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
2:30 PM
3:00 PM
3:30 PM Cats in space Biotechnology in SF Dating Advice from Disney Princesses
4:00 PM Open Gaming
4:30 PM
5:00 PM The Sanderson Effect: Can it be Replicated? Attack of the Killer Bees Stupid Writing Tricks: Stylistic flourishes in fiction
5:30 PM
6:00 PM Magic the Gathering Sealed Booster Draft
7:00 PM Opening Ceremonies
8:00 PM
8:30 PM ConQuesT Name That Tune (or Show) Body Horror: The Last Ewwww The Butterfly Effect
9:00 PM
9:30 PM
10:00 PM
10:30 PM
11:00 PM
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
3:30 PM
4:00 PM
4:30 PM The Uncanny Power of Weird Fiction Art Auction Illustrating a Book
5:00 PM
5:30 PM
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
8:30 PM
9:00 PM
9:30 PM
10:00 PM
10:30 PM
11:00 PM
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
10:30 AM
11:00 AM
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
1:30 PM
2:00 PM
2:30 PM Curiouser and Curiouser The Art of Magic the Gathering Terrible Parents in Science Fiction & Fantasy
3:00 PM
3:30 PM
4:00 PM Closing Ceremonies
5:00 PM