Special Events
Collectors Showcase and Trader's Alley Holiday Beach Bazaar
Author Book Signings Artifact I.D. Sessions
Beach Treasure Raffle
We have an exciting, fun-filled yet relaxing weekend of activities planned for you! In addition to lectures, field trips and workshops, there are a number of other special events to engage conference participants.
Beachcomber's Welcome Reception
When: Thursday evening, November 3, 2011 7:00 pm on.
Where: Virden Center Lobby and Schooner Room
Join us at the Beachcomb Conference's Opening Night for light fare as you socialize with old beachcomb buddies and make new ones. Shop early at the Holiday Beach Arts Bazaar while "the getting is good” and then settle down to listen to an interesting keynote address. Authors of many of your favorite beach-related books will be on hand to personally sign copies of their works for you.
Holiday Sea Glass and Beach Arts Bazaar
When: Thursday evening through Sunday
Get a head start on your holiday shopping for others (and yourselves!) at the Holiday beach Bazaar: sea glass jewelry, coastal books, stationary, fishing floats, beach artifacts, English sea glass, and much, much more!
Collectors Showcase, Trader’s Alley, Artifact I.D.
When: Friday Evening
Feel free to bring some of your favorite and/or more interesting beach treasures to display and show to others (including any interesting stories behind their discovery…) Beachcomb specialists and authors will be available to help identify and/or give you more information on your special treasures (if they can!)
Also sort through your beach treasure collections and tote them along with you to swap of gift to others. Each year, combers go home with an amazing new assortment of beach treasures they either received as gifts or traded for. ‘Comber Evan brought fascinating pottery shards and sea glass found on Bahama beaches to trade last year and at the '09 conference, 'comber Mike showed up with a bucketful of sea glass a friend had given to him to share. Everyone took turns picking through the glass and all went home with pockets full of luminous shards of amberina, ice blue, cornflower, kelly and olive green glass glass.
NOTE: This is usually our party night, so you might want to BYOB, too!
Beach Raffle
Each year, beachcombers, authors, artists, and friends donate items to raffle off to defray the cost of the Conference. Last year, we had a book/sea glass package from Richard LaMotte; vintage fishing floats and a book from Dr. Beachcomb; crab buoys; paintings; sea glass jewelry and much, much more. People contribute their raffle tickets all weekend and then the fun begins Sunday morning when names are pulled for the prize. If you have something you might like to contribute to this raffle, feel free to bring it.