1) INTRODUCTION
Welcome to MonSFFA’s November 2024 meeting! This will be our last regular club meeting of the year. In early December, we’ll be hosting our traditional Christmas/Holiday Dinner Party—we return to a downtown restaurant this year! The dinner will wrap up our activities for 2024!
Today’s proceedings will be getting underway shortly. We are meeting live and in person at our meeting room in Le Nouvel Hotel, downtown! For those joining us online, today, see the instructions, below (at the end of this post), to join in and participate on ZOOM.
Our programming agenda begins at 1:00PM; the meeting will conclude at 5:00PM. This opening post has gone up 30 minutes before the meeting’s start time to allow folk to gather online at their leisure.
A closing post will go up at 5:00PM to officially thank today’s presenters/discussion moderators, and to publish the date of the next MonSFFA event, our Christmas and Holiday Dinner Party.
2) MEETING THEME FOR NOVEMBER
We’ll be tapping the membership for suggestions and ideas as to next year’s meeting programming. So, members are encouraged to come to the meeting with a few ideas as to SF&F topics they’d like us to explore in 2025! Your input is welcome and valued!
3) THIS AFTERNOON’S AGENDA
Today’s programming agenda is as follows:
1:00PM – Report on the Return of the Super Sci-Fi Book Sale
Our treasurer will present a report on the return of the club’s Super Sci-Fi Book Sale, held last month. A major fund-raiser for the club, this annual event was put on hiatus during the pandemic years and finally resumed after a five-year absence.
1:30PM – Get a Wonderful Life: Christmas and the Festive Season in SF&F
We look at some of the many genre stories, in print and on screen, that prominently feature Christmas and the Holidays!
2:30PM – Ho, Ho, Huh?!—Game
A quick game focused on the Festive Season!
3:00PM – Break
Raffle, announcements, brief discussion of club business.
3:15PM – Meeting Programming for 2025
We brainstorm ideas for next year’s meeting programming! Your suggestions as to topics for our discussions, presentations, and workshops are most welcome! Let us know what you’d like to see at a MonSFFA meeting in 2025!
4:45PM – Wrap-Up, Clean-Up!
We close another year of MonSFFA meetings while looking forward to our Christmas celebrations in December, and then, the New Year!
Please Note: While we strive to keep on schedule, we do, sometimes, fall behind a little, or find ourselves having to reshuffle the order of items on the agenda for one reason or another, or reschedule planned presentations/discussions. Therefore, please understand that all programming is subject to change!
4) JOIN THIS AFTERNOON’S VIDEO-CHAT ON ZOOM!
To take part in this afternoon’s meeting online, join our ZOOM video-chat, which will run throughout the next few hours. Simply click here and follow the prompts: This Afternoon’s MonSFFA Meeting on ZOOM
If you’re not fully equipped to ZOOM, you can also take part by phone (voice only); in the Montreal area, the toll-free number to call is: 1-438-809-7799. From out of town? No problem; find your ZOOM call-in number here: Call-In Numbers
Also, have this information on hand as you may be asked to enter it:
Meeting ID: 862 0441 7457
Passcode: 232651
