Friday | ||
6 PM | Gallery A | Ghost Hunting: Hands on Investigative Techniques. TPIT |
Gallery B | ConSociology 101: How to meet people at cons. J. Lancaster | |
Town Hall Theater | Arcattack: How and why we do it. | |
7 PM | Finley | Opening Ceremonies: Guest Speeches |
8 PM | Gallery A&B | Meet the Pro’s Reception |
8:15 PM | Outside Convention Center | Fire Dance: Kira Lang (weather permitting) |
9 PM | Centennial | Chattacon Revue: Featuring Jillianna Babb-Cheshul and troupe, Darrell (The Doctor) Osborn, Amberetta, The Molly Maguires, Sadistic Scenic City Sideshow, Syrens of the South |
Town Hall Theater | Filk Festival: Tom Smith, Robbie Hilliard and yourself. Come join in the singing. | |
10PM | Finley | What’s new at SJ Games: Come hear the latest from Steve Jackson himself. Q&A time and Autographs |
Grand Central | Drum Circle: Bring your drum and join in. (Fire Pit area) Coattails | |
Saturday | ||
10AM | Gallery A | Ghost Hunting: Why we do it. SEPS, TPIT, SE Supernatural Asst Team |
Gallery B | What can society learn from SF? S.MacMillan, Martindale, Harvey, Fannon | |
Finley | What is the most important element in a Comic or Graphic Novel? Cressall, Sommers, Antczak | |
Centennial Theater | Fencing: Demo and Workshop P. Sacco | |
Town Hall Theater | Origami: Learn to make a balloon, a lily, and a modular cube. Paper will be provided. Sparr | |
11AM | Gallery A | Refining the Inspiration: Cressall Snodgrass, Gilbreath, S. Osborn |
Gallery B | Writers Groups: What are they and what do they do? Webb, Antczak, Sommers, Martindale | |
Finley | Who is writing this thing anyway? Kurtz, Sinclaire, Buettner, Girard | |
Town Hall Theater | Ghost Hunters: The techniques and equipment SE Supernatural Asst Team | |
Noon | Gallery A | Working in the Space Program: Stories from “on console.” S.Osborn |
Gallery B | Designing, Sewing and Building your costume: Ardani Studios, Harvey, Stringer | |
Finley | Tanks!!!! Weber, Jackson,S. MacMillan | |
Centennial Theater | Independent Films: A new Chattacon Tradition! (noon-5PM) | |
Grand Central | Robot Battles Competition | |
Town Hall Theater | Miniature Painting: Supplies will be provided. J.Stringer | |
1PM | Gallery A | Pitching to Hollywood: Kurtz, Webb, Antczak, Hudgens |
Gallery B | Why does the Left love military SF? Weber, Coe, Buettner, S. MacMillan | |
Finley | The Baen Traveling Slide Show with Toni Weisskopf | |
Art Show-Nook | Paper Art Workshop. Participants will make bookmarks using a variety of coloring and stamping techniques. No fee Shockley, Roberts | |
Centennial Theater | Independent Films: A new Chattacon Tradition! | |
Town Hall Theater | Make and Take: Pirate hats Susan Stringer | |
2PM | Gallery A | Why and How to tighten a manuscript for submission. Weber, Webb, Donahue, Sommers |
Gallery B | Gratuitous Self Promotion: Snodgrass, Draven, Hudgens, Mandala | |
Finley | History of the Geisha (with costumes) Sara Harvey | |
Centennial Lobby | Autographs: Tom Smith | |
Centennial Theater | Independent Films: A new Chattacon Tradition! | |
Town Hall Theater | Belly Dance for beginners w/choreography Jillianna | |
Grand Central | Laser Tag Maze-Indoors!!!! (2PM-6PM) | |
Grand Central | Robot Battles: Robotics workshop and demo | |
3PM | Gallery A | Learn about lighting, cameras, and writing for short films. H. Cressall |
Gallery B | Vampires Suck(or thanks a lot, Ann Rice) K. Waters | |
Finley | Lap Top Studios: PC/MAC/Linux software to create music, free or cheap. Tom Smith | |
Centennial Theater | Independent Films: A new Chattacon Tradition! | |
Centennial Lobby | Autographs: Michael Bielaczyc and Paul Bielaczyc | |
Town Hall Theater | Magic Workshop: Darrell (The Doctor) Osborn | |
4PM | Gallery A | Self Management for Artists: Waters, P. Bielaczyc, M. Bielaczyc, Elliott |
Gallery B | Real science in SF(or the lack thereof): Osborn, Draven, Cressall, Fannon | |
| Finley | Mythology and Mythical Creatures: Sacco, Gilbreath, Donahue, Girard |
Centennial Theater | Independent Films:A new Chattacon Tradition! | |
Centennial Lobby | Autographs: Katherine Kurtz | |
Town Hall Theater | Towel Origami for Hoopy Froods. Learn how to fold fun towel animals. Towels provided. Shockley, Roberts | |
5PM | Gallery A | Computer Security for People Who Don’t Think They Need It : C.MacMillan |
Gallery B | The core of Reality in SF: S.MacMillan Donahue, Mandala,Girard | |
| Finley | New media in art: Planning a multimedia piece, to creation and execution. Ardani Studios |
Centennial Lobby | Autographs: David Weber | |
Centennial Theater | Tom Smith in Concert | |
Town Hall Theater | Belly Dance: All levels tribal fusion choreography Amberetta | |
6PM | Gallery A | Pod Casting 101: Paul Cagle |
Gallery B | Fantasy Casting for the Deryni movie in set up now. Kurtz | |
| Finley | A history of SF art: K. Waters |
Town Hall Theater | Drum Rhythms: Bring your drum and learn some new beats. Mike Eaves | |
7PM | Centennial Theater | Atlanta Radio Theater Company: An adaptation of Katherine Kurtz’scharming short story “The Gargoyle’s Shadow” and H.P. Lovecraft’s “Colour out of Space” |
8PM | Centennial Theater | Masquerade Pre-judging |
9PM | Centennial Theater | Masquerade |
Town Hall Theater | Hafla: A Middle Eastern Dance Party-with all the dance hits from the First Century on up featuring belly dance performances by Amberetta, Cross Cultural Dance Troupe, Merrybellies, and Mirabai through out the night. | |
10PM | Grand Central Station | Arcattack in Concert |
Sunday | ||
11AM | Gallery A | Reading: Stephanie Osborn |
Gallery B | Reading: Lee Martindale | |
Finley | Covers: What we need and want. Jackson, Weisskopf | |
12 | Finley | A last chance to meet the guests-Q&A time. Kurtz, Weber, Jackson, Smith |
2PM | Finley | Closing Comments: Come tell us what we did right and where we could improve. Charlie Williams, Chairman of Chattacon XXXIV |
Chattacon L Short Story Contest
Interested in seeing your short story published in the Chattacon L programming book? Here is your chance. We are looking for 2,000-5,000 word speculative fiction