[ST] Boston NOW plug for Arisia

[David D'Antonio]

Hi,

I won't presume to speak for Pat, but I think her point is that  
Worldcons take a *lot* of people and are planned out more a year in  
advance. If we want Arisia to grow to the size of a Worldcon, it too  
will probably require a much larger staff and more than a year of  
advance planning (and not just for Guests of Honour; Events and  
Programming require a lot).

Currently, Arisia doesn't fit into the Hyatt; going to 4 days is an  
attempt to work around that by extending the con. Worlcons run for a  
*week* and require serious convention space; I wasn't on the hotel  
search committee but my understanding is that most of the larger  
Boston convention space is booked out many years in advance. That  
alone would limit when a much larger Arisia could happen.

DDA

On Jun 1, 2007, at 4:43 PM, SciFiFanBoston at aol.com wrote:

> Well, no, though the planning for the convention itself is an on- 
> going annual thing that should indeed take a full year to do right,  
> the actual gathering of the actors, creators and those people takes  
> place in the last 3 to 4 months before the convention.  Those  
> people have schedules that are not fixed, or get calls to work and  
> must accept.  So, I'd say, if a performer could be invited to  
> Arisia up until the last part of October, assuming we stay in January.
>
> -Mary D.
>
> In a message dated 6/1/2007 10:49:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> PAVandenberg at comcast.net writes:
> It all sounds very grand and encouraging until you remember how  
> many People
> it takes to run a convention of that size and the fact that they are
> planning for it for more than 1 year at a time.
>
> Hugs,
> Pat
>
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DDA
Art Show Director, Arisia '08