AARISIARISIA 20202020 ppocketocket pprogramrogram OOverviewverview FFridayriday SSaturdayaturday SSundayunday MMondayonday PParticipantarticipant SScheduleschedules ((DANCEDANCE |||| (MOVIE(MOVIE &&&& PPANEL))ANEL)) ==== FFUNUN HOTEL MAPS 1 Health Club Hotel Offices Conference Level (3E) Locker Frost Pool Room Griffin News Tables Fan Carlton Anime & Desk Video Gaming Video Mezzanine Level (3W) Adams Alcott Indepen- Burroughs Lewis dence Green Room Bul- finch Douglas All Faneuil Gender Creator’s Corner Executive Hale Boardroom Program Ops Desk Nexus III II I Harbor Ballroom Tabletop Art Show Gaming Lobby Level (2W) Business Vending Paine Center Starbuckss Hancock Otis Safety/ Quincy Fast Track First Aid IRT Lobbyby Level (2E) Gift Webster Stone Revere Shop Volunteer Birch Bar Fast Track TAS Table City Bar MJ O’Connor’s Info Laugh Boston Desk Innkeeper Sauciety Front Desk 43 2 1 AAlll GGenderender Marina Ballroom Galleria Levelv (1E) Concourse Level (1W) A B E Dealers Room C Freebies D Grand Ballroom Common- B wealth Ballroom C Dealers Room Dance Hall A Dancing To Food Con Suite Trucks Cosplay Repair Registration 2 QUICK REFERENCE QUICK REFERENCE 3 Access Services Info Desk Innkeeper Lobby near Front Desk Anime/Video Room Grif n (3 East) T ursday noon—10pm Friday noon—10pm Friday 4pm—2am Monday 10am—2pm Sat/Sun 8am—2am Email: [email protected] Monday 8am—2pm Lost and Found Hotel Front Desk Art Show Harbor Ballroom II/III (3 East) Lost badges: go to Registration. Friday 6pm—9pm Saturday 10am—6pm, 8pm—10pm Masquerade Grand Ballroom AB (1 West) 7pm—8pm Mobility aid users & pals only Sunday 8pm (doors open at 7pm) Sunday 10am—6pm Sign-up Grand Prefunction (1 West) 6:30pm—9pm Purchased art pick-up only Check-In Concourse Level (1 West) Monday 10am—1pm Purchased art pick-up only Friday 4pm—9pm Bake Sale Galleria Foyer (1 East) Saturday 10am—5pm Sunday 10am—noon Saturday 9:30am—12:30pm, or until sold out Rehearsals Grand Ballroom B (1 West) Blood Drive Westin Lobby Saturday 10am—2pm Friday 12:30pm—7:30pm for Children’s Hospital Sunday 2pm—5:30pm Saturday 9am—5pm for Mass General Hospital Green Room Grand Ballroom D (1 West) Sunday 6pm—½ hour after Awards Childcare (Turtle Track: ages 2–6) see Ops for room Friday 5:30pm—10pm, meet & greet, no drop-off Music Room (incl. all-night open singing) Bulf nch (3 West) Sat/Sun 9:45am—11:30am, 12:45pm—5:30pm, 6:45pm—10pm Newsdesk (Communications Division) Frost (3 West) Monday 9:45am—11:30am, 12:45pm—3pm Clear Ether email: [email protected] Coat Check Concourse Level (1 West) Sign Shop email: [email protected] Friday 3pm—1am Friday: 8am—midnight Sat/Sun 8am—1am Sat/Sun: 8am—midnight Monday 8am—2pm Monday: 8am—3pm Con Suite Galleria (1 East) Operations (Con Ops) Hale (3 West) Cosplay Repair Station Concourse Level (1 West) Call/text 617-553-4652 Friday 5pm—10pm Parking Sat/Sun 9:30am—9:30pm https://www.arisia.org/parking Creators' Corner Harbor Prefunction (3 East) Westin Hotel Garage: Self-parking $40/day, valet parking $50/day Aloft Hotel guest lot, 371-377 D Street: $25/day Dance Hall (incl. club dancing) Commonwealth Ballroom (1 West) Party Room Block (Open Parties) 4th f oor Dealers Room Galleria (1 East) Photo Station Concourse Level (1 West) Friday 5pm—9pm Sat/Sun 11am—5pm (also limited availability after Masq) Sat/Sun 10am—7pm Monday 10am—noon Monday 10am—2:30pm Program Nexus Executive Boardroom (3 West) Duck Hunt turn in at Volunteer Table in Westin Lobby Friday 3pm—10pm Fan Tables Mezzanine near escalator (3 West) Sat/Sun 9:30am—8:30pm Friday 4pm—7pm Monday 9:30am—3pm Sat/Sun 10am—6pm Quiet Room Room 667 Monday 10am—2pm Friday 6pm—8pm Fast Track (Children’s Program: ages 6–12) Hancock/Webster (2 West) Sat/Sun 10am—8pm Friday 4pm—6pm Monday 10am—1pm Sat/Sun 10am—11:30am, 1pm—5:30pm Registration Concourse Level (1 West) Monday 8:30am—1:30pm Friday 11am—11pm ($30) Feedback Saturday 9am—11pm ($50) https://www.arisia.org/feedback Sunday 9am—8pm ($50) Fill out a form at Info Desk or Ops; feedback sessions Sat & Mon. Monday 9am—3pm ($15) First Aid (in case of emergency, dial 911) Paine (2 West) Lost badges $5 (once only, after that full price). Arisia 2021 memberships available starting Sunday noon. 24 hours/day Safer Space for Arisians of Color Room 567 Food Options Friday 6pm—11pm https://www.arisia.org/food Sat/Sun 10am—11pm Food trucks at end of Concourse Monday 10am—1pm Sat/Sun 11am—4:30pm Mon 11am-3pm Sign Shop Frost (3 West) Lobby level concessions: Fri/Sat/Sun 4pm—8pm Email: [email protected] Starbucks (Westin Lobby): 24 hours (extended menu options) Fri/Sat/Sun: 8am—midnight Gaming— LARPs Monday: 8am—3pm See schedule. Sign up in Tabletop. Swimming Pool Mezzanine Level (3 West) Gaming— Tabletop Harbor Ballroom I (3 East) Fri/Sat/Sun 8am—3am (special convention hours) Monday 8am—10pm Closed 3am—6am Team Arisia HQ (Staf only) Revere (2 West) Gaming— Video Carlton (3 East) Friday 4pm—10pm Friday 5pm—11pm Sat/Sun 10am—10pm Sat/Sun 11am—11pm Monday 10am—4pm Monday CLOSED Teen Lounge (Ages 13 19 only) 966/967 Gender Free Bathrooms Near Bulf nch (3 West) – Outside Marina 4 (2 East) Friday 4pm—10pm Sat/Sun 10am—10pm Green Room (Program Participants & Staf only) Burroughs (3 East) Monday 10am—2pm Friday 4pm—9pm The Watch (Security) Paine (2 West) Sat/Sun 9am—9pm 24 hours/day Monday 9am—3pm Call/text 617-863-2472 Hotels https://www.arisia.org/Problems Westin main number: 617-532-4600 In case of emergency or immediate threat dial 911 Aloft main number: 857-243-6908 Video Room Grif n (3 East) Incident Response Team (IRT) Quincy (2 West) see Anime/Video Room call/text 617-657-9756, or email [email protected] Volunteers Westin lobby Information Desk Westin Lobby Friday 4pm—8pm Friday 10:30am—11:30pm Sat/Sun 10am—8pm Saturday 8:30am—11:30pm Monday 10am—noon Sunday 8:30am—8:30pm Monday 8:30am—3:30pm 4 SCHEDULE BY AREA SCHEDULE BY AREA 5 Anime ConComm 2 Tenchi Universe (Episodes 1–4) 111 Saturday Feedback Sessions 18 FLCL Part 1 (Episodes 1–3) 331 Arisia January Corporate Meeting 1 2 0 M u s h i - s h i 491 Monday Feedback Session 149 FLCL Part 2 (Episodes 4–6) 313 T e Girl Who Leapt T rough Time Cosplay & Costuming 342 Outlaw Star 15 First Steps for New Costumers 439 Tenchi Universe (Episodes 5–8) 39 How do I do the thing? Art & Maker 102 Using, Making, and Modifying Sewing Patterns 106 Saturday Masquerade Rehearsal 47 Materials of the Medium 116 Prop Weapons for Costumers 49 Drop in Coloring 126 Using Basic Electronics in Costumes 66 Art Show Reception 157 Cross-Cultural Costuming 84 Kristina Carroll, Putting Yourself into Art 181 Getting Into Character 127 Tools for Computer and Console Game Development 200 Judging and Being Judged in Costume Contests 135 Directors’ Tour of the Art Show 275 Northern Lights Costumers Guild Meeting 158 Photographing Respectfully 2 9 9 S u p e r h e r o C o s t u m i n g 180 Tactile Tour of the Art Show 323 Gender-Variant Cosplay 195 So You Want to Show Your Art (Beyond Arisia) 341 Sunday Masquerade Rehearsal 199 Kristina Carroll Tour of the Art Show 349 Costuming and Movement 223 Art Show- Open House for Fans with Disabilities 406 Masquerade Doors Open 279 Ask a Maker 410 Masquerade 303 T e State of Microcontrollers 432 Masquerade Awards 318 Kid-Friendly Maker Projects 443 Masquerade Show and Tell 346 Lighting It Up: Adding Sparkle to Your Projects 486 Costuming on a Budget 368 Drop in Coloring and Crafting 494 Finding Closure 376 Designing the Impossible 388 You’ve Been Framed! Framing Tips for Artists Dance 458 Making Space for Making 72 Chronomancy: A 20th Century Dance Party 459 Drawing Demo- Charcoal 107 Family Friendly Renaissance Dance 472 Creating Cover Art 153 SCA Renaissance Ball Comics 214 Geeky Belly Dance 232 English Country Dance 36 Vertigo: T e Wake 261 Arisia Saturday Night Dance 67 Its Time to Worry—T e End of MAD 334 Feed Your Inner Demons—A Journey Dance 75 Whips, chains, & capes: Superheroes & Kink (18+) 377 Swing Dance Lesson 115 For a Brighter Future: T e Return of the Legion 379 Swing Dance 144 Wonder Woman: Past, Future and Beyond 407 Blues Fusion Fantasy—Dance Lesson 167 Batman: 80 Years in the Shadow of the Bat 411 Blues Fusion Fantasy—Dance Party 188 T e George Perez Retrospective 202 Graphic Headlines: Comics as Journalism Fan Interest 215 Praise the Dead: T e End of WicDiv 17 Introduction to Makeup 285 Current Events in Comics 40 Linguistic Experimentation and Evolution 307 Branching out from the Big Two 44 Open Fencing 363 Make it GAYER! Queering Up Comics 55 Comfort Food TV: Baking and Cooking Shows 457 Stan Lee Retrospective 104 How to Be A Good Fan of Problematic T ings 467 See You in the Funny Pages! Humor Comics 108 Massachusetts Bay Colony 1630 Pike & Shot Drill 482 Relativism and the Superhero 119 From Menstruation to Menopause 495 How Important is Continuity in Comics? 122 T e Martial Arts of A Game of T rones Communities 142 Fractured Selves: Dis-embodied Identity in SF 151 T e Cutting Truth of the Sword 11 Fandom and Disability 165 Fantastic Beasts and How to Heal T em 27 Polyamory Basics 172 En Garde! SCA Rapier Fencing Demo 48 Sexuality and Gender Trends in Acceptance 186 So you want to start a con..