Program

Boskone Program offers panels, talks, discussions, demos, and workshops on many aspects of the science fiction and fantasy field, populated by a wide assortment of speakers. We include items about hard SF and fantasy, science and art, fandom and movies, literature and TV, horror and comics, music and singing, and heaps of related topics! Program also includes interviews with our Guest of Honor, slide-shows and demos with our artists, and individual presentations. These are the types of presentations and settings you can expect at Boskone—since many panels run concurrently, it will be your tough decision as to what to attend! If you have questions, write to Program.

Types of Programming

• Art Demos—See Artists in action!
• Autographs—Program participants will sign your books in the Galleria on Saturday and Sunday (you can get lots from the Hucksters!).
• Concerts—Performances by our Featured Musician Guest and various other performers
• Discussion Groups—Join program participants and other members in the Boskone Con Suite, our very own "living room of fandom." Discussion groups are small intimate conversations on focused topics—and we invite you to form your own group ("Birds of a Feather").
• DragonsLair/Children's Program—All kinds of kids activities. B51 DragonsLair schedule.
• Filksinging—Filksongs are fandom's folk songs, with themes of SF, fantasy and fannish interests. Items include theme circles, NESFA Hymnal singing and the Featured Musician Concert. The main filk room is Douglass, off the mezzanine near Registration.
• Gaming schedule - video & board. Gaming has been moved up to the Harbor Ballroom prefunction area on the second floor.
• Kaffeeklatsches—Participate in an informal discussion with one of our program participants over coffee, tea or soda. Attendance is limited; sign up is required. Program Ops will have the sign up book at their desk in the Galleria. Saturday's signup sheets at the start of the con on Friday; Sunday's signup sheets at noon on Saturday. There will be a few waiting list slots for each KK. B51 KK schedule. If you get a slot, you can add a reminder sticker to your badge.
• Panels—Dozens of discussions by our program participants.
• Readings—Hear writers read and discuss their own works.

We're bringing back book discussion this year. The purpose of the Book Club is to get people together to discuss a specific book. The volume under review will be Parasite by Mira Grant (the nom de plume our Guest, Seanan McGuire, uses for horror). Bob Kuhn will lead the discussion on Sunday at Boskone. Read the book and join in the discussion!

In addition to a variety of Program, Boskone runs parties and entertainment throughout the weekend:

• Friday Night - We'll kick off the Friday night reception with a "Meet the Guests" and Jane Yolen Birthday Party, with a special shoutout for Dave Kyle's 95th(!!) birthday.
• Saturday Night - David G. Grubbs will MC the evening's events. We'll start with a Filk Concert with Sassafrass. Then, we'll have our awards presentation including the Gaughan Award and the Skylark Award (with the traditional warning). After the awards ceremony, we'll present the Reduced William Shakespeare's Star Wars Reading, starring Jane Yolen, Bruce Coville, David Grubbs, David Palumbo, Bob Kuhn, Kate Baker, Darlene Marshall, Mary Crowell, Joan Slonczewski and John Chu. Adapted and directed by Laurie Mann. And, following the reading, more filk performances featuring Lady Mondegreen and Featured Filker Bill Roper.

Here's what we're planning for Gaming:

• On Saturday, jump in and demo some hot new games that haven't hit the market yet. That's right, game designers are coming in and you won't be disappointed.
• And don't forget about the Saturday tournament. 4 games in 5 hours with prizes for the top 4 winners. Remember, there is no cost to play but please make sure you have the time to play and also to sign the sign-up sheet to guarantee your place in the tournament.
• You talked, we listened. As a result of the many suggestions for larger televisions, two new, larger televisions are being brought in for the video games. Now you'll really be able to see what you're hitting in Bioshock Infinity, one of the new games we have this year.