{"id":33177,"date":"2025-04-03T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33177"},"modified":"2025-04-03T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T13:50:39","slug":"next-club-meeting-soon-saturday-april-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33177","title":{"rendered":"NEXT CLUB MEETING SOON: SATURDAY, APRIL 12!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/April2025MonSFFAMEETING-Promo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-33178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/April2025MonSFFAMEETING-Promo1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/April2025MonSFFAMEETING-Promo1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/April2025MonSFFAMEETING-Promo1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/April2025MonSFFAMEETING-Promo1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/April2025MonSFFAMEETING-Promo1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>MonSFFA<\/strong>\u2019s next meeting is scheduled to take place a little over a week from now, on <strong>Saturday, April 12<\/strong>, from 1:00PM to 5:00PM!<\/p>\n<p>We will gather at <strong>our downtown meeting locale<\/strong>, <strong>Le Nouvel Hotel, 1740 Rene-Levesque Ouest<\/strong> (corner St-Mathieu) in our usual \u201cMaisonneuve\u201d meeting room.<\/p>\n<p>Out-of-towners, as always, may <strong>join our ZOOM-chat<\/strong> and take part in the meeting from the comfort of home!<\/p>\n<h1><strong>On the Agenda:<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3><strong>Sssssnakes in SF&amp;F!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>An extensive review of snakes and serpent-like beings in SF&amp;F literature, comics, film, television, and elsewhere! There are many more than you might imagine!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SnakeWomanDDFigurine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-33179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SnakeWomanDDFigurine-1024x948.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SnakeWomanDDFigurine-1024x948.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SnakeWomanDDFigurine-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SnakeWomanDDFigurine-768x711.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SnakeWomanDDFigurine.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Your Top Three!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>What are your top three <em>very best<\/em> SF&amp;F novels, short fiction stories, films, and television series? The <em>cr\u00e8me-de-la-cr\u00e8me<\/em>! We\u2019re asking MonSFFen for their recommendations, the <em>absolutely must-read\/must-watch<\/em> SF&amp;F that they believe the best of the best, desert-island material; the stories in one, two, or all four of the categories we\u2019ve outlined which others <em>must<\/em> read or watch before they die; the most memorable, thought-provokingly intelligent, important works of superior SF&amp;F, of high entertainment value and overall quality! That stuff! Let\u2019s discuss.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>and more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>M<\/strong><strong>eeting Theme: <\/strong>In keeping with today\u2019s scheduled presentation, and in honour of the Chinese Year of the Snake, members are asked to bring in for our display table a cool snake toy, SF&amp;F-themed, if possible\u2014rubber or plastic snakes, action figures, a game or puzzle; you get the idea!<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Spring is here, the snow is gone (we hope!), and so we\u2019re looking to see as many of you as possible at our downtown meeting hall! Bring a friend! See you all there on Saturday, April 12, 1:00PM-5:00PM!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/SpringGrassBanner2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-30497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/SpringGrassBanner2-1024x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/SpringGrassBanner2-1024x256.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/SpringGrassBanner2-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/SpringGrassBanner2-768x192.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/SpringGrassBanner2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Please Note: 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 for one reason or another, or reschedule planned presentations\/discussions. Therefore, please understand that all programming is subject to change!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MonSFFA\u2019s next meeting is scheduled to take place a little over a week from now, on Saturday, April 12, from 1:00PM to 5:00PM! We will gather at our downtown meeting locale, Le Nouvel Hotel, 1740 Rene-Levesque Ouest (corner St-Mathieu) in our usual \u201cMaisonneuve\u201d meeting room. Out-of-towners, as always, may join our ZOOM-chat and take part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33177\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NEXT CLUB MEETING SOON: SATURDAY, APRIL 12!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-33177","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\/33177","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=33177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33183,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33177\/revisions\/33183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}