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• 2023 Annual Conference Exhibitor Registration

  • When
    Monday, June 05, 2023

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  Be an exhibitor at this year’s CLHO Annual Conference on June 5!

  We'll be in a beautiful, spacious new building on the campus of Central Connecticut State University in New Britain. This year’s theme, “Community Matters: Linking Past and Present in Meaningful Ways,” promises to attract over 200+ history and museum professionals from across Connecticut and the region.

  Our Museum Marketplace will be located in the beautiful light-filled atrium of Willard-DiLoreto Hall (pictured below). The Museum Marketplace opens at 8am along with Conference Registration and remains open until 3:30pm.

  New this year: We are launching a Marketplace Passport initiative that will encourage attendees to stop by all booths to get their passport initialed by exhibitors. Completed passports will be collected and several winners will be selected at random at the end of the day. We will be asking exhibitors for door prizes closer to the event.

  Exhibitor registration comes with the following:

  • One table and two chairs
  • One complimentary conference registration
  • Listing in the conference program
  • Acknowledgment on the conference website

  Questions? Email emily@clho.org for information and assistance.

  
  

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• 2023 Annual Conference

  • When
    Monday, June 05, 2023
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    8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    Central Connecticut State University, Willard-DiLoreto Hall

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  We are excited to welcome Connecticut's history and museum community back to our home base at CCSU in New Britain this year. We'll be in a larger, more spacious building, with an airy atrium for our exhibitor hall, and plenty of space for sessions, networking, breakouts, and more—not to mention convenient free parking in an adjacent garage.

  For more information about the 2023 conference, including the schedule at a glance and other updates as they come, please visit our 2023 conference page.

  Registration

  The basic conference registration is $90 and includes a boxed lunch and additional refreshments in the morning and afternoon. Discounted rates are available for CLHO members ($75), conference presenters ($55), students ($45), and others. CLHO member organizations may register up to six people at the discounted member rate.

  Registrants will be asked to choose from the following boxed lunch choices as part of their registration:

  • Classic Turkey Club: Smoked turkey with Swiss cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise on sourdough bread
  • Smoked Ham, Brie and Apple on Sourdough: Smoked ham with brie cheese, Granny Smith apple, baby arugula and Dijonnaise on sourdough
  • Mindful Quinoa Salad: Quinoa with tomato, red pepper, hominy, cilantro and sherry vinaigrette over mixed greens (gluten free/vegan)

  Advance registration closes May 31. Attendees may register at the door the day of the conference at a higher rate, but may not receive a lunch.

  Optional Field Trips

  For a small additional charge, conference attendees may also choose to attend one of two optional fields trips to local museums during the afternoon (2:00–3:00 pm): the New Britain Industrial Museum and the New Britain Museum of American Art. Field trip registration is on a first come, first served basis, and must be completed separately from conference registration.

  To learn more about the field trip options and sign up, please visit the field trip registration page.

  
  

  Special Thanks to our Lead Sponsors for this year's conference: 

  William G. Pomeroy Foundation
  Stanley-Whitman House
  be Foundation

  
  

  

  

  
  

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• 2023 Annual Conference Optional Field Trips

  • When
    Monday, June 05, 2023
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    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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  We are pleased to be offering two field trip options as a part of this year's Annual Conference. For a small additional fee, conference attendees may elect to attend a guided tour at one of two local museums: the New Britain Museum of American Art, or the New Britain Industrial Museum. Both are just a short drive from the CCSU campus.

  Registration for the field trips is on a first come, first served basis. Tours are limited and once they are sold out we cannot accommodate more individuals.

  Transportation to and from the field trip sites is not included, but we will do our best to assist attendees in getting to the sites. Attendees should plan to gather and depart around 1:40 p.m., and to drive themselves or carpool with other conference attendees attending the field trips. A list of potential car poolers will be provided.

  Option #1: Guided tour of Walter Wick: Hidden Wonders! at the New Britain Museum of American Art

  56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT 06052
  (2.6 miles from CCSU, depart by 1:40pm)

  Limited to 40 people (will tour in smaller groups)

  $15/person

  Walter Wick: Hidden Wonders! spans 50 years of innovation, wonder, and imagination. Tracing the span of Wick’s career, the exhibition is organized by themes that have long fascinated Wick, including Miniature Worlds; Floor Games; Craft-Built Worlds; Optical Illusions; I Spy Games; Puzzle Challenges, Wonders of Science; Connecticut Woods; and Curiosity Shop. The exhibition pairs beloved images, including over 15 never-before-seen works, with numerous three-dimensional models upon which his photographs are based. Celebrating five decades of creativity, as well as Wick’s indelible role in the development of photographic illustration, this exhibition is a must-see for art lovers of any age.

   

  Walter Wick, "Entrance to the Curiosity Shop: A Can You See What I See? Book," as a part of Walter Wick: Hidden Wonders! at the New Britain Museum of American Art.
  

  

  Walter Wick, "Flatland from Can You See What I See?: Hidden Wonders," as a part of Walter Wick: Hidden Wonders! at the New Britain Museum of American Art.
  

  Option #2: Guided tour of New Britain Industrial Museum

  59 W Main St, New Britain, CT 06051
  (3 miles from CCSU, depart by 1:40pm)

  Limited to 10 people

  $10/person

  The New Britain Industrial Museum collects, preserves and exhibits items representing more than 200 years of New Britain innovation and invention. From 19th century hooks & eyes to 21st century ERA Cobra Cars, the Museum and its collection serve as a bridge between New Britain’s past and present and provides inspiration for the future. New Britain’s impact has been, and continues to be, felt far beyond its borders. Very few of the items we use or wear everyday could have been created without a machine, a part, or a concept that originated in New Britain. In fact, for most of the 20th century, every American came into contact with at least one New Britain product a day: it was either made here, had a part in it that was made here, or was made on a New Britain machine.

  

  Stanley Screen Door Hardware Display, 1950s from the New Britain Industrial Museum
  

  

  Copper and Brass Stanley Rule & Level Sign, one of two from the main factory doors between 1920 - 1935, from the New Britain Industrial Museum
  

  
  

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• Intellectual Property Series: Introduction to Creative Commons Licenses and Tools

  • When
    Tuesday, June 13, 2023
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    10:00 AM - 11:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Session 3: Introduction to Creative Commons Licenses and Tools

  Date: June 13, 2023 10:00am-11:30am

  Join us for the final session to understand the basics about Creative Commons Licenses. Brigitte will cover the types of licenses, determining the right license for your content, and how to find and use licensed content.
  

  
  

  CT Humanities, Creative Commons, and the Connecticut League of History Organizations are collaborating to host three webinars covering many aspects of intellectual property and the cultural heritage community in Connecticut 

  Join us as we have open discussions with people from around the state in an educating and engaging dialog about many different topics, including copyright, open access, open culture / Open GLAM (Gallaries, Archives, Library, and Museums), Creative Commons Licensing and more!. 

  The webinars will offer an opportunity for attendees to learn about the recent intellectual property work undertaken by CT Humanities, develop knowledge and skills in copyright and open licensing, understand the mission of Creative Commons and gain visibility among a global open culture community that stands for equity, sustainability, access, and better sharing.

  
  

  Speakers:

   

    Brigitte Vézina
    Director of Policy and Open Culture
    Creative Commons

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Brigitte is passionate about all things spanning culture, arts, handicraft, traditions, fashion and, of course, copyright law and policy.  She gets a kick out of tackling the fuzzy legal and policy issues that stand in the way of access, use, re-use and remix of culture, information and knowledge.

  Before joining CC, she worked for a decade as a legal officer at WIPO and then ran her own consultancy, advising Europeana, SPARC Europe and others on copyright matters.

  Currently located in the Netherlands where she lives with her husband and two kids, Brigitte grew up living in eight different countries across North America, Africa and Europe but Montréal is where she proudly comes from.

  Brigitte is a fellow at the Canadian think tank Centre for International Governance Innovation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Université de Montréal and a master’s in law from Georgetown University. She has been a member of the Bar of Quebec since 2003.

  
  

  
  

    Mike Kemezis
    Manager of Partnerships & Programs
    CT Humanities

  
  

  
  

  As the Manager for Programs and Projects, Mike aims to advance the impact of the humanities through strengthening and expanding relationships with all CTH’s Funded Partners and creating new ways to make Connecticut’s cultural heritage content more accessible.

  Prior to CT Humanities, Mike was the Repository Manager for the Connecticut Digital Archive, a program of the University of Connecticut. He received his Master of Library Science, with a concentration in archives, from the University of Long Island and has worked in a variety of cultural heritage, academic and corporate libraries, and archives in and around New York City and New England.

  
  

  

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