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I long for wide ocean with a broken heart
I have much less Arisia this year than normally, which is fine because this year's Arisia is virtual and I think just getting to my panels will push the limits of the technical capabilities around here. Silver lining, much less waiting around for the MBTA?
Movie Novelizations
Saturday 1 pm, Zoom Room 4
Jeffrey A Carver (m), Lee C. Hillman (Gwendolyn Grace), Timothy Luz, Sonya Taaffe, H. M. White, Stephen R. Wilk
What do movie novelizations add to the stories they are adapting? Does the move from screen to page add to the story or transform it, or is it a simple repetition?
The Monomyth Myth: Non-Western Narratives
Saturday 2:30 pm, Zoom Room 1
W. B.J. Williams (m), Greg R. Fishbone, Andrea Hairston, Vandana Singh, Sonya Taaffe, Jessica Waters
Current Western academic ideas about "universal" tropes and storylines just aren't all that universal when you expand literature to encompass the whole world. Let's talk about stories in their wonderful variety and put the idea of Campbell's hero's journey to rest.
Traditional Ballad Bingo
Saturday 5:30 pm, Zoom Room 4
Angela Kessler (m), Greer Gilman, Jeremy H. Kessler, Dan "Grim" Marsh, Sonya Taaffe
Join the fun as attendees (that's you!) take turns performing traditional ballads for the assemblage. Listen carefully to mark your Ballad Bingo cards when you detect such classic tropes as drowning, pregnancy out of wedlock, or murder of a loved one. Compete for "valuable" prizes already in your house! Bingo cards will be provided . . . somehow. Ballads from any tradition are welcome here. (themed participatory song circle)
Selections from the Ig Nobel Awards
Saturday 6 pm, Zoom Room 6
Marc Abrahams et al.
Brief dramatic readings from real research studies and patents that make people LAUGH, then THINK. Each study or patent has won an Ig Nobel Prize or is in the spirit of that prize.
[As I have not the ability to bilocate, I will be reading dramatically for the second half of this panel, as usual something I have no idea about until it is presented to me in all its improbability.]
Chantey Sing
Sunday 2:30 pm, Zoom Room 2
Jeremy H. Kessler (m), Naomi Hinchen, Sonya Taaffe
Come sing (or just listen, but we hope you'll sing) songs of sailing in all forms, with an emphasis on work songs from the age of sail. Fun for all!
Sunday Afternoon Readings
Sunday 4 pm, Zoom Room 4
Laurence Raphael Brothers, Gillian Daniels, Ruthanna Emrys, Sonya Taaffe
Join some of Arisia’s wonderful authors, while they read from their own work.
Leadership in Fantasy and Science Fiction
Monday 1 pm, Zoom Room 1
E. C. Ambrose (m), Sam Schreiber, Meredith Schwartz, Ian Randal Strock, Sonya Taaffe, W. B.J. Williams
At the beginning of The Two Towers, Aragorn compares himself unfavorably with Gandalf, whose fall in Moria left him in charge of the Fellowship, only to make choices that turn out badly. Hierarchal settings—whether in military SF or fantasy set in a feudal society—come equipped with a chain of command, but what does leadership mean in groups that strive to follow egalitarian ideals? Is the concept of leadership relevant for today's real-world problems, let alone an imagined future society?
So that's this weekend. Who can I expect to see, er, there?
Movie Novelizations
Saturday 1 pm, Zoom Room 4
Jeffrey A Carver (m), Lee C. Hillman (Gwendolyn Grace), Timothy Luz, Sonya Taaffe, H. M. White, Stephen R. Wilk
What do movie novelizations add to the stories they are adapting? Does the move from screen to page add to the story or transform it, or is it a simple repetition?
The Monomyth Myth: Non-Western Narratives
Saturday 2:30 pm, Zoom Room 1
W. B.J. Williams (m), Greg R. Fishbone, Andrea Hairston, Vandana Singh, Sonya Taaffe, Jessica Waters
Current Western academic ideas about "universal" tropes and storylines just aren't all that universal when you expand literature to encompass the whole world. Let's talk about stories in their wonderful variety and put the idea of Campbell's hero's journey to rest.
Traditional Ballad Bingo
Saturday 5:30 pm, Zoom Room 4
Angela Kessler (m), Greer Gilman, Jeremy H. Kessler, Dan "Grim" Marsh, Sonya Taaffe
Join the fun as attendees (that's you!) take turns performing traditional ballads for the assemblage. Listen carefully to mark your Ballad Bingo cards when you detect such classic tropes as drowning, pregnancy out of wedlock, or murder of a loved one. Compete for "valuable" prizes already in your house! Bingo cards will be provided . . . somehow. Ballads from any tradition are welcome here. (themed participatory song circle)
Selections from the Ig Nobel Awards
Saturday 6 pm, Zoom Room 6
Marc Abrahams et al.
Brief dramatic readings from real research studies and patents that make people LAUGH, then THINK. Each study or patent has won an Ig Nobel Prize or is in the spirit of that prize.
[As I have not the ability to bilocate, I will be reading dramatically for the second half of this panel, as usual something I have no idea about until it is presented to me in all its improbability.]
Chantey Sing
Sunday 2:30 pm, Zoom Room 2
Jeremy H. Kessler (m), Naomi Hinchen, Sonya Taaffe
Come sing (or just listen, but we hope you'll sing) songs of sailing in all forms, with an emphasis on work songs from the age of sail. Fun for all!
Sunday Afternoon Readings
Sunday 4 pm, Zoom Room 4
Laurence Raphael Brothers, Gillian Daniels, Ruthanna Emrys, Sonya Taaffe
Join some of Arisia’s wonderful authors, while they read from their own work.
Leadership in Fantasy and Science Fiction
Monday 1 pm, Zoom Room 1
E. C. Ambrose (m), Sam Schreiber, Meredith Schwartz, Ian Randal Strock, Sonya Taaffe, W. B.J. Williams
At the beginning of The Two Towers, Aragorn compares himself unfavorably with Gandalf, whose fall in Moria left him in charge of the Fellowship, only to make choices that turn out badly. Hierarchal settings—whether in military SF or fantasy set in a feudal society—come equipped with a chain of command, but what does leadership mean in groups that strive to follow egalitarian ideals? Is the concept of leadership relevant for today's real-world problems, let alone an imagined future society?
So that's this weekend. Who can I expect to see, er, there?
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B) Aw I deleted “You can’t just make it a ballad, people would trip over their feet, that’s not how the song works dammit”
I meant (a), but I'm pretty sure you should put (b) back in.