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Attention all artists!

We have managed to tie up both of our artistic Guests of Honor with designs for the sales shirts this year. This leaves us without a "mad science' themed design for our volunteer shirts. Love mad science? Have some great ideas? How about a nice line drawing to reward our volunteers for their hard work?

Deadline November 1, 2010
Send designs to [email protected]

Fabulous prizes to be awarded for the design chosen!

Dr. Karen and Jonathan
co-divheads
Publications

Programming Panel selection is now open to participants

The Arisia 2011 Programming Panel selection is now open to participants. You will be receiving an email shortly with further details if this has not happened already. The deadline for panel sign-up is October 2nd, 2010. For those who have contacted us recently requesting to be a participant we will contact each of you individually with an answer by the end of this week. If you have questions or concerns please email [email protected].

-Michael J. Sprague
Division Head of Programming
Arisia 2011

Sign up to run games and LARPs!

The sign up forms for both running games and running LARPs are now online. Sign up soon to get your games listed sooner.

Programming announcement

The invitation email for potential program participants for Arisia 2011 was sent out on Friday August 6th. Some individuals who requested invites were not included in the original mass email. This includes mainly individual presenters and panelists. We will be contacting them individually by end of day Wednesday, August 11th. After August 8th, 2010, people requesting to be participants will be reviewed on a case by case basis as time and resources allow. If you desire to be a participant, you may contact us directly at [email protected].

Brainstorming List is now CLOSED

The Arisia Brainstorm List for the Arisia 2011 convention is now closed. The list will reopen in early 2011.

Though the list is closed at this point, emails to [email protected] and [email protected] will still be received and ideas for items sent to those addresses will be evaluated on a case by case basis.

If you have any questions relating to Programming in general, please email [email protected]

Thank you one and all for the great ideas you've given us. We're looking forward to the upcoming convention and hope to see you there.

Programming announcement: Brainstorming closing soon

The deadline for submitting ideas to the Brainstorm list is midnight this Thursday July 15th, 2010.

Though the list will be closed at that point, emails to [email protected] and [email protected] will still be received and items sent to those addresses will be evaluated on a case by case basis. Thank you one and all for the great ideas put forth so far. Keep them coming.

Michael J. Sprague
Division Head of Programming
Arisia 2011

Arisia 2011 Brainstorming List is Open Until July 15th, 2010 at midnight

From Mike, the Brainstorm list moderator:

The deadline for getting your ideas to the Arisia Brainstorm email list has been extended. The final deadline for submitting ideas to Brainstorm for the Arisia 2011 convention is midnight July 15th, 2010. The list will be closed at that point however, emails to proposals AT arisia.org and program AT arisia.org will still be received and items will be evaluated on a case by case basis by the Programming staff for possible inclusion in the schedule.

For those who haven't joined the list yet and wish to submit ideas

Registration Rates Going Up Tonight

The registration rates for Arisia go up to $40 from $35 tonight.

If you would like to register at this rate please print out and mail in the paper registration form (online registration yet is not yet available). Questions as always should be addressed to reg(at)arisia(dot)org.

-Kris "Nchanter" Snyder
Arisia Registration

Arisia 2011 Brainstorming List is Now Open

From Mike, the Brainstorm list moderator:

Welcome to the Brainstorm mailing list for Arisia 2011.
Sign up: http://arisia.org/mailman/listinfo/brainstorm

This list is for the submission and discussion of Programming and Event ideas for the upcoming Arisia convention. To submit an idea we will be using the following format:

Send email to: brainstorm at arisia.org

Subject: Title of panel/event/lecture/item

Quick update

We are testing the newest version of the registration system. That's taking more time than we hoped, so please use the paper form if you'd like to register now.

Also, we recently had our Arisia '10 debrief meeting so that's wrapped up now. We are starting to get movement on Arisia 2011! If you're interested in working for the convention, please send email to conchair at arisia dot org. We'd love to hear from you.

Arisia 2011