Dear Fellow Painters, It's time to announce our Face Painting and Body Art Convention 2011 - the dates will be from Feb 27 - Mar 3, 2011 at the beautiful Harrah's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Our theme for the year is SEASONS AND HOLIDAYS.
Harrah's is a bit of a smaller hotel on the Las Vegas strip and is specifically designed to cater to small and medium size conferences. At this current time, the convention center is being TOTALLY REMODELED to bring in state-of-the-art audio visual equipment as well as to create some wonderful spaces for people to sit and have small group discussions (this is exciting, too, because their last full remodel was in 2008 - they are committed to keeping their meeting space as up to date as possible!). The conference center is situated on one floor and has direct access from the single set of elevators in the hotel. There is no need to go through a casino, restaurant or any open spaces to reach the meeting space. This conference area is very open and spacious, with several doors that take you out to the veranda and some beautiful gardens and additional space for small groups to congregate. The 2011 convention will include a full range of balloon sculpting and decorating classes, marketing classes, airbrush classes, and of course face and body painting instruction from some of your favorite teachers in the face/body painting arena. Of course, we will also have a wonderful vendor room stocked full of the best supplies in the industry with special deals just for convention participants! Our vendor room and jam room will open to become one large space each evening - the best of both worlds. Practicing AND shopping so you can achieve the best results on your work. Our website is the same, fpbaconvention.com , and I am currently taking classes to learn how to do most of the updating myself. It is my personal and educational goal to be able to communicate convention information to you in a timely manner and also to have a space for everyone to upload pictures, ideas, suggestions and thoughts on a 'forum like' section of the site. This should be able to be implemented next week! Check us out and see what new applications we have added! As always, I will be available personally to answer any questions or concerns via phone, e-mail or SKYPE. Phone number and e-mail address are included in the signature line of this posting and if you do not have SKYPE go and register for this FREE service (I personally use it all the time!). Search uraqtsparky or Karen Owens on SKYPE if you would like to contact me that way. I also have some exciting news I have been dying to share and I was holding off the convention announcement until it was 'good to go', but the paperwork is taking a bit longer than I would have thought. This project has been a year long endeavor and when finished we will be able to hear a collective "SIGH" from face painters, both sponge and brush and airbrush (balloon artists, too) around the world! Either way, the moment it is all finalized I will be sending out some information! Have I piqued your interest yet??? More details coming soon! Happy Painting and remember to give away a smile today, I promise you won't run out no matter how many you give away! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Face Painting and Body Art Association." This is a PG-13 forum dedicated to the discussion of Face Painting and Body Art. This group is provided for the benefit of all and as such is not moderated. Our goal is to promote open and unrestricted communication between people interested in face painting and body art. We hope that you will be courteous to others and try to stay on topic. You are free to offer products or services related to face painting as well. Please address concerns with the original poster before contacting the management. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fpba-assn
