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SUMMER 2025’S MonSFFACTIVITIES!

MonSFFA will be active during the coming summer months; here’s what’s on our agenda:

KNIGHTS IN OLD MONTREAL

2025 MonSFFA Field Trip – Saturday, June 14

The club will first embark upon a field trip, set for Saturday, June 14, 2025; mark that date in your calendars!

We will be making our way to Old Montréal to take in the newly opened exhibition, “Knights.” We’ll be visiting our city’s “Archaeology and History Complex,” the Pointe-à-Callière museum, host of this exhibition.

MonFFen to Meet-Up at Museum

Our plan is to meet in the museum’s main entrance lobby at 1:00PM on Saturday, June 14 (don’t be late!) and enter together as a group at about 1:30PM. As always, each individual is responsible for their own entrance fee and any other expenses incurred, such as lunch or gift shop purchases. For any interested, we will make our way to a nearby restaurant after our visit to enjoy a post-field trip dinner.

Adult admission charge is $29, with various discounts available for seniors, students, etc.

Information on the Exhibition

Genre fans are, of course, familiar with medieval knights, who feature in many an epic fantasy tale. The museum invites us to “Delve into the heart of history with ‘Knights,’ a fascinating exhibition that stirs up the spirit of chivalry. From the battlefield to the royal court, this exhibition explores the various aspects of the life of knights.” We are offered a full exploration of the world of knights, including “their training, their place in society, and their code of honour.” Exquisite examples of European weaponry and armour, sourced from Italy’s prestigious Museo Stibbert, are among the over 250 pieces on display, showcasing the skill of the period’s craftsmen.

Images, Knights Exhibition, Pointe-à-Callière Museum

Note that there are also other exhibits of interest at Pointe-à-Callière, including studies of Montreal’s founding and past, the history of the Dow Brewery, and an immersive and interactive family exhibition on pirates and privateers.

Getting to the Museum

The nearest Metro station is Place-d’Armes; from there, it’s a 10 minute walk to the museum via rue Saint-François-Xavier. Also, the 50 bus, running along rue de-la-Commune, stops at the museum. Paid parking is available in the area, primarily in the Old Port.

Museum’s Address and Contact Information

The museum’s address is: 350 Place Royale, Old Montreal, QC, H2Y 3Y5

Phone number: 514 872-9150

Web site: https://pacmusee.qc.ca/en/

AFTERNOON IN PARC MAISONNEUVE

MonSFFA’s 2025 Barbecue-in-the-Park – Sunday, July 13

Our annual Barbecue-in-the-Park is scheduled, this year, for Sunday, July 13. MonSFFen and their families, as well as friends of the club, are invited to gather at about 10:30AM in Parc Maisonneuve on that date to enjoy a day of fresh air, sunshine, and fun with friends!

Sprawling Parc Maisonneuve, easily accessible by Metro (Viau, Pie-IX) or bus, is located in the city’s East End, adjacent the Botanical Gardens and the Olympic Stadium. Parking is available on site, or on nearby streets.

Our intention is to claim a picnic spot along one of the park’s lines of trees, not too far from the Chalet (washrooms) and parking lot; our “Preferred Picnic Area” is indicated on the map (below). Look for us within roughly that area.

Bring your own refreshments, snacks, and any meats you may wish to barbecue; MonSFFA will provide a grill. Should inclement weather scuttle plans, our rain date is Sunday, July 20, same Bat-time, same Bat-place.

As a handy reminder, download to your phone or print out to post on your fridge these flyers touting the club’s field trip and barbecue: 2025SummerActivitiesPromoFlyer(PDF)

AUGUST AFTERNOON OF “FANCRAFT”

“Fancrafting” Workshops – Saturday, August 16

Finally, we’ll wrap up this summer’s MonSFFActivities on August 16, returning to the club’s usual Nouvel Hotel meeting locale for the revival of an old, pre-pandemic tradition of MonSFFA’s, that of holding a number of “fancrafting” workshops throughout the course of the afternoon’s meeting. These hands-on demonstrations of SF/F-themed crafting projects, which we have dubbed “fancrafting,” will run concurrently, allowing folk to learn about and try their hand at each during the afternoon.

In past workshops we have learned how to fold sci-fi origami, for instance, tried our collective hand at stop-motion animation, realistically painted and weathered dollar-store toy guns and plastic knives for use as cosplay props, and “scratchbuilt” model spaceships from assorted household odds and ends.

Our workshops are hosted from among our own and allow all to exercise their innate creativity. This year, we’ll learn how to fashion beautifully decorative magic wands (of particular interest to those Hogwarts hopefuls among us!), explore “papercraft” model building, try our hand at making sci-fi hand puppets (for kids of all ages!), and more!

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MonSFFA meeting is cancelled

All MonSFFA events are cancelled until further notice.

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FINAL UPDATE: OTTAWA FIELD TRIP

We have now finalized our roster for the club’s field trip to Ottawa’s Science and Technology Museum this Saturday, June 9.

Carpooling arrangements are complete; all MonSFFen involved were notified by e-mail last week. No additional changes to these carpooling arrangements were necessary.

We will see everyone taking part in our excursion at the main entrance to the museum Saturday mid-morning.
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Safe travels to all.

In addition to the museum’s regular exhibits, which include the famous “Crazy Kitchen,” the summer’s featured exhibition is “The Art of the Brick,” a display of Lego art by renowned builder/artist Nathan Sawaya. Not just another brick in the wall!

MonSFFA Field Trip, Upcoming meeting

MonSFFA News

Impulse is on line, thanks Keith!
A number of our members are due to renew their memberships, please check Impulse.

Since Cathy is going to be wrangling books for the SPCA fundraiser on Saturday, Keith will be taking the reins for this meeting .

Also at this meeting, the car pools for the June field trip will be finalized. There are five cars in the pool, but one is fully booked.

Agenda for the May 26th meeting:

12:00PM-2:00PM– SATURDAY SCI-FI CINEMA MATINÉE—THE FLYING SAUCER EDITION: Early-birds will be asked to pick for review one of the five UFO movies we’ll have on offer!

2:00PM-3:15PM– WATCH THE SKIES! AND THE MOVIES AND TV SHOWS ABOUT WATCHING THE SKIES!: The flying saucers and UFO aliens of popular culture have long been fodder for thrilling sci-fi films and television series! We examine how UFOlogy has influenced screen sci-fi, and vice versa! Keith Braithwaite
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3:15PM-3:30PM– MID-MEETING BREAK: Fund-raising raffle, brief discussion of club business and upcoming club field trip

3:30PM-4:30PM– LANGUAGE RECTIFIERS, PROTOCOL DROIDS, AND A FISH IN YOUR EAR: Translation in SF Danny Sichel

 

 

MonSFFA Field Trip

Field Trip: Away we go to the Starfleet Academy!

Field Trip to Ottawa to see the Starfleet Academy Exhibit in Ottawa, August the 6th, 2016.

Photos by Sylvain St-Pierre, More photos are available to our members.
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Field Trip to Ottawa

Field Trip to Ottawa to see the Starfleet Academy Exhibit in Ottawa, August the 6th, 2016.

Photos by Mark Burakoff, More photos are available to our members.
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MonSFFA Field Trip

Exhibition at CASM: Starfleet Academy Experience

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Field Trip Proposal

A number of MonSFFen have already expressed interest in going to Ottawa for this exhibition.  We are sure to be organizing the trip, the question is WHEN????  Car Pools will be arranged as we did for the previous field trip to the CASM. I suggest we invite OSFS to join us. http://ottawasfs.ca/ or   facebook 

Thanks to Lyndsay and Fernster for the pointers.

Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience

 

The Starfleet Academy Experience provides cadet recruits with an opportunity to experience a “career day” at the Academy. In an immersive environment, recruits try out a number of activities to test their potential to train for careers as Medical Officers, Science Officers, Communications specialists, even Commanders. The experience is enriched with the actual science behind the science fiction as the participants learn about emerging technologies such as a functional tricorder, NASA’s warp drive theory, and the latest experiments with phasers and teleporters.

Opening Hours

From Sunday to Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (last entry at 3:30 p.m.)
From Thursday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (last entry at 5:30 p.m.)
Ticket sales start at 9 a.m.

Fees

Category Fees
Adults (18+) $18
Teens (ages 13-18) $15
Seniors (age 65+) $15
Children (ages 3-12) $12
Children (age 2 and under) Free

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The exhibition is produced by EMS Entertainment, the leader in interactive immersive exhibitions, with Ottawa as the first stop on a multi-city North American tour. The exhibition will be on view at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum from May 13, 2016 until September 5, 2016.

Please stay tuned to our social media channels for more information in the coming months. Follow hash tag #StarfleetOTT and @AvSpaceMuseum.

Become a Member of the museum to be among the first to know about the exhibition, social events, contests, and exclusive offers.

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Dinosaurs, MonSFFA Field Trip

A Trip Back in Time

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The Predator Trap

11 members made their way back in time to the age of the dinosaurs. Besides the 14 animatronic dinosaurs, there were two skeletons and 20 fossils. The fossils included everything from a nest of eggs to coprolite.

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Nest of eggs

There was much roaring and bellowing. One activity station gave kids a chance to see how a dinosaur with hollows in its skull might use them to create a whistling sound. Another popular station had kids using brushes to expose “fossils”.

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One of the two skeletons. They were hard to see, and harder to photograph because they were bathed in blue light.

It was possible to control some of the dinosaurs’ movements, but this proved a disappointment to us. There were just buttons to push where we had had visions of joysticks.

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I would have like more information.  The dinosaurs from China included some I didn’t recognize.

 

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T-Rex claw

Great place to bring kids though, and I had as much fun watching them as seeing the dinos.

Many members came armed with cameras, so hopefully, in the very near future, there will be more photo galleries and video uploaded to our members’ pages.

 

Dinosaurs, MonSFFA Field Trip

Dinosaur Movie Quiz!

Are you ready to explore the Age of Dinosaurs with us at the Montreal Science Centre on the 13th?

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Are they my long-lost cousins?

Keith sends you these skill-testing questions!
How well do you know your dinosaur movies, and your dinosaurs? Provide the type of dinosaur besought in each of the following questions (answers next issue of Impulse-May).

 

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Dinosaurs, MonSFFA Field Trip

MonSFFA Field Trip to Science Museum

Join the MonSFFen in our exploration of the age of Dinosaurs!

March 13, noon, meet lobby of the Science Centre at the Old Port of Montreal. DON’T FORGET : THE CLOCKS SPRANG FORWARD.

From the website: http://www.montrealsciencecentre.com

Predator Trap-Stegosaurus juvenile and pack of Allosaurus juvenile_1An immersive experience steeped in realism bringing to life 14 roaring full-sized and strikingly real animatronic dinosaurs. Go back in time more than 65 million years to what life was like on Earth and imagine their breath on the back of your neck. Explore spectacular prehistoric scenes telling the story of two major excavation sites, two skeletons, and twenty fossils. Discover newly revealed secrets about these giants by probing into the most recent and remarkable discoveries about their appearance and behaviours. Take command of an animatronic dinosaur and explore our four interactive stations.

We will meet at noon, in the main lobby and  buy tickets for the show closest to 1:00 PM (if shows are scheduled), and proceed to a search for snacks. (It does not seem that there are scheduled shows, but we are aiming for 1:00 PM. ) I called the science museum, we are permitted cameras, and we can get real food at a kiosk next to the ticket booths. We are also permitted to bring our own lunch boxes. They provide wheel chairs, ask at ticket booth.

Admission is

  • Senior 60+      $13.00
  • adults                 $15
  • Teen 13-17     $13.00
  • Child 4-12       $8.50

I recommend buying tickets on line, if possible, to save time. Information on parking is here: http://www.montrealsciencecentre.com/visitor-info

Parking is right at the science centre, but it’s expensive.

Tarifs (taxes incluses)*

8$ : jusqu’à 61 minutes
16$ : 62 minutes à 3 heures
20$ : plus de 3 heures, jusqu’à 12 heures
24$ : de 12 à 24 heures
Billet perdu : 24 $

*Prix sujet à changement sans préavis. (Taxes : TPS : 5% + TVQ : 9,975%)

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