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My schedule for Arisia. Apparently it's kind of huge this year.

The Exiled Character
Friday 7 PM
Catt Kingsgrave-Ernstein (m), Greer Gilman, Barry B. Longyear, Sonya Taaffe, Bob Kuhn

From the Mabinogion and the Arthurian cycle, our literature has used the archetype of the hidden prince. Let's focus on the notion of his exile and foreign upbringing, and more generally discuss the perspective of the outsider's perspective in F&SF. Why is it so common? What is the allure? What does this allow the author that they couldn't do otherwise? Does any of this parallel the experience and influence of the cultural outsider in today's society?

Fantasy Before Fantasy, SF Before SF
Saturday 11:30 AM
Hildy Silverman (m), Esther Friesner, Tim Lieder, Sonya Taaffe, April Grant, Gareth Hinds

The Odyssey, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Frankenstein, Gulliver's Travels, and Journey to the West. A look at classic works of world literature that, while not written as science fiction and fantasy, have been co-opted in the 20th and 21st centuries by speculative fiction readers and used as inspiration by the writers.

Chantey Sing
Saturday 1 PM
David Kessler (m), Sonya Taaffe, Angela Kessler, Jeff Keller

Songs of sailing in all forms, with an emphasis on work songs from the age of sail. Open sing. Fun for all!

Fantasy and Horror in Shakespeare
Saturday 2:30 PM
JoSelle Vanderhooft (m), Greer Gilman, David Nurenberg, Sonya Taaffe, Bob Kuhn

Before Brooks, Anthony, and Tolkien, there was the Bard. William Shakespeare was not the first to build the genre, but he was the first to make it marketable. This panel takes an in-depth look at the works of Shakespeare, and we reflect on Will's way through the genres of Fantasy and Horror.

Reading: Nelson, Silva, & Taaffe
Saturday 5:30 PM
Resa Nelson, Richard A. Silva, Sonya Taaffe

Authors Resa Nelson, Richard Silva, and Sonya Taaffe will read selections from their works. I will almost certainly be reading from A Mayse-Bikhl, of which I will have copies.

Death Personified
Saturday 8:30 PM
JoSelle Vanderhooft (m), Esther Friesner, Sonya Taaffe, William Freedman, Gail Z. Martin

Terry Pratchett's Mort, Peter Beagle's Lady Death, and, of course, Neil Gaiman's goth girl Death. The anthropomorphizing of the cessation of life has been a staple of genre fiction and fiction in general for longer than anyone can remember. Panelists discuss memorable incarnations of Death, and their varied uses and roles in fiction.

Myth and Folklore in Fantasy
Sunday 11:30 AM
Merav Hoffman (m), Esther Friesner, Greer Gilman, Sonya Taaffe, Erik Amundsen

How do writers use myth in their stories? What are the most common myth cycles drawn from? Has traditional folklore been run out of town by urban legends? Why is the appeal of these stories so strong after millennia?

Speculative Poetry Slam
Sunday 2:30 PM
Elayna Jade Smolowitz (m), Shira Lipkin, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Sonya Taaffe, April Grant, Julia Rios, Erik Amundsen

Join us for a speculative poetry reading!

Diana Wynne Jones: In Memoriam
Sunday 4 PM
Bob Kuhn (m), Greer Gilman, Merav Hoffman, Frances K. Selkirk, Sonya Taaffe

With the passing of the enormously prolific Diane Wynne Jones, we reflect on the body of work she has left us, from the Chrestomanci series to Howl's Moving Castle. What is it about her work as a primarily YA fantasy author that draws even adult attention?

I am also planning to attend the Post-Meridian Radio Players' Red Shift on Friday night (because I am finally not scheduled across from them) and the Skin Horse filk session on Monday afternoon.

Will I see any of you there?

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

So many good friends at that poetry slam! I will be thinking of you guys!

And I love the sound of the fantasy-and-horror in Shakespeare panel, along with the one on F and SF before F and SF.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I may be at the Back Up booth during your reading (I need to check that out), but if I can be there, I will.

[alankria.livejournal.com]

Wow, Arisia has amazing panels! I wish I could teleport.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I hope you sing Run the Riggin' Again. It is totally and completely a sea chantey! (Also, I wanna go to the con that has a chantey sing! Alas for parenting obligations and penury!)

Have an amazing time.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Obviously no, but I wish you could, because it looks great.;)

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for posting your schedule (we've been talking on Facebook). I do think I've added this journal a few times in the past, although my OCD always gets the better of me (I always tend to de-friend journals that don't add me back and just bookmark them, as having my friend/friend-of counts even is a real, neurotic concern in my world). However, I will endeavor not to be so neurotic anymore :)

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

Wow, impressive! You're in so many varied different things! (And here I've never presented anything, in any kind of conference, ever, as far as I recall -- I feel small.)

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

So glad we're criss-crossing!

Nine

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Simply a splendid schedule! I wish I could be there.

Maybe next year I'll try for it. Hopefully in 2013 nobody in my family will be getting surgery in the second week of January and I'll be able to think about more pleasant things in the last quarter of 2012.

Any road, I hope you have a wonderful time at the con!

[gwynnega]

Sounds great! I really should go to Arisia one of these years...

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Two "whoas" for you. One's on your schedule. Have fun!

The other's for your essay on "The 5000 Fingers". Brava. And. What the hell? This movie is beyond batshit. I'm going to check it out on Amazon.

[ckd]

I will be there and happy to see you, but sad that so many of the other commenters on this post won't because they'd be wonderful to see as well. (Also: happy that my schedule doesn't conflict with your reading, the poetry slam, or the "Fantasy Before Fantasy" panel.)

[genarti]

You'll see me on Sunday! I have other plans on Saturday, unfortunately, but my Sunday will be devoted to Arisia.

I plan to come to your Myth and Folklore panel, for sure. Not sure what else, except at 6 pm there's a Sassafrass and Stranger Ways joint best-of show -- their main one is on Saturday, but I gather they're doing this one too? -- which I'll be going to for reasons of both interest and friendship, since I have a housemate in both groups. Beyond that, I haven't taken a good look at the schedule yet.