire B | Empire C | Main Programming | Terrace / Mezzanine | Terrace / Mezzanine |
| 10:00 AM | Gender Identity and Artificial Intelligence | Resurrection in SF & Fantasy | World Fantasy Con | |||
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| 11:30 AM | It Was So Good, and Then You Messed It Up | Designing a Great Book Cover | Supernatural: People Saved , Things Hunted | |||
| Noon | ||||||
| 12:30 PM | ||||||
| 1:00 PM | Intro to 3d Printing | The Reading Writer | The Mandalorian: Western or Science Fiction? | Charity Auction | ||
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| 2:30 PM | Curiouser and Curiouser | The Art of Magic the Gathering | Terrible Parents in Science Fiction & Fantasy | |||
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| 4:00 PM | Closing Ceremonies | |||||
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