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EventDate | EventTime | International Ballroom | Adams | Carroll | Douglass | Jefferson | Lincoln | Peale | Poe | Washington | Calhoun | Pratt A&B | Menken | Preston |
5/23/2003 | 12:00 PM | Anime (24x7 until 3PM Monday) | Video (Until 3 AM) | |||||||||||
5/23/2003 | 4:00 PM | Setup (Main Tent) | Setup (Mars Landing) | Open (General) | Open (General) | Setup (Mars Landing) | What's Wrong with Celtic Lore in Fantasy Worlds? | Open (Costuming) | Open (General) | Open (General) | Gaming (Until Close) | Anime | Video | |
5/23/2003 | 5:00 PM | Setup (Main Tent) | Setup (Mars Landing) | Open (General) | Open (General) | Setup (Mars Landing) | Open (General) | Welcome To Our House! (Costuming) | "Journey Through the Universe - Inge Heyer, Hubble Space Telescope Facility" | Beatrix Potter Panel | Open Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | |
5/23/2003 | 6:00 PM | Setup (Main Tent) | Mars Landing | SF Movies That Flopped | Open (General) | Mars Landing | Fandom 101: Welcome to Balticon | And the Award for Best Presentation | Population Implosion? Consequences of a Declining # of People | Fiction of C.J. Cherryh | Open Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | |
5/23/2003 | 7:00 PM | Opening Ceremonies 7:30 start. | Mars Landing (continued) | Open (General) | How to Write Technobabble | Mars Landing (continued) | Filk Panel (TBA) | And the Award for Best Presentation | The Future of Reading & Writing | How to Make Non-Human Sentients Really Alien | Counter Strike | Anime | Video | |
5/23/2003 | 8:00 PM | Radio Play: The Arbiter Chronicles | Mars Landing (continued) | TV Show Recap --Smallville | Knossos -- DC Area Mythepoeic Society Meeting | Mars Landing (continued) | Filk Concert (TBA) | And the Award for Best Presentation | Science Guest | Small Presses, Print On Demand -- New Trends in Publishing | Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds | Anime | Video | |
5/23/2003 | 9:00 PM | Laura Lingle Concert: Start 9:30 | SETI Sneak Attack: Lessons Learned from the Pearl Harbor Hoax | JRR Tolkien's Friends-- the Inklings | Smofteens -- Fandom TNG | Open (General) | Open (General) | Credit Cards: How to Protect Yourself | When Did Tomorrow Get So Far Away? | Fanzines & SF Fandom | Open Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | |
5/23/2003 | 10:00 PM | Laura Lingle Concert continue | The Greatest Forgotten SF Authors | TV Show Recap : Enterprise | Discussion: Define Good Mental Health | Open (General) | Filk to close | Open (General) | Food in SF: Don't Bolt Your Pills, Dear! | Filk to close | Open Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | |
5/23/2003 | 11:00 PM | Setup (Main Tent) | Alien Sex: "In Spring. One's Fancy Turns to Budding" | Open (General) | Open (General) | Open (General) | Open (General) | Litter on the Milky Way: Trash in Space | Adults Only Computer Gaming Until Close | Anime | Video | |||
5/24/2003 | 9:00 AM | Setup (Main Tent) | Costuming Your Kids | Open (General) | Writers' Workshop | Setup (Art) | Open (General) | Open (General) | Open (General/Science) | Setup (Childrens) | Gaming (Until Close) | Kids Only Computer Gaming | Anime (Until 3PM Monday) | Video (Until 3 AM) |
5/24/2003 | 10:00 AM | Tech University | Setup for Glamorous Glitz and Glitter Auction | TV Show Recap: Farscape | Writers' Workshop | Photoshop 101: Using the Tools | A Code of Honor for Women | Open (General) | "Artificial Intelligence - Hugh Loebner" | Ming Diaz | Kids Only Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | |
5/24/2003 | 11:00 AM | Tech University (continued) | Glamorous Glitz and Glitter Auction | LARP -- Let the Game Begin | Writers' Workshop | Studio Rayyan Art Academy Hour | Ninjas, Ronin, Sensei, Asian Icons in SF | Open (General) | "Time & Time Travel - John Ashmead" | "Prepare for ""Why Can't they just lose the RING in the sink?"" skit: be cast in a part, make costumes & props; rehearse for Sunday 11AM" | Unreal Tournament | Anime | Video | |
5/24/2003 | 12:00 PM | Setup (Main Tent) | Glamorous Glitz and Glitter Auction | KaffeeKlatsch | Introduction to Watercolor | Slide show by Steve Stiles | Setup (Pop Tart Cafe) | "Health & Surgical Risks for Aging & Supersized Fans - Dr. Richard Katz, Professor of Anesthesiology" | "Decorate a Cookie or Cupcake (and Spoil Your Lunch)" | Unreal Tournament | Anime | Video | ||
5/24/2003 | 1:00 PM | Filk GoH Concert: Steve Macdonald; Start 1:30 | Evolution of the Jedi Costumes | Does Harry Potter Movie #2 Live Up to #1 | Poetry Workshop:1;30 | Fantasy Drawing Techniques | Literary Scams-- Writers Beware. Protect Yourself | Lunch Break (Science) | Ernie Silversmith - "Mr. Polymer" | Medal of Honor | Anime | Video | ||
5/24/2003 | 2:00 PM | Filk GoH Concert: Steve Macdonald-cont. | Terrifically Teased Tresses | TV Show Recap: Buffy the Vampirte Slayer | Poetry Workshop-cont. | Dueling Easels | Peace XI: Can GeneticTechnology Produce Better Fighters, or are good soldiers raised and trained? | Pop Tart Cafe to Closing | The Journey (Through The Universe) Continues - Inge Heyer, Hubble Space Telescope Facility | "Balloon Workshop with J. Jagi Lamplighter-Wright" | Medal of Honor | Anime | Video | |
5/24/2003 | 3:00 PM | Play: An Odd Spacedy: start 3:30 | Fantasy Film Costuming | Art GoH Event - Sheila and Omar Rayyan | KaffeeKlatsch: Start 3:30 | Ron Miller Presentation (Art) | Filk Concerts | Pop Tart Cafe | "TBA - Dave Theison UM Astronomy Department" | Carpathian: Tales of the Macabre | Introduction to Bryce | Anime | Video | |
5/24/2003 | 4:00 PM | Setup (Main Tent) | Readings/Papers | Metal with Mettle | Filk Concerts | Pop Tart Cafe | "Dinosaurs - Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., Vertebrate Paleontologist,Dept.of Geology Director, Earth, Life & Time Program, U. of M." | "Wacky Robics: Get Your Energy Out - France Niaba" | Very Best of Free Software | Anime | Video | |||
5/24/2003 | 5:00 PM | Setup (Main Tent) | Readings/Papers | LOTR: How Tolkien Made a Myth and a Legend | KaffeeKlatsch | Preserving Your Art | Media Concentration & the Future of Mass Media | Pop Tart Cafe | The Active Militarization of Space | Dave Kratz: Make a Spectroscope | Command and Conquer:Generals | Anime | Video | |
5/24/2003 | 6:00 PM | Setup (Main Tent) | Readings/Papers | Costume Green Room & Party to Closing | Balticon Sketch Club | Self Promotion for Authors | Pop Tart Cafe | Open (General/Science) | Cleanup (Childrens) | Command and Conquer:Generals | Anime | Video | ||
5/24/2003 | 7:00 PM | Setup (Main Tent) | Readings/Papers | Villains and Opponents for Your Games & Stories | Beyond Voice & Guitar: Other Instruments in Filk | Pop Tart Cafe | Open (General/Science) | Surgery in Space | Star Craft | Anime | Video | |||
5/24/2003 | 8:00 PM | Young Writer's Contest Awards Comptom Crook Award Masquerade RIF Auction |
Readings/Papers | BWSmof Meeting -- Conrunning as a Red Queen's Race | How to Write Media Tie-Ins & Sell Them | SF & F Trivia Quiz, run by Brick Barrientos | Pop Tart Cafe | Open (General/Science) | The Internet in Communications Among Scholars | Open Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | ||
5/24/2003 | 9:00 PM | Masquerade RIF Auction |
George Orwell's Centenary | Masquerade Judging | Portrayal of Motherhood in Fantasy Stories | SF & F Trivia Quiz, run by Brick Barrientos (continued) | Pop Tart Cafe | Masquerade Photography | Fan History Panel -- Dinosaurs & Others Describe the Social Patterns of SF | Open Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | ||
5/24/2003 | 10:00 PM | Masquerade RIF Auction |
Librarians & SF & Fantasy | Masquerade Judging | Islam and Islamic Fantasy | Filk to Closing | Pop Tart Cafe | Filk to Closing | Open Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | |||
5/24/2003 | 11:00 PM | Masquerade RIF Auction |
Books Worth Reading Twice | If I Ran the Zoo -- Worldcon Game run by Hal Haag | Seduced by the Monster: the Intimate Embrace of Love and Death | Pop Tart Cafe | Adults Only Computer Gaming Until Close | Anime | Video | |||||
5/25/2003 | 9:00 AM | Setup (Main Tent) | Pop Tart Cafe | Setup (Childrens) | Gaming (Until Close) | Anime (Until 3PM Monday) | Video (Until 3 AM) | |||||||
5/25/2003 | 10:00 AM | Tech University | Readings/Papers | TV Show Recap: Stargate | KaffeKlatsch | Judging the Book by Its Cover Blurb | Motherhood as a Job | Pop Tart Cafe | TBA - Tom Livengood, Challenger Center | Ming Diaz | Kids Only Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | |
5/25/2003 | 11:00 AM | Tech University | Readings/Papers | The Hong Kong-Harlem Connection: Why & What Hong Kong Films Make it in the US | Improvisation in Writing:How It's Done, Then Practice-start 11:30 | Meet the Crook Winners | How Role Playing is Used in Different Professions | Pop Tart Cafe | TBA - Ron Miller | Closed (Children's) | Kids Only Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | |
5/25/2003 | 12:00 PM | Boogie Knights Concert-Start 1:30 | Readings/Papers | Setup (Art Auction) | Artists, Costumers & Writers Exchange Views | The Analog Mafia Explain It All | Pop Tart Cafe | Introduction to the Sky and Satellite Observing Dave Kratz, NASA, Langley | "Tim Livengood - Master Teller of Silly Stories" | Open Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | ||
5/25/2003 | 1:00 PM | Boogie Knights Concert-cont. End 1:30 | Readings/Papers | Art Auction | Insurance for Cons | Potrayal of the Military in SF | Open (General) | Pop Tart Cafe | Goddard in the Past Year - Dr. Yoji Kondo, Goddard | "Dragons & Beasties, Oh My! Sketching with Sheila and Omar Rayyan, Art GoH" | Open Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | |
5/25/2003 | 2:00 PM | GoH Presentation: Sharon Lee & Steve Miller | Readings/Papers | Poetry Awards & Readings with Patti Kinlock & the Lite Circle | Writing Screenplays and How to Get the Jobs | Filk | Pop Tart Cafe | Exoskeletons & Combat Armor - Philip Thorne | "Fractured Fairy Tales - Don Sakers" | File Sharing on the Internet | Anime | Video | ||
5/25/2003 | 3:00 PM | GoH Presentation-cont. til 3:30 | Readings/Papers | Charles Sheffield Tribute | Masquerade PostMortem | SacredHarp: Ted Rosenberg's Local Group | Pop Tart Cafe | UMBC Incubator Program | Lynn Woodward leads Line Dancing | Introduction to Bryce | Anime | Video | ||
5/25/2003 | 4:00 PM | Setup (Main Tent) | Readings/Papers | Does Our Genre Admit Religious Fantasy? | KaffeeKlatsch | Editing Anthologies | Music in the Future? How It will be Defined & Performed | Pop Tart Cafe | Crazy Science Ideas - Robert Ehrlich, Physics Professor, George Mason U. | "Steve Macdonald Has Some Songs A E I O U (Filk GoH)" | Unreal Tournament | Anime | Video | |
5/25/2003 | 5:00 PM | Setup (Main Tent) | Readings/Papers | TV Show Recap: Charmed | Use of Horror in SF | Meet Our Local Filmmakers! | Pop Tart Cafe | Scientific Ideas Worth Telling the Future About - Andrew E.Love , Navigation Systems / Electrical Engineer at JHU-APL | "Gaming: Try Munchkin, Aquarius, Harry Potter Quiddich or Bring Your Own Games" | Unreal Tournament | Anime | Video | ||
5/25/2003 | 6:00 PM | Film Festival: Start 6:30 | Readings/Papers | Identity Theft: A Crime in SF & Reality | Dinner Break | Dinner Break | Pop Tart Cafe | So You Want to be a Jedi? | Cleanup (Childrens) | Battlefield 1942 | Anime | Video | ||
5/25/2003 | 7:00 PM | Film Festival | Readings/Papers | Mystery in Fantasy | Comics as Literature -- Dialogue, Background Descriptions | Why Did It Take So Long for Urban Fantasy to Catch On? | Bellydancing Panel | Pop Tart Cafe | So You Want to be a Jedi? | "Story Telling Workshop for All Ages" | Counter Strike | Anime | Video | |
5/25/2003 | 8:00 PM | Film Festival | Readings/Papers | Star Trek as Mythology -- or Fairy Tale? | Is It Possible for SF to be Literature? (Repeated from Balticon One) | SF Looks at Sailing -- Weather Control, the Sun… | Lyrics in Filk. More Than SF & F? | Pop Tart Cafe | Open (General) | Command & Conquer: Generals | Anime | Video | ||
5/25/2003 | 9:00 PM | Film Festival | Your Child: ADD or Gifted? Or Both? | Homeland Security -- Everyday Safety & Avoiding Hysteria | Creative Ways to Research your Novel | Why I Would Rather Be In ___ Than Literary / Film / Discussions | Filking: Steve McDonald | Pop Tart Cafe | Tall Tales in Science | Balticon Sketch Club | Open Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | |
5/25/2003 | 10:00 PM | Film Festival | Alien Theology | Setup (Dance) | Discussion: Is Feudalism the Natural State of Humanity? | The Internet as a Support Group | Steve Macdonald Performance Workshop | Pop Tart Cafe | The Effect of Recent Changes in Copyright Law: | Filk to Close | Open Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | |
5/25/2003 | 11:00 PM | Film Festival-Continues to 2:00am | Fans: Are You Hopelessly Typical? Learn how to be weird and wonderful! | Safe Rave | Filk to Closing | Pop Tart Cafe | Why Don't We Eat Insects? | Adults Only Computer Gaming Until Close | Anime | Video | ||||
5/26/2003 | 9:00 AM | Gaming (Until 3 PM) | Anime (Until 3 PM) | Video (Until 3 PM) | ||||||||||
5/26/2003 | 10:00 AM | LEGO Building Contest | Do People Really Talk to the Dead? Fantasy? Urban Legend? What's Really Happening? | Building Fantasy Worlds for Stories or Games | Taboos in SF Fandom -- Too Far even by Our Standards | Science's Faustian Dilemma: How economics and politics influence research - Jim Kling, science & SF writer | Kids Only Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | |||||
5/26/2003 | 11:00 AM | LEGO Building Contest | LARP -- Closing the Game | Balticon Sketch Club | Beleivable Telepathy & Empathy | Massive Multi-Player Gaming - Lt Col Chuck Riechers (USAF, Retired) | Kids Only Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | |||||
5/26/2003 | 12:00 PM | Amtgard/Darkon/Dagorhir | Guilty Pleasures: TV Shows We Shouldn't Like | Weights & Measures for Fantasy Writers: Rods, Hectares, Cubits, Journals… | Bheer! Fans & the Microbrew Revolution | Extrasolar Planets (updated) - Dr. Helen Hart, FUSE Science Operations, JHU | Open Computer Gaming | Anime | Video | |||||
5/26/2003 | 1:00 PM | Amtgard/Darkon/Dagorhir | SteveMcDonald, Filk continued from Last Night | SF About Costume or Clothing | The Fine Art of Scheduling a Con Program | Science Educator's discussion Jim Kling, Andrew Love, Dr. Helen Hart,Dave Theison, Hal Clement | Counter Stike | Anime | Video | |||||
5/26/2003 | 2:00 PM | Filk 2x10's | Art as a Response to Tragedy -- Explanation & Examples | Vampires Ancient & Modern -- Dracula vs.Buffy | Trans Orbital Company Plans - Paul Blasé, Trans Orbital Co. | Counter Stike | Anime | Video | ||||||
5/26/2003 | 3:00 PM | Liar's Poker | Open (General) | Fantasy Before & After LOTR | High Tech Rock Throwing - Karl Ehrlich | Battlefield 1942 | Video | |||||||
5/26/2003 | 4:00 PM | Improving Balticon (Gripe Session) | Remembering Cool Science Projects on Columbia | Single Players - Myst, Black & White, Starship Titanic |