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longhairedsffan.livejournal.com

For those intersted 3rd COME (3rd Conference on Middle Earth) has been cancelled. Refunds will be sent out.

"It isn’t what we wanted. It is unfortunately what we have. Or don’t have.

The Conference On Middle earth 2015 kept losing presenters to financial issues, like department budget cuts and the like. It’s hard to have a conference without enough presenters. We lost two more just this week.

So here we are, less than a month away, and we have to cancel.
All memberships and banquet tickets will be completely refunded.

COMe 2015 will hang on to your eddresses. When the economy stabilizes, or even improves, we’ll see what we can do about resurrecting the conference.

After all, there were 40 years between the 2^nd Conference on Middle earth in 1971 and the 3^rd Conference On Middle earth in 2011.

This is a major bummer.

Lin Daniel
Chair
Conference On Middle earth 20?? "

deguspice.livejournal.com

Sunday, November 3rd is "Geek Central" in Cambridge.

http://geekcentral.org/

"What is Geek Central?

Geek Central is a number of geeky organizations and businesses getting
together to run events all through Central Square, in Cambridge! Any
one of these events would be cool on its own. Put them all together…
and we have an awesome new convention! "

There will be gaming, filking, Kirk Poland, vendors, a party,
miniature golf, .... Check out the website for their schedule and
details.

chaiya.livejournal.com

Hurry! www.readercon.org! It'll be awesome! :)

Current Mood: happy

nchanter.livejournal.com

Pi-Con, the little brother of Arisia, is a Pioneer Valley based convention taking place August 26th - 28th in Enfield, CT (just over the boarder from Springfield). We're about 1/10th the size of Arisia, but pack in just as much fun! Some of your favorite Arisia Dealers, Panelists and Staff are also involved in Pi-Con :)

The Pi-Con Room block is now OPEN! Rooms are $99 a night again this year at the lovely Holiday Inn Enfield-Springfield! Reservations can be made either online or by calling the hotel's front desk. Please check out the Hotel page at www.pi-con.org for more information. While you're there don't forget to pre-register for your Pi-Con Membership, saving money off of the door rate :)

Current Mood: excited

deguspice.livejournal.com

Arisia's Relaxacon is this weekend on Cape Cod.

Come hang out with fans, play games (we'll have lots), eat, stroll on the beach (the weather will be sunny, but a bit cool), swim (if you're hardy), ...

Hotel rooms are still available at the discounted Arisia rate (but you might want to call and reserve a room before you drive down).

For more information about the Relaxacon, see our web site:
www.relaxacon.org

mzrowan.livejournal.com

(Posting here because of an earlier discussion of the complications of having one speed dating event that fits all, which we humbly believe we have solved. ;-)

The reminder: Boston Poly Speed Dating's first event is only one week away!

The particulars: April 26, 6 pm, at The Friendly Toast in Kendall Square, Cambridge.

The summary: This event originated in San Francisco as a way to make speed dating work for those of us whose identities and lives are a little more complicated than most speed dating events can handle. ;-) Our algorithm allows you to date as an individual or group, and to specify your gender(s) and the gender(s) of the people you're looking to meet.

The subtle hint: Registering in advance helps us optimize the event for everyone, and paying in advance saves you $3!

The link: To find out more or register, go to http://boston.polyspeeddating.com ! To ask us a question, email us at bostonpsd@polyspeeddating.com !

mzrowan.livejournal.com

(I'm hoping this is okay to post here because of the post a few weeks ago about speed dating at Arisia and the issues involved with making one event for everyone. If not, feel free to delete, and my apologies!)

Poly Speed Dating is coming to Boston! This event originated in San Francisco as a way to make speed dating work for those of us whose identities and lives are a little more complicated than most speed dating events can handle. ;-) Our algorithm allows you to date as an individual or group, and to specify your gender(s) and the gender(s) of the people you're looking to meet.

Our first event will be April 26 at The Friendly Toast in Kendall Square, Cambridge. Registration is $12 in advance, or $15 at the door, and includes snacks and non-alcoholic drinks (we also have some scholarship spots available, so please contact us if the fee is an issue for you!). To find out more or register, go to http://boston.polyspeeddating.com !

zyxwvut.livejournal.com

As you may or may not know, if you bought your membership for Renovation before January 31st (or if you were a member of AussieCon 4), you are eligible to nominate for the Hugo Awards.

Given

arisia's special relationship with

eric_in_elevatr (as the first Con to have me as a Guest), plus that it is the site of a fair chunk of the footage in the short, I would like to ask you to consider nominating "Vertically-Mobile Comedy: the 'Eric in the Elevator' Story" for Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. Vimeo link

Please help me go to the Hugo Losers' Party! %-}

::thank you, and back to your original feature presentation::
Z

P.S.: I have it on good authority that if you have already nominated, you can still add items until the voting deadline. ;-D

Current Mood: hopeful

deguspice.livejournal.com

Today's Boston Globe has a nice article about this weekend's Tolkien Convention (3rd Conference On Middle-earth) in Westford, MA.

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2011/03/24/at_westford_conference_a_fellowship_of_tolkien_fans/

(Arisia gets a very brief mention)

audioboy.livejournal.com

If you didn't get a chance to catch it in January, you have two more opportunities to see
The Post-Meridian Radio Players' highly-successful staged radio show from Arisia 2011!

When: Friday, March 25th, 8:00pm - 9:30pm & Saturday, March 26th, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Where: Urban Promise Church of Somerville
Address: 204 Elm St.,Somerville, MA (map)
Tickets: FREE (with a suggested donation of $5 to help support future PMRP projects!)
Full Details & Ticket Reservations: Can be found on our website and in our original Arisia LJ post from March 2nd

"...the whole thing was hilarious. I'm a pretty casual Dr. Who fan, but I still got all of the jokes,
and the Lovecraft interludes were a nice touch." - The Boston Phoenix, 1/20/11

"I saw this group at Arisia and they were incredible, very talented. I highly recommend you go.
How can you beat seeing a live Doctor Who radio story!?" - ToasterLabs

Current Mood: excited
Current Location: Diesel Café

ccrazy.livejournal.com

Help build DNA LEGO kits for Boston Public Schools!

Since a lot of Arisia folks are interested in science education, I thought this might be for interest. This work session is part of a larger project that has been going on for several months to prepare teaching materials for the Boston public schools. If you can help, please contact Kathy directly, her email is below.

Kathy Vandiver of the MIT Edgerton Center Outreach Program and the MIT
Museum needs volunteers to help prepare tRNA LEGO kits for Boston
Public Schools!

A number of LEGO kits still need to be constructed for several
different genes to have materials ready for an upcoming project
deadline. This job will require a little Bio brain cell activity!
And some Krazy Glue, which will be provided!

What: Assembly of LEGO tRNA molecules

When: Monday, March 21, 2011 @ 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Where: 56-202 (CEHS conference room)

Please e-mail: kathymv@mit.edu

To watch a great video animation about DNA LEGOs, go to:
http://educationgroup.mit.edu/HHMIEducationGroup/?p=828

There will other work sessions in the future as Lego DNA sets are assembled for other area school districts. There are a works sessions scheduled on April 2, 2011 through People Making Difference, an organization that assembles groups of volunteers to provide manpower for Boston-area non-profit organizations. To sign up for the April 2 session, go to www.pmd.org for information.

deguspice.livejournal.com

Starting at 9pm on Friday at Lunacon, Arisia will be hosting a party in the Con Suite.

We'll have lots of teas and tasty treats for you to sample.

Please drop by and say "hi".

vibrantabyss.livejournal.com

The Somerville Theater is running a double feature March 19th and 20th: Terminator & Robocop

olszowka.livejournal.com

An announcement of StrowlerCon, which is being held this weekend (10/8 - 10/10) in Woburn, MA, has been posted here previously because S. J. Tucker, Arisia 2010's music guest of honor, is one of the headlining acts. I would like to add that we intend to stream live to the internet, all the performances. Check out strowlercon for more details on the event and performers -- tune in to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/strowlercon to watch. The broadcast schedule is as follows:

Friday, 10/8, 7:00p - 10:30p EDT; possibly 11:00p - 1:00a as well
Saturday, 10/9, 7:00p - 11:00p EDT; possibly 11:00p - 1:00a as well
Sunday, 10/10, 7:00p - 11:00p EDT; possibly 11:00p - 1:00a as well

shadesong.livejournal.com

StrowlerCon is happening next weekend! It features Arisia's previous music Guest of Honor, SJ Tucker, and many regular Arisia panelists and artists. Join us, won't you? And pass it on!

Originally posted by

shadesong at HELL YEAH STROWLERCON

StrowlerCon is October 8-10 in Woburn, MA, and we are going to rock like you would not believe.

Join us in the Grand Ballrooms of the Woburn Holiday Inn, just north of Boston, on Columbus Day weekend — October 8th-10th, 2010 — for three nights of entertainment (live music, circus arts, burlesque) and two days of workshops, panels and other activities, including a special 10/10/10 celebration, and a Maker Showcase featuring inventions and material creations as well as artwork by local creators and attendees.

Click there to buy tickets - $45 for the weekend, $25 per day for day passes (so if you're going for more than one day, it pays to just buy the $45 weekend pass). To reserve your hotel room, e-mail lodging@strowlers.com.

Can't go but want to support StrowlerCon and sponsor a strowler? We have supporting memberships, and they come with goodies.

Okay. You have the technical details. But 'song, you say, what did you say about ROCKING?

Here you GO.
( Read more... )

cluegirl.livejournal.com

Who has two thumbs and an 'Official StrowlerCon Performer Coordinatrix' hat?

Me, that's who.

*Gets out cat-herding whip and stompyboots.*

OKAY THEN! This is me, making use of the awesome power that is the Intarwebs. I need performers who can, and WILL be up for performing in the Boston area in the second week of October. Specifically, I need itinerant-style, street style, alt-style performers. I need jugglers. I need magicians. I need comedians. I need acrobats and rope artists. I need firespinners and spitters. I need stiltwalkers and unicyclers, and maybe even a few blockheads and animal performance acts if I can possibly get them. And yes, there's even room for a mime or two.

The important thing is, I need them to be available, and willing to show up and play their hearts out on the weekend of October 8th, and I need them to do it on faith -- this is a startup show, and so payment's on a percentage of door status. Scary for performers who make their rent (or don't some months,) this way, but that's the best we can do until Strowler builds up some foundation in the area.

What I do NOT seem to need, are burlesquettes -- I have a metric buttload of them, between the four Boston area contacts plus the ones I know personally from this area.

I have letters of intro out to Jerkus Circus, Honey Suckle Duvet, and BabesInBoinkland -- assuming Mercury's retrograde hasn't banjaxed the whole thing. (I want it known that it has taken this event to finally FORCE me to get a MySpace account. Dammit. But not even StrowlerCon can force me to USE it.) I also have a holding pattern going with a local magician named Jeffrey Jene, and am currently combing through old correspondence between the event manager and his other acts, in search of more e mail URLs.

And I KNOW this process can only improve through the attentions of my brilliant flist.
And so, my beloved New Englanders, what Strowlers do you know, to whom you need to introduce me? I'd prefer the first rank of contacts to be with people you know, since that's usually the best way to get actual responses out of Flaky Artist Types, but honestly any contacts to such circus-type acts would be helpful at this juncture.

So whatcha got for me then?

Also? PLEASE feel free to cross-link and cross-post this to whomever you believe needs to see it. The more eyes and brains engaged in the hunt, the better the results will be.

So SHILL, BABES, SHILL!

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.

lyonesse.livejournal.com

reposted here by suggestion of

palmwiz:

naked girls reading! (including me :)

Event
Naked Girls Reading (Science Fiction!)

General info
start date: Saturday, September 18, 2010 11:59 PM
end date: Sunday, September 19, 2010 02:00 AM
where: Coolidge Corner Theatre
address: Boston MA (Brookline)
cost: $15
dress code: We'll be naked. You can wear what you like.

The next Naked Girls Reading is Saturday, Sept. 18 at midnight at The Coolidge Corner Theater. The title is "Science Friction", and the theme is classic SF -- we'll be reading Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", some Stanislaw Lem (in translation! :) and other golden oldies.

All read aloud to you by naked girls (I'll be one of them, in the glitter) onstage. Not your fetish? Come for the literature. Stay for the library-sexy glasses, the erudition, and of course the tits :)

Get yr tickets at: http://coolidge.org/node/2716

Current Mood: creative

nchanter.livejournal.com

Pi-Con Is a Science Fiction, Fantasy, Gaming and general "Geek Interest" convention out in the Pioneer Valley region of New England the weekend of August 20th-22nd. A lot of our panelists and staff overlap with Arisia, and It's a fun time that includes Panels, Performances, Dealers, Board Games, LARPs, Video Games, a Consuite, Parties, Math Jokes, and More! Our Guest of Honor this year include Author Robert J. Sawyer, Webcomic Creator Rob Balder, Musician Tom Smith, and the Awesome Hugh Casey. Pi-Con has often been described as a smaller, more relaxed, just as awesome version of Arisia.

The preliminary programming schedule is up on our website for review, and will include such topics as How to Govern Interplanetary States, I've Got a Webcomic. Now what?, Costuming on a Budget, Beyond Physics: The Many Sciences of Science Fiction, Werewolves and Vampires as Both Lovers and Predators, and, of course, Welcome to Pi-Con.

We also have pre-convention LARP Signups going on.

Pre-Registration for a convention membership is just $40 ($30 for Students), and can be accomplished in just minutes online. Our hotel room-block features a $99 a night room rate and closes this Friday August 6th. Reservations can be made by calling 860-741-2211, and make sure to mention you're with Pi-Con as the hotel is sold out except for our block.

Feel free to ask any questions you may have here, and check out our own LiveJournal community,

pi_con, our website Pi-Con.org and the links to other social media outlets.

-Kris "Nchanter" Snyder on behalf of the Pi-Con Staff.

Added! We're also looking for more at-con volunteers. To volunteer e-mail volunteers@pi-con.org

Current Mood: excited

onezumi.livejournal.com

Hi guys - If anyone form Arisia staff is reading, please let me know if you'd like to do a table exchange with Intervention. We freaking love Arisia and would love to help promote the con at our event! :D

Big news!!!

- Ben Bova is premiering his new webcomic at Intervention in MD this Sept 10-12.

- Molly Crabapple will be speaking AND doing a full Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School just for us. We are going to have a lot of burlesque superheroes and amazing artists! If you want to be guaranteed an artist's drawing space you need to pre register for your space because this will fill up! :)

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Entries tagged with othercons

3rd Come

Sunday: Geek Central (11/3)

Online Readercon Registration ENDS TOMORROW!

Hotel Room Reservations open for Pi-Con

Relaxacon: Relaxing Weekend

Boston Poly Speed Dating is one week away!

Reg open for Boston Poly Speed Dating!

For your last-minute Hugo nomination consideration...

3rd Conference On Middle-earth

Reminder — "Doctor Who: The Starship of Madness" Staged Radio Play this Friday and Saturday

Lego Biology Project Needs Help Monday, March 21, 2011

Lunacon Party (Friday)

For those not going to Lunacon...

Live streaming of StrowlerCon

StrowlerCon schedule!

Aw, there's a mime stuck in the pool filter again...

StrowlerCon! Columbus Day Weekend! Boston!

naked girls reading! (including me :)

Pi-Con! August 20-22nd

Ben Bova and Molly Crabapple at Intervention in MD

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