JoCo Cruise 7/Schedule

Complete event schedule for JoCo Cruise 7, as archived from the official Sched site. Times are the ship's clock. Clock changes are noted under the day they take effect.

Day 1: Saturday, March 4

Start	End	Event	Type	Location	Featuring	Details
1:00 PM	2:30 PM	Swing and One-Step Dance Lesson	SHADOW CRUISE	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward		Back by Popular Demand! Renée Camus (JCC 1 through 4 and 6) once again teaches the basics of swing and one-step dancing, two fun couple dances that are easy to pick up and lots of fun to dance to the music of JoCo and other cruise performers! Learn clear leading and following techniques, easy cool moves, and good rhythm so you can use what you've learned and enjoy the music and your partners during the rest of the week. No partner or experience necessary for the class.
1:30 PM	3:00 PM	How To Play: Illimat	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		A card game that feels like you found it in your grandfathers attic, but with a dynamic modern twist. Illimat is designed by Keith Baker ( Gloom, Eberron ) in collaboration with the band The Decemberists with art by Carson Ellis.
1:30 PM	3:00 PM	Orientation		Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Jonathan Coulton, Paul Sabourin, Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo	A basic walkthrough of the main logistics of JoCo Cruise. We'll give a ~10 min. overview at the beginning, middle and end of the orientation, and take your questions inbetween. Show up when you can, leave when you wish.Recommended for new Sea Monkeys, but open to everyone. Featuring: Jonathan Coulton; Paul Sabourin; Storm DiCostanzo
2:00 PM	3:00 PM	Happy Hour		Sports Bar ("Fern Bar"), Deck 2, Forward		Happy Hour! Your second drink is only $2!
3:15 PM	3:30 PM	Safety (Lifeboat) Drill		Whole Ship,		This drill is mandatory for all passengers.
3:30 PM	3:45 PM	All Helper Monkeys Report!	SHADOW CRUISE	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		Hey Helper! Let's meet directly after the Safety Drill to touch base and talk about the week to come. I'll have lanyards, pins, and lots to say.
3:45 PM	4:45 PM	'Bye, Real World!' Cocktail Reception	PARTY	Lido Deck,		Come to the Westerdam's upper decks as we wave goodbye to Real Life for the week. Free champagne and mimosas!
4:00 PM	4:30 PM	Sail Away!		Whole Ship,
5:00 PM	7:00 PM	Dinner (Red Team)		Vista Dining Room (both floors),
5:00 PM	7:00 PM	Main Concert (Gold Team) - Jonathan, Molly, Paul and Storm's Opening Night Party	MAIN CONCERT	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Jonathan Coulton, Mollylele, Paul Sabourin, Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo	Jonathan Coulton, Molly Lewis and Paul & Storm kick things off with an informal, freewheeling concert, sitting in on each other's songs, and bringing out the occasional surprise guest, probably.
7:30 PM	9:30 PM	Dinner (Gold Team)		Vista Dining Room (both floors),
7:30 PM	9:30 PM	Main Concert (Red Team) - Jonathan, Molly, Paul and Storm's Opening Night Party	MAIN CONCERT	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Jonathan Coulton, Mollylele, Paul Sabourin, Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo	Jonathan Coulton, Molly Lewis and Paul & Storm kick things off with an informal, freewheeling concert, sitting in on each other's songs, and bringing out the occasional surprise guest, probably.
9:30 PM	9:50 PM	Close-up Magic: Mike Pisciotta	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Mike Pisciotta
9:30 PM	10:30 PM	Drunk History Office Hours	OFFICE HOURS	Pinnacle Bar, Deck 2, Midship	Craig Cackowski, Mark Gagliardi	Hang out—and maybe get drunk with—two of Drunk History's regular cast members, Mark Gagliardi and Craig Cackowski.
9:30 PM	10:30 PM	Happy Hour		Lido Midship Bar, Deck 9, Midship		Happy Hour!! Your second drink is only $2!
9:45 PM	10:45 PM	Speed Meeting	SHADOW CRUISE	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward		Back by popular demand! Join us for a facilitated and casually structured event where you will get to meet all sorts of people! In each 15 minute round you will have the opportunity to meet 3 new strangers and find out all about them. Nametags and prompt cards will be provided.
10:00 PM	11:30 PM	Sea Monkey Karaoke	PERFORMANCE	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		Get your sing on in the Queen's Lounge with this JoCo Cruise tradition.
10:00 PM	12:00 AM	Poi, Spinning, and All Flow Arts	SHADOW CRUISE	Northern Lights Nightclub, Deck 2, Midship		If you spin poi, flags, or staff. If you juggle or hula hoop... bring your prop and come spin with us. Music will be provided! This event was run during the 2015 cruise with great success. Please join us again or for the first time! Whether you spin or just want to watch, please come! All are welcome here!Many of us have LED toys and the lights will be kept low so the lights can be enjoyed. But there will be enough light for those of you who do not have LED toys.
10:00 PM	12:30 AM	Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		Ever wanted to operate the Helm of a spaceship? How about manning the weapons, defending the galaxy from ne'er-do-wells? Maybe you're better down in Engineering, keeping that garbage scowl of yours sailing through the cosmos? Or are you up for Command?Come and play Artemis!!
10:15 PM	10:35 PM	Close-up Magic: Eric Jones	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Eric Jones
11:00 PM	11:20 PM	Close-up Magic: Jared Kopf	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Jared Kopf
11:00 PM	11:30 PM	Frankly, My Beer, I Don't Give Adam	SHADOW CRUISE	Pinnacle Bar, Deck 2, Midship		If you’re a lover of great beer and terrible puns, this is the event for you. Stop by to enjoy a health serving of both. We’ll even have surprise guests!
11:00 PM	11:45 PM	Ted (Leo) Conference: Punk	PANEL / Q&A	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Ted Leo	Join Ted Leo and game designer Chris Pramas as they discus their backgrounds in the NYC punk scene and fabled performance space ABC No Rio, the DIY ethos, and how punk has informed their lives and careers.
11:00 PM	12:00 AM	How To Play: Monikers	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		A simple and fun party game where you guess the name on a card. Each team has 60 seconds to get through as many weird, inappropriate names as they can. In the first round, you can say anything you want. In the second, you can only use one word. And in the third, you can?t say anything at all ? just charades. The same cards are used in each round, so by the end of the game, you?ve made up a bunch of hilarious jokes together.
11:00 PM	12:00 AM	My Brother, My Brother and Me - TV Show Screening	PERFORMANCE	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Justin McElroy	A live screening of two episodes of the popular podcast's new TV show incarnation, hosted by Justin McElroy.
11:00 PM	12:00 AM	Newbie Initiative Games	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Come meet fellow first-time Sea Monkeys and accelerate new friendships with Initiative Games! Perfect for people who are nervous about unstructured interaction. Work together in shifting teams to meet a variety of challenges. Veteran monkeys welcome too!
11:00 PM	12:00 AM	Pyramid Arcade Experiment #2	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Hypothesis One: At least 50 JoCo2017 Cruisers will want to play our new game, Pyramid Arcade, given 100+ people did on the DiceTower Cruise in December 2016 (No pressure :)Hypothesis Two: At least 3 people will have learned Homeworlds and challenge Andy to a game (Did you know you can win a medal if you beat Andy at Homeworlds?)Andy Looney (and his companion Dr. Leila) will be playing/teaching pyramid games at various times throughout the cruise. Check the Looney Labs Pyramid Arcade poster in the game room, look on the door of cabin 8005, or check wherever Home Office decrees schedules shall be.Find Dr. Leila to get an Exp# sticker for your badge. We will be playing the 22 games that come in Pyramid Arcade + Zendo, and recording which games each person plays in our Experiment Logbook. We will have a demo copy and there will be another one in the game library. If you play a game while Dr. Leila is not around, snap a picture showing the end game, your # on your badge, and a thumbs up or down depending on if you won the game. Each game you play is a chance to win!We will raffle off the two demo copies of Pyramid Arcade on the last day of the cruise. Games played must be recorded in our Experiment Logbook to count. You get a raffle entry for each of the 23 games you play + an entry for each you won! Learn 10 games for a bonus 10 raffle entries and a Starship Captain sticker!
11:00 PM	2:30 AM	The Hero Instant! A new, super-heroic RPG!	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		The Hero Instant is a new, indie super-hero RPG. During this 4-hour game session, players will quickly create a brand new team of super-heroes who are thrown into an adventure that will include drama, suspense, a mysterious underwater city and the strange beings who live there! Who are they? What are they after? Most importantly, how long have they been here on Earth?
11:30 PM	12:30 AM	Cards Against Humanity Live	PERFORMANCE	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship	Max Temkin	Join Cards Against Humanity for our late night writers room! You’ll pitch your card ideas to the game's creators and writers, and the best suggestions will be acted out live. The worst suggestions will be mercilessly ridiculed. Come enjoy the sold-out show at Chicago's famous iO theater, performed on a huge boat for the first time.Featuring Alison Barthwell, Joe Gennaro, Michael Jando, Alex Kliner, Becca Levine, Kevin Reader, Mary Beth Smith and Julia Weiss

Day 2: Sunday, March 5

Ship's clocks go forward an hour overnight: 2:00 AM becomes 3:00 AM (Pacific to Mountain Standard Time).

Start	End	Event	Type	Location	Featuring	Details
2:00 AM	3:00 AM	Lose A Turn! I mean, An Hour!		Whole Ship,		As the ship moves from Pacific Standard Time to Mountain Standard Time, all of the clocks move forward and this hour is lost.
8:15 AM	9:15 AM	Divers' and Snorkelers' breakfast	SHADOW CRUISE	Lido Buffet Port, Deck 9, Aft		Meet at the Lido Buffet, port side, at 8:15 and we'll have breakfast on the first sea day (March 5). The organizer, Steph, will wear a snorkel mask or do some other silly thing so we can find one another. Just a fun event where we can swap stories and anything we know about the area.If you're into this stuff, there's also a facebook group, by the way. https://www.facebook.com/groups/jocodive/
9:00 AM	9:30 AM	Religious Services		Board Room, Deck 2, Aft
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Morning Meditation	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		A combination of mindfulness and loving-kindness (metta) meditation to start your day. Led by Juliana Finch. All levels welcome!
9:30 AM	9:45 AM	The Morning Show with Greg Benson		Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		Join Greg Benson and Special Guests
9:30 AM	10:15 AM	Journeys Ashore Presentation		Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward		Join Westerdam Shore Excursions Manager Richard to learn more about the exciting tours offered in our ports of call.
9:45 AM	10:45 AM	Speed Meeting	SHADOW CRUISE	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward		Back by popular demand! Join us for a facilitated and casually structured event where you will get to meet all sorts of people! In each 15 minute round you will have the opportunity to meet 3 new strangers and find out all about them. Nametags and prompt cards will be provided.
10:00 AM	10:30 AM	How To Play: Fuse (Board Game)	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		A beat the clock cooperative game that employs 25 dice and 65 cards. Each game is set to a ten-minute timer, and players must work together in that ten minutes to defuse all of the bombs. Each bomb is represented by a card which needs a certain combination of dice in order to defuse it. A player will draw a number of dice equal to the number of players out of a bag and roll them. Players must then decide who will get which dice, but each player must take one and only one. Ages 11+
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Friends of Bill W.		Board Room, Deck 2, Aft
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Hackathon (+ Intro Programming Crash Course)	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		Meet fellow hackers and build something fun! Show and Tell for shiny prizes on the last night.Don't know how to code? That's ok, we'll teach you Python! You must bring a laptop with a dev environment and libraries already installed.
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Make your own 1/2 Pony1/2 Monkey monster (or any other monster) that pleases you	SHADOW CRUISE	Digital Workshop (Crafting Room), Deck 3, Forward		This will be a chance to create that awesome creature of your dreams using the available materials. Existing stuffed animals will be repurposed or you can start from scratch.
10:00 AM	11:30 AM	Life Drawing	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Participants will practice drawing human models. Models will be clothed. Bring your own drawing implements and sketchbook. If all you have is a Holland America notepad and a ball-point pen, that still works. All levels welcome. Your host will provide some guidance for newbies, but she is not an experienced instructor, and at best a skilled amateur. If you'd like to volunteer either as a model or an instructor, please let Jen know!
10:00 AM	11:30 AM	Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game Character Creation	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Create your own hero! The upcoming Sentinel Comics Roleplaying Game has a fun heroic character creation system, and Sentinel Comics creator Christopher Badell is here to show it of.! Bring your ideas, or let the process help you make a hero on the fly!
10:00 AM	12:30 PM	Johann Sebastian Joust	SHADOW CRUISE	Northern Lights Nightclub, Deck 2, Midship		This is a sea monkey favorite! JS Joust pairs music with motion controllers; the music sets the pace, while the players try to knock their opponents out of the game by making a controller move faster than the music. Drop in at any time to enjoy this fun, easy to learn game. Recommended Age: 8+. Get ready to Joust...go!
10:00 AM	1:30 PM	The Hero Instant! A new, super-heroic RPG!	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		The Hero Instant is a new, indie super-hero RPG. During this 4-hour game session, players will quickly create a brand new team of super-heroes who are thrown into an adventure that will include drama, suspense, a mysterious underwater city and the strange beings who live there! Who are they? What are they after? Most importantly, how long have they been here on Earth?
10:30 AM	11:30 AM	Reading - Chelsea Cain	READING	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Chelsea Cain	Chelsea Cain is a kickass New York Times bestselling writer of thrillers, humor and comics, and she is going to read awesome stuff at you, and you are going to love it. Because why wouldn't you? (NOTE: There is no reason why you would not.)
10:30 AM	1:00 PM	Portal: The Musical	SHADOW CRUISE	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		Written by Kirk Shimano and featuring the music of Jonathan Coulton, PORTAL: THE MUSICAL follows the story of Sam, a code monkey cubical dweller, and Rob, her overeager middle manager, dealing with life at Aperture Science. Sam encounters a cryogenically frozen woman and quickly becomes enamored with GLaDOS's latest test subject as the feisty (and foul-mouthed) Chell takes on the Enrichment Center. But will Sam be able to help Chell and get everyone out while... still alive?
11:00 AM	12:00 PM	How To Play: Lotus	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Lotus is a beautiful game that grows into a unique work of art every time you play.Clear your head and take in the quiet strength of the lotus garden. It takes skillful care and nurturing to grow these flowers to their full potential, but, once picked, they provide their owner with wisdom. Beware, for there are others who will do anything they can to get their hands on these mystical flowers. You'll need to enlist the help of creatures native to this land to take control of the lotus garden and achieve true enlightenment. Ages 8+
11:00 AM	12:00 PM	Learn to play Tak!	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Imagined in Patrick Rothfuss's The Wise Man's Fear and made reality by James Ernest, Tak is a truly beautiful game. Learn more about Tak at cheapass.com/tak, and drop by for quick Tak lesson!
11:00 AM	12:00 PM	Podcasters Talk about Podcasting	PANEL / Q&A	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Hrishikesh Hirway, Janet Varney, Jeffrey Cranor, Justin McElroy, Dr. Sydnee McElroy	We realized we have a bunch of great podcasters on board this year. So it seemed natural to give them a panel to discuss the format. Moderator John Roderick leads what will assuredly be a lively conversation.
11:00 AM	12:30 PM	Music Discovery: 'Happy Leviathan' - Live Original Music	SHADOW CRUISE	Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		A casual concert, with live original music by Happy Leviathan, a genuinely unique (see: "nerdy") alternative rock band, formed by singer-songwriter Ender Smith.
11:15 AM	12:00 PM	Kayla Cagan and her debut YA novel Piper Perish	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		Kayla discusses her first novel, PIPER PERISH, which releases online and in bookstores everywhere, on March 7, 2017 - while we're all on the boat! Discuss the techniques for different writing pieces - from short plays to long novels. How do you know what to cut? What do you do when you think something works and it just doesn't? How do you query an agent or publishing house? And most importantly, does tequila help the writing process? (Possible slide show if equipment is available.)
11:30 AM	11:50 AM	Close-up Magic: Eric Jones	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Eric Jones
11:30 AM	12:30 PM	Putting Things on your Head	SHADOW CRUISE	Digital Workshop (Crafting Room), Deck 3, Forward		Originally designed to be a fez enhancement workshop, since we have all the materials, we are opening this up to whatever hat, or crown or tiny elephant you wish to put on top of your head. Feel free to bring hat blanks and fezzes to embellish or start from scratch.
11:30 AM	1:00 PM	Exits Are Out: Escape Station!	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Exits Are Out: Escape Station! is a live-action text adventure where the players control the input. Twitch Plays Zork would be a modern analogy for the fun chaos of ten or fifteen players trying to navigate through the treacherous environment of an early '80's Infocom game.
11:30 AM	1:30 PM	Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game Demo	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Come play in a super-powered tabletop RPG, run by Sentinel Comics creator Christopher Badell! Play as a stalwart hero in this new RPG system, which will be coming to Kickstarter later this year. Band together with your fellow heroes! Fight crime! Save the day!Only 6 players each session; first come, first served. But there are multiple sessions!
12:00 PM	1:00 PM	Sea Monkey Mail	SHADOW CRUISE	Pinnacle Bar, Deck 2, Midship		Those who participated in Sea Monkey Mail can gather in person
12:00 PM	1:00 PM	Spanish Language Lunch	SHADOW CRUISE	Lido Buffet Port, Deck 9, Aft		Aboard ship, meet Spanish language and culture lovers for conversation and fun! Make new friends as you practice speaking, discover new phrases, and finally figure out verb conjugations! All ages and levels welcome.
12:00 PM	1:30 PM	Rijsttafel Specialty Lunch		Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		The Weterdam's culinary staff are preparing this Indonesian specialty meal (from a Dutch word literaly translated as "rice table") as a one-time-only event for our passengers. Seating is limited, so sign up early if you are interested.This specialty lucheon costs $10, and you can sign up [WHERE???]
12:15 PM	12:35 PM	Close-up Magic: Mike Pisciotta	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Mike Pisciotta
12:15 PM	1:15 PM	Peanuts Gallery Live Podcast	LIVE PODCAST	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Mollylele	Life-long Peanuts fans and professional fussbudgets Molly Lewis & Josh A. Cagan discuss and dissect the animated specials.
12:30 PM	1:30 PM	From Frogfish to Whalesharks - sea life of the Sea of Cortez	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		The Sea of Cortez is one of the richest marine environments on the planet. Join biologists and divers for a rundown on some of the plants and creatures you may see if you look beneath the waves.**note - we are just planning one all ages session, but could split it into two if the demand was there, one for adults and one for kids.
12:30 PM	1:30 PM	How To Play: Dragoon	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Dragoon is an action strategy game with an ever-changing landscape. Village and city tiles populate the map each round using a coordinate system. During your turn, choose between claiming villages and cities that pay you tribute, or destroying them out right for instant gold. Challenge other players in dragon-to-dragon combat before they lay waste to your empire or enter your cave to steal your riches. You?re never out of the game until the last gold coin is snatched up! Ages 13+
1:00 PM	1:20 PM	Close-up Magic: Jared Kopf	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Jared Kopf
1:00 PM	2:00 PM	Jeanpool	OFFICE HOURS	Lido Pool Area, Deck 9, Midship	Jean Grae	Hang out by the pool with Jean Grae. There's a bar nearby, too. Just sayin'.
1:00 PM	2:00 PM	Test Rochi with James Ernest	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Help playtest Rochi, a new gambling game which will be part of the next fantasy novel by Sonia Lyris, her sequel to The Seer. Rochi is a gambling game for 2-8 players, played with a Tarot-style deck with six suits of different sizes. It’s a completely whole deck design, and it’s a completely different way to think about how gambling games should work. There is no betting, very little bluffing, and six different pots! We'd like your feedback on the rules of the game, both in clarity and fun value. Come give it a try!
1:00 PM	3:00 PM	Playing with Clay	SHADOW CRUISE	Digital Workshop (Crafting Room), Deck 3, Forward		Come learn how to make your own polymer clay magnets. Create your own or use one of many provided molds and to help you craft a unique magnet to commemorate your JCC experience. Squish your fingers into the clay, pinch and pull your way to inspiration! *size limitations, finished creations will be (hopefully) baked on board and available later in the week.
1:00 PM	4:00 PM	Escape Room (in a box)	SHADOW CRUISE	Northern Lights Nightclub, Deck 2, Midship		"It's Gonna Be The Future Soon" escape room The bands are almost ready to go on stage; showtime is in 30 minutes. But we just discovered that the precocious grandchildren of some of our favorite performers have locked away several of the essential instruments that they need to go on. How many instruments can you recover before it is showtime?
1:15 PM	2:15 PM	Reading - Pat Rothfuss	READING	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Patrick Rothfuss	Hey, everybody, it's Pat! And he'll be bringing is own special Patness onto the stage for you, with readings and meanderings and just that plain ol' Rothfussness you've come to know and love over the years.
1:30 PM	2:30 PM	Orange Tuxedo	PERFORMANCE	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship	Carla Cackowski, Craig Cackowski	Orange Tuxedo is a two person improv show from a husband and wife team who, collectively, have been doing improv for seven hundred years. In this show they aim to create grounded relationships formed by eccentric characters. Craig teaches improvisation at iO West, Carla teaches at The Second City in Hollywood. If you like comedy, you may have seen Craig wear various mustaches and costume pieces on Comedy Central’s Drunk History. If you like drunken history, you may have seen Carla drink various beers on Instagram. They perform regularly at The Second City in Hollywood and recently traveled to Austin for the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival (2015), SF Sketchfest (San Francisco 2016, 2017), Phoenix Improv Festival (2016), Del Close Marathon (NYC 2016), Stumptown Improv Fest (Portland 2016), Detroit Improv Festival (2016), IF Cincinnati (2016), Denver Improv Festival (2016) and London, UK (2016).
1:30 PM	3:00 PM	Maybe Capital Board Games	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Maybe Capital, the most important Venture Capital firm in Silicon Valley invites to become an honorary board member for one hour of the cruise! We'll meet to pitch important startups like "Uber for Puppies" and "Twitter for Short Trips To The Grocery Store" while investing in each other's companies. The winner is the one with the most companies and investment, who, of course, gets to throw Million Dollar bills in the air while their friends film it in slow motion. Maybe Capital: The Only Game Where Nothing Is Fair.
1:30 PM	3:30 PM	Parsely Games with Andy Looney	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Andy Looney will be your personal computer as you play a classic-style text adventure game in discussion-group format. 4 different games will be played in 3 sessions on Sea Days:Day 2: MUFFINS You've stumbled into the secret underground headquarters of the McFeezle's Muffins Company. So, what's down here?Day 6: FUN WORLD You are inside the Fun World amusement park after they close the gates. What mysteries will you uncover?Day 7: ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER THE TABLE That juice you just drank has made you shrink to the size of a mouse! Now what?Bonus Game (time permitting): BACK IN 5 MINUTES That crazy scientist's body was just taken away, and you are all alone in his lab. So, what's that mysterious portal all about?
1:45 PM	2:05 PM	Close-up Magic: Eric Jones	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Eric Jones
2:00 PM	2:30 PM	Anne Wheaton Reads Her Forthcoming Children's Book	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		Anne Wheaton has written a new children's book! It's called Piggy and Pug, and is written for 5-8 year old readers. It's due to be released by summer 2017, but she'd like you to get a preview! Come hear a reading of Piggy and Pug and see the accompanying illustrations!
2:00 PM	3:00 PM	How To Play: Secret Hitler	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Secret Hitler is a social deduction game for 5?10 people about finding and stopping the Secret Hitler.The majority of players are liberals. If they can learn to trust each other, they have enough votes to control the table and win the game. But some players are fascists. They will say whatever it takes to get elected, enact their agenda, and blame others for the fallout. The liberals must work together to discover the truth before the fascists install their cold-blooded leader and win the game.
2:00 PM	3:00 PM	Letter Tycoon	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Learn how to play Letter Tycoon - the Mensa winning game where you build an alphabet empire! More of a strategy game than a word game - in Letter Tycoon - you can buy a Patent for one of the letters you use when you spell a word! Lesser frequency letters have special powers - longer words earn both money and stock. Collect stock and money to become the Letter Tycoon.
2:30 PM	2:50 PM	Close-up Magic: Mike Pisciotta	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Mike Pisciotta
2:30 PM	3:30 PM	Color Me Monkey	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		The returning event for those of us monkeys that need to chill or have a hard time interacting with others if there's not an activity involved. Bring a coloring book or pages to swap and something to color with.
2:30 PM	3:30 PM	Scotch Tasting		Pinnacle Bar, Deck 2, Midship		Enjoy a flight of five high-quality scotches, because you're fancy and you like nice things. Hosted by Christopher Badell and Benjamin Soileau. Attendance is $25; sign up available at the Westerdam Front Desk (Atrium, Deck 1 midship). Seating is limited!
2:30 PM	3:30 PM	Songwriters Talk about Things, Including Songwriting	PANEL / Q&A	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Disparition, Parry Gripp, Ted Leo, Zoë Keating	A panel of our guest musicians get together to discuss songs, songwriting, songing and writing things that are songs.
2:30 PM	3:30 PM	Writing Implosions Panel	PANEL / Q&A	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Chelsea Cain, Maureen Johnson, Patrick Rothfuss	Professional writers do their thing for a living—by now, they should have every part of their writing process running smoothy, right? BWA HA HA HA HAH HA yeah no that's not how it works. Our panelists will discuss the various struggles and pitfalls they've experienced getting their words out into the world—and how those words made it out there anyway.
2:30 PM	4:30 PM	A More Perfect World	WORKSHOP	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship	Mary Robinette Kowal	Need help building a complex world for your campaign or Great Novel? Want to populate it with peoples who are three-dimensional, non-stereotypical, and more than just Humans With Scales/Wings/Weird Faces? Learn from a pro! Mary Robinette Kowal will give a talk and guided worldbuilding exercise that should give you the tools to create a complete fictional world.
3:00 PM	3:45 PM	Afternoon Tea		Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship
3:00 PM	5:00 PM	GeekThinking Trivia: an Homage to ThinkGeek Trivia	SHADOW CRUISE	Explorer's Lounge (Piano Side), Deck 2, Aft		A team trivia event to win fabulous prizes. No entry fee! Trivia from all sectors of the geek spectrum. Teams of 6 players. Singles will be grouped together. Walk-ups welcome, and will be seated if seats are available on a first come first serve basis. Please arrive at start time, late comers will lose their seat if they have not arrived after 10 minutes. No spectators, please! Trivia will be different at both sessions.
3:00 PM	5:00 PM	Spin Wool- learn or do	SHADOW CRUISE	Digital Workshop (Crafting Room), Deck 3, Forward		Come try out spinning. Materials supplied or bring your own and just hang out and spin. I will teach new spinners.
3:15 PM	3:35 PM	Close-up Magic: Jared Kopf	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Jared Kopf
3:30 PM	4:30 PM	Beginning Contact Juggling Class	SHADOW CRUISE	Lido Deck,		Have you ever wanted to fondle balls like The Goblin King in Labyrinth? Well, now is your chance! Learn the basics of the art of contact juggling. I will have balls to loan out in various sizes, but feel free to bring your own!
3:30 PM	4:30 PM	Welcome to Night Vale Meetup	OFFICE HOURS	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Cecil Baldwin, Disparition, Hal Lublin, Jeffrey Cranor, Symphony Sanders	Come and mingle Office Hours-style with some of the cast and creators of Welcome to Night Vale.
3:30 PM	5:00 PM	Sponsor Spotlight: Greater Than Games (SPONSORED EVENT)		Shopping Arcade,		Stop by the display area in the ship's Shopping Arcade (Deck 3 Forward) any time from 3:30-5 pm to check out Greater Than Games' products—and meet the friendly folks who make them. (No purchase necessary, but you'll probably want to!)
3:45 PM	4:45 PM	Locksport - Lock picking and handcuffs	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Locksport is the sport or hobby of defeating locking systems. You can learn a variety of skills including picking locks, padlocks, and handcuffs. This is a quick intro to theory, and some practical. There will hopefully be a lock pick table running at various times too.
4:00 PM	4:30 PM	Mocktail Party	SHADOW CRUISE	Pinnacle Bar, Deck 2, Midship		Not drinking alcohol on the boat but still want to order fancy drinks? Not sure what to ask for or don't want to brave it alone?Let's team up, find a cooperative bartender, rummage through the ingredients, and find out what fermentation-free fanciness we can concoct.
4:00 PM	5:00 PM	Cocktail Meetup of Cosplayers & Costumers	SHADOW CRUISE	Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		Come meet your follow Cosplayers & Costumers on the ship for a cocktail or two. This is an opportunity to meet other SeaMonkeys, chat, and sport your costuming/cosplay ensembles who share the same love of the craft.
4:00 PM	5:00 PM	Happy Hour		Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		Happy Hour! Your second drink is only $2!
5:00 PM	7:00 PM	Dinner (Red Team)		Vista Dining Room (both floors),
5:00 PM	7:00 PM	Main Concert (Gold Team) - Hastily-assembled Entertainment Burrito with Cameron & Rhea	MAIN CONCERT	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Cameron Esposito, River Butcher	A fun variety grab-bag evening of events, hosted by JoCo Cruise favorites, the inimitable Cameron Esposito and River Butcher. What's going to happen? Don't you wish you knew!
7:30 PM	9:30 PM	Dinner (Gold Team)		Vista Dining Room (both floors),
7:30 PM	9:30 PM	Main Concert (Red Team) - Hastily-assembled Entertainment Burrito with Cameron & Rhea	MAIN CONCERT	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Cameron Esposito, River Butcher	A fun variety grab-bag evening of events, hosted by JoCo Cruise favorites, the inimitable Cameron Esposito and River Butcher. What's going to happen? Don't you wish you knew!
9:30 PM	10:30 PM	Geek Out About Tattoos	SHADOW CRUISE	Pinnacle Bar, Deck 2, Midship		Do you have tattoos, want a tattoo, or just think tattoos are super rad? Join the Wolff Pack, husband and wife tattoo aficionados, for an exciting presentation followed by Q&A on the high seas. We'll answer all of your burning questions, including:-How much does it cost?-Did it hurt?-What should I wear to my first ever tattoo appointment?-OMG is that really a sleeve of Bill Murray portraits?Everyone is encouraged to bring their art and stories for a round table discussion 'bout the triumphs, hilarity, and downright weirdness that is tattoos.
9:30 PM	10:30 PM	Happy Hour		Lido Midship Bar, Deck 9, Midship		Happy Hour!! Your second drink is only $2!
9:30 PM	10:30 PM	The Dork Forest	LIVE PODCAST	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Jackie Kashian, John Scalzi, The Dork Forest	Dork on Dork Dialog with Jackie Kashian. I am interested in whatever dorky thing you want to talk about. Guests speak to their love of books, TV, Movies, Comic books, websites, food, wrestling, cars, action figures and bees. There is room for all in The Dork Forest. This is a safe space. With special guest John Scalzi.
9:30 PM	11:00 PM	Joss Whedon (Buffy and Dr. Horrible) Sing-Along!	SHADOW CRUISE	Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		Last year's Hamilton sing-along was a huge hit, so we thought, what else would nerds want to sing along to? We've got a theory - Buffy and Dr. Horrible! Come join us for a sing-along to the Once More with Feeling soundtrack, followed by the Dr. Horrible soundtrack! We'll have some printouts with the lyrics available. Perhaps we'll end up stuck in a wacky Broadway nightmare...Lyrics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Zl2iEAAN8trM1Hy6dg-U_qtoLTzVTe-7WpClARS4xY/edit#
9:30 PM	11:30 PM	Slow Jam & Singalong on Songs We All Know!	SHADOW CRUISE	Explorer's Lounge (Piano Side), Deck 2, Aft		Want to enjoy playing great familiar tunes with other SeaMonkeys? Bring the chords or chart for a simple classic or standard song you think most people already know, or pick one from the host's songbook, or just sing along. We'll quickly break down each song into arrangements, review the rhythm chords, and take turns playing lead, fills or solo breaks. Guitar, uke, mando, bass, keys, rhythm, voice, harmonica, ocarina, kazoo, whatever: all welcome.
10:00 PM	11:30 PM	Sea Monkey Karaoke	PERFORMANCE	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		Get your sing on in the Queen's Lounge with this JoCo Cruise tradition.
10:00 PM	12:00 AM	ANDY VS EVERYBODY with Andy Looney	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		Andy Looney loves to play a bunch of his games at the same time. He usually wins about a third of the games he plays, even when playing 10 games at once. Come challenge him!
10:00 PM	12:00 AM	Dance Party w/Riz Rollins - James Brown Birfday Party	PARTY	Northern Lights Nightclub, Deck 2, Midship	Riz Rollins	From Riz: "even though his birfday's in may and he dead, we'll be goodfootin it to all things james brown and more. expect music of the godfather hisself along with music he incfluenced, hip hop, dancey jazz, r&b and anything else i can find."
10:00 PM	1:30 AM	Sea Werewolf	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		We'll be doing a few games of long-form (not One Night) Ultimate Werewolf! Come and lynch your friends!
10:30 PM	11:30 PM	Mary and Pat and Wil and John Mess Around on Stage for an Hour	PANEL / Q&A	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	John Scalzi, Mary Robinette Kowal, Patrick Rothfuss, Wil Wheaton	What happens when Mary Robinette Kowal, Wil Wheaton, Patrick Rothfuss and John Scalzi sit on a panel and talk about whatever they want for an hour? We don't know either, but we bet it will be entertaining as hell. They've promised it will be entertaining, anyway. If it's not, one of them is going overboard. Probably Scalzi. Featuring: Mary Robinette Kowal; John Scalzi; Patrick Rothfuss; Wil Wheaton
10:30 PM	12:30 AM	Extreme Improv Trivia with Mike Selinker and Molly Lewis	SHADOW CRUISE	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward		Would you like to know what amazing trivia Mike Selinker is cooking up for this year's JoCo Cruise? So would he! But like with last year's event, Mike will be making up questions on the spot, with topics solicited from the audience and curated by his cohost, plucky plucker Molly Lewis. Will we all learn wondrous new things? We'll find out together!
11:00 PM	12:30 AM	How To Play: Illimat	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		A card game that feels like you found it in your grandfathers attic, but with a dynamic modern twist. Illimat is designed by Keith Baker ( Gloom, Eberron ) in collaboration with the band The Decemberists with art by Carson Ellis.
11:00 PM	1:00 AM	Mobile Gaming: 'Fail Whale' and 'Doodle Army 2 Mini Militia'	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Come play a couple indie mobile games developed out of the Pacific Northwest. Currently in private beta "Fail Whale," is an underwater narwhal vs narwhal combat simulator and Doodle Army 2: Mini Militia (released 2011) is a real-time (vs., team, and co-op) 2d platform shooter with a cartoonish modern military theme. Both multiplayer games are playable for up to 8 people (~10 min per game) and specialize in running offline on isolated LAN WIFI networks. We'll have devices and networks to play on or you can download your own copy prior to leaving signal range to come and join the fun with your own mobile device (appsomniacs.com).
11:00 PM	1:30 AM	Logic Puzzle Solving Club	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Pavel will bring lots of copies of a wide range of Japanese-style logic puzzles (e.g., Sudoku, KenKen, Kakuro, Masyu, etc.) and we'll solve them together! All skill levels are totally welcome. Bring pencils and erasers if you can!
11:00 PM	1:30 AM	You, too, can play D&D	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Been watching Stranger Things? Always wanted to try Dungeons and Dragons, but never had the time? This is why Lord Poseidon created sea days. Learn to play in a fast (for D&D) session of 2 hours.Experienced dungeon masters will lead you through a mini-adventure that will show you the basic mechanics of the game, and give a flavour of the way players and the dungeon master collaborate to tell a story together.
11:00 PM	2:00 AM	Time Empire - a board-game playtest	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Time-travel! Empire-building! Please help me play-test a board-game prototype! Time Empire is a mid-level strategy game in which the players build up their competing empires through a series of seven Ages. When Time Travel is invented, you can send Agents back to previous turns to change the course of history!
11:30 PM	12:30 AM	Cards Against Humanity Live	PERFORMANCE	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship	Max Temkin	Join Cards Against Humanity for our late night writers room! You’ll pitch your card ideas to the game's creators and writers, and the best suggestions will be acted out live. The worst suggestions will be mercilessly ridiculed. Come enjoy the sold-out show at Chicago's famous iO theater, performed on a huge boat for the first time.Featuring Alison Barthwell, Joe Gennaro, Michael Jando, Alex Kliner, Becca Levine, Kevin Reader, Mary Beth Smith and Julia Weiss.

Day 3: Monday, March 6

Start	End	Event	Type	Location	Featuring	Details
12:00 AM	1:00 AM	Star Party	SHADOW CRUISE	Observation Deck, Deck 11, Forward		Come tour the night sky with a professional astronomer! Bring your questions about planets, stars, galaxies, and the Universe for a casual star party in the darkest spot we can find. The captain has arranged for the lights to be turned off on the Observation Deck for this event. In the case of inclement weather, this event will be canceled.Note: Observation Deck is only accessible via stairs.Side Note: the captain refers to this deck as the "Monkey Deck."
5:00 AM	6:00 AM	Pagan Star Circle	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		For those of old faiths, neo-pagan faiths, Wiccan, Dharma Pagan, UU, Buddhist, Hindus, eclectics, or those who are just curious and interested... Come sit with us Under the stars to hold space in a circle and celebrate as we do. No judgement and nothing but love.
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Morning Meditation	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		A combination of mindfulness and loving-kindness (metta) meditation to start your day. Led by Juliana Finch. All levels welcome!
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Religious Services		Board Room, Deck 2, Aft
9:30 AM	9:45 AM	The Morning Show with Greg Benson		Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		Join Greg Benson and Special Guests
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	A Gamer's Guide to the Casino	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		So, you're on a cruise ship, and it has a casino. What's that all about, anyway? Game inventor James Ernest (Cheapass Games) reprises his entertaining talk about the ins and outs of casino games, from a "real" gamer's perspective. Learn about rules, odds, and even a little game theory in this joyful romp through the world of gambling games
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Friends of Bill W.		Board Room, Deck 2, Aft
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Hackathon (+ Intro Programming Crash Course)	SHADOW CRUISE	Digital Workshop (Crafting Room), Deck 3, Forward		Meet fellow hackers and build something fun! Show and Tell for shiny prizes on the last night.Don't know how to code? That's ok, we'll teach you Python! You must bring a laptop with a dev environment and libraries already installed.
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	How To Play: Monikers	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		A simple and fun party game where you guess the name on a card. Each team has 60 seconds to get through as many weird, inappropriate names as they can. In the first round, you can say anything you want. In the second, you can only use one word. And in the third, you can?t say anything at all ? just charades. The same cards are used in each round, so by the end of the game, you?ve made up a bunch of hilarious jokes together.
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Traditional Card Games - teaching & playing	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		I plan on bringing the following for traditional card games:- playing cards- rule sheets- score sheets- signup sheets for teaching sessions and playing sessions for myself or others who want toFor these games:- Double deck pinochle- Hand & Foot- 2 player pinochle- Crazy Eights- Hearts- Klondike Solitaire- Gin Rummy
10:00 AM	1:30 PM	The Hero Instant! A new, super-heroic RPG!	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		The Hero Instant is a new, indie super-hero RPG. During this 4-hour game session, players will quickly create a brand new team of super-heroes who are thrown into an adventure that will include drama, suspense, a mysterious underwater city and the strange beings who live there! Who are they? What are they after? Most importantly, how long have they been here on Earth?
11:00 AM	12:00 PM	Creative Stabbery	SHADOW CRUISE	Digital Workshop (Crafting Room), Deck 3, Forward		Teaching needle felting to beginners and having fun with the more experienced.
11:00 AM	12:00 PM	Geocaching in Cabo	SHADOW CRUISE	Cabo San Lucas, Mexico,		We will meet on the pier between 11 and 11:30 near these coordinates N 22° 52.823 W 109° 54.696 (by Captain Tony's). Then we'll wander off to do some high tech scavenger hunting! We will probably just try to find the 4 geocaches in town within a mile of the marina, but some people may attempt the more difficult ones that involve more of a hike. Pre downloading of maps and caches is a good idea, but not required, as many will have devices to share. This is also an official geocaching.com event.
11:00 AM	7:00 PM	Port of Call: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico		Cabo San Lucas, Mexico,
3:00 PM	3:45 PM	Afternoon Tea		Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship
5:00 PM	6:00 PM	Happy Hour		Lido Midship Bar, Deck 9, Midship		Happy Hour! Your second drink is only $2!
5:00 PM	9:00 PM	Dinner (Open Dining)		Vista Dining Room (both floors),		Dinner on this evening is "Open Dining" (since food is also being served during our Fancy Picnic Party tonight). While the ship requests that you try to stick to the general time of your usual seating (so that the whole ship doesn't all show up at once), you can come to the dining room anytime between 5 pm and 9 pm. NOTE: Fixed Seating table assignments will still apply.
5:00 PM	12:00 AM	"Formal" Night		Whole Ship,		Formal wear is suggested—but not required—anytime after 5 pm. Fezzes, tiaras and mustaches are welcomed (but again, not required).
6:00 PM	9:00 PM	The JoCo Cruise Fancy Fez-Tiara-Moustache Formal Picnic-stravaganza	PARTY	Lido Deck,		Come up to the Lido Deck in your Fancy Clothes (or whatever you feel like wearing) for the fanciest picnic there ever was! Admire others' finery and be admired in turn. Fezzes, tiaras and/or moustaches encouraged, but not required. Moustaches available as needed. Dinner service (picnic foods) provided from 6 to 9 pm on deck.
6:45 PM	7:45 PM	Short Story Structure	WORKSHOP	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Mary Robinette Kowal	When people are struggling to write short fiction, the problem usually begins with the idea. It often leads to a story that is too long, really the beginning of a novel, or so simplistic that it's dull. In this workshop, we'll walk through how to create and structure a short story idea.
7:00 PM	7:20 PM	Close-up Magic: Jared Kopf	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Jared Kopf
7:00 PM	8:00 PM	Say Hello to Jinx White		Cabin #1108,		Jinx White, a doctor in biology from ViroCen, will explain how communicable diseases function and what we can all do to stop them. You will want to use hand sanitizer after this panel, trust us.
7:00 PM	8:30 PM	Acoustic Song Circle	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Bring instruments and voices and let's sing songs together! Meet other musicians, try out new material, sing and play along or just listen. No pressure!
7:30 PM	9:00 PM	Sock Knitting Class & Social	SHADOW CRUISE	Digital Workshop (Crafting Room), Deck 3, Forward		Are you a knitter who has never ventured into socks and don't know what the big deal is? Come find out! Are you already a sock knitter but interested in new techniques? Come and learn some! Are you already the sultan or sultana of socks? Come share what you know! Toe-up, Cuff-down, Magic Loop, Heel techniques, we can go through it all! I will bring a few patterns from beginner to advanced level knitters, or you can bring a pattern you want to work with. You should already know basic knitting techniques such as how to knit, purl, increase and decrease. Materials Required: Fingering or Sport weight yarn sock yarn. Size 0-2 40" circular needle if you want to learn two-at-a-time Magic Loop technique, otherwise a Size 0-2 9" circular or 4-5" double pointed needles. I may have a few extras to share but the more people who bring their own the better. Or, just bring whatever you want to work on and just listen!
7:45 PM	8:05 PM	Close-up Magic: Eric Jones	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Eric Jones
8:00 PM	9:00 PM	'You're Funny, but How is That a *Real* Job?'	PANEL / Q&A	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Carla Cackowski, Craig Cackowski, Jackie Kashian, Tawny Newsome	Our panelists discuss how they turned "being funny" into an actual job, and the positives and negatives that come along with making comedy (in various different forms) a profession.
8:00 PM	10:30 PM	Johann Sebastian Joust	SHADOW CRUISE	Northern Lights Nightclub, Deck 2, Midship		This is a sea monkey favorite! JS Joust pairs music with motion controllers; the music sets the pace, while the players try to knock their opponents out of the game by making a controller move faster than the music. Drop in at any time to enjoy this fun, easy to learn game. Recommended Age: 8+. Get ready to Joust...go!
8:00 PM	10:30 PM	Logic Puzzle Construction Workshop	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		Pavel has constructed a lot of Japanese-style logic puzzles (e.g., Sudoku, KenKen, Kakuro, Masyu, etc.) and now you can learn how to do it too! We'll co-solve one puzzle together and then collaboratively create a brand new one from scratch, right in front of your eyes! Then it gets really fun: you will each create your very own puzzle, on your own, all starting from a common seed provided by Pavel. At the end, we'll all take a look at some of the ones you've made and marvel at our diversity and creativity!
8:30 PM	8:50 PM	Close-up Magic: Mike Pisciotta	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Mike Pisciotta
8:30 PM	9:30 PM	Pat Talks Tak: Bringing the World of Temerant to Life through Gaming	PANEL / Q&A	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship	Patrick Rothfuss	Patrick Rothfuss and game designer James Ernest talk about Tak. This board game was first described in The Wise Man's Fear, and now Pat and James have made it a real thing. Tak is an abstract strategy game for two players, falling somewhere between classic games like chess, go, and mancala. Learn about the design processes behind creating a new classic game.
8:30 PM	9:30 PM	Song Exploder, featuring Aimee Mann	LIVE PODCAST	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Aimee Mann, Hrishikesh Hirway, Jonathan Coulton, Song Exploder	Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Host Hrishikesh Hirway will interview Aimee Mann about her song "Patient Zero," breaking down the layers of the song as they go. Jonathan Coulton, who co-wrote the song with Aimee, will also be part of the conversation.
9:15 PM	9:35 PM	Close-up Magic: Jared Kopf	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Jared Kopf
9:30 PM	10:00 PM	Steel Don't Float: Ship Design and Operations	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Two Naval Architects lead a brief discussion and Q&A on the inner workings of hull/structural design, installed systems, and daily operation of ships (like ours!). Whether you wish to know where fresh water comes from, what is a fo'c'sle, or what keeps a ship stable, we can probably tell you something about it!
9:30 PM	10:30 PM	Cancer Sucks	SHADOW CRUISE	Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		A meet and greet event for SeaMonkeys impacted by cancer. Whether you've battled cancer yourself or in your family, been a caregiver, lost a friend or loved one - come and connect with people that have been through similar times.
9:30 PM	10:30 PM	Happy Hour		Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		Happy Hour! Your second drink is only $2!
9:30 PM	11:00 PM	Swing and One-Step Dance Lesson	SHADOW CRUISE	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward		Back by Popular Demand! Renée Camus (JCC 1 through 4 and 6) once again teaches the basics of swing and one-step dancing, two fun couple dances that are easy to pick up and lots of fun to dance to the music of JoCo and other cruise performers! Learn clear leading and following techniques, easy cool moves, and good rhythm so you can use what you've learned and enjoy the music and your partners during the rest of the week. No partner or experience necessary for the class.
9:30 PM	11:00 PM	Worldbuilders Gaming Fundraiser		Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Pat Rothfuss and Worldbuilders present a fun evening of gaming and charity. Play tabletop games with Pat and a passel of our performers and special guests, with all proceeds going to benefit Worldbuilders.Attendance is $25 per person; signup sheets will be available at the Helper Monkey Info Desk (Atrium, Deck 1 midship). Availablity is limited, so don't delay!
10:00 PM	10:20 PM	Close-up Magic: Eric Jones	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Eric Jones
10:00 PM	11:00 PM	Rebecca Sugar, in Conversation with Angela Webber	PANEL / Q&A	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Rebecca Sugar	There are two types of people: Those of have seen Steven Universe and know that it is genuinely one of the most amazing animated series in the history of ever, and those who haven't seen, but have been told how amazing it is by all their friends. The Doubleclicks' Angela Webber, who knows how amazing the show is, sits down to talk with series creator Rebecca Sugar for an hour of universal exploration.
10:00 PM	11:30 PM	Exits Are Out: Escape Station!	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Exits Are Out: Escape Station! is a live-action text adventure where the players control the input. Twitch Plays Zork would be a modern analogy for the fun chaos of ten or fifteen players trying to navigate through the treacherous environment of an early '80's Infocom game.
10:45 PM	11:05 PM	Close-up Magic: Mike Pisciotta	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Mike Pisciotta
11:00 PM	12:00 AM	A Bunch of Monkeys Read Some Stuff	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		Angela Brett, Bry Young, Jill Webb, Joseph Camann, Melanie Cassidy, and Richard Crawford read original short stories / poetry.
11:00 PM	12:00 AM	Cards Against Humanity Live	PERFORMANCE	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship	Max Temkin	Join Cards Against Humanity for our late night writers room! You’ll pitch your card ideas to the game's creators and writers, and the best suggestions will be acted out live. The worst suggestions will be mercilessly ridiculed. Come enjoy the sold-out show at Chicago's famous iO theater, performed on a huge boat for the first time.Featuring Alison Barthwell, Joe Gennaro, Michael Jando, Alex Kliner, Becca Levine, Kevin Reader, Mary Beth Smith and Julia Weiss.
11:00 PM	12:00 AM	How To Play: Lotus	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Lotus is a beautiful game that grows into a unique work of art every time you play.Clear your head and take in the quiet strength of the lotus garden. It takes skillful care and nurturing to grow these flowers to their full potential, but, once picked, they provide their owner with wisdom. Beware, for there are others who will do anything they can to get their hands on these mystical flowers. You'll need to enlist the help of creatures native to this land to take control of the lotus garden and achieve true enlightenment. Ages 8+
11:00 PM	12:00 AM	Pyramid Arcade Experiment #2	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Hypothesis One: At least 50 JoCo2017 Cruisers will want to play our new game, Pyramid Arcade, given 100+ people did on the DiceTower Cruise in December 2016 (No pressure :)Hypothesis Two: At least 3 people will have learned Homeworlds and challenge Andy to a game (Did you know you can win a medal if you beat Andy at Homeworlds?)Andy Looney (and his companion Dr. Leila) will be playing/teaching pyramid games at various times throughout the cruise. Check the Looney Labs Pyramid Arcade poster in the game room, look on the door of cabin 8005, or check wherever Home Office decrees schedules shall be.Find Dr. Leila to get an Exp# sticker for your badge. We will be playing the 22 games that come in Pyramid Arcade + Zendo, and recording which games each person plays in our Experiment Logbook. We will have a demo copy and there will be another one in the game library. If you play a game while Dr. Leila is not around, snap a picture showing the end game, your # on your badge, and a thumbs up or down depending on if you won the game. Each game you play is a chance to win!We will raffle off the two demo copies of Pyramid Arcade on the last day of the cruise. Games played must be recorded in our Experiment Logbook to count. You get a raffle entry for each of the 23 games you play + an entry for each you won! Learn 10 games for a bonus 10 raffle entries and a Starship Captain sticker!
11:00 PM	12:00 AM	The Jason Hatrick Comedy Hour*	SHADOW CRUISE	Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		*Not literally a full hour.Jason first performed stand-up comedy on this boat 5 years ago and has since gone on to become a professional comedian, with several festival credits and contest wins under his belt. Expect some of his material to be intended for a mature audience (but not too mature).
11:00 PM	12:30 AM	Maybe Capital Board Games	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Maybe Capital, the most important Venture Capital firm in Silicon Valley invites to become an honorary board member for one hour of the cruise! We'll meet to pitch important startups like "Uber for Puppies" and "Twitter for Short Trips To The Grocery Store" while investing in each other's companies. The winner is the one with the most companies and investment, who, of course, gets to throw Million Dollar bills in the air while their friends film it in slow motion. Maybe Capital: The Only Game Where Nothing Is Fair.
11:00 PM	2:00 AM	Late-night Prom-themed Dance Party with the Doubleclicks	PARTY	Northern Lights Nightclub, Deck 2, Midship	Laser Webber	The Doubleclicks host the prom they always wanted. Dance to music from your (and our) high school years with new friends at this "prom themed" late-night dance party! Prom dress, dates, and corsages encouraged but not at all required.
11:00 PM	2:30 AM	The Hero Instant! A new, super-heroic RPG!	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		The Hero Instant is a new, indie super-hero RPG. During this 4-hour game session, players will quickly create a brand new team of super-heroes who are thrown into an adventure that will include drama, suspense, a mysterious underwater city and the strange beings who live there! Who are they? What are they after? Most importantly, how long have they been here on Earth?
11:30 PM	12:30 AM	The Church of the infinite You	PERFORMANCE	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Jean Grae	Sermons. Drinks. Food. Music. Being Amazing.Nondenominational...only Motivational.

Day 4: Tuesday, March 7

Start	End	Event	Type	Location	Featuring	Details
8:00 AM	8:00 AM	Projector and Retro-games!	SHADOW CRUISE	"Chocolate" Bar, Deck 3, Midship		A projector and a small computer with controllers. Left out for public use. Enjoy!
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Morning Meditation	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		A combination of mindfulness and loving-kindness (metta) meditation to start your day. Led by Juliana Finch. All levels welcome!
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Religious Services		Board Room, Deck 2, Aft
9:30 AM	9:45 AM	The Morning Show with Greg Benson		Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		Join Greg Benson and Special Guests
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Friends of Bill W.		Board Room, Deck 2, Aft
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Hackathon (+ Intro Programming Crash Course)	SHADOW CRUISE	Digital Workshop (Crafting Room), Deck 3, Forward		Meet fellow hackers and build something fun! Show and Tell for shiny prizes on the last night.Don't know how to code? That's ok, we'll teach you Python! You must bring a laptop with a dev environment and libraries already installed.
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	How To Be In A Songwriting Contest	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		SpinTunes Songwriting contest panel discussion with past and current ST artists Glen Raphael, Brian and Zoe Gray, The Boffo Yux Dudes, and Adam Sakellarides. Interested in songwriting? Learn how unique challenge prompts have generated 1200+ original songs since 2010, including songs being created on the cruise for the final round of Spin Tunes 12. Hosted by Tommy G, attendees will receive a free, limited edition sample disk!
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	How To Play: Secret Hitler	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Secret Hitler is a social deduction game for 5?10 people about finding and stopping the Secret Hitler.The majority of players are liberals. If they can learn to trust each other, they have enough votes to control the table and win the game. But some players are fascists. They will say whatever it takes to get elected, enact their agenda, and blame others for the fallout. The liberals must work together to discover the truth before the fascists install their cold-blooded leader and win the game.
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Realistic Nanotechnology Spacecraft	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Discussion for a general audience of molecular nanotechnology for operations in space. Of most interest to someone who wants to reach towards realism when using nanotechnology-based ideas as part of a science-fiction story, game or song about science-fictiony themes, or who just thinks nanotechnology and/or space is cool. Based on my much, much too long Ph.D. dissertation _Technical and Operational Assessment of Molecular Nanotechnology for Space Operations_.
11:00 AM	11:59 PM	Port of Call: Loreto, Mexico		Loreto, Mexico,
5:00 PM	5:45 PM	JoCoachella - Ted Leo	MAIN CONCERT	JoCoachella,	Ted Leo
5:00 PM	9:00 PM	Dinner (Open Dining)		Vista Dining Room (both floors),		Dinner on this evening is "Open Dining". Whole most of the ship will ostensibly be at the JoCoachella concert in Loreto, if you remain on board you can come to the dining room anytime between 5 pm and 9 pm. NOTE: Fixed Seating table assignments will still apply.
6:00 PM	6:45 PM	JoCoachella - Jean Grae	MAIN CONCERT	JoCoachella,
7:00 PM	7:45 PM	JoCoachella - John Roderick	MAIN CONCERT	JoCoachella,	John Roderick
8:00 PM	9:15 PM	JoCoachella - Jonathan Coulton (Full Band Show)	MAIN CONCERT	JoCoachella,	Jonathan Coulton
9:30 PM	10:30 PM	JoCoachella - Nerf Herder	MAIN CONCERT	JoCoachella,	Nerf Herder
10:30 PM	12:30 AM	JoCoachella - Loreto Dance Party with Riz Rollins	MAIN CONCERT	JoCoachella,	Riz Rollins

Day 5: Wednesday, March 8

Start	End	Event	Type	Location	Featuring	Details
12:30 AM	1:30 AM	Star Party	SHADOW CRUISE	Loreto, Mexico,		Come tour the night sky with a professional astronomer! Bring your questions about planets, stars, galaxies, and the Universe for a casual star party in the darkest spot we can find. The captain has arranged for the lights to be turned off on the Observation Deck for this event. In the case of inclement weather, this event will be canceled.Note: Observation Deck is only accessible via stairs.Side Note: the captain refers to this deck as the "Monkey Deck."
8:00 AM	8:00 AM	Projector and Retro-games!	SHADOW CRUISE	"Chocolate" Bar, Deck 3, Midship		A projector and a small computer with controllers. Left out for public use. Enjoy!
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Morning Meditation	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		A combination of mindfulness and loving-kindness (metta) meditation to start your day. Led by Juliana Finch. All levels welcome!
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Religious Services		Board Room, Deck 2, Aft
9:00 AM	12:00 AM	Cosplay Day		Whole Ship,		Cosplay is encouraged and welcomed (though not mandatory) every day of the cruise. But if you're only going to cosplay once, this is the day. Go nuts! The only stipulations: no full face masks or weapons (per HAL regulations).
9:30 AM	9:45 AM	The Morning Show with Greg Benson		Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		Join Greg Benson and Special Guests
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Friends of Bill W.		Board Room, Deck 2, Aft
10:00 AM	12:00 PM	Mobile Gaming: 'Fail Whale' and 'Doodle Army 2 Mini Militia'	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Come play a couple indie mobile games developed out of the Pacific Northwest. Currently in private beta "Fail Whale," is an underwater narwhal vs narwhal combat simulator and Doodle Army 2: Mini Militia (released 2011) is a real-time (vs., team, and co-op) 2d platform shooter with a cartoonish modern military theme. Both multiplayer games are playable for up to 8 people (~10 min per game) and specialize in running offline on isolated LAN WIFI networks. We'll have devices and networks to play on or you can download your own copy prior to leaving signal range to come and join the fun with your own mobile device (appsomniacs.com).
11:15 AM	12:15 PM	Reading from The Book of Etta	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		I’m a Bay Area science fiction author and feminist essayist. My debut novel, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, won the Philip K. Dick Award and was listed as a recommended work by the James A. Tiptree Award Committee. The book was also included in the 100 Best Books of the Year list by Publisher’s Weekly, and the same list issued by Amazon. I have published essays and short fiction with McSweeney’s, The Establishment, Everyday Feminism, Tor.com, LitHub, Motherboard, Compelling Science Fiction, and many other outlets. I’m part of the writer’s room for The Mess, an East Bay sketch comedy group. My second novel, The Book of Etta, will be released by 47North just before the JoCo Cruise, and I'd like to do a reading from my new book for my fellow floating nerds.
1:30 PM	4:00 PM	Johann Sebastian Joust	SHADOW CRUISE	Northern Lights Nightclub, Deck 2, Midship		This is a sea monkey favorite! JS Joust pairs music with motion controllers; the music sets the pace, while the players try to knock their opponents out of the game by making a controller move faster than the music. Drop in at any time to enjoy this fun, easy to learn game. Recommended Age: 8+. Get ready to Joust...go!
2:30 PM	4:00 PM	Management Q&A	PANEL / Q&A	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Drew Westphal, Jonathan Coulton, Paul Sabourin, Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo	Ask the JoCo Cruise Management sit on a stage and answer your questions about JoCo Cruise. Pretty straightforaward, actually.
3:00 PM	3:45 PM	Afternoon Tea		Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship
3:00 PM	4:00 PM	A JoCo Magic Show	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		An entertaining magic show, mostly for adults, but if some children show up, I'll have some things for them as well. I just want to make sure it's clear that based on the poll results that this will be geared mostly towards adults so children (under age 9) might (probably will) get bored.
3:00 PM	4:00 PM	Business of Boardgames	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Panel presentation from people who work in the business of boardgames: How does the industry work? How do companies decide whichproduct to produce and how to market it? What makes a board gamecompany successful? Panelists: Christopher Badell, Nicole Lindroos, Carol Monahan, Elisa Teague, Max Temkin, Jenn Ellis
3:00 PM	4:00 PM	Women at Work	PANEL / Q&A	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Cameron Esposito, Aimee Mann, Aparna Nancherla, Jackie Kashian, Jean Grae, Tawny Newsome	Lil Cammy Esposito leads what is sure to be a SPIRITED discussion about being a woman and having a dang job. Panelists are all geniuses, who you def love.
3:00 PM	5:00 PM	Hardly Strictly Sea Shanties and Irish Music Session	SHADOW CRUISE	Explorer's Lounge (Piano Side), Deck 2, Aft		Bring your instruments and voices and join us for a session of Sea Shanty singing and the "old trad" Irish music. Lyrics and music can be provided on a limited basis. Those who already know sea shanties, sailing-themed drinking songs, and/or Irish music encouraged to lead a song or two (or 3 or 4). Format: take turns leading a tune (instrumental or vocal). If you want to lead a sea shanty or drinking song, please pick one with an easy chorus to follow so everyone can sing along. Irish music tempo depends on who shows up.
3:30 PM	4:30 PM	Ask a Puppet	WORKSHOP	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship	Mary Robinette Kowal	This is part demonstration of how video puppetry works—you know, the stuff they do on Sesame Street—and part play time, where folks actually get to put a puppet on and try it. It's led by Mary Robinette Kowal, who can, yes, tell you how to get, how to get to Sesame Street.
3:30 PM	4:30 PM	Craftivism	SHADOW CRUISE	Digital Workshop (Crafting Room), Deck 3, Forward		Knit, crochet or cross stitch the revolution! Gather together for protest hats or other crafts. Basic help provided if you bring worsted or bulky weight yarn and size 8/9 needles or H/J hook.
3:30 PM	5:00 PM	Sponsor Spotlight: Green Ronin (SPONSORED EVENT)		Shopping Arcade,		Stop by the display area in the ship's Shopping Arcade (Deck 3 Forward) any time from 3:30-5 pm to check out Green Ronin's products—and meet the friendly folks who make them. (No purchase necessary, but you'll probably want to!)
4:00 PM	4:15 PM	International Women's Day Photo	SHADOW CRUISE	Sea View Pool Area, Deck 9, Aft		People celebrating International Women's Day, gather on the back deck for a group photo. (Those of you with fancy pants, don't worry; we won't start the Fancy Pants Parade before this photo is done.)
4:00 PM	5:00 PM	Create a paper prototype for a video game	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Join Blair and Jean Leggett from One More Story Games to create a paper prototype of a story-based video game. You'll learn about linear, branching and open-world game creation. Turn your JoCo Cruise experience into your own Choose Your Own Adventure game. Open to all ages. One More Story Games works with authors around the globe, including #1 NYT best-selling author Charlaine Harris to make story-based video games.
4:00 PM	5:00 PM	Happy Hour		Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward		Happy Hour! Your second drink is only $2!
4:00 PM	5:00 PM	Locksport - Lock picking and handcuffs	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		Locksport is the sport or hobby of defeating locking systems. You can learn a variety of skills including picking locks, padlocks, and handcuffs. This is a quick intro to theory, and some practical. There will hopefully be a lock pick table running at various times too.
4:00 PM	5:00 PM	Metagaming meetup	SHADOW CRUISE	Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		Do you like to dig into the mechanics of your favorite board/computer games? Ever set up a spreadsheet to analyze the results over time? Or set your coding skills loose on a game to find out what strategies work best? Come share your experiences with similarly inquisitive folks, learn about communal projects, and geek out about gaming in general.
4:00 PM	5:00 PM	Work Juice Sea Org Office Hours	OFFICE HOURS	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Carla Cackowski, Craig Cackowski, Hal Lublin, Janet Varney, Mark Gagliardi, Tawny Newsome	Come hang out with the Sea Org edition of the Work Juice Players (i.e., cast members of The Thrilling Adventure Hour podcast)
4:15 PM	4:30 PM	Fancy Pants Parade		Lido Deck,		An annual tradition. Bring your fanciest pants and vie for the trophy. Who will be the best in terms of pants?(In the event of inclement weather, this will be held in the Lido Pool Area.)
5:00 PM	7:00 PM	Dinner (Red Team)		Vista Dining Room (both floors),
5:00 PM	7:00 PM	Main Concert (Gold Team) - Aparna Nancherla; Zoë Keating; Welcome to Night Vale	MAIN CONCERT	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Aparna Nancherla, Cecil Baldwin, Disparition, Jeffrey Cranor, Symphony Sanders, Zoë Keating
7:30 PM	9:30 PM	Dinner (Gold Team)		Vista Dining Room (both floors),
7:30 PM	9:30 PM	Main Concert (Red Team) - Aparna Nancherla; Zoë Keating; Welcome to Night Vale	MAIN CONCERT	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Aparna Nancherla, Cecil Baldwin, Disparition, Jeffrey Cranor, Symphony Sanders, Zoë Keating
9:30 PM	9:50 PM	Close-up Magic: Eric Jones	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Eric Jones
9:30 PM	10:30 PM	An Hour with James Ernest	SHADOW CRUISE	Explorer's Lounge (Piano Side), Deck 2, Aft		James Ernest is a famous game inventor and loves to talk about himself. Give him the chance to do that, in this random-sized event. If we only have a few people, we'll play a game together (probably something you've never seen before). If we have more people, we can ask James questions about his life: Cheapass Games, game design in general, working with Pat Rothfuss, being a professional juggler.
9:30 PM	10:30 PM	Happy Hour		Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		Happy Hour! Your second drink is only $2!
9:30 PM	11:00 PM	Polymonkey Meetup & Mixer	SHADOW CRUISE	Pinnacle Bar, Deck 2, Midship		Are you a polyamorous seamonkey? Would you like to spend time with other polymonkeys? Let's all hang out, drink delicious drinks (if that's your thing), and chat about our experiences with polyamory.
10:00 PM	11:00 PM	'What's Your F***ing Problem?' - Advice from Ted Leo, Aimee Mann and Aparna Nancherla	PANEL / Q&A	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Aimee Mann, Aparna Nancherla, Ted Leo	Ted Leo, Aimee Mann and Aparna Nancherla offer life advice to anyone brave/foolish enough to ask them for it.
10:00 PM	11:00 PM	Choose Your Own Adventure Story Time with Wil	PERFORMANCE	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Wil Wheaton
10:00 PM	11:30 PM	Exits Are Out: Escape Station!	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Exits Are Out: Escape Station! is a live-action text adventure where the players control the input. Twitch Plays Zork would be a modern analogy for the fun chaos of ten or fifteen players trying to navigate through the treacherous environment of an early '80's Infocom game.
10:00 PM	12:00 AM	Sea Monkey Open Mic Night	PERFORMANCE	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		An annual JoCo Cruise tradition: Sea Monkeys get to show off their performing skills at our annual Open Mike session. Hosted by The Doubleclicks!5 minute/1 song limit per performer. Sign-up sheets will be available at the Helper Monkey Info Desk (Atrium, Deck 1 midship).
10:00 PM	12:30 AM	Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		Ever wanted to operate the Helm of a spaceship? How about manning the weapons, defending the galaxy from ne'er-do-wells? Maybe you're better down in Engineering, keeping that garbage scowl of yours sailing through the cosmos? Or are you up for Command?Come and play Artemis!!
10:15 PM	10:35 PM	Close-up Magic: Mike Pisciotta	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Mike Pisciotta
10:30 PM	11:30 PM	Office Hours with Mike Selinker	SHADOW CRUISE	Explorer's Lounge (Piano Side), Deck 2, Aft		Game designer, author, and rabble-rouser Mike Selinker talks about whatever you're willing to buy him drinks to talk about. If you like puzzles, games like Betrayal at House on the Hill and the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, or political rabble-rousing, Mike will tell you dumb stories about it.
10:30 PM	12:30 AM	Dance Party w/Riz Rollins - World Beat Party	PARTY	Northern Lights Nightclub, Deck 2, Midship	Riz Rollins	From Riz:"dance around the world, from reggae to bolly, afropop to balkan. latin and maybe one polka...maybe"
11:00 PM	11:20 PM	Close-up Magic: Jared Kopf	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Jared Kopf
11:00 PM	11:30 PM	How To Play: Fuse (Board Game)	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		A beat the clock cooperative game that employs 25 dice and 65 cards. Each game is set to a ten-minute timer, and players must work together in that ten minutes to defuse all of the bombs. Each bomb is represented by a card which needs a certain combination of dice in order to defuse it. A player will draw a number of dice equal to the number of players out of a bag and roll them. Players must then decide who will get which dice, but each player must take one and only one. Ages 11+
11:00 PM	12:00 AM	Pyramid Arcade Experiment #2	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Hypothesis One: At least 50 JoCo2017 Cruisers will want to play our new game, Pyramid Arcade, given 100+ people did on the DiceTower Cruise in December 2016 (No pressure :)Hypothesis Two: At least 3 people will have learned Homeworlds and challenge Andy to a game (Did you know you can win a medal if you beat Andy at Homeworlds?)Andy Looney (and his companion Dr. Leila) will be playing/teaching pyramid games at various times throughout the cruise. Check the Looney Labs Pyramid Arcade poster in the game room, look on the door of cabin 8005, or check wherever Home Office decrees schedules shall be.Find Dr. Leila to get an Exp# sticker for your badge. We will be playing the 22 games that come in Pyramid Arcade + Zendo, and recording which games each person plays in our Experiment Logbook. We will have a demo copy and there will be another one in the game library. If you play a game while Dr. Leila is not around, snap a picture showing the end game, your # on your badge, and a thumbs up or down depending on if you won the game. Each game you play is a chance to win!We will raffle off the two demo copies of Pyramid Arcade on the last day of the cruise. Games played must be recorded in our Experiment Logbook to count. You get a raffle entry for each of the 23 games you play + an entry for each you won! Learn 10 games for a bonus 10 raffle entries and a Starship Captain sticker!
11:00 PM	12:00 AM	The Adam Sakellarides & Friendellarides Music Show!	SHADOW CRUISE	Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		Grab a seat and join me, Adam Sak, as I sing you songs full of funny and feeling about things like inconvenient time travel, NASA spacecraft, introverts, and zombies. Featuring guest appearances from fellow singer-songwriter “Hello, The Future!” (Nicole Dieker) and percussionist extraordinaire Ryan McKellar and more. You’re welcome!
11:00 PM	1:00 AM	Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game Demo	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Come play in a super-powered tabletop RPG, run by Sentinel Comics creator Christopher Badell! Play as a stalwart hero in this new RPG system, which will be coming to Kickstarter later this year. Band together with your fellow heroes! Fight crime! Save the day!Only 6 players each session; first come, first served. But there are multiple sessions!
11:00 PM	2:00 AM	Time Empire - a board-game playtest	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Time-travel! Empire-building! Please help me play-test a board-game prototype! Time Empire is a mid-level strategy game in which the players build up their competing empires through a series of seven Ages. When Time Travel is invented, you can send Agents back to previous turns to change the course of history!
11:15 PM	1:45 AM	Costume English/Contra/Square Dance Party!	SHADOW CRUISE	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward		Like to move your body? Want to try some new old dance styles? Like to dress in fancy or wacky costumes? How about a chance to do all these at once? Come join Renée Camus and Cindy Lu for a group event bringing together costuming and dancing! Wear your favorite costume finery of any sort, be it historical, fantasy, sci-fi, fairy tales, vintage, or just wackadoodle! Anything goes, as long as you can move in it. Show off your raiments while dancing lots of easy group social dances, including English country dances, contra dances, square dances, perhaps a Scottish country or Irish ceilidh dance, and hopefully a Grand March—the ultimate dance for showing off your wares. This is a true community event, where everyone can participate, even if you’ve never done it before. No partner or experience necessary. And if you'd prefer not to wear a costume, that's fine too! While this is a social event more than a class, the group dances will all be taught. We might even throw in a few swings, one-steps, or waltzes too. Do you play an instrument? Consider being a part of our open band! We plan to use recorded music, but if people are interested in playing for the dance, we might make that happen too (I’m in talks with someone about leading this Open Band). Let us know if you’d like to play, as well as dance.

Day 6: Thursday, March 9

Start	End	Event	Type	Location	Featuring	Details
12:00 AM	1:00 AM	Songs of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones Concert with Zoe Gray	SHADOW CRUISE	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		Zoe Gray plays her 10-song Game of Thrones-inspired album, Songs of Ice and Fire, plus maybe a few super special bonus songs! This is an R-rated, spoiler-abundant concert.
12:00 AM	3:30 AM	Sea Werewolf	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		We'll be doing a few games of long-form (not One Night) Ultimate Werewolf! Come and lynch your friends!
8:00 AM	8:00 AM	Projector and Retro-games!	SHADOW CRUISE	"Chocolate" Bar, Deck 3, Midship		A projector and a small computer with controllers. Left out for public use. Enjoy!
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Morning Meditation	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		A combination of mindfulness and loving-kindness (metta) meditation to start your day. Led by Juliana Finch. All levels welcome!
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Religious Services		Board Room, Deck 2, Aft
9:00 AM	12:00 AM	Pajama Party		Whole Ship,		No need to bother putting on "daytime" clothes today; it's Unofficial Saturday today, and we're all staying in our jammies. Robes, slippers, decades-old t-shirts, superhero-themed feeties...it's a ship-wide sleepover!
9:30 AM	9:45 AM	The Morning Show with Greg Benson		Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		Join Greg Benson and Special Guests
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Bridge Card Game Play	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Please join us in the Game Room for Bridge games and instruction! All skill levels encouraged and welcomed!
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	emotions anonymous 12 step meeting	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		Emotions Anonymous ( EA) is for any one who wants to become more well emotionally.A 12 step program open meeting
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Friends of Bill W.		Board Room, Deck 2, Aft
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Leather stamping and carving on luggage tags	SHADOW CRUISE	Digital Workshop (Crafting Room), Deck 3, Forward		This is your chance to learn basic stamping and carving of leather. We will be bringing the blanks for luggage tags and providing hands on instruction and assistance with turning them into personal works of art.
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Secret Games with James Ernest	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		It's rare we let James Ernest out of the basement, where he's been locked away designing new games since Tak's release. Come see what he's been up to.
10:00 AM	4:30 PM	Worldbuilders Charity Silent Auction		Explorer's Lounge (Not-piano Side), Deck 2, Aft		A silent auction of cool items; proceeds to benefit the Worldbuilders charity.
11:00 AM	1:00 PM	Main Concert (Gold Team) - Jackie Kashian; Workjuice Players Sea Org Improv; The Doubleclicks	MAIN CONCERT	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Carla Cackowski, Craig Cackowski, Hal Lublin, Jackie Kashian, Janet Varney, Laser Webber, Mark Gagliardi, Tawny Newsome
1:30 PM	3:00 PM	Sponsor Spotlight: The Broken Token (SPONSORED EVENT)		Shopping Arcade,		Stop by the display area in the ship's Shopping Arcade (Deck 3 Forward) any time from 1:30-3pm to check out The Broken Token's products—and meet the friendly folks who make them. (No purchase necessary, but you'll probably want to!)
1:30 PM	3:30 PM	Main Concert (Red Team) - Jackie Kashian; Workjuice Players Sea Org Improv; The Doubleclicks	MAIN CONCERT	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Carla Cackowski, Craig Cackowski, Hal Lublin, Jackie Kashian, Janet Varney, Laser Webber, Mark Gagliardi, Tawny Newsome
3:00 PM	3:45 PM	Afternoon Tea		Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship
3:30 PM	4:30 PM	Magicians' Meetup	OFFICE HOURS	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Eric Jones, Jared Kopf, Mike Pisciotta	Come meet and hang out with our resident magicians: Eric Jones, Jared Kopf and Mike Pisciotta.
3:30 PM	4:30 PM	Your Guide To Giving Zero F***s with Jean Grae	OFFICE HOURS	Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship	Jean Grae	Jean Grae takes your questions, gives sound advice, and very probably says a lot of cuss words.
3:30 PM	6:00 PM	Scenic Cruising in Bahia Magdalena		Whole Ship,
4:00 PM	5:00 PM	Hoops with Hal	OFFICE HOURS	Basketball Court, Deck 12, Aft	Hal Lublin	Let’s hoop it up! Wanna play Around The World? Fine! Horse? OK! Will we have enough to play a full game? MAYBE! Let’s get our hearts pumping and create some Sportscenter worthy highlights as we combine our nerdery and sportsery to create a Voltron of fun!
4:00 PM	5:00 PM	Private Event		Pinnacle Bar, Deck 2, Midship
4:30 PM	5:30 PM	Happy Hour		Sea View Bar, Deck 9, Aft		Happy Hour! Your second drink is only $2!
4:30 PM	6:00 PM	LGBTQ+ Cocktail Meetup	PARTY	Sea View Pool Area, Deck 9, Aft	Riz Rollins	Begun on the ms Westerdam during JoCo Cruise 2012, the annual LGBTQ+ cocktail meetup celebrates its 6th year of hoping has a long enough initialism and being a low key get together for Sea Monkeys of all persuasions. Music provided by Riz Rollins.
5:00 PM	9:00 PM	Dinner (Open Dining)		Vista Dining Room (both floors),		Dinner on this evening is "Open Dining" (since food will also be served on deck during our "scenic cruising" from 3:30-6 pm). While the ship requests that you try to stick to the general time of your usual seating (so that the whole ship doesn't all show up at once), you can come to the dining room anytime between 5 pm and 9 pm. NOTE: Fixed Seating table assignments will still apply.
5:30 PM	6:30 PM	Amateur Card Magic Workshop	WORKSHOP	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Jared Kopf	In this one-hour workshop, magician Jared Kopf teaches three high-impact card tricks. Students will learn the technical and presentational details of each trick. Skill Level: Beginner (ages 12 and up) Supplies: For $36 attendees can purchase a deck of playing cards by artisans Dan & Dave along with a workshop booklet that explains each trick in detail. (Available in the ship's store.) For $0 attendees can bring their own deck of playing cards and a pad and pencil for note-taking.
6:00 PM	7:00 PM	Craig's List Podcast	LIVE PODCAST	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship	Carla Cackowski, Craig Cackowski	Craig Cackowski has kept (and obsessively updated) a list of his 100 favorite movies for over 30 years. Surprisingly, his wife Carla is not impressed by that. But what Craig made Carla watch those movies in sequential order? And what if he made her talk about it on a podcast? Would she like them? Would she hate them? CAN THIS MARRIAGE POSSIBLE SURVIVE THIS PODCAST?!
6:00 PM	7:00 PM	Reading - John Patrick Lowrie	READING	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward	John Patrick Lowrie
6:15 PM	7:15 PM	Maureen Tells Your Future	OFFICE HOURS	Lido Pool Area, Deck 9, Midship	Maureen Johnson	Would you like to know your future? Good news! Maureen Johnson, YA author and part-time Stevie Nicks, has her magic cards with her and is prepared to look into the MIST and tell you what’s in store for you. They’re not Tarot cards—they’re Maureen’s special cards. Are you ready? Well, are you? THEN ENTER THE TENT.
6:30 PM	7:30 PM	Scavenger Hunt	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		The geekiest scavenger hunt of them all! Teams of 3-5 race the clock and each other to collect a unique list of items found in abundance only on board the JoCo vessel. Come ready to join/create a team, or with your team already formed.
7:00 PM	7:20 PM	Close-up Magic: Mike Pisciotta	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Mike Pisciotta
7:00 PM	8:00 PM	Gosh Darn Fiasco	LIVE PODCAST	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Gail Simone, Gosh Darn Fiasco, Jackie Kashian, Laser Webber	Gosh Darn Fiasco is an improvised storytelling show that uses the role-playing-game Fiasco as a fun framework! Join us as hosts Angela M Webber (The Doubleclicks) and Richard Malena (Atomic Game Theory), along with celebrity guests Gail Simone and Jackie Kashian, tell an all-new story full of drama, dice, and almost certain death.
7:00 PM	8:00 PM	Setup for Next Event		Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		Time needed to set up the room for the event that follows.
7:00 PM	10:00 PM	Escape Room (in a box)	SHADOW CRUISE	Northern Lights Nightclub, Deck 2, Midship		"It's Gonna Be The Future Soon" escape room The bands are almost ready to go on stage; showtime is in 30 minutes. But we just discovered that the precocious grandchildren of some of our favorite performers have locked away several of the essential instruments that they need to go on. How many instruments can you recover before it is showtime?
7:30 PM	8:30 PM	Voice Acting	PANEL / Q&A	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Cecil Baldwin, Ellen McLain, Hal Lublin, Janet Varney, John Patrick Lowrie, Mark Gagliardi	They're the voices behind the characters you love—and if you think making those voices is as easy as blabbering into a microphone, a) you're wrong, b) you'll really want to come to this panel, where our panel of experts delve into everything you didn't know you didn't know about the craft.
7:30 PM	9:00 PM	Acoustic Song Circle	SHADOW CRUISE	Explorer's Lounge (Piano Side), Deck 2, Aft		Bring instruments and voices and let's sing songs together! Meet other musicians, try out new material, sing and play along or just listen. No pressure!
7:45 PM	8:05 PM	Close-up Magic: Jared Kopf	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Jared Kopf
8:00 PM	9:00 PM	Game Chat: Keith Baker & Jenn Ellis	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Keith answers questions about his upcoming [ super secret game that will be announced pre boat]. Ask us anything including questions about games we've been a part of making - Gloom, Eberron, Phoenix Dawn Command, Illimat. We ask you about the games you love and to show us pictures of your cats.
8:00 PM	10:00 PM	Sirai: An Accessible, Strategic, Political LARP	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		The sci-fi city of Sirai is divided between many factions, each with their own agenda to seize or keep power. Maybe you'll be the government or the rebels, the church or heretics, or even the meddling offworlders just looking to make money. Whatever the allegiance, each character has ties to other factions and personal motivations that ensure tensions will boil over. An accessible, straightforward LARP with a twist: a map players walk across and move units around on.
8:30 PM	8:50 PM	Close-up Magic: Eric Jones	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Eric Jones
8:30 PM	9:30 PM	Comic Books Panel	PANEL / Q&A	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Chelsea Cain, Gail Simone	Our amazing panel of comic book creators is here to get you up to speed on the state of the comics industry, what they create and how they create it, and where things are heading in the field. Bring your curiosity and your questions!
8:30 PM	9:30 PM	Unattended Consequences	LIVE PODCAST	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Max Temkin, Patrick Rothfuss, Unattended Consequences	A conversation between Patrick Rothfuss (Name of the Wind) and Max Temkin (Cards Against Humanity).
9:00 PM	11:00 PM	Sea Monkey Karaoke	PERFORMANCE	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		Get your sing on in the Queen's Lounge with this JoCo Cruise tradition.
9:15 PM	9:35 PM	Close-up Magic: Mike Pisciotta	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Mike Pisciotta
9:30 PM	10:30 PM	An Hour with James Ernest	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		James Ernest is a famous game inventor and loves to talk about himself. Give him the chance to do that, in this random-sized event. If we only have a few people, we'll play a game together (probably something you've never seen before). If we have more people, we can ask James questions about his life: Cheapass Games, game design in general, working with Pat Rothfuss, being a professional juggler.
9:30 PM	10:30 PM	Happy Hour		Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		Happy Hour! Your second drink is only $2!
9:30 PM	10:30 PM	Surviving Cancer (Gamma Gals & Guys)	SHADOW CRUISE	Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		Meet and connect with other SeaMonkeys who have been diagnosed with cancer. Open to cancer survivors and those living with cancer - the Gamma Gals & Guys who have battled it all. (Separate event scheduled for those impacted by cancer, either personally or with family/friends.)
10:00 PM	10:20 PM	Close-up Magic: Jared Kopf	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Jared Kopf
10:00 PM	10:30 PM	How To Play: Fuse (Board Game)	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		A beat the clock cooperative game that employs 25 dice and 65 cards. Each game is set to a ten-minute timer, and players must work together in that ten minutes to defuse all of the bombs. Each bomb is represented by a card which needs a certain combination of dice in order to defuse it. A player will draw a number of dice equal to the number of players out of a bag and roll them. Players must then decide who will get which dice, but each player must take one and only one. Ages 11+
10:00 PM	11:00 PM	Reset from Previous Event		Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		Reseting the room after the previous event.
10:00 PM	12:30 AM	Nerd Pub Trivia	SHADOW CRUISE	Explorer's Lounge (Not-piano Side), Deck 2, Aft		Trivia for nerds by nerds.
10:00 PM	1:30 AM	The Hero Instant! A new, super-heroic RPG!	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		The Hero Instant is a new, indie super-hero RPG. During this 4-hour game session, players will quickly create a brand new team of super-heroes who are thrown into an adventure that will include drama, suspense, a mysterious underwater city and the strange beings who live there! Who are they? What are they after? Most importantly, how long have they been here on Earth?
10:30 PM	12:00 AM	The Both After Dark	PERFORMANCE	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Aimee Mann, Ted Leo	Ted Leo and Aimee Mann (a.k.a., The Both) take us past midnight with a cool vibe of music, sophisticated and smoky banter, and possibly a smoking jacket or two. Very likely: new songs and special guests. Far less likely: appearances by Buddy Rich, Moms Mabley or Norman Mailer.
10:30 PM	12:30 AM	Dance Party w/Riz Rollins - 'JoCo is Burning' Disco	PARTY	Northern Lights Nightclub, Deck 2, Midship	Riz Rollins	From Riz:"not 'american bandstand' disco but ' soul train' disco' . solid gold disco, sissy disco.and some house..we are family .you can vogue if you want to. anybody wanna do a diva death drop ?"
10:45 PM	11:05 PM	Close-up Magic: Eric Jones	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Eric Jones
11:00 PM	12:00 AM	Cards Against Humanity Live	PERFORMANCE	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship	Max Temkin	Join Cards Against Humanity for our late night writers room! You’ll pitch your card ideas to the game's creators and writers, and the best suggestions will be acted out live. The worst suggestions will be mercilessly ridiculed. Come enjoy the sold-out show at Chicago's famous iO theater, performed on a huge boat for the first time.Featuring Alison Barthwell, Joe Gennaro, Michael Jando, Alex Kliner, Becca Levine, Kevin Reader, Mary Beth Smith and Julia Weiss.
11:00 PM	1:00 AM	Parsely Games with Andy Looney	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Andy Looney will be your personal computer as you play a classic-style text adventure game in discussion-group format. 4 different games will be played in 3 sessions on Sea Days:Day 2: MUFFINS You've stumbled into the secret underground headquarters of the McFeezle's Muffins Company. So, what's down here?Day 6: FUN WORLD You are inside the Fun World amusement park after they close the gates. What mysteries will you uncover?Day 7: ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER THE TABLE That juice you just drank has made you shrink to the size of a mouse! Now what?Bonus Game (time permitting): BACK IN 5 MINUTES That crazy scientist's body was just taken away, and you are all alone in his lab. So, what's that mysterious portal all about?
11:00 PM	1:30 AM	Logic Puzzle Solving Club	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Pavel will bring lots of copies of a wide range of Japanese-style logic puzzles (e.g., Sudoku, KenKen, Kakuro, Masyu, etc.) and we'll solve them together! All skill levels are totally welcome. Bring pencils and erasers if you can!

Day 7: Friday, March 10

Start	End	Event	Type	Location	Featuring	Details
12:00 AM	1:00 AM	Pagan Star Circle	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		For those of old faiths, neo-pagan faiths, Wiccan, Dharma Pagan, UU, Buddhist, Hindus, eclectics, or those who are just curious and interested... Come sit with us Under the stars to hold space in a circle and celebrate as we do. No judgement and nothing but love.
8:00 AM	8:00 AM	Projector and Retro-games!	SHADOW CRUISE	"Chocolate" Bar, Deck 3, Midship		A projector and a small computer with controllers. Left out for public use. Enjoy!
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Morning Meditation	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		A combination of mindfulness and loving-kindness (metta) meditation to start your day. Led by Juliana Finch. All levels welcome!
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Religious Services		Board Room, Deck 2, Aft
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Ukulele Melee Meeting		Sea View Pool Area, Deck 9, Aft	Mollylele
9:30 AM	9:45 AM	The Morning Show with Greg Benson		Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		Join Greg Benson and Special Guests
10:00 AM	10:30 AM	Puzzle Quest Finale	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		Wrap-up party for players of the week-long Puzzle Quest self-paced puzzle hunt. Report your final score and swap stories.
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Friends of Bill W.		Board Room, Deck 2, Aft
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Reading - Gail Simone	READING	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Gail Simone	From Deadpool to Red Sonja, Gail Simone has written some of your favorite comic book characters—and written about the comics industry with wit, fire and wisdom. All of that will be on display in this can't-miss reading.
10:00 AM	11:30 AM	Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game Character Creation	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Create your own hero! The upcoming Sentinel Comics Roleplaying Game has a fun heroic character creation system, and Sentinel Comics creator Christopher Badell is here to show it of.! Bring your ideas, or let the process help you make a hero on the fly!
10:00 AM	11:30 AM	The Night Everything Broke	SHADOW CRUISE	Explorer's Lounge, Deck 2, Aft		Something big went down on November 8. We call it "America." A lot of us artistic types (Mike Selinker, Ted Leo, John Roderick, and Max Temkin) put a lot of effort into trying not to have a Trumpocracy and—well, things didn't go as planned. We'll talk about the lead-up to election day, the night in question, and what we do now. Crying is allowed.
10:00 AM	12:00 PM	Bag of Holding	SHADOW CRUISE	Digital Workshop (Crafting Room), Deck 3, Forward		Make a messenger style bag. The pattern for this bag will already be cut out and samples will be provided for possibilities for embellishing and making it your own personal style statement.
10:00 AM	12:00 PM	Hardly Strictly Sea Shanties and Irish Music Session	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Bring your instruments and voices and join us for a session of Sea Shanty singing and the "old trad" Irish music. Lyrics and music can be provided on a limited basis. Those who already know sea shanties, sailing-themed drinking songs, and/or Irish music encouraged to lead a song or two (or 3 or 4). Format: take turns leading a tune (instrumental or vocal). If you want to lead a sea shanty or drinking song, please pick one with an easy chorus to follow so everyone can sing along. Irish music tempo depends on who shows up.
10:00 AM	1:00 PM	Time Empire - a board-game playtest	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Time-travel! Empire-building! Please help me play-test a board-game prototype! Time Empire is a mid-level strategy game in which the players build up their competing empires through a series of seven Ages. When Time Travel is invented, you can send Agents back to previous turns to change the course of history!
10:30 AM	11:30 AM	Armpit Farting Colloquium with Zoë Keating	WORKSHOP	Sea View Pool Area, Deck 9, Aft	Zoë Keating	Learn the ancient and noble art of making fart noises with your armpit, with instructor and internationally-acclaimed musician Zoë Keating. Share regional favorite techniques. Maybe a jam session? Wear a slort-sleeved or loose-fitting shirt.(In case of inclement weather, backup location is Lido Deck Pool area)
10:30 AM	11:30 AM	Ask the Captain		Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		Come ask the Captain of the ms Westerdam your nautical questions! We'll tie him down for an hour and make him talk to you, or we'll take over the helm!
10:30 AM	11:30 AM	Hackathon (+ Intro Programming Crash Course)	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		Meet fellow hackers and build something fun! Show and Tell for shiny prizes on the last night.Don't know how to code? That's ok, we'll teach you Python! You must bring a laptop with a dev environment and libraries already installed.
10:30 AM	1:30 PM	Escape Room (in a box)	SHADOW CRUISE	Northern Lights Nightclub, Deck 2, Midship		"It's Gonna Be The Future Soon" escape room The bands are almost ready to go on stage; showtime is in 30 minutes. But we just discovered that the precocious grandchildren of some of our favorite performers have locked away several of the essential instruments that they need to go on. How many instruments can you recover before it is showtime?
11:00 AM	12:00 PM	Writing for TV and Film	PANEL / Q&A	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Patrick Rothfuss, Gail Simone, Rebecca Sugar	Television and film—you watch it! And people write what you watch! And some of them are here on the boat! And in this panel they'll talk about what it's like to write in the industry today: What's changed, what stays the same and what they'd like to have happen moving forward.
11:00 AM	12:30 PM	Music Discovery: 'Happy Leviathan' - Live Original Music	SHADOW CRUISE	Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		A casual concert, with live original music by Happy Leviathan, a genuinely unique (see: "nerdy") alternative rock band, formed by singer-songwriter Ender Smith.
11:30 AM	12:30 PM	Nerf Herder - Acoustic Kids Show YEAH!	PERFORMANCE	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Nerf Herder	Nerf Herder present a special acoustic show for kids. But just because things aren't plugged in, that doesn't mean the show won't still rock super-hard. YEAH!
11:30 AM	1:30 PM	Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game Demo	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Come play in a super-powered tabletop RPG, run by Sentinel Comics creator Christopher Badell! Play as a stalwart hero in this new RPG system, which will be coming to Kickstarter later this year. Band together with your fellow heroes! Fight crime! Save the day!Only 6 players each session; first come, first served. But there are multiple sessions!
11:45 AM	12:05 PM	Close-up Magic: Jared Kopf	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Jared Kopf
11:45 AM	12:45 PM	Reading - Mary Robinette Kowal	READING	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship	Mary Robinette Kowal	Mary's writing has won awards, and in her spare time she's a professional audiobook narrator, and she's known to give amazing readings, so basically what we're saying here is that you're going to want to listen to her read. Yup, that's it exactly.
12:00 PM	12:45 PM	Private Event		Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward
12:00 PM	1:00 PM	Co-ed Rec Soccer	SHADOW CRUISE	Basketball Court, Deck 12, Aft		Small-sided co-ed recreational soccer on the basketball courts and/or at (one/all of the port(s). Players should bring a white shirt and a dark shirt so we can easily split into teams. Small goals, no keepers. Emphasis on safe, friendly play.
12:00 PM	1:00 PM	Competitive Tak	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Know how to play Tak: A Beautiful Game? Test your mettle against other players for the chance to win shiny, shiny prizes.
12:00 PM	1:00 PM	Creating and Consuming Fanworks	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Fanlore defines Fanworks as, "...a creative work produced by one or more fans, generally intended for other fans. A common defining phrase used in fandom is "by fans for fans,"[1] or something similar,[2] though this definition might incorporate other fan activity as well." https://fanlore.org/wiki/FanworkWhy do we create/consume fanworks works (fanfic, vids, podcasts, etc.) What needs do these works fulfill? Where is the line between copyright and creativity? What role does the individual fandom community that work is created within play? How does fandom as an overall community play a role in these works? How is the perception of fanworks and the definition above evolving?
12:00 PM	1:00 PM	Spanish Language Lunch	SHADOW CRUISE	Lido Buffet Port, Deck 9, Aft		Aboard ship, meet Spanish language and culture lovers for conversation and fun! Make new friends as you practice speaking, discover new phrases, and finally figure out verb conjugations! All ages and levels welcome.
12:00 PM	1:30 PM	Cody Wymore's Musical Mad Science Piano Laboratory	SHADOW CRUISE	Explorer's Lounge (Piano Side), Deck 2, Aft		Cody is back with a whole new batch of songs to play and sing! Plenty of banter and surprises as well - come check it out!
12:00 PM	1:30 PM	Rijsttafel Specialty Lunch		Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		The Weterdam's culinary staff are preparing this Indonesian specialty meal (from a Dutch word literaly translated as "rice table") as a one-time-only event for our passengers. Seating is limited, so sign up early if you are interested.This specialty lucheon costs $10, and you can sign up [WHERE???]
12:00 PM	12:00 PM	The Saddest Shadow Event	SHADOW CRUISE	Hudson Room, Deck 3, Forward		Packing up. Hudson Room reserved from noon on last day to EOC for THO.
12:15 PM	1:15 PM	Ellen McLain and John Patrick Lowrie	OFFICE HOURS	Pinnacle Bar, Deck 2, Midship	Ellen McLain, John Patrick Lowrie
12:30 PM	12:50 PM	Close-up Magic: Mike Pisciotta	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Mike Pisciotta
12:30 PM	2:30 PM	Spin Wool- learn or do	SHADOW CRUISE	Digital Workshop (Crafting Room), Deck 3, Forward		Come try out spinning. Materials supplied or bring your own and just hang out and spin. I will teach new spinners.
1:00 PM	1:30 PM	Ninja Concert - Little Bobby Tables	SHADOW CRUISE	Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		Little Bobby Tables is a five-piece San Francisco-based band that plays original songs about lonely spacecraft, Mexican cryptids, confused superheroes, and Star Trek characters who may or may not be employees at tech startups.
1:00 PM	2:00 PM	Reading - John Scalzi	READING	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	John Scalzi	Pfffft, Scalzi. He says he's going to read from his upcoming novel, OR SOMETHING, and then maybe some other stuff. I mean, go see him read if you want to, I guess. If there's nothing better to do. Just don't let him near a ukulele. Trust me on this one.
1:00 PM	2:00 PM	The JV Club	LIVE PODCAST	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Janet Varney, The JV Club	Remember what it was like to be an awkward teenager? And remember how some things haven’t really changed that much for you since then? Join proud dork Janet Varney as she explores the highs and lows of the bygone years with some of her favorite women as they talk their way through the terrible teens into adult-lescence. Warning: This Podcast Contains Sincerity.
1:15 PM	1:35 PM	Close-up Magic: Eric Jones	PERFORMANCE	Board Room, Deck 2, Aft	Eric Jones
1:30 PM	2:30 PM	Sentinel Comics Office Hours with Christopher Badell	SHADOW CRUISE	Pinnacle Bar, Deck 2, Midship		Have questions about the world of Sentinel Comics? Want to know more about Sentinels of the Multiverse, Sentinel Tactics, or the upcoming Sentinel Comics RPG? Curious about game creation and bringing games to life via design, writing, development, and even Kickstarter? Well this is the place for you! Come hang out for an informal hour of questions and answers with Sentinel Comics creator and Greater Than Games owner Christopher Badell.
1:30 PM	3:00 PM	Slow Jam & Singalong on Songs We All Know!	SHADOW CRUISE	Explorer's Lounge (Piano Side), Deck 2, Aft		Want to enjoy playing great familiar tunes with other SeaMonkeys? Bring the chords or chart for a simple classic or standard song you think most people already know, or pick one from the host's songbook, or just sing along. We'll quickly break down each song into arrangements, review the rhythm chords, and take turns playing lead, fills or solo breaks. Guitar, uke, mando, bass, keys, rhythm, voice, harmonica, ocarina, kazoo, whatever: all welcome.
1:30 PM	3:30 PM	Parsely Games with Andy Looney	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		Andy Looney will be your personal computer as you play a classic-style text adventure game in discussion-group format. 4 different games will be played in 3 sessions on Sea Days:Day 2: MUFFINS You've stumbled into the secret underground headquarters of the McFeezle's Muffins Company. So, what's down here?Day 6: FUN WORLD You are inside the Fun World amusement park after they close the gates. What mysteries will you uncover?Day 7: ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER THE TABLE That juice you just drank has made you shrink to the size of a mouse! Now what?Bonus Game (time permitting): BACK IN 5 MINUTES That crazy scientist's body was just taken away, and you are all alone in his lab. So, what's that mysterious portal all about?
2:00 PM	2:30 PM	Signing: Chelsea Cain	SIGNING	Lido Pool Area, Deck 9, Midship	Chelsea Cain
2:00 PM	3:30 PM	Brian & Zoe's Excellent Musical Adventure	SHADOW CRUISE	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		So we like, play music. And stuff. And sing, if you're into that kind of thing. To be honest, we're probably going to sing even if you're not into it, but in that case please hold the Yelp review. - Brianit's gonna be lit - Zoe
2:00 PM	3:30 PM	Maybe Capital Board Games	SHADOW CRUISE	Vista Dining Room (Upstairs), Deck 3, Aft		Maybe Capital, the most important Venture Capital firm in Silicon Valley invites to become an honorary board member for one hour of the cruise! We'll meet to pitch important startups like "Uber for Puppies" and "Twitter for Short Trips To The Grocery Store" while investing in each other's companies. The winner is the one with the most companies and investment, who, of course, gets to throw Million Dollar bills in the air while their friends film it in slow motion. Maybe Capital: The Only Game Where Nothing Is Fair.
2:00 PM	4:00 PM	DJ Riz's Pool Party	PARTY	Sea View Pool Area, Deck 9, Aft	Riz Rollins	DJ Riz Rollins spins tunes out by the Sea View Pool. Dance, swim, dance-swim, whatever works for you.
2:00 PM	4:00 PM	Lido Deck "Last Chance" Merch Sale		Lido Pool Area, Deck 9, Midship		Your last chance to buy JoCo Cruise and performer merch! A satellite store will be set up in the Lido Pool Area. Act now or forever hold your peace, or something like that!
2:00 PM	4:00 PM	Signing: Ellen McLain	SIGNING	Lido Pool Area, Deck 9, Midship	Ellen McLain
2:00 PM	4:00 PM	Signing: John Patrick Lowrie	SIGNING	Lido Pool Area, Deck 9, Midship	John Patrick Lowrie
2:00 PM	4:00 PM	Signing: Pat Rothfuss	SIGNING	Lido Pool Area, Deck 9, Midship	Patrick Rothfuss
2:00 PM	4:30 PM	Johann Sebastian Joust	SHADOW CRUISE	Northern Lights Nightclub, Deck 2, Midship		This is a sea monkey favorite! JS Joust pairs music with motion controllers; the music sets the pace, while the players try to knock their opponents out of the game by making a controller move faster than the music. Drop in at any time to enjoy this fun, easy to learn game. Recommended Age: 8+. Get ready to Joust...go!
2:15 PM	3:15 PM	We Got This with Mark and Hal	LIVE PODCAST	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Cecil Baldwin, Disparition, Hal Lublin, Jeffrey Cranor, Mark Gagliardi, Symphony Sanders, We Got This with Mark and Hal	Mark and Hal are joined by their Night Vale pals as they clean the slate with a quick fire series of mini-topics!
2:30 PM	3:30 PM	Scotch Tasting		Pinnacle Bar, Deck 2, Midship		Enjoy a flight of five high-quality scotches, because you're fancy and you like nice things. Hosted by Christopher Badell and Benjamin Soileau. Attendance is $25; sign up available at the Westerdam Front Desk (Atrium, Deck 1 midship). Seating is limited!
3:00 PM	3:45 PM	Afternoon Tea		Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship
3:00 PM	4:00 PM	Signing: Mary Robinette Kowal	SIGNING	Lido Pool Area, Deck 9, Midship	Mary Robinette Kowal
3:00 PM	4:00 PM	Wine Tasting		Pinnacle Grill,		The Westerdam is presenting a wine tasting in the Pinnacle Grill; cost is $35 per person. Dial 88 for reservations.
3:00 PM	4:30 PM	Alexander Jamilton	SHADOW CRUISE	Explorer's Lounge (Piano Side), Deck 2, Aft		Building on last year's highly successful Alexander Hamilton singalong activity, but this year we have a special weapon... the printed songbook has been released! We'll sing through everyone's favorite Hamilton songs together with piano accompaniment. BYO instruments to jam along.
3:00 PM	4:30 PM	Sock Knitting Class & Social	SHADOW CRUISE	Digital Workshop (Crafting Room), Deck 3, Forward		Are you a knitter who has never ventured into socks and don't know what the big deal is? Come find out! Are you already a sock knitter but interested in new techniques? Come and learn some! Are you already the sultan or sultana of socks? Come share what you know! Toe-up, Cuff-down, Magic Loop, Heel techniques, we can go through it all! I will bring a few patterns from beginner to advanced level knitters, or you can bring a pattern you want to work with. You should already know basic knitting techniques such as how to knit, purl, increase and decrease. Materials Required: Fingering or Sport weight yarn sock yarn. Size 0-2 40" circular needle if you want to learn two-at-a-time Magic Loop technique, otherwise a Size 0-2 9" circular or 4-5" double pointed needles. I may have a few extras to share but the more people who bring their own the better. Or, just bring whatever you want to work on and just listen!
3:30 PM	4:30 PM	Sawbones	LIVE PODCAST	Crow's Nest ("Ten Forward"), Deck 10, Forward	Justin McElroy, Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee McElroy	Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin welcome you to Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine. Every Friday, they dig through the annals of medical history to uncover all the odd, weird, wrong, dumb and just gross ways we've tried to fix people over the years. Educational? You bet! Fun? We hope!
3:30 PM	5:00 PM	Juliana Finch - #AllTheFeels Live!	SHADOW CRUISE	Queen's Lounge/CAC, Deck 2, Midship		Singer/songwriter and extreme bedhead practitioner Juliana Finch plays the album she wrote that was funded almost entirely by Seamonkeys.Come ready to have some feelings. Pajamas encouraged.
3:45 PM	4:45 PM	Keith Explains!	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		On shore, Keith has a TV show where he talks about stuff. On a boat, he'll probably do the same thing, and maybe tape it.
4:00 PM	5:00 PM	Cocktail Meetup of Cosplayers & Costumers	SHADOW CRUISE	Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		Come meet your follow Cosplayers & Costumers on the ship for a cocktail or two. This is an opportunity to meet other SeaMonkeys, chat, and sport your costuming/cosplay ensembles who share the same love of the craft.
4:00 PM	5:00 PM	Happy Hour		Ocean Bar, Deck 3, Midship		Happy Hour! Your second drink is only $2!
5:00 PM	7:00 PM	Dinner (Red Team)		Vista Dining Room (both floors),
5:00 PM	7:00 PM	Main Concert (Gold Team) - Jonathan Coulton and Friends	MAIN CONCERT	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Jonathan Coulton
7:30 PM	9:30 PM	Dinner (Gold Team)		Vista Dining Room (both floors),
7:30 PM	9:30 PM	Main Concert (Red Team) - Jonathan Coulton and Friends	MAIN CONCERT	Vista Lounge, Deck 2, Forward	Jonathan Coulton
10:00 PM	12:00 AM	'Let's Always Stay Friends!' Farewell Reception	PARTY	Lido Deck,		Our traditional end-of-cruise gathering to share memories, and enjoy each other's company one last time. Cash bar.
11:00 PM	2:30 AM	Sea Werewolf	SHADOW CRUISE	Stuyvesant Room, Deck 3, Forward		We'll be doing a few games of long-form (not One Night) Ultimate Werewolf! Come and lynch your friends!

Day 8: Saturday, March 11

Ship's clocks fall back an hour overnight: 2:00 AM becomes 1:00 AM (Mountain back to Pacific Standard Time).

Start	End	Event	Type	Location	Featuring	Details
2:00 AM	3:00 AM	Is that a TARDIS? Gain an Hour!		Whole Ship,		As if being at sea wasn't unmoored enough, feel unmoored from reality as the ship moves from Mountain Standard Time to Pacific Standard Time, the clocks roll back, and this hour repeats.