Patrician's Palace
All items for Patrician's Palace are listed below, in order of start time
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Friday
Tech Team Briefing
Patrician's Palace : 13:00 - 14:00 (1.0 hour)
Many hands make lights work. Also cameras, sound, video, the stage…
As has been said many times -- the convention runs on volunteers, and not just for the heating. Some of those volunteers sit, stand, roll and crawl behind the scenes, helping create the magic via their technical witchery. If that sounds like fun, come along to the briefing and you too can help out during the con. No experience necessary, training is provided.
Opening Ceremony
Patrician's Palace : 19:30 - 20:30 (1.0 hour)
Come prepared with your hooded robes, we'll provide the deliberately dribbled candles. This is Absolutely Not a Brethren and that is Definitely Not a Dread Portal. The Supreme Grand Master, sorry, Chair, welcomes you to the 2018 Convention, introduces our guests and gives out important information. Beware, your figgins may be toasted in the process.
Bedtime stories
Patrician's Palace : 21:30 - 22:30 (1.0 hour)
There is no better way to prepare for bed, or bar, than a cuddly toy and some stories straight from the Discworld. Bring your don’t-tickle-me-Errol, and your best pyjamas, and join our selection of guests, as they read from their favourite Discworld book to us.
Saturday
Maskerade Rehearsal
Patrician's Palace : 08:00 - 13:00 (5.0 hours)
All those performing in the ‘Maskerade’ item must attend this rehearsal. This is to make sure every aspect of your performance will go exactly as planned, and to find out essential information about the evening’s entertainment. Time slots can be booked at the Maskerade table at Registration on Friday and only those who have a rehearsal time slot will be allowed to perform.
Interview Paul Kidby
Patrician's Palace : 14:00 - 15:00 (1.0 hour)
Rob Wilkins will interview Paul Kidby about his art and his work on Discworld themed projects.
So What Does Tech Do?
Patrician's Palace : 15:00 - 16:00 (1.0 hour)
Tech bring light to dark and sound to silence (usually... sometimes the reverse is true), and help to create mood and emotion.
Do you want to push our buttons [1]? Do you want to take a peek behind the scenes and find out how all of this works [2]?
Then this is your chance! Come to the Patrician’s Palace, touch the buttons you’re usually not allowed to touch, ask us anything and maybe even join the team.
No experience necessary.
It is still magic once you know how it’s done.
[1] literally.
[2] We’re pretty sure we’ve figured this out.
Interview with Colin Smythe
Patrician's Palace : 16:00 - 17:00 (1.0 hour)
Colin will be telling Pat how Terry Pratchett came into his life, his publication of Terry's early books, his time as Terry's agent, untold information about dust-jacket illustrations, the Royal Mail stamps, why Terry moved from Gollancz to Transworld, and much else of interest - with copious illustrations for the discerning fan.
Troll Bridge Unleashed
Patrician's Palace : 17:00 - 18:00 (1.0 hour)
TROLL BRIDGE took fifteen years to make, and it’s done, so where is it already? Director Daniel Knight discusses the film festival gauntlet, pledge delivery, and will screen for your pleasure some exclusive footage from the film itself. Want to SEE and HEAR what all the hype is about? Then this is the panel for you
Behind the scenes of Good Omens
Patrician's Palace : 18:00 - 19:00 (1.0 hour)
Rob and Neil talking on video. Probably about the good Omens Production.
And then Rob talking about that.
Maskerade
Patrician's Palace : 20:00 - 22:00 (2.0 hours)
Join us for a night of entertainment provided by your fellow con-goers as they compete for the honour of winning the coveted Maskerade ‘Best in Show’ Trophy. There are several categories to compete in with fabulous costumes and Pat Harkin guaranteed.
Maskerade Break
Patrician's Palace : 22:00 - 22:30 (0.5 hour)
This isn't an ordinary interval! Enjoy the talents of the Brotherhoods whilst the judges leave to deliberate. This (probably) rehearsed item will keep you all going whilst you wait.
Maskerade - Results
Patrician's Palace : 22:30 - 23:30 (1.0 hour)
The moment everyone has been waiting for - the announcement of the results from the Maskerade judging! Who will be lifting the trophy for 2018?
Sunday
Q&A With Daniel Knight
Patrician's Palace : 09:00 - 10:00 (1.0 hour)
TROLL BRIDGE director Daniel Knight answers your questions live, with a hard drive full of images, footage, and behind the scenes content. Want to know more about breaking into effects, dealing with animals on set, and surviving the pressure cooker that is the most complicated short in history? Come along for a live recording, and get your questions heard! Panel to be broadcast online and feature on the DVD.
ABRACADABR-OOPS!
Patrician's Palace : 10:00 - 11:00 (1.0 hour)
Magic-users in fantasy fiction just point their staffs or wands, recite a spell and BOOM! Things happen! The wizards of Unseen University make best use of magic by not using it at all (except for the Dean), but other fantasy magic-users seem to have a bottomless supply of power. Where does that power come from? And what happens if they run out, or get it wrong?
Bringing the Discworld to life
Patrician's Palace : 11:00 - 12:00 (1.0 hour)
The Emporium has been bringing the Discworld to clay, metal, paper and cloth, for over 25 years.
Join them, while they chat with other guests, about the many different shapes and shades the Discworld can be brought to life.
Drabble Competition - Stephen Reading 500 words
Patrician's Palace : 12:00 - 12:30 (0.5 hour)
Also this year we have held the Discworld Convention Drabble competition.
Various members sent in their exactly-one-hundred-words-long story, and this is the culminatoin of it. Come and listen to Stephen Briggs as he reads the five finalist stories.
After the reading, you can still cast your vote, until voting closes on Sunday evening.
The winner will be announced at the Closing Ceremony.
The Radio-Project
Patrician's Palace : 13:00 - 14:00 (1.0 hour)
Rob Wilkins and Dirk Maggs talk about adapting Discworld to audio format.
The Watch
Patrician's Palace : 14:00 - 15:00 (1.0 hour)
Rob Wilkins and Simon Allen talk about adapting the Watch series for BBC television
Things that might have happened. If only …….
Patrician's Palace : 15:00 - 15:30 (0.5 hour)
Various anecdotes by Bernard Pearson. Do NOT ask about the Discworld Burial Ground
Strangely Fascinating
Patrician's Palace : 16:00 - 17:00 (1.0 hour)
Making a triumphant return for your stimulation and delectation, please welcome the astonishing spectacle that is Strangely Fascinating, (aka QI for Discworld) as Honoured Guests and Learned Pundits vie for supremacy in knowledge, sparkling wit and repartee in this beloved panel game. Our theme for this foray into the tantalisingly obscure and arcane is, of course, all about dragons. or Guards. Or maybe Guarding Dragons.
As always, your urbane and erudite hosts are Messrs Harkin and Boote, who will entertain three towering intellects of renown, whose conversational skills in bamboozlement and rhetoric are guaranteed to amaze and delight.
The Coronation Banquet
Patrician's Palace : 19:00 - 21:30 (2.5 hours)
For those who have already paid the appropriate tribute, Their Majesty, Draco Nobilis I, will celebrate their coronation with a grand three course banquet with accompanying entertainment.
Poor Life Choices - Create Your Own Storytelling
Patrician's Palace : 22:30 - 00:00 (1.5 hours)
James Webster has been writing about magic and dragons since he was very little. And he's not just saying that to appease the Dragon King!
Despite his affinity for dragons, he’s probably more like a golem. Only he’s made out of words and someone was daft enough to let him write his own chem.
His book of short fiction, Heroine Chic, is published by Inspired Quill. He recently placed 3rd in Hammer & Tongue’s National Poetry Slam. You can find his work online at strangelittlestories.tumblr.com. And he’ll be performing his CYOA storytelling show (Poor Life Choices) after the gala dinner."
Monday
Night Watch
Patrician's Palace : 14:00 - 17:00 (3.0 hours)
Do you hear the people sing? NOT THIS YEAR. Join the revolution and fight for Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love and a Hard Boiled Egg. Vimes finds himself back in his own past, taking the place of John Keel, teaching his younger self all he knows, pursuing a murderer and there's a revolution just around the corner. Adapted by Stephen Briggs.
Closing Ceremony
Patrician's Palace : 17:00 - 18:00 (1.0 hour)
It is time for important announcements such as the fate of the Supreme Grand Master, What Happens Next and also who has won prizes. Join us to officially end the 2018 Convention and to say goodbye and thank you