The Lens Arisia '02

Programming Schedule

Friday - Saturday - Sunday

Color Key
Reading Fast Track Filking Gaming

Room Key     
Spoken Word 1: Room 564
Spoken Word 2: Room 565

This Schedule is subject to change.
Last Updated: Jan-15-2002

This list of programming items does not include "Events" happening in the Terrace Room, Imperial Ballroom, Georgian (Art Show), Plaza Ballroom (Dealers), and the Film, Video, and Anime Theaters.  For those, please see the Events Schedule

Friday ^

Time Room Panel
Fri 2-7 P Alcott Fri LARP Registration
Fri 7-? P Backbay Fri LARP
Fri 7 P Fast Track Fast Track: Arts and Crafts
Fri 7 P Spoken Word 1 Science Fiction Poetry Association Meeting
Fri 8 P Charles River Introduction to LARPing
Fri 8 P Constitution What Makes an Interesting Plot?
Fri 8 P Emerson State of Publishing
Fri 8 P Fast Track Storytelling - Stu Mendelson
Fri 8 P Franklin NESFA Hymnal Singing
Fri 8 P Gloucester How Terrorism Will Affect SF Books
Fri 8 P Lenox Making Disease Visible
Fri 8 P Spoken Word 1 Weight Lifting with Words:
Poetry Writing (no specific poetic form)
Fri 8 P Stuart Masquerade for Beginners
Fri 8 P Terrace Swordfighting Demo
Fri 8 P Thoreau Discovering Fandom
Fri 8 P Whitehill Reading - Cecilia Tan (18+)
Fri 8 P Whittier Smallville: The Dark Side of Superboy?
Fri 9 P Thoreau Police in RPGs
Fri 9 P Charles River Villians
Fri 9P-12A Emerson Open Filking (Shabbos Friendly - No Recording)
Fri 9P-12A Franklin Open Filking
Fri 9 P Gloucester Life, the Uterus and Everything:
Reproductive Issues in SF
Fri 9 P Holmes Predicting the Future -
How Do We Extrapolate Realistically?
Fri 9 P Lenox Why is Fantasy Stuck on Medieval/Renaissance Setting?
Fri 9 P Stuart 3D Art
Fri 9 P Whitehill Polyamory 201
Fri 9 P Whittier Buffy/Angel: Surviving the Split?
Fri 10 P Stuart Didjeridus Workshop

Saturday ^

Time Room Panel
Sat 10 A Charles River How to Plan for a LARP
Sat 10 A Constitution Marvel Comics as a Company During a Major
Turnaround
Sat 10 A Fast Track Fast Track - Writing Workshop
Sat 10-12 A Franklin Historical Dance Workshop (2 hr)
Sat 10 A Lenox Getting Inside a Character's Head -
Especially One From a Different Time Period.
Sat 10 A Spoken Word 1 Reading - Walter Hunt
Sat 10 A St James Immortality in SF
Sat 10 A Stuart Tools of the Costumer
Sat 10 A Terrace Two Handed Sword and Rapier Demonstration
(Higgins Armory)
Sat 10 A Whitter Does Gender Exist?
Sat 10 A Winthrop Humorous Stories for Adults
Sat 11 A Back Bay Reading - Jeanne Cavelos
Sat 11 A Charles River Finding People to Game With
Sat 11 A Constitution Gay Culture in the Future
Sat 11 A Emerson Movie Year in Review
Sat 11 A Fast Track Fast Track: Decorating Scarves
Sat 11 A Gloucester International Conventions
Sat 11 A Holmes Finder
Sat 11 A Lenox How large should Arisia get?
Sat 11 A Spoken Word 1 Reading - K De Candido
Sat 11 A Spoken Word 2 Reading - S Sawicki
Sat 11 A St James Last and First Men
Sat 11 A Stuart OK, I Got a Costume, What Do I Do Now?
Sat 11 A Thoreau Staying a Gamer
Sat 11 A Tremont Differences between NPC's and PC's
Sat 11 A Whitehill Online Communities
Sat 11 A Whittier The Stuff in Between -
Books That Mix SF and Fantasy
Sat 11 A Winthrop Storytelling - Kevin Brooks
Sat 12 P Alcott Princess Ryan Universe
Sat 12 P Constitution Effects of Society on Technology
Sat 12 P Charles River The Business of Live Action RPGs
Sat 12 P Emerson Art in the Future
Sat 12 P Fast Track Fast Track - Storytelling Games
Sat 12-2 P Franklin Bellybration! (Bellydance Workshop - 2 hr)
Sat 12 P Gloucester Cats, Dogs, Fire Lizards, and Jheregs -
Quirky Pet Stories
Sat 12 P Holmes Comics and Women
Sat 12 P Spoken Word 1 Reading - S Lazarowitz
Sat 12 P Spoken Word 2 Traditional Poetic Forms
Sat 12 P St James Fan politics - Getting Out Alive
Sat 12 P Stuart Gestalt of Group Costumes
Sat 12 P Thoreau Fragfmentation of the Comics Industry Through
Imprinting
Sat 12 P Tremont Bringing Anime to Television
Sat 12 P Whitehill SF and Ethics
Sat 12 P Whittier SF and SM
Sat 12 P Winthrop Why Do Those Folks Say Shakespeare Isn't
Shakespeare?
Sat 1 P Charles River Women in the Gaming Industry
Sat 1 P Constitution Writer workshops -
How to Run Them and Are They for You?
Sat 1 P Emerson Outliving the Future: What Does SF Mean in 2002
Sat 1 P Fast Track Things That Stink:
Computer-controlled Scent Output.
Sat 1 P Gloucester Fanzines and the Internet
Sat 1 P Holmes Prolonged Adolescence in SF
Sat 1 P Lenox Writing Characters with Mental Illness
Sat 1 P Spoken Word 1 Storytelling - Michael Anderson
Sat 1 P St James How Beginning Writers Can Break In
Sat 1 P Stuart Hall Costumes vs Stage Costumes
Sat 1 P Thoreau How to bid at an art show
Sat 1 P Tremont Cyberstalking and Internet Harassment
Sat 1 P Whitehill The MA Defense of Marriage Act
Sat 1 P Whittier Which is Better to Write, Near Future or
Far Future?
Sat 1 P Winthrop Reading - Ramona Wheeler
Sat 2 P Charles River When Good LARPs (and LARP-ers) Go Bad,
And How You Can Do Something About It
Sat 2 P Constitution What Would People Like to See in a Boston
Worldcon?
Sat 2 P Emerson Borrowed Words: Writing Fanfiction
Sat 2 P Gloucester Odyssey Workshop Presentation
Sat 2 P Holmes Small Press Publishing
Sat 2 P Lenox History of the Penny
Sat 2 P Spoken Word 1 Oiling the Wheel: General Poetry Workshop
Sat 2 P Spoken Word 2 Reading - Jeff Hecht
Sat 2 P St James Real World Criminal Justice
Sat 2 P Stuart Makeup for Costumers
Sat 2 P Thoreau Why Did Harry Potter Win the Hugo?
Sat 2 P Tremont Make a Character
Sat 2 P Whitehill Future Faith
Sat 2 P Whittier Romance in SF
Sat 2 P Winthrop Reading - Steve Wilk
Sat 3-7 P Alcott Sat LARP Registration
Sat 3 P Charles River Media Tie-in Writing
Sat 3 P Emerson So Long and Thanks For All the Fish Filk Circle
Sat 3 P Fast Track Fast Track: Juggling
Sat 3 P Gloucester Mystery and SF
Sat 3 P Holmes Why Are So Many Strong Female Roles on TV in
SF/F Shows?
Sat 3 P Lenox Writing Action Scenes
Sat 3-5 P Spoken Word 2 Poetry and Short Prose Open Mike
Sat 3 P St James Life of a Freelancer
Sat 3 P Stuart Sculpting Demo
Sat 3 P Thoreau Beyond Monopoly(R): Family RPGs
Sat 3 P Tremont Genre Movies as Medium for Morals
Sat 3 P Whitehill Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Issues
Sat 3-5 P Whittier Serotonin and Her Friends:
How Brain Chemistry Creates Personality (90 min.)
Sat 4 P Charles River SF Movies on the Internet
Sat 4 P Emerson Filk and Intellectual Property Rights
Sat 4 P Constitution Why Can't Hollywood Make Good SF Films
Sat 4 P Fast Track Fast Track: Fuzzy Heroes
Sat 4 P Franklin Kids and Adults Morris Dancing
Sat 4 P Georgian Dueling Easels
Sat 4 P Holmes As You Know Bob... The Use of Infodumps in
Gaming
Sat 4 P Spoken Word 1 Reading - Charlene Brusso
Sat 4 P St James Rewriting Fairy Tales
Sat 4 P Thoreau Women in Combat
Sat 4 P Tremont Libertarian SF
Sat 4 P Whitehill Mechanics of Writing Alternate History
Sat 4 P Winthrop Storytelling - Mike Cohen
Sat 5 P Charles River Magic and SF
Sat 5 P Constitution LesBiGay Fandom -
Diversity in the Genre, Past, Present and Future
Sat 5 P Emerson How Hard is it to Change History?
Sat 5 P Fast Track Fast Track: Arts and Crafts
Sat 5 P Gloucester Plagues and Armageddon
Sat 5 P Lenox Dr. Who
Sat 5 P Spoken Word 1 Reading - G Linzner
Sat 5 P St James How scientifically accurate is SF?
Sat 5-7 P Terrace Award Winning Filksongs
Sat 5 P Thoreau Books into Movies
Sat 5 P Tremont Collaboration
Sat 5 P Whittier Angel Alone
Sat 5 P Winthrop How to Run Children's Programming
Sat 7-? P Alcott, Backbay, St James Sat LARP
Sat 10-? P Emerson Open Filking
Sat 10 P Stuart Goth Makeover
Sat 10 P Whittier Adult Dueling Easels (18+)

Sunday ^

Time Room Panel
Sun 10 A Back Bay Beading on Fabic Workshop
Sun 10A-12 Ballroom NERO
Sun 10 A Charles River Killing Player Characters
Sun 10 A Constitution Humorous RPGs
Sun 10 A Emerson Finding a Needle in the World Wide Haystack:
Researching on the Internet
Sun 10 A Fast Track Fast Track: Music for Kids
Sun 10 A Lenox Blatant Wish Fulfillment
Sun 10 A Spoken Word 1 Storytelling - Stu Mendelson
Sun 10 A Spoken Word 2 Reading - Mark Van Name
Sun 10 A Statler Methods and Media in Fantasy and SF Illustrations
Sun 10 A Whitehill Historical Branch Points
Sun 10 A Winthrop Reading - Paul Levinson
Sun 11 A Charles River Selling your work
Sun 11 A Emerson Time Travel: from H.G. Wells to Rotating Black Holes
Sun 11 A Fast Track Fast Track: Costuming for Kids
Sun 11 A Franklin Alternate Lifestyles
Sun 11 A Gloucester Writing in More than One Genre
Sun 11 A Lenox Running Small Cons
Sun 11 A Spoken Word 1 Reading - Debra Doyle
Sun 11 A Spoken Word 2 Reading - Dennis Danvers
Sun 11 A Whitehill Enterprise: Success or One Trek Too Many?
Sun 11 A Whittier Myths and SF
Sun 11 A Winthrop Reading - Wen Spencer
Sun 12 P Constitution Is a Roman Setting a Plausible One for Fantasies?
Sun 12 P Emerson Gaming in the World of Darkness
Sun 12 P Fast Track Fast Track: Dreamcatchers and Storytelling
Sun 12 P Franklin But is it Just Porn?  Sex Scenes in SF
Sun 12 P Gloucester Bringing up Children in Fandom
Sun 12 P Lenox Medieval History
Sun 12 P Spoken Word 2 Grimmer Fairy Tales - Laura Packer
Sun 12 P Stuart Masquerade Debrief
Sun 12 P Thoreau Old TV shows
Sun 12 P Tremont Where Has All the One Shot Fiction Gone?
Sun 12 P Whitehill Genres - Ghettos or Protection?
Sun 12 P Whittier As You Know Bob... The Use of Infodumps in Writing
Sun 12 P Winthrop Reading - Terry McGary
Sun 1 P Charles River Online Games
Sun 1 P Constitution Same Song, Different Treatments
Sun 1 P Emerson A New You: Biotechnology
Sun 1 P Fast Track Fast Track: Bellydancing
Sun 1 P Franklin Women and Gaming
Sun 1 P Gloucester Next Wave Computing:
Quantum, Nano, Tiny, Everywhere
Sun 1 P Lenox Freedom Vs Safety
Sun 1 P Spoken Word 1 Reading - Elaine Isaak
Sun 1 P Spoken Word 2 Playing Your Song and Singing Your Game
Sun 1 P St James Favorite Under Appreciated Books and Writers
Sun 1 P Stuart Wearable Computers for Costumers
Sun 1 P Thoreau Farscape - Why Does It Appeal (To Women)?
Sun 1 P Whitehill Reading and Signing - K Kurtz
Sun 1 P Whitter Religion in SF
Sun 1 P Winthrop Reading - Shane Tourtellotte
Sun 2 P Alcott MASSFilc General Meeting and Dead Dog Filk
Sun 2 P Whitehill Complaints and Comments: Arisia 02
Sun 3 P Whitehill Arisia Corporate Meeting

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