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Conference Events
Your SAS registration fee will get you into all sessions of the conference as well as into all other events (except the banquet, see below). All conference center facilities are handicap accessible. In addition to conference sessions and keynote panels and addresses, the Staunton SAS meetings will offer an array of other activities.
- Mary Baldwin College will host an Opening Reception on its campus in Hunt Gallery on Thursday evening for all participants.
- Friday night we have reserved a special block of tickets to the Blackfriars performance of Macbeth at special conference prices ($18). After the performance Colleen Kelly, the American Shakespeare Center Director of Education will discuss the history and purpose of the only replica of Shakespeare's Blackfriar's in London with our group. The ASC website describes itself in the following terms: "TheAmerican Shakespeare Company is an internationally acclaimed theater company that performs Shakespeare's work under their original staging conditions -- on a simple stage, without elaborate sets, and with the audience sharing the same light as the actors. -- Home to ASC's resident troupe, the Blackfriar's Playhouse has been established as one of American's Premier Shakespeare destinations."
- On Saturday, March 15th, during the noon break (box lunches will be sold) and in honor of our conference theme, "Memory and Museums," the Frontier Culture Museum is pleased to host SAS Conference members out at its site, where Eric Bryan, Deputy Director of the museum will welcome us and discuss their future plans for a West African site (compound, with garden and indigenous domesticated animals) as well as a Native American site. The Museum describes itself on its website in the following terms: "The Frontier Culture Museum is an outdoor, living-history museum and educational institution of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Museum currently features six permanent, outdoor exhibits comprised of original farm buildings from Britain, Germany, and Virginia. These buildings have been carefully documented, dismantled, transported to Virginia, and restored. The Museum's exhibits serve as the settings for interpretative and educational programs designed to increase public knowledge of the diverse Old World origins of early immigrants to America, of how these immigrants lived in their homelands, how they came to America, and how the way-of-life they created together on the American frontier has shaped the success of the United States. The Museum's plans for the future include the expansion of its exhibits and programs to include an American Indian and West African exhibits, a working grist mill, and mid-1800s American village. The Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia is accredited by the American Association of Museums."
- Hopefully you will explore Staunton on your own. The Woodrow Wilson Birthplace is just around the corner from the hotel and there are many restaurants, cafes and shops and galleries within blocks of the hotel. We will have maps and restaurant lists available.
- Banquet
Following the SAS keynote address by Drs. Handler and Gable, we will also have a banquet (for SAS participants only) on Saturday evening, March 15th. The Mooney Book Prize and the Student Paper Prizes will be awarded at the banquet. The banquet will be held at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel and Conference Center. It will be sit-down style featuring either chicken breast roma, served over herb buttered fettuccine, or marinated flank steak, served with rosemary-striped new potatoes, with garden salad, seasonal fresh vegetables, rolls and butter, coffee and teas, choice of dessert. There will also be a cash bar and appetizer mixer before dinner. Banquet tickets are $34 dollars per person and reservations for the banquet can be made by contacting Carrie Douglass at cdouglas@mbc.edu.
