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Reminder: Club’s 2019 Summer Barbecue-in-the-Park is this Sunday!

INVITATION to CLUB’S 2019 SUMMER BARBECUE-in-the-PARK!

MonSFFA’s Summer Barbecue-in-the-Park, traditionally held in July, will this year be held on Sunday, August 11!

We take this opportunity to invite all club members, their families, and friends to join us for our annual Summer Barbecue-in-the-Park, 2019 edition!

Bring your own food and drink; MonSFFA will supply a small cooking grill. We usually commandeer a couple of picnic tables for the day, but you may wish to cart along a folding chair of your own, or a picnic blanket, and perhaps a card or board game, ball, or Frisbee. And don’t forget your sunscreen!

 

 

Be sure to check the club’s Web site the evening prior to the event for any word of cancellation due to impending rain. In the event of inclement weather, the event will be postponed until the following Sunday, August 18, same time and place.

So, if the rain stays away, we will gather on the 11th at about 10:30-11:00AM under or nearby our usual stand of trees in Parc Angrignon, Lasalle (Angrignon Metro).  You’ll find us behind the Metro/bus station and just a short walk from the parking lot adjacent the now-shuttered “Farm”, or petting zoo.

View or download the July-August 2019 issue of e-Impulse here for complete details on our 2019 summer barbecue, including a map to help guide you to the site of the event (see map, Events Column).

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Do join us for a pleasant afternoon of easy conversation, refreshing drink, and tasty fare amongst the company of fannish friends!

 

 

July 20 MonSFFA Meeting Will Commemorate Apollo 11 Moonshot! And More!…

THE LATEST ISSUE OF IMPULSE IS RIGHT HERE!

e-ImpulseJuly-August2019PDF

Check it out for reports on the club’s recent activities, and news of upcoming events, like our…

NEXT CLUB MEETING (THIS WEEKEND!) 

Saturday, July 20, 11:30AM-5:00PM

St-François Room (second floor)

Hôtel Espresso, 1005 Guy St., Downtown Montreal

Meeting Theme: It’s the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing! Bring in for our display table your moonshot souvenirs, books, toys, etc.

On July 20, 1969, the lunar lander Eagle touched down on the moon, an astounding exploratory and scientific feat achieved from conception and design to testing and realization in less than a decade! A few hours later, Astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set foot on other world, followed shortly thereafter by crewmate “Buzz” Aldrin. The event was watched back on Earth by a worldwide television audience of some 530 million!

MonSFFA will remember and celebrate this monumental achievement in space exploration and scientific and technological advancement at our July meeting, the date of which just happens to be the 20th, the 50th anniversary, to the day, of this grand milestone in human history!

PROGRAMME

11:30AM-12:30PM (Pre-Meeting Session)

Utopia Planitia Shipyards Competition:      MonSFFA’s 2019 group project continues as our build teams finish assembling and begin detailing and painting their scratchbuilt model spacecraft!

1:00PM-2:30PM

One Giant Leap: 50 years ago on this very date, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, marking the culmination of President Kennedy’s challenge to his nation to put a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth! We remember, evaluate, and celebrate this monumental achievement, discussing it, too, from the point of view of sci-fi fans, for whom science fiction had become reality!

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2:30PM-2:45PM

Mid-Meeting Break: Fund-raising raffle; brief discussion of recent club business

2:45PM-3:30PM

Visions of the Future: An appreciation of the work of NASA space artist Robert T. McCall.

3:30PM-4:30PM

Music in SF/F: An exploration from numerous perspectives of music in science fiction and fantasy.

 

AND COMING IN AUGUST…

MonSFFA’s Summer Barbecue-in-the-Park, traditionally held in July, will this year be held on Sunday, August 11!

We’ve made this change so as to accommodate our scheduled 50th-anniversary retrospective of the Apollo 11 moonshot on July 20 (see above), which, as chance would have it, happens to be the exact historical date on which that first moon landing took place back in 1969.

We take this opportunity to invite all club members, their families, and friends to join us August 11 for our annual Summer Barbecue-in-the-Park, 2019 edition!

Be sure to check the club’s Web site the evening prior to the event for any word of cancellation due to impending rain. In the event of inclement weather, the event will be postponed until the following Sunday, August 18, same time and place.

So, if the rain stays away, we will gather on the 11th at about 10:30-11:00AM under or nearby our usual stand of trees in Parc Angrignon, Lasalle (Angrignon Metro).  You’ll find us behind the Metro/bus station and just a short walk from the parking lot adjacent the now-shuttered “Farm”, or petting zoo.

Bring your own food and drink; MonSFFA will supply a small cooking grill. We usually commandeer a couple of picnic tables for the day, but you may wish to cart along a folding chair of your own, or a picnic blanket, and perhaps a card or board game, ball, or Frisbee.

And don’t forget your sunscreen!

Do join us for a pleasant afternoon of easy conversation, refreshing drink, and tasty fare amongst the company of fannish friends!

Club Field trip to ECOMUSEUM is this Weekend!

NEWS FLASH!

We interrupt this post to bring you breaking news…

King Otterah has been spotted on the West Island! Canadian Titans have recently been awakening across the nation, mystifying scientists at the National Research Council! Action News captured this image of King Otterah looming over unsuspecting shoppers at the Fairview Mall. The whereabouts of Beavra, meanwhile, last seen in 2003, remain unknown at this time!

In entertainment news, scriptwriters at MonSFFilms have begun work on a new Canadian Kaiju film entitled “Beavra: Governor General of the Monsters!”

We now return you to your regular post…

Just a quick reminder: MonSFFAs field trip to the West Island’s Ecomuseum will take place this coming weekend! So as to enter together, we will first meet in the parking lot just outside the main entrance to the facility at 11:00AM, Sunday, June 9!

Featuring both indoor and outdoor exhibits, this zoological park is home to over 100 species of animals indigenous to Quebec—wolves, foxes, bears, lynx, deer, caribou, racoons (of the weapons-free, non-talking type!), a variety of birds, including an assortment of raptors (not those kind! Or, for that matter, the basketball team!), and various reptiles, amphibians and fish. The fast-moving and playful river otters are a highlight of the  nature trail!


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There are indoor and outdoor picnic areas, so one may bring along a bagged lunch of sandwiches, snacks, and a drink if one is so inclined. And for souvenir hunters, there’s a gift shop!

General admission is $17.25 (discounts are available for children and seniors) and parking is free of charge! MonSFFen are responsible for their own admission and any other field trip-related expenses.

The Ecomuseum is located at 21125 chemin Sainte-Marie in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.

Check public transit schedules for metro/bus/ train routes but be aware that public transit is often limited on weekends. As such, we are organizing carpools for any who may wish to avail themselves. Please be on time!

CARPOOLS:

Contact club president Cathy Palmer-Lister (President@MonSFFA.ca) to arrange for a ride, or, if you are driving, to offer a lift to your fellow club members. We have been matching riders to drivers.

Attention drivers: you will be asked to pick-up passengers at a convenient, pre-arranged Metro station at no later than 10:30AM. To get to the Ecomuseum, take Autoroute 40 to Morgan Boulevard (exit 44) and follow the blue tourism signs to the zoo.

Finally, after our visit, we are thinking of taking in a movie (probably Godzilla: King of the Monsters) at the nearby Colisée Kirkland Theatre.

See you Sunday…

MORE DETAILS ON UPCOMING MAY 11 CLUB MEETING

First of all, May the Fourth be With You…

MEETING PROGRAMME, SATURDAY, MAY 11

1:00PM-2:15PM

Who You Gonna Call?: Whether a fan of supernatural tales, true believer, local history buff, or just curious, amateur ghost hunting has become an interest for many. We explore the hobby and learn how to suit-up to bust us some ghosts!

(BTW, Impulse neglected to include mention of this panel in its April 2019 issue; the news bulletin regrets the oversight and apologizes for the omission. We have corrected things in our May-June 2019 issue and remain haunted by our initial error!)

2:15PM-2:30PM

Mid-Meeting Break: Fund-raising raffle; brief discussion of recent club business

2:30PM-3:00PM

Demonstration of 3-D Printing: We’ll set up a    3-D printer and offer a demonstration of how model-makers or crafters can fashion their own plastic parts and sculptures at home! The machine will run during the remainder of the meeting and the demonstration will conclude after…

3:00PM-4:30PM

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Utopia Planitia Shipyards Competition: MonSFFA’s 2019 group project involves a team competition in which model spacecraft will be scratchbuilt using discarded household odds and ends. Each team will cut, shape, glue together, and paint these bits and pieces to fashion a spaceship! For additional information, read on…

(From Impulse, May-June 2019)

Last Opportunity to Contribute Materials for Club’s Group Project

At this month’s MonSFFA meeting (Saturday, May 11), the club will embark upon its group project for 2019 with the first of three scheduled workshops for what we are calling our Utopia Planitia Shipyards Competition. This is a reality TV show-style team contest in which scratchbuilt model spaceships will be fabricated using a variety of discarded everyday household articles scavenged from around the kitchen, basement, or garage. The project/contest will unfold over the course of three  one-hour sessions (May 11, July 20, and September 14).

For the past few months, we have been collecting from club members a stash of items such as empty soft drink or shampoo bottles, toothpaste caps and assorted lids, plastic cups, empty plastic food containers, drinking straws, plastic utensils, parts of old broken toys or sections of the housings for obsolete household electronics and appliances, old door hinges, nuts and washers, fasteners, clasps, clothespins—essentially, any small, interestingly-shaped plastic, metal, or wooden doohickeys! In advance of our first scheduled Utopia Planitia workshop, club members have one last opportunity to bring in an assortment of bits and pieces for the project. Please insure that these items are thoroughly cleaned before bagging or boxing them and bringing them in to this Saturday’s May 11 meeting.

We thank you in advance for your cooperation in helping us to successfully stage our makeshift model-building competition!

MonSFFen are encouraged to come prepared; put together a small personal tool kit—scissors, utility knives and other cutting tools, a straight-edge, files, sandpaper, masking or electrical tape, etc. The club will supply certain equipment, such as glue, paint and brushes, and a drill.

Details of the competition will be outlined during an introductory preamble just prior to the first workshop.

After the contest, the completed spaceship models will be photographed against an “outer space” scenic backdrop for a planned feature in a future issue  of club fanzine Warp, with the winning model gracing the cover.

Meeting Theme: Spaceships! Bring in bits and pieces of household flotsam, and a personal model-building tool kit (scissors, straight-edge, utility knife, sandpaper, etc.) for our model spaceship-building group project.