OryCon 17 Program
Friday November 10, 1995
12:00 Noon Friday
- Klamath
- Social responsibility of Writers for their readers
Jim Fiscus, Forsythe, Margaret, Lyris, Sonia Orin Lyris
1:00pm Friday
- Yakima
- Game mastering for novice and veteran
Greg Gordon, Tom Maddox, Charles Martel
- Klamath
- Writers, Creativity, and Depression
Irene Radford, Sonia Orin Lyris, Timothy Campbell, Greg Aberham
2:00pm Friday
- Umatilla
- The World Wide Web
Steve Forty & Ben Yalow
- Yakima
- Fear of the future: Is science fiction too conservative?
Clifton Amsbury, Elton Elliot, Kristine Rusch
- Klamath
- Are Writers, Artists, etc., really crazier than "normal" people?
(M) Joan Gaustad, Heather Hudson, Dean W. Smith, Gary Davis, Tim Campbell,
Mari-El Mor
3:00pm Friday
- Riverview
- Can One be Moral without God -- Non-deistic ethics
Does there have to be a white robed greybeard on a celestial throne
to keep us in line?
(M) Tim Campbell, Clifton Aumsbury, Margret Forsythe, Steve Forty, Tom
Maddox, Mari-El Mor, John De Camp
- Umatilla
- Genetic testing and your future: "I'm sorry, but you have
con-genital hangnails. You're fired!/You're imprisoned!/You're dead!"
(M) Amy Thomson, Tom Billings Marsha Goldoff
- Yakima
- Artist Demonstration -- Lace making for costumers
Irene Radford
- Klamath
- Writers & Their Rituals
"I don't care if you write sitting in the lotus position on an
iceberg as long as you do it!"
(M) Joel Rosenberg, Dean W. Smith, Rebecca Neason, Adrienne Martine-Barnes
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings,
Autographs & a Pro)
Greg Abraham
4:00pm Friday
- Umatilla
- Dance Demonstration by Betty Bigelow
Persian Social Dance Comparative Dance Styles
- Yakima
- Artist Demonstration -- Water Colour
Adrienne Martine-Barnes
- Klamath
- Alternate History -- Finding the turning point to change the past
"Do you kill Hitler or the butterfly?"
(M) James Fiscus, Dameon Willich, Kristine K. Rusch, Irene Radford,
Margaret Forsythe
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Steven Barnes
5:00pm Friday
- Umatilla
- Dance workshop by Pippin Sardo
Set Dancing through the ages
- Yakima
- Artist Demonstration -- Reverse Painting on glass
Joy Day
- Klamath
- Researching -- Sources & techniques -- Where, Why, and when enough is
enough!
(M) Joel Rosenberg, Dameon Willich, Rebecca Neason, Louise Foster, Chuq Von
Rospach, Greg Abraham
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Timothy J. Campbell
6:00pm Friday
- Yakima
- Artist Demonstration -- Watercolour
Margaret Organ-Kean
- Klamath
- Plagues and emerging pathogens -- What will be the next outbreak?
Marsha Goldoff
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Jo Clayton
7:30pm Friday
- Riverview
- OPENING CEREMONIES
You'll laugh, you'll cry (the really bad joke line forms here),
you'll kiss a half hour good bye while the Not Ready For Sidereal Time
Players do their usual mind numbing schtick
8:00pm Friday
- Riverview
- Dance set-up
- Umatilla
- Buddhist Theory of Ten (inner) Worlds
Timothy J. Campbell & Donna Yamada-Bolima
- Fan Room
- The Current New Golden Age of Fanzines
Jean Lamb, Suzanne Tompkins, Art Widner
8:30pm Friday
- Klamath
- FANTHORPE READING
Mortifying metaphors, repetitive redundancy, preposterous padding,
and other examples of thesaurian verbosity beyond belief, past
understanding, transcending the everyday...
Debbie Cross & Jeff Stout
9:00pm Friday
- Riverview
- Dance
- Yakima
- Live Action Gaming with the Camarilla
10:00pm Friday
- Riverview
- Dance
- Umatilla
- Babylon 5 Downbelow Gathering
A casual get together for fans of the show
- Yakima
- Live Action Gaming with the Camarilla
- Klamath
- Filk -- Bardic Circle
11:00pm Friday
- Riverview
- Dance
- Yakima
- Live Action Gaming with the Camarilla
- Klamath
- Filk -- Bardic Circle
12:00 Midnight Friday
- Riverview
- Dance
- Yakima
- Live Action Gaming with the Camarilla
- Klamath
- Filk -- Bardic Circle
- Eisenhower
- Midnight Horror Readings
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith,Edd Vick
1:00am Saturday
- Riverview
- Dance
- Yakima
- Live Action Gaming with the Camarilla
- Klamath
- Filk -- Bardic Circle
2:00am Saturday
- Riverview
- Dance
- Klamath
- Filk -- Bardic Circle
3:00am Saturday
- Klamath
- Filk -- Bardic Circle
4:00am Saturday
Convention Closed. Please go somewhere.
Saturday November 11, 1995
9:00am Saturday
- Riverview
- Tai Chi
Come warm up and exercise. Suggested before "Life Writing" later
at 1:00pm-2:30pm Saturday
Steven Barnes
- Yakima
- Christian Fandom
Margaret Forsythe
10:00am Saturday
- Riverview
- Small groups 10:00am to 11:30am
- A
- New Writers
Natural resource or simply pond scum on the literary food chain?
Jean Lamb
- B
- "Polyamory" -- How is it distinct from monogamy, non-monogamy, or
polyfidelity?
The stress on the so-called "nuclear family" should cause us to go
forward into new ways of loving, and new family structures. This discussion
will focus on the ethics and problems involved, NOT about how to meet
like-minded people
Luke Mcguff
- C
- Teaching forum for rewriting after a critique
Rebecca Neason
- D
- open
- Umatilla
- Memorial & Retrospective for Kent Paterson
Allan Roberts, Dean W. Smith, Kristine K. Rusch, Roy Torley, Joan Gaustad,
J. Stevens York
- Yakima
- Artist Demonstration -- Applique Beading Technique
Donna Yamada-Bolima
- Klamath
- Movie Previews
Daryl Allison
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Amy Thomson
11:00am Saturday
- Riverview
- small groups
- Umatilla
- The Institute for Tele-operated Space Development
Let your finger do the walking, exploring, and building
Tom Billings
- Yakima
- Artist Slide Show
Dameon Willich
- Klamath
- Those First Novel Blues
The trials, the tribulations, the heart breaks, and the room wall
papered with rejection slips
Joel Rosenberg, Dean W. Smith, Denise Heald, Tim Campbell, Leslie What, (M)
Mark Bourn
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Adrienne Martine-Barnes
- Video Room
- Readings for Kids
Sonia Orin Lyris & D. F. Sanders
11:30am Saturday
- Riverview
- Small groups 11:30am to 1:00pm
- A
- Publishing 101
Debbie Cross & Lisa Bothel
- B
- Macintosh -- Questions & Answers
Chuq Von Rospach, Michael Pearce
- C
- High Power Model Rocketry
Yes! We are rocket scientists
J. Stevens York
- D
- Spiritual Preparation for Survival
Janet Tanaka
12:00pm Saturday
- Riverview
- small groups continued
- Umatilla
- Copyrights and Trademarks: Intellectual property issues --
Realty of the Future?
Elisabeth Waters, Joan Gaustad, Adrian Bourne, Anthony Pryor-Brown
- Yakima
- Artist Demonstration -- Acrylics
Heather Hudson
- Klamath
- Soviet Space Disasters Update -- "Sorry about that launchpad,
Comrade Premier"
Hugh Gregory, Spaceflight Historian
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Steve Perry
1:00pm Saturday
- Riverview
- Small Groups 1:00pm to 2:30pm
- A
- Metal Working
Charles Martel
- B
- Rehearsing your Story
Leslie What
- C
- open
- D
- Life Writing "Fire Dance"
Balancing Life, Family & Career
Steven Barnes
- Umatilla
- "We Love Lava!"
A volcanic discussion about to erupt, don't be igneous of this subject
Roy Torley, Janet Tanaka
- Yakima
- Space Exploration & SF slide show -- Postage stamps from around the world
You can't lick this presentation
Jim Pearce
- Klamath
- Rapid Writing -- Increasing productivity & working under a deadline
Dean W. Smith, Kathryn K. Rusch, Joel Rosenberg, Vicki Mitchell, Steven
Perry, Elisabeth Waters
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Jane Lamb
- Video Room
- SF & F Story telling for Children
Greg Abraham
- Fan Room
- Paper Fanzines in the Internet age
Will the Virtual Mimeograph kill off the hard copy fanzine?
Jerry Kaufman, Suzanne Tompkins, Art Widner,Ben Yalow, Chuq Von Rospach
2:00pm Saturday
- Riverview
- small groups continued
- Yakima
- The Artist and The Editor -- When worlds collide
Balancing the needs of both in the creative process
Heather Hudson, Dameon Willich, (M) Dean W. Smith
- Klamath
- Feeding The Creative Process for Writers -- How to get your
subconscious to situp and bark
(M) Sonia Orin Lyris, Blythe Ayne, Tim Campbell, Jay Hartlove, Denise
Heald, Rebecca Neason, Vicki Mitchell
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Irene Radford
- Fan Room
- open
3:00pm Saturday
- Riverview
- AUTOGRAPH JAM SESSION
Steve Perry, Steven Barnes,Lisa Bothell, Jo Clayton, Heather Alexander, Edd
Vick, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Irene Radford, Michael Scanlon, Amy Thompson,
Bruce Taylor
- Riverview Stage
- Variety Show walk throughs
- Umatilla
- Protecting the Internet from censorship
Ways of defeating the Exon amendment or similar legislation
Allan Roberts, Ben Yalow, Tim Campbell, David Levine, Tom Maddox, John Cramer
- Yakima
- Self Promotion and The Artist
How to do it and still respect yourself in the morning
Gary Davis, Richard Hescox, Adrienne Martine-Barnes, Margret Organ-Kean
- Klamath
- Filk Concert
Tom Smith, our Filk Special Guest
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
George Guthridge
4:00pm Saturday
- Riverview
- AUTOGRAPH JAM SESSION
Heather Hudson, Dean W. Smith, Dameon Willich, Richard Hescox, Sonia Orin
Lyris, Rebecca Neason, Vicki Mitchell, Elisabeth Waters, Elton Elliott, Jon
Gustafson, John De Camp, Mary Rosenblum
- Riverview Stage
- Variety Show walk throughs
- Umatilla
- Pacific North West Collegium -- Mercedes Lackey Fan Gathering
- Yakima
- Art -- Safety devices and dangerous substances
The joy of safe sketch
Mari-El Mor
- Klamath
- Sue Petrey Auction open at 4pm
Auction starts at 4:30pm
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Deborah Wheeler
- Fan Room
- Let's Abandon the Fan Hugos
Steve Forty, David Levine, Kevin Standlee, Ben Yalow, Chuq Von Rospach
5:00pm Saturday
- Riverview
- VARIETY SHOW SET-UP
- Umatilla
- Discovering Natural Wormholes
John Cramer
- Yakima
- Fan Gathering -- Starfleet II
The Next Generation
Everyone is welcome
- Klamath
- Sue Petrey Auction continued
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Michael Scanlon
6:00pm Saturday
- Riverview
- VARIETY SHOW SET-UP
- Umatilla
- Media Tie-in Writing
Why the sudden proliferation and is it driving original SF from
your book stores
Kristine K. Rusch, Steve Perry, Danelle Stephanie Perry
- Yakima
- Artist Slide Show
Richard Hescox
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Lisa Bothell
6:30pm Saturday
- Klamath
- A Spoof on Dungeons & Dragons
Theater in the round, a humorous look at the game
7:00pm Saturday
- Riverview
- VARIETY SHOW SET-UP
- Yakima
- AD & D and the Public Schools
Creative problem solving, Satanic tutoring or just good clean fun?
John Bunnel, Damion Willich
- Klamath
- A Spoof on Dungeons & Dragons
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Bruce Taylor
7:45pm Saturday
- Riverview
- House Open
8:00pm Saturday
- Riverview
- VARIETY SHOW
9:00pm Saturday
- Riverview
- VARIETY SHOW continued
- Yakima
- Live Action Gaming with the Camarilla
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Ray Vukcevich
10:00pm Saturday
- Riverview
- DANCE SET-UP
- Yakima
- Live Action Gaming with the Camarilla
- Klamath
- "WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY"
Host Brian Hunt with David Levine, Mark Bourne, Anthony Pryor-Brown, Steve
Perry, Steven Barnes, Edd Vick, Jeff Stout and the token woman
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Denise Heald
11:00pm Saturday
- Riverview
- DANCE
- Yakima
- Live Action Gaming with the Camarilla
- Klamath
- Filk -- Bardic Circle
- Eisenhower
- open
12:00 Midnight Saturday
- Riverview
- DANCE
- Yakima
- Live Action Gaming with the Camarilla
- Klamath
- Filk -- Bardic Circle
- Eisenhower
- Midnight Horror Readings
Danelle S. Perry, Ray Vukcevich, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, George Guthridge
1:00am Sunday
- Riverview
- DANCE
- Umatilla
- Fan Group Gathering
Clan Burnout Court
- Yakima
- Live Action Gaming with the Camarilla
- Klamath
- Filk -- Bardic Circle
2:00am Sunday
- Riverview
- DANCE
- Klamath
- Filk -- Bardic Circle
3:00am Sunday
- Klamath
- Filk -- Bardic Circle
4:00am Sunday
Convention Closed. Please go home or to your room
Sunday November 12, 1995
9:00am Sunday
- Riverview
- Tai Chi
Come warm up and exercise
Steven Barnes
10:00am Sunday
- Riverview
- What's New with The Wizards Of the Coast
- Umatilla
- Art Appraisal -- What is an appraisal and why should you
want one?
Jon Gustason
- Yakima
- Church Services
The Order of Chiros
- Klamath
- Movie Previews
Daryl Allison
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Vicki Mitchel
11:00am Sunday
- Riverview
- Magic: The Gathering Sanctioned Tournament
- Umatilla
- Artist Demonstration -- Modeling plastic tips & techniques
Leonardo D. Rufo
- Yakima
- How to use a Critique Group -- Surviving the literary gauntlet
(M) Irene Radford, Blythe Ayne, Tim Campbell, John Bunnell, Denise Heald,
Sonia Orin Lyris, Michael Scanlon, Bruce Taylor, Deborah Wheeler
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Joel Rosenberg
12:00pm Sunday
- Riverview
- Magic: The Gathering Sanctioned Tournament
- Umatilla
- Fan League Meeting
Fan Clubs welcome
- Yakima
- Mythology -- Common roots for uncommon beings and subjects
Dameon Willich, Tim Campbell, Margaret Forsythe, Jerry Kaufman, Rebecca
Neason, Irene Radford, Pippin Sardo, Art Widner
- Klamath
- Art Auction
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Sonia Orin Lyris
1:00pm Sunday
- Riverview
- Magic: The Gathering Sanctioned Tournament
- Umatilla
- Con League Meeting
Members of con committees gather to exchange ideas and support
- Yakima
- Balancing Writing with Family/Real Life -- Deadlines vs. diapers
(M) Joel Rosenberg, Steven Barnes, Mary Rosenblum, Blyth Ayne, Deborah
Wheeler, Christina York, Tim Campbell, Denise Heald, Vicki Mitchell, John
De Camp
- Klamath
- Art Auction continues
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P.2 Session (Readings, Autographs & two Pros)
Dean W. Smith & Kathryn K. Rusch
- Fan Room
- Fan History in Portland & the Northwest
Debbie Cross, Steve Forty, Suzanne Tompkins, Jerry Kaufman
2:00pm Sunday
- Riverview
- Magic: The Gathering Sanctioned Tournament
- Umatilla
- Orchids & Onions
aka "Wouldn't you rather be at a sex panel or the Heather Alexander
concert than whining at the ConCom?"
- Yakima
- Feminism and Pornography -- Oppression or artistic expression.
When does sex become exploitative?
(M) Greg Abraham, Dameon Willich,
Sherri Pryor-Brown, Louise Foster, Theresa Reed
- Klamath
- Filk Concert
Heather Alexander
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Rebecca Neason
3:00pm Sunday
- Riverview
- Magic: The Gathering Sanctioned Tournament
- Umatilla
- Editing 101 -- What they do & Why, explaining the inexplicable
(M) Kathryn K. Rusch, Dean W. Smith, Joel Rosenberg, Blythe Ayne, John
Pelan, Mary Rosenblum
- Yakima
- Strange Inspirations & Unexpected Sources of Creativity
How a large pepperoni pizza became my first novel and the role of
mushrooms in character development
(M) Dameon Willich, Heather Hudson, Gary Davis, Adrienne Martine-Barnes
Betty Bigelow
- Klamath
- Pros meet the Volunteers & ConCom
A casual gathering of all the really important people that spent
their weekend putting up with the rest of us
Pros, Volunteers & Concom ONLY
- Eisenhower
- R.A.P. Session (Readings, Autographs & a Pro)
Mary Rosenblum
4:00pm Sunday
- Convention Closed
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