Arisia Convention

It didn't seem to me that "lifestyle" panels dominated. I'm just curious as to why you see Art, Filk, and Costuming as core SF areas. Do they, to you, outweigh books, movies, TV? I think if you included all the categories that relate to SF in your comparison, you'd see that your thumb is firmly planted on the scales and that SF is well represented. Certainly Boskone covers books better, but that's because Boskone is Boskone and Arisia Arisia. We chose Arisia over Boskone this year in order to get the full panoply of fandom. Next year we may do Boskone instead because our focus may be more on books then. To me, that's the core category as far as SF is concerned, so when I want that I go somewhere other than Arisia. I think it would be pointless to have Arisia and Boskone one month apart if they were identical. They meet different needs.