Ad Astra

From Friday night straight through to Sunday afternoon, there's always something to see or do at Ad Astra, whether your tastes run to intelligent discussions, relaxing and mingling with friends, meeting authors and other professionals, or enjoying live entertainment. 

Ad Astra takes pride in the quality and the variety of our programming. Thanks to our panelists, who are a mix of professional writers, editors, artists, costumers, scientists, dedicated fans, and experts on a variety of subjects, the panel discussions are always full of energy and ideas. We have discussion panels, workshops, demos and interactive programming. Topics range from science fiction, fantasy, and horror, to costuming, movies and TV, science and technology, filk, writing and the publishing industry, fandom, and working as a creative professional - with some "just for fun" panels for when you get tired of all that "serious" stuff. 

For those of you who love meeting our featured authors and guests, readings and autograph sessions are scheduled throughout the convention, and each of our guests is celebrated with their own Guest of Honour Hour. Each of our Guests of Honour is invited to participate in programming, so there are many chances to see the Guests throughout the weekend. 

There is always a book launch or two at Ad Astra, giving you the chance to pick up a great new novel or anthology before anyone else and meet the people whose hard work brought it to publication.