Check the website, peruse your conference booklet, check your wish list and invite your friends to Tradition/Innovation – A Fiber Artisans Conference.
What do you want to learn at CNCH 2012? Who do you want to meet? What teachers have you always wanted a class from? Now is your opportunity! Learn a new skill, brush up an old one. Refine a technique, add pizzazz – have fun.
All of the information about classes, teachers and the conference schedule is online at www.cnch.org. Just click on the conference logo or on 2012 Oakland for all the details. Your guild liaison has conference brochures if you prefer a hard copy. The conference is May 18 – 20, 2012.
Online registration opens on November 1, 2011. Watch the CNCH website for the exact time of opening. Mail registrations will also be accepted this year, but you will get immediate feedback about your class selections if you use online registration.
Organizers recommend that you download the mail-in form and fill it out before beginning online registration so you are sure to have all your information with you when you go to the computer. All costs are listed under the registration link on the website as well as on the registration form.
Click on the facilities link for information about the Oakland Marriott City Center and Conference Center and how to reserve your room. The hotel is conveniently located next to a BART stop and easy to get to from the highways. The hotel and convention center are all one complex – so it will be easy to get from your room to all the conference activities. Many nice restaurants and quick eat places are close to the hotel as well as a restaurant, lounge and coffee shop within the hotel complex.
And remember there will be a full vendor hall, galleries, a fashion show and much, much more at CNCH 2012 Oakland.