[identity profile] arisialj.livejournal.com
Coming out in January 2017! "The Halcyon Fairy Book" by T. Kingfisher
(the pseudonym of Ursula Vernon, Arisia's Writer GOH, when writing for
grownups).

A collection of fairy tales annotated by T. Kingfisher and the
complete "Toad Words" anthology.

The book is $30 and can be pre-ordered for pickup at the convention in
January or it can be mailed for an additional $5 (for US delivery)
after the convention in late January.

http://www.arisia.org/KingfisherBook
[identity profile] nchanter.livejournal.com
Arisia 2016 is pleased to announce the addition of a special guest, Venetia Charles, as our Muse of Whimsy.

Venetia Charles the Arisia 2016 Muse of Whimsy, looking whimsical

Venitia's own words on the experience of her first Arisia:

"Arisia is the first convention where I felt absolutely comfortable and at ease. I felt that not only was I welcome to join in but that I wanted to be part of the many marvelous things happening around me. I didn’t have or need an agenda, I didn’t need to see x-level famous person or make x-business connection but it was simply and lovingly about having fun. While I have been to giant comic-cons where there are lots of young people, this was also the first convention that had a genuinely youthful feel of exploration, interest, and trust."

Her insight into this spirit at Arisia is a key part of why we have invited her to be our Muse of Whimsy!

More information about how awesome Venetia is and about our other guests of honor can be found at: http://www.arisia.org/GoHBios#SG
[identity profile] nchanter.livejournal.com
While we’re hard at work putting together an amazing Arisia for 2015 (Just 65 more days to go!), when one works on a convention as large as Arisia, with our broad range of offerings, thinking about what to do “next year” starts more than 12 months ahead. To that end, we’re happy to announce the Arisia 2016 Guests of Honor!

Writer Guest of Honor: John Scalzi
Artist Guest of Honor: Johnna Y. Klukas
Fan Guest of Honor: Pablo Miguel Alberto Vazquez III

Just a taste of things to come!

-Kris "[livejournal.com profile] nchanter" Snyder
Arisia 2016 Convention Chair
[identity profile] arisialj.livejournal.com
The money made from the auction of the drawings done by Bob Eggleton and our Artist Guest of Honor, Roger Dean, during their Dueling Easels competition on Saturday at 7PM will go to the SFWA Emergency Medical Fund.

The auction will take place on Sunday in the Art Show between 4PM and 6PM.
[identity profile] traingeek.livejournal.com
As you've hopefully heard, we're having a breakfast banquet on Sunday of the con with the guests of honor and some other special guests. They're all awesome folks to chat with, so we hope you'll take advantage of this opportunity.

Sales of tickets to the banquet [edit: have ended]. There will be no sales of tickets at the con.

Tickets are $35. The banquet will be on Sunday at 11am.

Michael Anderson – Art/Entertainment
Kelley Armstrong - Writer GOH, Literature SOLD OUT
Bob Eggleton – Art, Media
Eric in the Elevator – Fan, Art/Entertainment, Gaming SOLD OUT
Shaenon K. Garrity - Webcomics GOH, Art
Seanan McGuire – Music/Filk, Literature
Hildy Silverman – Literature, Fandom
Josh Simpson - Artist GOH SOLD OUT
Cecilia Tan - Literature
Catherynne M. Valente - Literature
Rene Walling - Fan GOH
Frank Wu - Art

Buy your ticket here!
[identity profile] shadesong.livejournal.com
Many of you will remember Arisia's last Music Guest of Honor, SJ Tucker. She's back in town, for a three-day extravaganza, and she's brought friends!

A more involved post later, but right now, I will quote from her manager/partner K's e-mail.

Summary: StrowlerCon is in Woburn October 8-10, with concerts and circus stuff and all manner of merriment, and it is in danger. What we need from you right now is for you to reserve your hotel room now. Today. If the room block doesn't sell enough by end of the day tomorrow, big money issues. So reserve your room now and you can work out roomshares from there, but that need is urgent.

Everything below the dotted line is from K!

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Hotel rooms for StrowlerCon are still available, but we desperately need you to reserve your room in the discount block by this Friday.

Seriously, we need you to book a room at the Woburn Holiday Inn within our discount block. Call them at 781-935-8760 today. STR is the group code.

There was a bug in the hotel's online reservation system, and they were turning away our guests for several months. If you or anyone you know tried to book a discount room at StrowlerCon, but were unable to do so, please contact me (kwiley@sjtucker.com) right now and we will get it fixed right away.

Visit http://fburls.com/14-sUok4viw/t/s/txt/cid/656117/sid/65086437 for more information.

We have also posted an initial schedule for StrowlerCon, and we've started offering day passes for $25 (for Friday, Saturday, or Sunday)

Friday: $25
Concerts: Alexander James Adams, SJ Tucker, Cat Valente Road Show
NC-17 After Dark: Mythpunk Circus: Bondage, Maps, Tattoos, and Trains

Saturday: $25
Concerts: Kellianna, Sharon Knight, Tricky Pixie
NC-17 After Dark: Neverland Circus: Never Grow Up, Never Give In

Sunday: $25
Concerts: Marian Call, Heather Dale, Gypsy Nomads
NC-17 After Dark: Vagabond Circus: Mountebanks, Tumblers, and Wanderers of Fortune

Of course, you can still get all three days for only $45

Visit http://fburls.com/94-45PokbGK/t/s/txt/cid/656117/sid/65086437 to register for the event today.

Don't forget you get a 10% discount on registration with this code: swcstrowler

For the particularly budget conscious, and for our favorite fans, we are offering several additional methods of saving money at StrowlerCon:

Volunteer for a couple shifts at the event to get a 50% or higher refund on your event registration: http://fburls.com/60-c9xXDVi5/t/s/txt/cid/656117/sid/65086437

Stay in the hotel for only $30 per night by sharing rooms: http://fburls.com/20-KaeMnTdW/t/s/txt/cid/656117/sid/65086437

Discount travel: Megabus still has round trip tickets to Boston from New York City and from Philadelphia for less than $20!

There's more information to come, so check the StrowlerCon website for weekly updates: http://fburls.com/0-nH9h5hUx/t/s/txt/cid/656117/sid/65086437

Also, you can check out the Facebook event page here: http://fburls.com/81-bkcCCjMe/t/s/txt/cid/656117/sid/65086437

StrowlerCon is even bigger and more overwhelming that StrowlerFest. We organized this event because our fans in the North East demanded it. When we committed to this event, we were expecting more than two hundred fans to sign up right away. We _need_ you to be there. Tell your friends. Talk about it online. Call your favorite radio programs and podcasts. Spread the word by whatever means you have available, because we _need_ every one of our North East fans to know it's there.

Sooj

May. 11th, 2010 03:44 am
[identity profile] blackberryuser.livejournal.com
For those interested rumor has it S. J. Tucker will be in the Boston area
sometime in late September or early october.

You can sign up for her email newsletter for details on this.
[identity profile] thespian.livejournal.com
Josh Simpson is our artist guest of honour in 2011. I had, like many of you, never heard of the guy. So I looked him up online. His stuff was quite pretty, and I thought it might be interesting to see.

Today, Jack, the div head Guest Liaison person, and I went to brunch in Cambridge (for we are here in Somerville, Land of No Water). At the end of brunch he asked me if I wanted to go out to his next plan, a talk and reception by Josh at the Fuller Craft Museum.

I am so glad that I went.

Simpson's work is lovely in photos (as you can see here,
in these pictures of the exhibition, taken by Jack), but it is breathtakingly beautiful in person. Some pieces of it can simply never be captured on film the way they appear in front of you. I wound up at one point sticking my head behind a display because the light that was on it was fine, but the way the piece *glowed* from behind was very much like looking at one of those sunsets you can never describe to someone again.

Pieces were very tactile, and several of them were available to actually be touched with white cotton gloves. I think that many people will want to participate if we offer the chance to touch the artists' work next year. I wanted to run my fingers over many of them that I wasn't supposed to (I didn't, honest. by cramming my hands in my pockets :-)).

In addition, he's an incredibly articulate, talkative, engaging person. His talk was sciencey in all the best ways, and how he is combining some pretty pure science with artistic vision was great to hear. You can see some of his art and how he works, in this short section of Defying Gravity, a documentary on him making a 'megaplanet' (see his planets here).

I was looking forward to him being our guest next year, but now I'm incredibly excited about him coming to Arisia.

(he admitted he might not be able to stay the entire Monday of Arisia, because he has a 9-year-old boy. His wife, Cady Coleman, can't help just then because she's an astronaut and she'll be on the space station at the time. [livejournal.com profile] chaiya, our illustrious conchair, got outright glowy talking to an astronaut!)

- Stephanie
marketing at arisia.org

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