Arisia Code of Conduct and Behavior Policies

Last updated 2015-10-12

To help ensure our members' happiness and a successful convention, we have established a Code of Conduct and Behavior Policies for all members and staff. Please read this document and help us have a safe and welcoming convention for all.

• Current Code of Conduct (https://corp.arisia.org/Code-of-Conduct)
• April 22, 2021
• June 16, 2020
• June 24, 2018
• September, 18, 2016
• October 12, 2015
• August 1, 2015

For Arisia 2022, there will not be Student Contests. Please check back later for info about Arisia 2023.

Arisia sponsors both a Student Art Contest and a Student Writing Contest. They are open to high school (or home school) students aged 14-19 in New England. There are no fees to enter, but there are cash prizes for the best submissions. There is also a cash prize ($250) to the school of the first place winner in each contest.

For Arisia'18, we're starting a College Student Writing Contest for students 17-25 in New England.

Arisia's Student Art Contest is open to high school (or home school) students aged 14-19 in New England. There are no fees to enter, but there are cash prizes for the best submissions.

2015 is the first year we gave a prize ($250) to the school of the first place winner.

BYLAWS of Arisia, Incorporated

Revised March 24, 2015

OPERATING PHILOSOPHY

The primary operating philosophy of Arisia, Inc., which all of its activities should try to promote, is that there is room in fandom for everyone who acts with respect towards others.

Arisia'15 Student Writing Contest - 2nd Place Winner

Arisia'15 Student Writing Contest - Honorable Mention

Arisia'15 Student Writing Contest - 3rd Place Winner

The grass was soft beneath my feet. There was no one else outside this early. The sun had barely risen, and I was the only thing awake in the vicinity, besides the birds. The dew was cold as I padded through the green over to the fountain.

Arisia'15 Student Writing Contest - 1st Place Winner

There is a tower. There is hair. There are lonely birds and clouds and the storms that erupt from them. There is a world and then there's me, and I watch from above and I think about nothing and I've stopped praying for another life, because surely this is all there is. A tower, hair, and a sky just big enough for us. Birds and their flight plans, taking off to nowhere, nowhere,

BYLAWS of Arisia, Incorporated

Revised September 28, 2014

ARTICLE I. MEMBERSHIP

1.1 There are two classes of membership in the Corporation:

(a) General members are entitled to all rights and privileges of membership including the right to vote and hold office. Voting rights are granted at the end of the first meeting the member attends after joining.