[identity profile] hnybny.livejournal.com
Blood Drive on Friday and Saturday

Signup (walk-ins welcome!) in the lobby near the elevators. The Bloodmobiles will be parked on D Street at the bottom of the escalators.

Friday 2:30pm–7:30pm for Children’s Hospital
Saturday 9am–5pm for Mass General Hospital

******NEW! On Friday, if you give blood before you register for the con, your "I gave blood" sticker will get you onto an express registration line.
If you have any questions, please visit our webpage or contact us at blood-drive@arisia.org.
[identity profile] arisialj.livejournal.com
You can get a sneak preview of the Tanya Huff short story in the Arisia souvenir book and help Arisia out at the same time. We have text for a short story which originally appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine. Comment here or use the comment function in the text to let us know where the typos are! Anything that's different between the two versions counts as a typo even if both are grammatically correct.
[identity profile] zentinal.livejournal.com
The hotel gods have smiled upon me.
I have scored a room in the Westin from Thursday through Monday.
A roomie would only increase the awesomeness.
If you know me and my proclivities, I'd love to share the room costs.
Any takers?
[identity profile] fibro-witch.livejournal.com
I hope every one as a wonderful Thanksgiving, and a safe weekend. While resting up after dinner take a moment and think of a fun ribbon for the Arisia Ribbon Game.

http://2014.arisia.org/RibbonGame

28 spaces on the ribbon, and be nice there are kids present. Last day to order is November 30th.

Drop a quick note to ribbongame@arisia.org if you have any questions.
[identity profile] arisialj.livejournal.com

The below announcement was sent to program participants last night, but a bulk mail failure meant it did not reach all the recipients. We'll be following up as soon as possible with additional status updates. As soon as the problem gets fixed, we will make the appropriate extension of the deadline.

To all potential Arisia Program Participants:

Thank you to those who have bid on panels thus far.

If you have yet to do so, please log in and bid in the next 24 hours. Please note that we will not consider you for a program item if you do not rate it as well as include a few sentences as to why you would be a good fit for the panel.

If you were one of the many who logged in and signed up for panels in the first few days after we went live, you are awesome, but please check back in. Fast Track (children's programming) and Music Track had many selections that were not immediately visible, due to an error on our end.

Arisia Programming Staff will begin preliminary assignments this week. This will only take into consideration the information you provide through Zambia. Workshop assignments will be considered over the next two weeks.

In November, we will put together the full preliminary schedule, and we will make changes and substitutions as necessary. This preliminary schedule will be released for your comment and review in late November (before Thanksgiving).

The final schedule will be released in mid-December. Registration Division will then offer full comp memberships to Arisia 2014 to all panelists who have been scheduled for 3 or more items. Registration will offer day memberships for those panelists booked for 1 or 2 panels. All panelists who did not earn full comps will be offered the chance to upgrade to full memberships at the September rate, even if you were not assigned to any panels, as thanks for participating in this process. Comp memberships are non-transferable. If you have already paid for an Arisia 2014 membership, you may transfer it to another member, or you may roll it forward for one year only.

Please go to http://zambia.2014.arisia.org/ and log in using your badge number. Your original default password was "changeme". If you need a password reset, please let us know at programming@arisia.org.

If you have already indicated that you will not be able to attend Arisia 2014, this will be the last email you receive from us this year. Unless you tell us otherwise, we will be happy to consider you again for Arisia 2015.

Thanks again,

Arisia Programming Staff"

[identity profile] arisialj.livejournal.com
Arisia's early registration rate ($45) expires TODAY so register now. www.arisia.org/Registration

Turtle track (babysitting) reservations for age 2-6 are still available in limited numbers, their price is always $65.

109 days until Arisia!
[identity profile] arisialj.livejournal.com
Make hotel reservations now, see http://www.arisia.org/Hotel. If you have trouble with anything, email innkeeper@arisia.org. And don't forget to make a special request if you need one.
[identity profile] arisialj.livejournal.com
Hotel reservations are opening next week on Tuesday, Sept 10th. The links will be live on the website by 10am, EDT. Please check the website http://2014.arisia.org/Hotel for more information about rooms at The Westin and The Renaissance this year.

The hotel does not honor requests made in the "Special Requests" box on the Starwood reservations page for the Arisia room blocks. After making your reservation, please go back to the Arisia website and fill out our special request formhttp://2014.arisia.org/SpecialRequestInfo

If you need an accessible room, to modify your room reservation, request a cot, crib, or other amenaties, please fill our the special request form http://2014.arisia.org/SpecialRequestInfo after making your reservation.

If you want a room in the family block, near childcare and other families with children, make a reservation in the ACTIVE block and then fill out the special request form to request placement.
[identity profile] arisialj.livejournal.com
Our fall kickoff convention committee meeting, open to all interested Arisians, is on Sunday September 8th at the Westin Waterfront Hotel in the Stone meeting room. If you are interested in participating this year, this is a good way to find out what we are up to.

Following the 1pm Concomm meeting, the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) will be running a training session intended for all of Arisia's interested participants. The presentation is Sexual Assault 101. Facilitators will be speaking about the prevalence of sexual assault, its impacts, and what perpetration looks like. It's a fantastic framework for new individuals, and it's information we would like all Arisia participants to have access to. Even if you have attended a prior BARCC talk, we ask that you consider joining us for this informative presentation by volunteers of BARCC.
[identity profile] arisialj.livejournal.com
The Arisia Social Media team wants you!

Are you twitter-savvy? A Facebook maven? Spend any time on Google+? Then we need you on our team. We're looking for someone who can post to our various social media outlets as well as monitor them for incoming comments and questions.

If you are interested, please email blogs@arisia.org.
[identity profile] arisialj.livejournal.com
Do you want to welcome everyone to Arisia? Are you calm under pressure as well as friendly? At Con Registration Staff need to be able to use a computer well (search, point and click), follow written procedures, maintain a happy, helpful presence in the face of thousands of attendees and handle money and credit card machines accurately. The work is not physically demanding, but requires a lot of mental and social engagement with few breaks.

They should plan to attend one of the training sessions in December, the Thursday before con, or midday Friday, and work at least 12 hours at con, as per a schedule.

Please contact staffservices@arisia.org to apply for this position.
[identity profile] arisialj.livejournal.com
Make plans to join us Tuesday May 7th at 7pm at the NESFA Clubhouse for the Arisia May meeting of the convention staff and interested volunteers for 2014. We'll be discussing plans for Arisia 2014 including new staffing. More details are here including agenda. If you'd like to volunteer for something this year, this is a good time to talk to people about it.

We look forward to seeing you!

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