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Programming Schedule
This schedule is subject to change.
All items last one hour, unless stated otherwise.
Friday - Saturday - Sunday
Friday
| Event Time | Location | Event Name |
| Fri 6 PM | Art show | Art Show Opens |
| Fri 7-9 PM | Tremont | LARP - Collision Imminent! Registration |
| Fri 7 PM | Lexington | Book Reviewing |
| Fri 7 PM | Stuart | Changing Roles of Vampires |
| Fri 7 PM | Constitution | Small Presses |
| Fri 7 PM | Charles River | System Choice and Campaign Design |
| Fri 8 PM | Terrace | i Sebastianni |
| Fri 8 PM | Whitehall | Shakespeare as an SF Writer |
| Fri 8 PM (2 hrs) | Whittier | Masquerade of Champions |
| Fri 8 PM | Stuart | Comics and Movies |
| Fri 8 PM | Charles River | United We Fight The Bug-Eyed Monsters |
| Fri 8 PM | Cabot | Getting What You Ask For |
| Fri 8 PM | Stanhope | Is Cordwainer Smith Addictive |
| Fri 8 PM | Constitution | Playing a Character of a Different Gender |
| Fri 8 PM (2 hrs) | Back Bay | Building Boffer Weapons |
| Fri 8 PM | Ballroom | Period Dance - 1860's Peace Jubilee Ball |
| Fri 8 PM | Spoken Word 1 | Unsettling Tales (Storytelling) |
| Fri 8 PM | Costume Suite | Gestalt of Group Costume |
| Fri 8 PM (2 hrs) | Hancock | Looney Labs Game Show |
| Fri 8 PM (6 hrs) | Fast Track 2 | Hong Kong SF Films |
| Fri 9 PM (90 min) | Terrace | Harry Turtledove Reading and Signing |
| Fri 9-12 PM | St James, Thoreau | LARP - Collision Imminent! |
| Fri 9 PM onward | Franklin, Gloucester | Fri Night Open Filk |
| Fri 9 PM | Whitehall | Reading: Cecilia Tan |
| Fri 9 PM | Stuart | Space Opera |
| Fri 9 PM | Cabot | GM Helpline |
| Fri 9 PM | Charles River | Self Publishing on the Internet |
| Fri 9 PM | Constitution | New con goer's intro |
| Fri 9 PM | Stanhope | Digital Art |
| Fri 9 PM | Spoken Word 1 | Reading: Shariann Lewitt |
| Fri 9 PM | Spoken Word 2 | Tales from the Darkside |
| Fri 9 PM (2 hrs) | 596 | Tarot Discussion |
| Fri 9 PM | Lexington | Storytelling in the Electronic Age |
| Fri 9 PM | Costume Suite | Masquerade Horror Stories |
| Fri 9:30 PM | Art show | Art Show Reception/Meet the Pros (2 hrs) |
| Fri 10 PM | Stuart | Angel and the Dysfunctional Family |
| Fri 10 PM | Lexington | Jennifer Dunne -- Wolf Mind (possibly 18+?) |
| Fri 10 PM | Whittier | Poly 101 |
| Fri 10:30 PM | Terrace | Belly Dance Instruction |
| Fri 11 PM | Terrace | Drum Circle |
| Fri 11 PM | Stuart | Mysteries of the Chrononauts Timeline |
| Fri 12 Mid | Hancock | Are you a Werewolf? |
Saturday
| Event Time | Location | Event Name |
| Sat 9 AM | Brandeis | Early Morning Writing Exercises |
| Sat 10 AM | Constitution | Do you Have to Buy Comics … |
| Sat 10 AM | Art Show | color pencil demo |
| Sat 10 AM | Cabot | Autobiography in Writing |
| Sat 10 AM | Whitehill | Letting the Characters Live their Lives |
| Sat 10 AM | Whittier | Future Faith |
| Sat 10 AM | Hancock | Bad Guys in Movies and TV |
| Sat 10 AM | Stuart | Reading for an Audience |
| Sat 10 AM | Spoken Word 1 | The Oral Tradition in an Electronic Age |
| Sat 10 AM | Lexington | Reading: Laurie J Marks |
| Sat 10 AM | Gloucester | Researching |
| Sat 10 AM | Fast Track 1 | Story Games |
| Sat 10 AM (2 hrs) | Fast Track 2 | Young Writer's Workshop |
| Sat 10 AM | Costume Suite | Costuming on a Budget |
| Sat 10 AM | St James | 2002 vs 1984 |
| Sat 10 AM | Franklin | Saving Farscape |
| Sat 10 AM (90 mins) | Terrace | Higgins Armory presentation |
| Sat 10 AM | Charles River | When SF Was Optimistic |
| Sat 10 AM | Emerson | Publishing your Game |
| Sat 10 AM | Stanhope | If You Could Go Back in Time … |
| Sat 10 AM (2 hrs) | Thoreau | Design and Color |
| Sat 10 AM | 596 | Poetry Reading |
| Sat 10 AM | Workshop Room | Chain Mail Demo |
| Sat 11 AM | Whittier | Buffy after Buffy |
| Sat 11 AM | Whitehall | Daytime Urban Fantasy |
| Sat 11 AM | Stanhope | Intelligent Machines |
| Sat 11 AM | Spoken Word 1 | Reading: Aline Boucher Kaplan |
| Sat 11 AM | Spoken Word 2 | Storytelling Patricia McMahon |
| Sat 11 AM | Lexington | Reading: Esther Friesner |
| Sat 11 AM | Gloucester | Good Generic Fantasy |
| Sat 11 AM | Emerson | Raising Kids in Fandom |
| Sat 11 AM | Fast Track 1 | Folk Song Sing-Along |
| Sat 11 AM | Costume Suite | How Good is Good Enough |
| Sat 11 AM | Cabot | MicroFiction |
| Sat 11 AM | Franklin | Writing Science NonFiction |
| Sat 11 AM | Stuart | Immortality in SF |
| Sat 11 AM | Constitution | LARP on a Shoestring |
| Sat 11 AM | Charles River | Gaming without Tolkien |
| Sat 11 AM (2 hrs) | Workshop Room | Beading Workshop |
| Sat 11 AM | St James | Future Genders |
| Sat 11 AM | Winthrop | RPG World Creation |
| Sat 11 AM (~3hours) | Ballroom | Junkyard Wars |
| Sat 12 PM (30 min) | Terrace | Artist Guests Reading with Illustrations (30 mins) |
| Sat 12 PM | Lexington | Porn Comics |
| Sat 12 PM | Stuart | Breaking into Writing |
| Sat 12 PM | Whitehall | Movies: Year in Review |
| Sat 12 PM | Winthrop | Does Evil Exist? |
| Sat 12 PM | Thoreau | "Wish" Slide Show |
| Sat 12 PM | Stanhope | SF and Fantasy in the HK movie Genre |
| Sat 12 PM | Spoken Word 1 | Reading: Charlene Brusso |
| Sat 12 PM | Spoken Word 2 | Storytelling 101 |
| Sat 12 PM | Whittier | Crossover of Romance and SF |
| Sat 12 PM | Franklin | Dark Fantasy vs. Horror |
| Sat 12 PM | Back Bay | Jewelry Making |
| Sat 12 PM | Gloucester | Design of RPG games |
| Sat 12 PM | Constitution | Shapeshifters |
| Sat 12 PM | Cabot | Trends in Future History |
| Sat 12 PM | St James | SF Exploitation of Biotechnology |
| Sat 12 PM | Hancock | Cutting Edge of Physics |
| Sat 12 PM | Charles River | Odyssey Writing Workshop Pres |
| Sat 12 PM | Costume Suite | Headpieces |
| Sat 12 PM | Emerson | Reading: Sarah Smith |
| Sat 12:30 PM | Terrace | Writer Guest of Honor/Fan Guest of Honor Interview |
| Sat 12:30 PM | Fast Track 1 | Daniel Dern magic |
| Sat 1 PM | Whitehall | Mechanics of Magic |
| Sat 1 PM | Whittier | Theory and Art of Flirting |
| Sat 1 PM | Thoreau | Rainbows and Other Weather Phenomena |
| Sat 1 PM | Spoken Word 1 | Reading: Holly Black |
| Sat 1 PM | Spoken Word 2 | Story Swap |
| Sat 1 PM | Stuart | Mythology Face-off |
| Sat 1 PM | Franklin | Alternate Language |
| Sat 1 PM | Cabot | Memes Networks and Epidemics |
| Sat 1 PM | Back Bay | Monty Python Appreciation |
| Sat 1 PM | Winthrop | Comparing the Systems |
| Sat 1 PM | Charles River | Working on Commission |
| Sat 1 PM | Fast Track 1 | Hal Clement |
| Sat 1 PM | Costume Suite | Documenting Media Costumes |
| Sat 1 PM | Stanhope | Karen Michalson -- Hecate's Glory (reading |
| Sat 1 PM | Constitution | Noreascon 4 |
| Sat 1 PM | Gloucester | LARP as a Business |
| Sat 1:30 PM (90 min) | Terrace | Filk Concert: Gwen Knighton |
| Sat 2 PM | Franklin | Andrew Looney's School of Game Design |
| Sat 2 PM | Lexington | Reading: Steve Berman |
| Sat 2 PM | Art Show | Dueling Easels |
| Sat 2 PM | Whitehall | Rereading Lord of the Rings |
| Sat 2 PM | Whittier | Taboos in SF/Fantasy |
| Sat 2 PM | Thoreau | Exoplanets |
| Sat 2 PM | Fast Track 1 | Maria Robert performance |
| Sat 2 PM | Charles River | The New Marvel (year 2) |
| Sat 2 PM | Stuart | World of Fan Fiction |
| Sat 2 PM | St James | Folklore and Mythology |
| Sat 2 PM | Spoken Word 1 | Reading: Tony Ruggiero |
| Sat 2 PM | Spoken Word 2 | Stu Mendelson |
| Sat 2 PM | Gloucester | Anarchist Pep Rally |
| Sat 2 PM (2 hrs) | Back Bay | Job Hunt Support Group |
| Sat 2 PM | Cabot | Humanized Computer |
| Sat 2 PM | Stanhope | Reading: Mark Van Name |
| Sat 2 PM | Winthrop | Reading and Eating |
| Sat 2 PM | Emerson | Britcom |
| Sat 2 PM | Constitution | Government Controlling Technology |
| Sat 2 PM | Costume Suite | Spouses of Costumers |
| Sat 2 PM | 595 | Illumination (art demo) |
| Sat 2 PM | 596 | Grant Carrington |
| Sat 3 PM | Terrace | Artist Guests of Honor Slideshow |
| Sat 3 PM | Whittier | Oldies but Goodies |
| Sat 3 PM | Stuart | Star Trek Enterprise @ 2 |
| Sat 3 PM | Constitution | Worst Case Scenario Handbook for SF Fans |
| Sat 3 PM | St James | Historym the Grand Chalkboard |
| Sat 3 PM | Lexington | Reading: Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman |
| Sat 3 PM | Franklin | Collaborations |
| Sat 3 PM | Gloucester | Telegraphs in Space |
| Sat 3 PM | Cabot | Cooperative Gaming |
| Sat 3 PM | Charles River | In the Groves of Academe |
| Sat 3 PM | Winthrop | Buffy Fandom |
| Sat 3 PM | Spoken Word 1 | From the Oral Story to the Written Page |
| Sat 3 PM | Brandeis | Storywriting Workshop |
| Sat 3 PM (2 hrs) | Fast Track 1 | Fuzzy Heroes |
| Sat 3 PM (2 hrs) | Fast Track 2 | World Building |
| Sat 3 PM (2 hrs) | Art Show | Polymer Clay Art Demo |
| Sat 3 PM | Whitehall | Erotic Cliches in SF |
| Sat 3 PM | Stanhope | From Pennsic to Burning Man to Worldcon |
| Sat 3 PM | Emerson | Fashion Plate (mail) |
| Sat 3 PM | Spoken Word 2 | Telling SF stories |
| Sat 3 PM | Costume Suite | Trim Workshop |
| Sat 3 PM (3 hrs) | Tremont | LARP Registration -- World of Darkness |
| Sat 3 PM | Thoreau | The Art of Lost Wax Casting |
| Sat 3 PM (2 hrs) | 595 | Jewelry Demo |
| Sat 4 PM | Stuart | Victorian Technology and Steam Punk |
| Sat 4 PM | Whitehall | Spraying for Elves |
| Sat 4 PM | St James | LiveJournal and other Blogs |
| Sat 4 PM | Cabot | How to Merge Newbies and Oldtimers |
| Sat 4 PM | Charles River | Running a New Convention |
| Sat 4 PM | Gloucester | Anime |
| Sat 4 PM | Constitution | Collectible Comics |
| Sat 4 PM | Emerson | SF in the Classroom |
| Sat 4 PM (2 hrs) | Back Bay | NanoCoffee |
| Sat 4 PM | Spoken Word 1 | Sharpening the Sword … again |
| Sat 4 PM | Spoken Word 2 | The Woman in the Rose (ghost story) |
| Sat 4 PM | Whittier | How to Change the Past |
| Sat 4 PM | Stanhope | Reading: Gordon Linzner |
| Sat 4 PM | Winthrop | Reading: Walter Hunt |
| Sat 4 PM | 596 | Bad Guys of Role Playing |
| Sat 4 PM | Lexington | Was Orson Scott Card Right: The Role of Games in Education |
| Sat 4:30 PM (90 min) | Terrace | ATTAC Sword demo |
| Sat 5 PM | Whittier | Urban Fantasy After Dark |
| Sat 5 PM | Whitehall | Faking Physics |
| Sat 5 PM | Stuart | Poly Problem Solving |
| Sat 5 PM | St James | LOTR mid-term report |
| Sat 5 PM (30 mins) | Spoken Word 1 | Reading: Patricia Bray |
| Sat 5 PM | Spoken Word 2 | Reading: Tee Morris |
| Sat 5 PM | Cabot | Middle Ages with Magic |
| Sat 5 PM | Lexington | Wetware |
| Sat 5 PM (90 min) | Terrace | ATTAC |
| Sat 5 PM | Costume Suite | Makeup Workshop |
| Sat 5 PM | Gloucester | Cats and SF/Fantasy |
| Sat 5 PM | Fast Track 1 | Stu Mendelson -- Storytelling for Children |
| Sat 5 PM | Thoreau | Baen Books Presentation |
| Sat 5 PM | Emerson | Problem Players |
| Sat 5 PM | Stanhope | Elves Online |
| Sat 5 PM | Charles River | Connecting with Communities |
| Sat 5 PM | Winthrop | Anthologies as a Way of Exploring SF |
| Sat 6 PM | Lexington | whoohoo |
| Sat 6 PM | Whitehall | Dark Side of Buffy |
| Sat 6:30 PM | Terrace | Masquerade Green Room |
| Sat 7 PM | Ballroom | Movie Previews |
| Sat 8 PM | Ballroom | Masquerade |
| Sat 9 PM onward | St James, Thoreau | Sat Night Open Filk |
| Sat 9:30 PM (approx) | Ballroom | Masquerade Half-time/Judging |
| Sat 10 PM (2 hrs) | Whitehall | Writers with Drinks |
| Sat 11:30 PM | Ballroom | Modern Dance |
| Sat Midnight onward | Franklin, Gloucester, Emerson | LARP -- World of Darkness |
Sunday
| Event Time | Location | Event Name |
| Sun 11 AM | Constitution | Reading: Hal Clement |
| Sun 11 AM | Stuart | Is the LOTR Still Relevant? |
| Sun 11 AM | Gloucester | Can you be a Religious Fan |
| Sun 11 AM | Emerson | When is a Con Tradition "Too Much Tradition"? |
| Sun 11 AM | St James | Books That Changed Us |
| Sun 11 AM | Winthrop | The Chronology Protection Case (movie and discussion) |
| Sun 11 AM (90 min) | Thoreau | Nature of Depression |
| Sun 11 AM | Whittier | What Makes a Good Villian |
| Sun 11 AM | Whitehall | A Writers Workbench |
| Sun 11 AM (30 min) | Hancock | Artist Guests Reading with Illustrations |
| Sun 11 AM | Charles River | 3D Art |
| Sun 11 AM | Lexington | Reading: James Macdonald and Debra Doyle |
| Sun 11 AM | Stanhope | How to Start a Magazine |
| Sun 11 AM | Franklin | Border Morris |
| Sun 11 AM | Cabot | How to Play an Elder |
| Sun 11 AM | Spoken Word 1 | Reading: Shane Tourtellotte |
| Sun 11 AM | Spoken Word 2 | Playing Your Songs/ Singing Your Games |
| Sun 11 AM | Terrace | Costume Special Guests Slide Show |
| Sun 12 PM | Whitehall | Buffy -- Sunnyvale vs Safety |
| Sun 12 PM | Stuart | Keeping Classics in Print |
| Sun 12 PM | Whittier | Writing against the Grain in Fantasy Genre |
| Sun 12 PM | St James | Star Trek -- Andromeda |
| Sun 12 PM | Cabot | Toward a Kinder Gentler Tyranny |
| Sun 12 PM | Spoken Word 1 | Open Reading |
| Sun 12 PM (2 hrs) | Brandeis | Job Hunt Support group pt 2 |
| Sun 12 PM | Charles River | Crossgen |
| Sun 12 PM | Winthrop | LARPer in Mundane Society |
| Sun 12 PM (6 hrs) | Franklin, Gloucester, Emerson | NERO demo modules |
| Sun 12 PM | Costume Suite | Tricks to Working with Difficult Fabrics |
| Sun 12 PM | Lexington | CGI: How Can We Be Thrilled? |
| Sun 12 PM | Terrace | Alternate History/ What Influences What |
| Sun 12 PM | Fast Track 1 | What's it Like to be a Knight? |
| Sun 1 PM | Winthrop | Why is Good SF Poetry So Hard to Find |
| Sun 1 PM | Constitution | Restaurant at the End of the Univers |
| Sun 1 PM | Whittier | Roots of Fantasy |
| Sun 1 PM | Thoreau | Personal Safety and Security |
| Sun 1 PM | St James | Digital Altering of Films |
| Sun 1 PM | Whitehall | Raptors |
| Sun 1 PM | Charles River | Modernism and Magic |
| Sun 1 PM | Stuart | Slash |
| Sun 1 PM | Cabot | Reading: Jeff Hecht |
| Sun 1 PM | Imperial Ballroom | Filk Concert: One Shots |
| Sun 1 PM | Lexington | Arms and Armor |
| Sun 1:30 PM | Terrace | Sundaes on Sunday |
| Sun 2 PM | Whitehall | Writing an Ongoing Series |
| Sun 2 PM | Cabot | Writing in Character |
| Sun 2 PM | Stuart | Have You Ever Read ... |
| Sun 2 PM | Lexington | Masquerade Debrief |
| Sun 2 PM onwards | St James | Dead Dog Open Filk |
| Sun 2 PM | Fast Track 3 | Free Arts and Crafts |
| Sun 3 PM | Constitution | NE Interactive Literature meeting |
| Sun 4 P | St James | MASSFILC meeting |
| Sun 4 P | Berkeley/Clarendon | Arisia Gripe Session |
| Sun 5 P | Berkeley/Clarendon | Arisia Corporate Meeting |
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