2007 PROGRAMMING
2007 PROGRAMMING
Please note: All programming takes place in the New Academic Center (the building that used to be the cafeteria) unless otherwise noted.
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Dealers Room And Art Show Hours of Operation:
Friday: Noon - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.; 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Sunday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
THURSDAY
(Art Show and Dealer’s Room will not be open.)
2:00 p.m. Registration Opens
9:00 p.m. Ghost Stories from our Guests of Honor, on the quad. Soon thereafter -- Saugies!
FRIDAY
9:00 a.m. Necon Breakfast of Champions -- Coffee and Donuts on the quad
9:30 a.m. Caravan forms for Mini-Golf -- the first Olympic Event!
1:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. SO FUNNY I COULD SCREAM -- Humor and horror; best friends or mortal enemies?
Chet Williamson (moderator), Gahan Wilson, P.D. Cacek, Jeff Strand, Tina Jens,
Hal Bodner.
3:00 p.m. HORROR IN THE FAMILY -- SO BOTH OF YOU WRITE (OR DRAW?) -- The ups and downs
of two creative people in the same household. Rick Hautala and Holly Newstein
(moderators), Yvonne Navarro and Weston Ochse, Jeff Strand and Lynne Hansen, Elizabeth
Massie and Cortney Skinner.
4:00 p.m. THE SOUND THE KNIFE MAKES AS IT ENTERS THE THROAT -- Extreme horror are us,
at least sometimes. Sephera Giron (moderator), Brian Keene, Gerard Houarner, Wrath
James White, James A. Moore, Nate Southard.
5:00 p.m. WHICH WAY TO THE BORDERLAND? HORROR, FANTASY, SUSPENSE...
WHERE AND WHEN DO THEY MEET? -- Laura Anne Gilman (mod.), Tim Lebbon, Christopher Golden,
Richard Dansky.
6:00 p.m. Dinner
6:30 p.m. Artists' reception -- outside the art show.
7:30 p.m. Necon Update with Matt Bechtel, followed by AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
8:30 p.m. Meet the Authors -- Toastmaster Matt Schwartz introduces our guests.
9:00 p.m. HAWAIIAN SHIRT COMPETITION -- Win valuable prizes! Followed by a film or two.
Midnight Darts - A Necon Olympic Event. This will take place back at the quad.
SATURDAY
8:30 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m. THE BIG REVIEW: WHAT'S HOT AND WHAT'S NOT IN HORROR TODAY...
OUR EXPERTS TELL ALL. Bev Vincent (moderator), Matt Schwartz, Kelli Dunlap, Paul Puglisi,
Jack Haringa, Darryl Schweitzer, Monica Kuebler.
10:00 a.m. SELLING THAT FIRST NOVEL -- Dan Waters, Rhodi Hawk, Sarah Langan,
Nate Kenyon, and Mary Sangiovanni all did it. F. Paul Wilson finds out how it was done.
11:00 a.m. WHATEVER YOU DO, KEEP IT FROM THE KIDS! WHAT'S HAPPENING IN YOUNG
ADULT HORROR -- Lynne Hansen (mod.), Christopher Golden, Tom Sniegoski, Lee Thomas,
Stefan Petrucha.
11:00 a.m. BOCCE BALL! A New Necon Olympic event - this will take place in the open
field, between the dorm and the softball field.
12:00 p.m. IN CHARLIE'S SHADOW: THE LEGACY OF CHARLES L. GRANT, IN THE
HORROR FIELD IN GENERAL AND NECON IN PARTICULAR. Bob Booth (moderator), Craig
Shaw Gardner, Douglas E. Winter, Thomas F. Monteleone, Tom MacDonald, Ginjer Buchanan,
Hank Wagner.
1:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. OUR GUESTS OF HONOR INTERVIEW -- Tim Lebbon, Brian Keene, and Sephera Giron
spill their guts to Matt Schwartz.
3:00 p.m. THE FILM BIZ, or THOSE HOLLYWOOD #@%&^ DID WHAT TO MY BOOK? -- What
happens when books are transferred from the printed page to the silver screen. Mark
Steensland (moderator), Philip Nutman, Dallas Mayr (Jack Ketchum), Les Daniels, Alexandra
Sokoloff, F. Paul Wilson.
4:00 p.m. Softball -- Will the writers ever win? And Croquet -- Two, count 'em TWO,
Olympic events!
6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:30 p.m. THAT DARNED GAME SHOW, followed by YOU-KNOW-WHAT -- Doug Winter and
Craig Shaw Gardner dispense Valuable Prizes.
10:00 p.m. Hi-Lo Jack and Films at the bar (you don't even have to leave the building!).
Plus SPECIAL TAROT READINGS! -- Sephera Giron and Lisa Manetti see all! Sign up sheet
at registration.
Midnight Even more saugies back at the quad!
SUNDAY
8:30 a.m. Breakfast
9:45 a.m. HANGOVER THEATER -- Short films from our campers!
10:45 a.m. Special TRAIL OF THE SCREAMING FOREHEAD Preview -- What movie could possibly
follow "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra?" Illustrator Cortney Skinner (creator of the Mutant in
Lost Skeleton) will host a special "behind the scenes" presentation of Larry Blamire's
follow-up movie (title above). This "Ray Harryhausen Presents" film is in living color and
features alien foreheads who take over a small town, plus much of the cast of Lost
Skeleton, not to mention veteran cast members from "The Twilight Zone" and a special cameo
appearance by "body-snatching" survivor Kevin McCarthy! Cort will also preview the opening
credit sequence, which he was asked to design, illustrate, and choreograph for the movie.
11:45 a.m. Town meeting -- Dan and Craig ask your opinion.
1:00 p.m. Farewell Picnic - Weather permitting, behind the New Academic Center. Otherwise,
in the cafeteria.
DON'T FORGET TO TURN IN YOUR KEYS!
Friday: Noon - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.; 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Sunday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.