{"id":30279,"date":"2024-03-06T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=30279"},"modified":"2024-03-06T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T05:05:00","slug":"next-club-meeting-is-this-saturday-march-9-in-our-new-downtown-meeting-hall-and-on-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=30279","title":{"rendered":"Next Club Meeting is this Saturday, March 9, in our New Downtown Meeting Hall, and on ZOOM!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>THE NEXT MonSFFA<\/span><\/strong> MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 9, FROM <\/strong>1:00PM-5:00PM! AND WE<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/em>\u2019<\/em><\/strong>RE MOVING BACK DOWNTOWN TO A NEW MEETING HALL!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Le Nouvel Hotel, <\/strong>1740 Boul. Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque (corner St-Mathieu), <\/strong>\u201cSalle Maisonneuve\u201d (South Tower)!\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u2026plus, our meeting will also be accessible simultaneously\u00a0 on <\/em>ZOOM!<\/h4>\n

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via:<\/span> www.MonSFFA.ca<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

ATTENTION EARTHLINGS!<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

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IMPORTANT NOTICE:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

MonSFFA is moving back downtown<\/em> to a new<\/em> meeting hall!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

We\u2019ll be meeting in \u201cSalle Maisonneuve\u201d <\/em><\/strong>of Le Nouvel Hotel! Le Nouvel is located<\/em><\/strong> on a major bus line, and is just a short walk from either Metro Guy\/Concordia or Lucien-L\u2019Allier.\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Note that this new locale is only one block west of our pre-pandemic meeting place, the H\u00f4tel Espresso (corner Guy and Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque)! We\u2019re returning to our old, familiar neighbourhood, folks! And we hope to welcome home both current and dormant club members; see you all on the 9th!<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n
\"\"<\/a>Meeting <\/em><\/strong>Theme: <\/em><\/strong>Our March 2024 meeting precedes St. Patrick\u2019s Day by about a week. The city\u2019s Irish heritage has long been a part of Montreal\u2019s cultural mosaic. MonSFFen are encouraged to wear something green to the meeting, perhaps a shamrock!<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n

MARCH AGENDA INCLUDES:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FAN KIND!<\/strong><\/span>\u2014<\/strong>We share our experiences meeting SF\/F celebrities! Come prepared with your stories of having met famous SF\/F stars\u2014writers, actors, artists, etc.\u2014especially if said encounter was a tad unusual! And, show off any autographs and unique mementos you consequently obtained, or photos of your meeting!\"\"<\/a><\/h5>\n
SCIENCE FICTION BEFORE IT WAS CALLED SCIENCE FICTION<\/strong><\/span>\u2014<\/em>We look at works of proto-SF. Tales of travel to other worlds, of alien beings and robots, and of interplanetary war date back decades and centuries<\/em> prior to the publication of Mary Shelley\u2019s Frankenstein<\/em>, often cited as the first true science fiction story. Well before the term \u201cscience fiction\u201d was coined, works such as Johanne Kepler\u2019s Somnium<\/em> and Lucian of Samosata\u2019s satire True History<\/em> included elements of what, today, we define as SF! We\u2019ll examine these and other works of science fiction before it was called science fiction. \"\"<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n
NOW SHOWING<\/strong><\/span>\u2014Join us for a fun and challenging game. We\u2019ll show you a movie poster advertising an SF\/F motion picture, but with the film\u2019s title, recognizable tag line, and credits masked off or blurred out. Will you be able to provide the title of the film? Beware!<\/em> It won\u2019t be as easy as this example!\"\"<\/a><\/h5>\n

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Subsequent Meetings:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Saturday, April 13 and <\/em><\/strong>Saturday, May 11!<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE NEXT MonSFFA MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 9, FROM 1:00PM-5:00PM! AND WE\u2019RE MOVING BACK DOWNTOWN TO A NEW MEETING HALL! Le Nouvel Hotel, 1740 Boul. Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque (corner St-Mathieu), \u201cSalle Maisonneuve\u201d (South Tower)! \u2026plus, our meeting will also be accessible simultaneously\u00a0 on ZOOM! via: www.MonSFFA.ca ATTENTION EARTHLINGS! IMPORTANT NOTICE: MonSFFA is moving back … Continue reading Next Club Meeting is this Saturday, March 9, in our New Downtown Meeting Hall, and on ZOOM!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30282,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30279\/revisions\/30282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}