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The 16th National Family Reunion Conference will be
held in Philadelphia, PA from March 15-18, 2007 at the Marriott
Philadelphia Airport Hotel.
Conference
Agenda
Thursday, March 15, 2007
1:00 –2:00 pm
Early Registration (for workshop participants only)
Early Bird Workshops
2:00 – 5:00
pm Preserving
Memories: Scrapbooking
6:00 – 9:00
pm Preserving Memories:
Quilt Making
Friday,
March 16, 2007
8:00 am - 4:00 pm Registration
9:00 am - 5:00 pm Marketplace Open
9:30 -
10:00 am Welcome Remarks
10:00 - 11:30 am Workshops First Session:
Finding the Rest
of Me
Telling the
Story: Beyond Trees and Charts
Spirituality and
the Family Reunion
12:00 - 12:45 pm Lunch
12:45 -
1:45 pm Welcome:
Keynote
Speaker: Kenneth Gamble - Co-founder of the
“Philly Sound”; co-founder of Universal Companies and the Universal
Plan for Urban America
2:00 - 3:30 pm Workshops: Second Session
Saving Stories: How to Make Your Family Reunion Last a Lifetime
Does It Run in The Family?
Promoting Health
at Your Reunion
Preserving Family
Treasures
From and Back to
China : How Grandmothers Stories Kept Us Connected
Financial
Empowerment
3:45 - 5:15
pm Workshops: Third Session:
Raising “ISM” Proof Children
DNA and Your Roots
Measuring ROE: The Value of Your Family Reunion Event
Guess Who’s
Coming to the Reunion
Using Philadelphia's Historic and Cultural Resources
5:30 -
7:00 pm Welcome Reception
6:30 pm People who have tickets leave for King Tut Exhibit
Friday,
March 17th 7pm to 9pm
King
TUTANKHUMAN and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition:
The Franklin Institute
More
than 3,000 years after his reign…the lost treasures of a boy
king come to
Philadelphia
in a dazzling, once-in-a lifetime exhibition. See more than
130 amazing treasures belonging to TUT and his royal relatives,
many never before seen outside of
Egypt.
Saturday,
March 17, 2007
8:00 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
& Speak
Out
8:00 am - 12 noon
Registration
9:00 am -
5:00 pm Marketplace Open
9:00 - 9:30 am
Meet the Sponsors
9:30 -
10:30 am Linda Goss: The "Official Storyteller" of
Philadelphia:
Family Stories
10:45 am -
12:30 pm Workshops: First Session:
Saving Stories: How to Make Your Family Reunion Last a
Lifetime
Latino Family Reunions: A Way to Keep Families Healthy and Strong
DNA and Your Roots
Organizing the Family Reunion
Electronic Scrapbooking
12:45 -
1:45 pm Lunch
1:45 - 2:30 pm
Keynote Speaker:
Angel Ortiz.
Former Philadelphia City Councilman and community activist for the
rights of all people.
2:45 -
4:15 pm Workshops: Second Session:
Family Online:
com
Measuring ROE: The Value of Your Family Reunion
Engaging Youth at the Family Reunion
Electronic Scrapbooking
Does
It Run in the Family? Promoting Health at Your Reunion
4:30 - 5:15 pm Conference Drawing
5:15 pm On your Own
Sunday, March 18, 2007
9:00 – 11:00 am
Breakfast with Birmingham (AL)
The schedule of
times and workshops are subject to change. If you are registered we
will let you know of any changes.
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