March 2 & 3, 2008
Sunday Evening & Monday
Hilton Tucson East
7600 East Broadway
Tucson, AZ 85710
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Engage with over 200 dynamic people from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural organizations |
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Think creatively about visioning Arizona’s future with Jeff VanderMeer, award-winning fantasy writer, editor and publisher |
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Identify potential partners and ideas for Centennial planning |
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Find out more about Downtown Tucson’s Rio Nuevo Project |
No Charge to Attend
Register online at:
http://www.lib.az.us/eventreg
Registration Deadline:
February 15, 2008
Click here to download a PDF flyer that contains all the Convocation registration information.
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CONFERENCE DIRECTIONS Back to Top
West bound I-10 exit at Kolb Road. Turn right (north) and drive approximately 8 miles to Broadway. Turn right (east) on Broadway. The hotel is on your right at the corner of Broadway and Prudence.
East bound I-10 - currently under construction - exit at Prince Road (exit 254). Stay on frontage road until Congress/Broadway and turn left (east) and drive approximately 10 miles. The hotel is on the right (south) side of the street at the corner of Broadway and Prudence. Alternative east bound exit Kolb road and follow the directions for west bound.
HOTEL
Please call the Hilton Tucson East at 520-721-5600 or online at http://hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/TUSHEHF_ASL/index.jhtml before February 7, 2008 to make room reservations. Be sure to mention that you would like the Arizona State Library Rate. Attendees receive a special room rate of $119, plus tax. Standard room includes work space with dataport, two phone lines and voicemail. Free wireless internet access is available throughout the hotel. Please confirm hotel cancellation policy when making room reservations. The State Library cannot make or change your hotel reservations. Having trouble reserving a room? Contact Rebekah or Kelly at the Hilton at 520-721-5600.
PRELIMINARY AGENDA Back to Top
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Evening
5:00 -- Conference Registration
6:00 -- Evening Program and Dinner
Welcome & Awards – GladysAnn Wells, Director, Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records
7:00 -- Keynote Speaker – Jeff VanderMeer: Eureka!: Epiphany, the Imagination and You
8:30 -- End
Monday, March 3, 2008
Morning
8:00 -- Conference Registration
8:30-9:30 -- Continental Breakfast
9:30 -- Welcome and Recap – Joan Clark, Deputy Director of Operations and Planning, Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records
9:45 -- Group Workshop – Jeff and Ann VanderMeer: Creating the Secret Life of Arizona
11:30-12:30 -- Networking Lunch
Afternoon
12:45 -- Plenary Speaker – Sal Acosta: Hispanics in Arizona: The History Continues
2:00 -- Special Presentation – Downtown Tucson’s Rio Nuevo Project
2:45 -- Chocolate, Coffee, and Closing Remarks
3:30 -- End
SESSION INFORMATION: Back to Top
KEYNOTE: Jeff VanderMeer
“Eureka!: Epiphany, the Imagination and You”
Jeff VanderMeer gives you a behind-the-scenes look into creative processes and techniques—and how you can apply these processes to your own problem-solving enterprises.
Jeffrey VanderMeer is an American writer, editor and publisher. He is the author of the best-selling City of Saints and Madmen. He has won two World Fantasy Awards, an NEA-funded Florida Individual Writers’ Fellowship, and most recently, the Le Cafard cosmique award in France and the Tähtifantasia Award in Finland, both for City of Saints. Novels such as Veniss Underground and Shriek: An Afterword have made the year’s best lists of Amazon.com and Publishers Weekly, among others.
Recently, VanderMeer began to experiment in other media, resulting in a movie based on his novel Shriek that featured an original soundtrack by rock band The Church and a Play Station Europe animation of his story “A New Face in Hell” by animator Joel Veitch.
WORKSHOP: Jeff and Ann VanderMeer
“Creating the Secret Life of Arizona”
Any state is the sum of its people. In this workshop, you will partner up to create a secret life for Arizona, using a combination of in-workshop research and your own imagination. Fun and informative, playful and yet useful, this workshop led by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer will show you paths toward greater diversity of thought and idea as Arizona prepares for its centennial commemoration.
Ann VanderMeer is currently the editor of Weird Tales magazine, and a respected anthologist and publisher. Work from her press and related periodicals has won the British Fantasy Award, the International Rhysling Award, and appeared in several year’s best anthologies. Ann was also the founder of The Silver Web magazine, a periodical devoted to experimental and avant-garde fantasy literature. The VanderMeers live in Tallahassee, Florida.
PLENARY: Sal Acosta
“Hispanics in Arizona: The History Continues”
This presentation updates the chapter “Hispanics in Arizona” that appeared in Arizona at Seventy-Five: The Next Twenty-Five Years in 1987. The history of Hispanics in Arizona has received increased scholarly attention, particularly in the form of dissertations from doctoral students throughout the country. Such research has thus allowed the author to answer the questions that appeared at the end of the original chapter, specifically regarding local histories, immigration, politics, and labor.
Sal Acosta, a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of Arizona, is currently writing his dissertation "Crossing Borders, Erasing Boundaries: Inter-Ethnic Marriages Among Mexicans in Tucson, 1854-1930." Mr. Acosta received a Master’s degree in Mexican American Studies in 2004 and has taught courses in Latino studies, Mexican American history, and contemporary U.S. history.
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
Downtown Tucson’s Rio Nuevo Project
Rio Nuevo is helping bring new attractions, housing, commercial development, and restaurants to Downtown Tucson while preserving and enhancing the already important art and historic elements of the Heart of the City.
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