ConFusion Programming

Department head

Send mail to Jeffrey Beeler

Filk track

Send mail to Daniel Glasser

Technical track

Send mail to Chad Childers

Gaming track

Send mail to Jarvis Roach

FRIDAY, January 24, 1997
7:00 
Atrium
 Confusion Orientation with Alan Salmi, Ron Sarti , Lan Laskowski, Ro
 Nagey and Cecil Young.
 YAARC Robot Contest contestants also meet here to pick up kits and
 sign up for the contest.

8:30 to 9:30 
 Theatre
 Opening Ceremonies Toastmaster Kathe Koja will tell us who's who and
 what's what Confusion 17.

9:30 to ?
 Theatre
  Movies begin (movies to be listed, list not yet inserted)

 Belle Isle Ballroom
  The Prom you never had.  Musical alternative to Alternative dance on Sat.

 Atrium
  Book discussion of  Barbara Hambly's "Bride of the Rat God," brought
  to you by the Stilyagi Book Discussion Group.


SATURDAY, January 25, 1997
10:00 
 Belle Isle West
  Belly Dancing Workshop with Lisa Leutheuser and Sara Zettel

11:00
 Belle Isle East
  Neo Panel with Alan Salmi, Dave Stein, Lan Laskowski, Ro Nagey and Cecil Young
 Belle Isle West
  SFOHA Meeting

 Belle Isle North
  Writer's Workshop Part I with Jessica Frasca and  Michael Frasca. 
  An opportunity for writers to hone their craft with others in the field. 
  Second part at 5:00 in the Griffith Park Room.

 Theatre
  Interview with Joey Shoji by Margaret Bumby and Cecil Young.  Find
  out what makes Joey tick.  Did you know he is a closet Trekker?


12:00

 Belle Isle East
  Babylon 5 vs the Star Trek franchises.  Who's winning?  Is anyone
  winning?  Is it really a contest?  What alternatives are there?  Joey
  Shoji, Jennie Dailey O'Cain, Anne Schneider, Dave Stein.

 Belle Isle West
  What are the classics of SF?  What should everyone have read to be
  considered literate in the field?  What are the new ones?  Steve Hudson,
  Rick Lieder, Barry Gehm, Lan Laskowski, Joel Zakem, Ro Nagey, Carroll Brown.

 Belle Isle North
  Crossing the stream.  A discussion by writers who have at various
  times left the golden ghetto to write non SF.  WHY? and what has been their
  experience.  Find out what you are missing! Chip Delany, Kathe Koja,
  Lloyd Biggle, Carroll Brown

 Theatre 
  Electronic Commerce panel.  What can you buy on the net and how?
  Bruce Scheiner, Clif Flynt, Steve Mac Donald and Daniel Glasser

1:00
 Belle Isle East
  The art of faanish relationships.  How to start one, how to keep it
  going.  Guy Allen, Becca Levin, Ro Nagey, Alan Salmi, Jennie Dailey O'Cain

 Belle Isle West
  Electronic Commerce and Encryption with Bruce Scheiner. One of the
  leading experts in the field tells how to send your VISA number over
  the Internet.	
 Samuel R. Delany book discussion.  Come and discuss Chip's body of
 work with your moderator Nisi Shawl and Chip himself.


 Belle Isle North
  Sexuality and SF.  From The Lovers through Spartan/Virgin Planet to
Alien Sex SF has tried to deal with sexuality, has this been done
successfully? Are there new areas to be explored?  Has non-traditional
sex been served well?  Chip Delany, Joey Shoji, L. Warren Douglas,
Anne Harris, Sarah Zettel, Leo Frankowski.

 Theatre 
  Almost live from Jupiter it's Galileo's vacation slides via Bill
  Higgins.  Bill
presents the latest photos from the Galileo mission to Jupiter.

2:00

 Belle Isle East
  Bheer Panel, come out for a frank and informative discussion of 
  Fandoms favourite alcoholic beverage.  We will cover the different kinds of
beer and ale and talk about favourite micro-breweries and the rise of
craft brewing.  We would discuss Fandom's favourite beverage but is
that Pepsi or Coke?

 Belle Isle West
  Science Fiction in Women.  This was women in SF but which is the
minority really?  Sarah Zettel, Anne Harris, Nisi Shawl, Jessica
Frasca, Anne Schneider, and Ted Reynolds.

 Belle Isle North 
  Murdering Emperor Norton I of California.  The art of writing alternate
  history.  Leo Frankowski, Mark Shappirio, L. Warren Douglas, Ron Sarti

 Theatre
  Gaia and her cousins; life on Mars and beyond what are the
  possibilities and ramifications.  Bill Higgins, Barry Gehm, Josh Peterson and
  Mark Shappirio

3:00

 Belle Isle East
  Art demonstration by Susan Van Camp

 Belle Isle West
  Bob Shaw memorial book discussion.  Come hear more about the life of
the one of the more interesting figures of the field and fandom. 
Whisky optional. 

 Belle Isle North
 Samuel R. Delany book discussion.  Come and discuss Chip's body of
 work with your moderator Nisi Shawl and Chip himself.

 Theatre
  Men having babies.  A frank discussion about the effects of
  technology on medical ethics.  Doctor's Frasca, Levin, Harding, Schneider
  and hospice worker Alan Salmi.

4:00
 Belle Isle East
  Artist GOH demo continued.


 Belle Isle West
  Science Fiction Murder Mystery. Something's not kosher or who did it
  this time!	Becca Levin, Halina Harding, Guy Allen, Jim Kobriuetz


 Belle Isle North
  The use of language in SF.  From 1984 to Babel 17 to Neuromancer the
creation of new words and the creative use of old ones has been a big
part of the field our panellists discuss creating an effective and
unique voice.  Delany, Reynolds, Harris, Shawl, Zettel

 Theatre
  Deviant Dating Game  Time to practise what you learned in "The art
  of Faanish relationships". Your Host Melody Asplund Faith.

5:00
 Belle Isle East
  Fan Guest of Honour speeches.  All Fan GOH's present make a short
speech welcoming Joey Shoji into this exclusive group.  Past GOH's
include Ted Reynolds, Ro Nagey, Melody Aplund Faith, Bill Roper among
others.

 Belle Isle West
  Science Fiction Murder Mystery continued.

 Belle Isle North
  Mass autograph session including all authors present. 
  Delany, Koja, Douglas, Frankowski, Sarti, Harris, Zettel, Reynolds,
  Biggle, Brown, Shawl
 Theatre
  The Tom and Pete Show.  

9:00
 Belle Isle Ballroom
  Confusion's traditional Alter Dance

SUNDAY, January 26, 1997

10:00 
 Belle Isle North
  Give me that older time religion.  Worship space provided by us, you
provide the ceremony.


1:00
 Belle Isle East
  What's new and fun to read.  A discussion of current popular SF. 
  Hudson, Laskowski, Stein, Zakem, Gehm and You!

 Belle Isle West
  Conventions for fun and profit.  A seminar for those budding artists
  and writers on how to use conventions to further your career. Rick Lieder,
Carroll Brown, Josh Peterson

 Belle Isle North 
  What's happening in physics these days?  An interview with Science
  Guest of Honour Mark Shappirio.

 Atrium
  YAAARC Robot Contest finals

2:00
 Belle Isle East
  The History of Detroit Science Fiction Part Two:  The Stilyagi Years

 Belle Isle West
  Book Discussion of Urban Horror featuring the work of Tanya Huff,
sponsored by the Galaxians.

 Belle Isle North
  Kathe Koja Power Hour.  Kathe does a reading and time permitting
answers questions from the audience.

3:00
 Belle Isle North
 What Did We Do Right?
  Traditional post mortem discussion, with a discussion of next years
Confusion featuring Connie Willis, and also a good time to volunteer
for next years convention committee a cast of many including you!

4:00	Confusion Programming ends,  EVERYBODY DEAD DOG!

3:31	Dead Dog Party begins in Con Suite.




This is the "final" filk schedule for ConFusion.  There may be a couple of
last minute changes to this- watch Ops and the Filk Lounge for them!

FRIDAY, January 24, 1997

17:00
  Filk Room: set-up
  Filk Lounge: it's a set-up! (starring Confusion's very own Lounge Lizards!)
	(Instaband signup)
	(Story-telling signup)

18:00
  Filk Room: sit-up
  Filk Lounge: instrument warm-up (allow the instruments to warm up
               before playing it -- cold strings turn sour)
	(Instaband signup)
	(Story-telling signup)

19:00
  Filk Room: Open (free-fall filking)
  Filk Lounge: Open (guerrilla filking)
	(Instaband signup)
	(Story-telling signup)

20:00
  Filk Room: Open (free-range filking)
  Filk Lounge: Open (road kill mixer, blended or stir-fried)
	(Instaband signup)
	(Story-telling signup)

21:45(ish)
  Filk Room: Joey Shoji solo concert (starts when he gets there)
		Joey Shoji
			Come hear our very own fan GOH starring in
			Confusion's first SOLO concert in GHU knows
			how long... (Maybe you should ask Ro)
  Filk Lounge: Open (dead puppies)
	(Instaband signup)
	(Story-telling signup)

22:45(ish)
  Filk Room: Open season
  Filk Lounge: Open (snakes, turtles, and other slow moving reptiles)
	(Instaband signup)
	(Story-telling signup)

25:00(ish)
  Filk Room: Were're just getting started!
  Filk Lounge: Crazed Caffiene Cravings
	(Instaband signup ends)
	(Story-telling signup ends too)

27:00(ish)
  Filk Room: Open
  Filk Lounge: Closed until the painful orange thing is well above the horizon
	(Instaband signup ended two hours ago, where were you?)

Saturday, January 25

08:00
  Filk Room: Open
  Filk Lounge: Closed???

09:00
  Filk Room: Open
  Filk Lounge: Open to for retrieval of stashed weapons

10:00
  Filk Room: Open
  Filk Lounge: Hiya...

  ???  Kid Filk 1  Tom Smith, Pete Grubbs, Scott Snyder, Steve Macdonald
                 Want to move it to 1:00 if possible for the sake of
		 the filkers!

11:00
  Filk Room: Clif+Carol (Music Theory and Harmony Workshop)
	     if sufficient interest, a second session will be scheduled.
		Clff and Carol Flynt
				E-mail Clif for capsule description
  Filk Lounge: Carcasses everywhere

12:00
  Filk Room: Care and feeding of your wooden lifeform
		Clif and Carol Flynt
		Andrea Dale
		Pete Grubbs
		(Graham Leathers)
			Why does a Stradivarious Strad?
			Why is a Gibson so Good?
			Are Martins Marvelous?
			How do we keep them that way?
  Filk Lounge: Huh? Food?  What's that? (burp)

13:00
  Filk Room: Story Telling/Poetry Open Microphone
			'Nuff said, and you'll have 3 minutes to do it!
		if sufficient interest, a second session will be scheduled.
		Moderated by Mark Bernstein
  Filk Lounge: Breakfast

14:00
  Filk Room: Wooden Jam
		Pete Grubbs
		Steve Macdonald
		Tom Billings
		Scott Snyder
		Andrea Dale
			Accoustic filk of all kinds
  Filk Lounge: Crumbs everywhere

15:00
  Filk Room: Neo-filk panel
		Bill Roper
		(Gretchen Roper)
		David and Judith Hayman
		Diana Huey
		John Hall
			Who are you? How did you get started?
			What is "filk"?
			What's a dandelion conspiracy?
			Where do I find the good stuff?
			Where do I find others of my (f)ilk?
  Filk Lounge: Riffuge

16:00
  Filk Room: Dorsai Bivouac
			Tully is optional (but extremely welcome)
		John Hall
		Steve Simmons
		Bill Roper
		... and Tom Smith ...
  Filk Lounge: Shell shocked

17:00
  Filk Room: Closed, you should be in the theatre
  Filk Lounge: Closed, you can't hide here, go see Tom and Pete
  Theatre: Tom+Pete
			A Confusion Tradition
18:00
  Filk Room: Still closed, food is good
  Filk Lounge: ZZZZZzzzzzzz.....

19:00
  Filk Room: Bar Jam
		Pete Grubbs
		Scott Snyder
		Steve Macdonald
		Tom Billings
			What pro and semi-pro filkers play in public (houses)
  Filk Lounge: Peanut Butter

20:00
  Filk Room: Established Filker's free-for-all (no edged weapons except axes)
		Clif and Carol Flynt
		Bill Roper
		Tom Smith
		Pete Grubbs
		Joey Shoji
			Tom and Pete part deux, with spice (or is that spies)
  Filk Lounge: 12 string recovery program

21:00
  Filk Room: Open filking
  Filk Lounge: Tune In, Tune Up, and Tune Out

22:00
  Filk Room: Open filking
  Filk Lounge: Lurkers

23:00
  Filk Room: Open filking
  Filk Lounge: Loomers

24:00
  Filk Room: Open Filking
  Filk Lounge: Loonies

25:00
  Filk Room: Filk and that Paramount thing
		Daniel Glasser
		Steve Macdonald
		Debbie Redpath Ohi
		(Graham Leathers)
		Andrea Dale
		David and Judith Hayman
		John Hall
		Tom Billings
			Not that we need an excuse to do Star Trek filking...
			(B5 also spoken here.)
  Filk Lounge: MEDIC!

Sunday (Still Saturday for those of us who don't sleep)

32:00 (8:00)
  Filk Room: Is there anybody out there?
  Filk Lounge: ditto...

33:00
  Filk Room: I said- is there anybody out there?!?
  Filk Lounge: ditto again!

34:00
  Filk Room: Maybe there's somebody out there....
  Filk Lounge:

35:00
  ???  Kidfilk II
		Andrea Dale
		Daniel Glasser
		Diana Huey
		Judith Hayman
  Filk Room: Filk and the written word
		Moderated by Joey Shoji
			(ask Joey Shoji)
  Filk Lounge:

36:00
  Filk Room:
  Filk Lounge:

37:00
  Filk Room: Instaband Performances
		Cast of thousands
			There may be a reason these people live in
			different parts of the world...
  Filk Lounge: Closed for the season

38:00
  Filk Room: Open Jam
  Filk Lounge: Closed, time to drag the bodies out

39:00
  Filk Room: Dying dog filk
  Filk Lounge: Dead puppies aren't much fun.

39:30
  Filk Room: Clean up
  Filk Lounge: I said, Clean up!

852:00
  Gehenna: Argo Filk Sing: All Argo, All the time!
  (For those of you who are time challenged, that's 12:00 on
  Saturday, February 29, 1997)




As I promised, here is the gaming programming for ConFusion-17.  One note,
there is really only one Fairmont Park room but it can be divided in half,
hence the North and South designations.


GURPS Cyberpunk			Fairmont Park, N
Eric McGlohon			Fri, 9pm - 2am
"Big Trouble in Little Chiba"

Amber				Fairmont Park, S
John Schippers			Fri, 9pm - 2am

Paranoia			Atrium
Jennifer Mroz			Fri, 9pm - 2am

DragonStorm Demo		Fairmont Park
Bernard Bresnahan		Sat, 11am - 2pm

Amber Free Form			Fairmont Park
Joe Saul & Paul Vlamis		Sat, 12pm - 6pm

Magic Booster 	 		Atrium
 Draft Tournament		Sat, 12pm - 6pm

Wizard Tournament		Fairmont Park, N
Jason Hyland			Sat, 3pm - 7pm

RISK Tournament			Fairmont Park, S
				Sat, 7pm - 11pm

Space Hulk			Fairmont Park, N
Paul Vlamis			Sat, 7pm - 10pm

White Wolf			Fairmont Park, N
Michael Terry			Sat, 10pm - 2am

The Great Damulti Tournament	Atrium
Sean Asher			Sat, 11pm - 2am

Space Hulk			Atrium
Paul Vlamis			Sun, 12pm - 3pm

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