It’s looking fabulous for conference week in Bend, mid-70’s-low 80 temps all week.  Bring a jacket or sweater for cool mornings and the outside dye workshops.

We have a couple seats available in the vans for the Crescent Moon Alpaca Ranch visit on Wednesday afternoon – 1:00-3:00 PM.  Transportation fee is $15 per person; please bring cash in exact change.  It will be collected as you board the van in front of the Riverhouse Convention Center entrance.

For Guild Booth and Vendor Booth set up beginning Wednesday around Noon, Charlene will have “road monitors” at the north end of the Convention Center to direct traffic down to the lower level exhibit hall for unloading.  We ask that you follow these directions; it is a steep downhill lane and there is not a lot of room once you get there with the deck posts in place along the entire east side of the building.  We have volunteer help for unloading your cars into the building and then ask that you drive up the lane and park either in the Convention Center parking lot above the south end of the building, or across the street in the Riverhouse hotel parking lots.

Fashion Show tickets are available at the Registration Desk starting June 11 for $25 cash only.  This ticket is limited to the fashion show only. The reception begins at 6 PM and the Fashion Show at 7:30, so purchasers of these tickets will be admitted immediately following the reception, so entry time is approximately 7:15-7:30pm.  Tickets for the reception are no longer available.

Keynote address tickets are also available for $25 during conference week.

Virtual Seminar ZOOM Participants:  By Wednesday, June 14, individuals who are participating remotely via Zoom (i.e., you are not at the Convention Center in Bend) will receive an email with links to the Zoom seminars purchased.  If you don’t see them in your email, please check your spam or junk file.  If you have not received them by noon on Thursday, June 15, contact Sue Walsh, sugar2311@comcast.net .  Please note that each seminar has a different link, so be sure to use the correct one if you have signed up for multiple Zoom seminars with our virtual presenters.

Each seminar will be introduced by a seminar assistant in the conference room in Bend, where those in the virtual version will participate.  Virtual participants will be able to ask questions live; there will be a wireless microphone for them.  Zoom participants will be put on mute but will be able to ask questions through the chat feature, monitored by the assistant.  Please note that we will do our best to make sure all questions are addressed during the allotted time.

If you have entered items in the Open Show, and did not mail them to Anne Kramer, please bring them to the Deschutes South room in the hotel main lobby building during the day on Wednesday.  Anne will be there all day.

Workshop and Seminar Class Assistants

After you have checked in at Registration and picked up your conference packet, please head over to the Info Table and check in there as well to confirm your Class Assistant assignment.  We will answer any additional questions you may have about your duties. Thank you for being willing to help out your instructor and fellow participants!

MAPS of the Riverhouse Hotel and Convention Center are available online.  You may want to print these or download to your device.

Workshop classrooms are available Sunday, June 11 from Noon-8 PM for students to set up looms.  Monday and Tuesday the rooms are open from 7:30 AM – 6 PM. Wednesday – Saturday the rooms are open from 7:30 AM – 4:30 PM. They will be locked up after the last student and teacher leave.

We look forward to seeing you all next week.