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Upcoming Club Meetings 2026

NB: Always subject to change, it’s fandom!

January 10 Zoom only

Elections! We vote for our executive: president, treasurer, Veep, and appoint editors for our website and publications.

Presentation: a comparison of artificial intelligence as depicted in SF with the AI models currently in development in the real world.

Art Presentation:  A primer on perspective as a useful guide to producing striking works of sci-fi art.

Discussion: Remembering the classic SF&F toys of our collective childhoods.

January 17 Meeting of the BookWyrms SIG
February 7 Meeting of the BookWyrms SIG
February 21 Zoom only

Don’t Judge a Book by its Movie! Examples are proffered of good SF/F books made into bad SF/F movies, and vice versa! Presenter(s)/Moderator: Joe Aspler

Hidden Gems! We cite examples of SF/F books/films that we serendipitously happened upon and thoroughly enjoyed; happy accidental discoveries, real gems previously hidden, but now revealed, much to our pleasure.  Moderator: Cathy Palmer-Lister

Title: Sci-Fi Balderdash (Game)! Actual titles, fake synopses, lots of fun! Presenter(s)/Moderator: Danny Sichel

March 14

The Alien Franchise: We examine the popular SF/horror franchise centered on one the Genre’s most terrifying space aliens! Presenter(s)/Moderator: Charles El Rahi

Real-World Architectural Landmarks in SF/F Film: An appreciation of landmark real-world architectural exemplars and actual futuristically-styled buildings that have been featured in SF/F film.
Presenter(s)/Moderator: Keith Braithwaite

Telepathy:  Exploring examples in paranormal belief, and as depicted in SF&F, as well as the implications were a telepathic society, or individual, actually to exist among us. Presenter(s)/Moderator: Danny Sichel, Josée Bellemare

April 11

MonSFFA’s Own MST3K! We try our hand at mocking a really bad sci-fi B-movie, and pop culture as a whole, in the MST3K style!
Presenter(s)/Moderator: Keith Braithwaite

The Titanic in Sci-Fi :On this very date in 1912, RMS Titanic set out from Ireland across the North Atlantic on the final leg of her doomed maiden voyage, inspiring many a tale across numerous genres, including SF/F. We’ll look at sci-fi’s take on the legendary ship.
Presenter(s)/Moderator: Keith Braithwaite

May 9

Impactful SF/F Movies/Television Episodes: We share each of our own examples of films and TV episodes that made us think, wonder, shudder, and that stayed with us well after the closing credits rolled!
Presenter(s)/Moderator: Mark Hickey

Sinbad and the Voyages Never Taken: A look at the unproduced projects of one-man special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen.
Presenter(s)/Moderator: Keith Braithwaite

Coming Soon! We look ahead to this summer in Genre books, films, etc.  Presenter(s)/Moderator: Keith Braithwaite

June 13 Away Team

The club embarks upon an excursion to an away-from-meeting-room locale—museum, exhibition, theatre, or such— preferably having at least a tangential association with the sciences, and/or the SF/F universe. Field Trip destination to be determined by the membership in advance of the event.

July 12 SUNDAY Shore Leave

Sunday in the park, 19th  in case of rain: Club members convene in Parc Maisonneuve—adjacent Montreal’s Botanical Gardens—for an outdoor barbecue/picnic and afternoon of relaxation in the park. Each individual supplies their own lunch, plus snacks to share; club supplies grill

July 26 Zoom only

Virtual Picnic: Club members convene online via ZOOM for a casual summertime get-together, essentially, a virtual version of the Barbecue-in-the-Park, for the benefit of those out-of-towners and others who could not attend the Barbecue in person.

August 15 Makers’  Workshop

Fancraft Workshops:  A series of SF/F-themed, hands-on crafting workshops running concurrently throughout the afternoon. These are designed both to showcase a specific craft, demonstrating the “how-to,” and to encourage MonSFFen to try their hand at one or more of the featured “Fancrafts.” Sci-Fi Origami and SF/F Jewellery-Making are planned; one or two other workshops yet to be determined. Presenter(s)/Moderator: Sarah Aspler, Josée Bellemare, Others

September 19

Sci-Fi B-Movie Purgatory! Offering a list of recommendations, we celebrate sci-fi films that are so bad, they’re good (for a laugh)!
Presenter(s)/Moderator: Adam Jed, Keith Braithwaite

He is Legend! A look at the legacy of genre author and screenwriter Richard Matheson, whose stories permeate mid-late 20th-century SF/F literature, film, and television to a much greater degree that most SF/F fans are aware. Presenter(s)/Moderator: Keith Braithwaite

The Doctor is In!  A look at the depiction of science fiction’s doctors and scientists—Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Moreau, Sector General, Cherijo Grey Veil, Hari Seldon, Clayton Forrester, “Bones” McCoy, Emmett Brown, and a certain Timelord.  Presenter(s)/Moderator: Danny Sichel

October 17 BOOK SALE

MonSFFA hosts its annual fund-raising, second-hand sci-fi book sale; open to the public, all revenue raised directed to the club’s operating budget.

November 14

The Visions of von Däniken! Various concepts of “Ancient Aliens” in science fiction. Presenter(s)/Moderator: Josée Bellemare

Dragons+! A look at dragons and other fantastical fauna in fantasy and science fiction.  Daniel P. Kenney, Cathy Palmer-Lister

SF&F Win, Lose, or Draw: We play the popular parlour game, with an added twist of SF&F! Presenter(s)/Moderator: Keith Braithwaite

December 5 Holiday Feast

Club members and their families, friends, gather at a Montreal restaurant for a festive meal celebrating the season; includes annual fund-raising Christmas Raffle.

December 12 Zoom only

MonSFFen gather online over ZOOM to celebrate the season and exchange season’s greetings; designed as an online version of the Christmas Dinner/Party, for the benefit of out-of-town members, and those who could not attend the party.

Upcoming meeting

June 12 MonSFFA Meeting

June 15, meeting starts at 13:00h.

This will be a busy meeting!
You may want to have snacks and
drinks close at hand so you don’t miss a thing!

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Syd Mead, Visual Futurist

A presentation by Keith Braithwaite
 A Science Fiction Writer Walks into a Bar…

A Presentation by Joe Aspler
Show and Tell

Pyrography demo — Linzy Brown
Models: Brian Knapp and Wayne Glover

Dinosaurs, Upcoming meeting

August 27 Meeting

Dinosaurs Rule our August 27 Meeting!

MonSFFA is celebrating the premiere of our stop motion film project. Bring or wear your dinosaurs to our August meeting. Tee-shirts, fossils, books, art, everything dino is welcome and will earn you a ticket in the Christmas party draw.

Cathy is donating a fossil Ammonite to the raffle.

Keith is coming with a collection of dinosaur movies for the matinee. Click here to review our choices!  Add your comments!

Times are approximate- we don’t know how long the movie chosen by members will last.
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Noon:  SF Cinema Matinée, hosted by Keith

14:00h World Premiere of our stop motion project!

14:10 h  Forever and a Day: Living eternally, or at least for a much longer time than we do now is an old human dream. But would fulfilling it really be an unmitigated blessing? Presented by Sylvain St-Pierre

“Deployed” from FWA

16:00 The Future of Warfare: We talk about peace on earth, but it seems we don’t really expect it to happen. Indeed, from reading or watching SF, one expects warfare to go way beyond Earth. How will we fight in space ? Ships, armour, weapons? Planetary defence systems?  Presented by Mark Burakoff

Meeting re-caps

Meeting of April 17th, 2016

Our April meeting started at noon with the return of our Sunday morning SF movie matinee. Keith brought in 5 George Pal movies to choose from:

“War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, When Worlds Collide, Destination Moon, and Conquest of Space are the movies I’ll have on hand for folks to choose from. They’re all good! Classics!”

ConquestAfter watching the trailers, we voted and Conquest of Space was chosen.  It wasn’t long before some of us began to regret we hadn’t gone with War of the Worlds or Time Machine. OTOH, we did have a lot of fun poking holes in the science, (or more properly, lack of) and the religious fanaticism screwing up the mission might be a good moral lesson for the GOP candidates.

Following the movie, Renée Walling gave a talk on the BDs, with Reneemphasis on the European ones. The genre has come a long way since Asterix and TinTin, beloved graphic novels of our childhood. Renée also had quite a selection on hand for browsing.

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Raffle 3Raffle 2Raffle 1After the break and the raffle (I won the chocolate Dragon, which was great, as I had huge problems with my email provider and seriously needed the chocolate to keep me from insanity) we went to work on our stop motion project. One scene is now complete, but there is much more to film. We may need to reorganize the programming for the May movie to complete the work.

Production teamFrancois

 

 

 

There are more pictures of our meeting available to members, just click the members’ tab in the above menu bar.

Photos on this page courtesy of Sylvain St-Pierre

Upcoming meeting

Heavens Above!

is the theme for the September 20th meeting. Several types of telescope will be on display, including  SCT, reflector, refractor, and even a Coronado which is made specifically for viewing the sun.  Special guests Bill Strople and David Shuman will be on hand to explain the strengths and weaknesses of each. If you bring in your own telescopes and binoculars, they will assist you in getting the most from your instruments.

A more detailed schedule for the meeting appears here.
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The weather prediction for Sunday looks very promising, so it is likely that there will be solar observation during the afternoon, and perhaps some observing of the evening sky after supper.