The Lost Con - Schedule of Events

The Lost Con - Schedule of Events

Here's our schedule for The Lost Con. All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (Sydney), or GMT+1000.

Note that the virtual Escape Room will be running through the day.

Start Time Event Information
4:00 pm Opening Ceremony Welcome to The Lost Con! Find out what it's all about, how it will work on Zoom, and more!
4:30 pm Tansy Rayner Roberts Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Mystery writer, and author of Pratchett's Women, Tansy Rayner Roberts, joins us live from Tasmania for an interview.
5:00 pm Pratchat Podcast Ben McKenzie and Elizabeth Flux revisit Men At Arms, the book they covered in the very first Pratchat podcast.
5:30 pm
6:00 pm Good Omens: The Musical Find out about the in-development musical version of Good Omens by NSW locals Vicki Larnarch, Jim Hare and Jay James-Moody. Includes some highlights from the trial performance done in Wollongong in 2019.
6:30 pm
7:00 pm The Truth - the Radio Play Sir Terry's book about journalism, conspiracy, and dogs will be performed live in an abridged radio play format with a cast of (potentially) talented amateur actors. It'll be a rumpus! (or possibly a fracas)
7:30 pm
8:00 pm Virtual Maskerade Award Ceremony View the talented costume and prop entries for the virtual Maskerade, and hear the winners as decided by our panel of judges. 
8:30 pm The Quiz Do you know your Ronald Soak from your Ronald Rust? How many legs, in total, does the Luggage have? Test your knowledge of all things Discworld against every other Lost Con attendee in our fiendish quiz, run using Kahoot.
9:00 pm
9:30 pm Karen J Carlisle Steampunk, fantasy and mystery author Karen J Carlisle joins us for an interview.
10:00 pm Discworld Monthly Jason and Rachel Anthony-Rowlands, publishers of Discworld Monthly and organisers of the Llamedos Holiday Camp, join us for a live interview!
10:30 pm Snowgum Films Daniel Knight and Ahren Morris from Snowgum Films join us to chat about the massive effort that was the short film Troll Bridge, and what's up next for the company!
11:00 pm Closing Ceremony All good things must come to an end, and this is where we thank everybody.
11:30 pm Bedtime stories Some short Pratchett snippets of story, read to you as you cuddle your teddy bears.
12:00 am Chatter Room and Werewolf Game The Zoom room becomes open to all for chatting, and we might even try to run a game of popular convention party game Werewolf!