Arisia is having a Quiet Room this year!

[crewgrrl]

This year we are adding a Quiet Room, a space to take a break from the noise and chaos of the con and those omnipresent fluorescent lights. This is our first year doing this, so the room will be very simply furnished

Comments

[archangelbeth]

To help people with allergies, may I suggest it be a perfume-free zone? I recall that guest Seanan McGuire, a year or two back, was made very ill by someone's perfume at her luncheon-with-fans.

[thnidu]

I'll second that one. (As I [try to] type this, the resident allergen is busily licking my arm, trying to macerate my skin with her allergenic and thickly barbed tongue.)

[selkiechick]

There will be a post later about perfumes and the convention, much like the one posted last year. http://arisia.livejournal.com/460591.html

I do like the idea of a perfume free zone. I am happy to ask that people limit their use of fragrance, and ask that the hotel use fragrance free cleaning products. I am hoping to have an air purifier for the room. That said, I do not see any practical way I can guarantee that the space will be perfume free (even people who eschew perfume for the convention may have it on their belongings or clothing), and that makes me a little hesitant to advertise it as such. I don't want to promise something I cannot deliver.

[archangelbeth]

Understood, though the hope of a really BIG SIGN that said, "PLEASE, NO PERFUMES! ALLERGIC PEOPLE MAY BE PRESENT!" and a bowl of washclothes to wash things off... O;>

Thanks.

[selkiechick]

I can do both the sign, and the cloths. Thanks for the suggestion.

[archangelbeth]

You are rockin' awesome!