{"id":30389,"date":"2024-03-09T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=30389"},"modified":"2024-03-09T10:27:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:27:25","slug":"march-2024-club-meeting-post-1-of-3-1230pm-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=30389","title":{"rendered":"MARCH 2024 CLUB MEETING, Post 1 of 3 (12:30PM) – Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>INTRODUCTION<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n
Welcome to MonSFFA\u2019s March 2024 meeting! This afternoon\u2019s proceedings are soon to get underway. We are meeting live and person at our new meeting hall in the Nouvel Hotel, downtown! For those joining us online, today, see the instructions, below (at the end of this post), to join in and participate. Technical issues may arise; please bear with us as we adjust to a new facility!<\/em><\/h5>\n
Our programming agenda begins at 1:00PM; the meeting will conclude shortly before 5:00PM. This opening post has gone up about 30 minutes in advance of the meeting\u2019s start time to allow folk to gather online at their leisure. A second post at 2:30PM will offer the presentation slides we\u2019ll be showing in the meeting hall during our look at proto-SF, just as a back-up. Our third and concluding post will go up at 4:45PM to officially thank today\u2019s presenters and discussion moderators, and to publish the date of our next meeting.<\/h5>\n

THIS AFTERNOON\u2019S AGENDA<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
Today\u2019s programming agenda is as follows:<\/h5>\n
1:00PM – NOW SHOWING<\/em> <\/strong><\/span>Join 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
1:30PM – CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FAN KIND!<\/em> <\/strong><\/span>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
2:30PM – SCIENCE FICTION BEFORE IT WAS CALLED SCIENCE FICTION <\/strong><\/span><\/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
3:30PM – BREAK!<\/em> <\/strong>Club news, raffle\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
4:00PM – Open Discussion\/Q&A <\/strong><\/em><\/span>You may have questions about our new meeting hall, or other club business, or just cool stuff you\u2019d like to tell your fellow club members about; the floor is open!<\/h5>\n
4:45PM – Wrap-Up and Clean-Up!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
Please note that, while we strive to keep on schedule, we do, sometimes, fall behind a little, or find ourselves having to reshuffle the order of items on the agenda. Please also note that all<\/em> programming is subject to change!<\/h5>\n

JOIN THIS AFTERNOON\u2019S VIDEO-CHAT ON ZOOM!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
To join our ZOOM video-chat, which will run throughout the next few hours, simply click here and follow the prompts: This Afternoon\u2019s MonSFFA e-Meeting on ZOOM<\/a><\/h5>\n
\"\"<\/a>If you\u2019re not fully equipped to ZOOM, you can also take part by phone (voice only); in the Montreal area, the toll-free number to call is: 1-438-809-7799. From out of town? No problem; find your ZOOM call-in number here: Call-In Numbers<\/a>
<\/a>Also, have this information on hand as you may be asked to enter it:<\/h5>\n
Meeting ID: 884 5820 9960<\/strong>
Passcode: 598901<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Sci-fi fun begins at 1:00PM! Thanks for joining us today, and enjoy the meeting!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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