Every Sunday of term (except 1st week, 10 Oct): Library Meetings from 8:30pm in Sebastian's room, Holywell Manor, Room 40. This nice map from Laura should get you to Holywell Manor. The friendly porter will buzz you through the door ahead of you as you go through the lodge. The room in front of you is the bar. Resist the urge to turn to the left and get a drink and turn to the right instead and walk through the brown door with "PRIVATE, Residents Only" written on it. Turn left and walk to the end of the hall. Turn right and, through the glass door, go up the curly staircase. Room 40 is at the top, right in front of you.
Wednesday discussion meetings and speaker meeting (see below for topics) are held at 8pm in Jesus College in Seminar Room A. From the entrance to Jesus, go straight across first quad, through an archway into second quad and turn right. Go through another archway and turn left. Staircase XVIII is the modern block straight ahead. Go up the steps and through the door.
Wednesday video meetings (see below for programme) usually start at 8pm in in St John's College (on St Giles; see map) JCR video room.
10 Oct | Sunday | 1st Week | Freshers' Drinks | 4-6pm in the bar of Holywell Manor (just below the library). It would probably be a bad idea to include a link to descriptions of previous Freshers' Drinks on the Wiki. |
13 Oct | Wednesday | 1st Week | Discussion | SF Books to films: Examples of good and bad ones, why they are good/bad, and how adaptations should be handled to produce a good one. The term's video meetings will also be linked to this meeting, showing some examples of good films based on books. |
20 Oct | Wednesday | 2nd Week | Video | A Clockwork Orange |
27 Oct | Wednesday | 3rd Week | Discussion | "Story Synthesis": Working within the constraints of a few required plot elements can we come up with ideas and plot for a book or film? Previous stories have involved teleporting Swiss plane crash victims (or are they?) biotech (somehow involving the Great God Cthulhu and a naked cloned murderer played by SM Gellar), alien contact (superintelligent bears rescue space station survivors), time travel, and cloning. |
3 Nov | Wednesday | 4th Week | Video | The Handmaid's Tale |
10 Nov | Wednesday | 5th Week | Discussion | OUSFG Awards Discussion. |
17 Nov | Wednesday | 6th Week | Video | Forbidden Planet |
24 Nov | Wednesday | 7th Week | Speaker Meeting | Juliet E McKenna |
1 Dec | Wednesday | 8th Week | Silly Games | in St. John's, Graves Room |
There will also be a Christmas Party and two bonus video meetings: Dune (the TV series) and Babylon 5 (3rd and 4th seasons, with introduction for newcomers). Times and places to be decided.