Conclave XXVIII will be held from Friday, September 3, through Sunday, September 5, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 401 West High Street, in the heart of downtown Lexington. The hotel has recently received a 16.4 million dollar renovation. For details about the hotel and its amenities please visit www.lexington.hyatt.com.
For those arriving by air, the Hyatt offers complimentary shuttle transportation to and from the Lexington Bluegrass Airport. If you are driving, complimentary parking is provided in the Lexington Convention Center parking lot directly across the street from the hotel.
Reservations must be made directly with the hotel by calling 1.800.233.1234. You MUST identify yourself as a member of the MBS when making the reservation to receive the discounted rate of $109.00 per night (single-quad occupancy). Reservations must be made by August 1, 2010.
CONCLAVE REGISTRATION
The registration fee is $250 per person. This fee includes the keepsake bag, 3 breakfasts, Friday buffet dinner, Saturday lunch and evening dessert reception, Sunday awards banquet, 2 receptions, bus transportation to events at the Headley-Whitney Museum and the King Library Press, all programs, and admission to the Book Fair on Sunday.
PRE-CONCLAVE
For those arriving by Thursday evening, September 2, an informal gathering for drinks and dinner is planned at deSha’s Restaurant, across the street from the Hyatt.
Friday:
Friday will begin with a Board Meeting from 10:00 a.m. until 12 noon. For others this will be a time to check-in, catch up with each other, and stroll downtown Lexington. Registration will be Friday afternoon.
The conclave kick-off event will be a short bus ride to the Headley-Whitney Museum where a reception and exhibition will be held (www.headley-whitney.org). The exhibition will consist of Neale Albert’s miniature books relating to Shakespeare. These books have been bound for him by various design binders. Mr. Albert has recently published a miniature entitled Brush Up Your Shakespeare, which is the Cole Porter song from the play Kiss Me Kate, and he will also display a number of designer bindings of this particular work. His exhibit will further include a miniature of Shakespeare, and a miniature Globe Theatre. A silent auction will also be held at the museum.
After the reception the group will return to the Hyatt for a buffet dinner, followed by the Book Swap, and an opportunity to Meet the Publishers.
Saturday:
Following breakfast on Saturday will be the MBS Annual Membership Meeting from 9:00-11:00 a.m. Lunch will be at the hotel, and then buses will take the group to the University of Kentucky campus to visit the King Library Press for a workshop (www.uky.edu/Libraries/KLP). At KLP participants will engage in a printing and binding project which showcases a passage from Melville’s Moby Dick concerning whale classification, in this case the duodecimo section. The Director of the press, Paul Evans Holbrook, working with James Reid-Cunningham, will carry out the workshop.
On Saturday evening, dinner will be on your own, followed by a Dessert Reception at the Hyatt from 8:00-10:00 p.m. The MBS auction will be held at the Dessert Reception.
Sunday:
Breakfast on Sunday will be followed by the Book Fair. The morning session from 9:00-12 noon will be open to members only, and the afternoon session, 1:00-4:30, to the general public.
The evening festivities will open with a Cash Bar cocktail hour from 6:00-7:00, followed by the Awards Banquet from 7:00-9:30. The banquet speaker will be James Reid-Cunningham (www.Reid-Cunningham.com). His talk is entitled “Eye, Hand, Tool: The Collision of Art, Craft and Conservation in the Contemporary Book.”
POST-CONCLAVE
For those staying on, a relaxing outing is planned for Monday to Monterey, Kentucky, to visit Gray Zeitz’s Larkspur Press (www.larkspurpress.com). For lunch we will travel a little further north to Elk Creek Vineyards near Owenton, Kentucky (www.elkcreekvineyards.com) where soups, salads, sandwiches, and wines to sample are available in a delightful setting. Following lunch the bus will return to the Hyatt.
Kathleen Bryson, Conclave Host
MBS Grand Conclave
September 3-5, 2010 --- Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Each year the Miniature Book Society hosts an annual gathering of its members referred to as a Conclave. The Conclave - typically a three-day event - is held every autumn in a different city and is eagerly anticipated by the members. Recent Conclaves have been held in Princeton NJ, San Diego CA, Seattle WA, Ann Arbor MI, New Orleans LA and Bath, England. Attendees look forward to guest speakers, tours, workshops, book auctions, a book swap and an all-day book fair, but most of all, connecting with fellow miniature book enthusiasts and the camaraderie that miniature book lovers share.
Victorian Square in Downtown Lexington
Gray Zeitz, Larkspur Press