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You can fax your registration form to 802-865-2626, or register and pay by phone at 800-765-0107.
We’re in This Together
Consumer Advocacy From the Grassroots to the Nation
Seattle University
June 26 - 28, 2008
901 12th Ave.
Seattle, Washington
Featuring
- Mark Harris, author of Grave Matters
- Valerie Bayham, Institute for Justice
- Kathryn Tucker, Compassion and Choices
- 10 workshops and panel discussions
If you’ve never been to Funeral Consumers Alliance’s national conference before, don’t miss this one. We’ve got the largest program of speakers in our history, and we’re honored to be working with our oldest and largest supporting member, Peoples Memorial Association, to bring you this program. PMA made history last year by opening the largest nonprofit, member-owned funeral service cooperative in the country. Don’t miss this chance to come together in the city where it all started, and meet the people who are bringing funeral consumer advocacy into the 21st century!
The registration deadline is June 10, 2008. Download your registration form today! 2008 Biennial Registration Form
Thursday , June 26
Event/ Room
- 12:00 PM FCA Board Meeting (open to public) STCN-130 Meeting goes until 5 pm.
- 02:00 PM Registration- Bellarmine Lobby
- 03:00 PM Registration- Bellarmine Lobby
- 04:00 PM Registration - Bellarmine Lobby
- 06:00 PM Barbeque - Student Center Patio (Room 160 if raining)
Friday, June 27
- 7 - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast Cherry St. Market - Student Center
- 8 a.m Registration (UNTIL 1 PM) -Pigott Atrium
- 08:45 AM Welcome from PMA - Pigott Auditorium
- 9 a.m. State of the FCA, President Joyce Homan - Pigott Auditorium
- 9:15 a.m. FCA: Who and Why We Are, Exec. Dir. Josh Slocum - Pigott Auditorium
- 9:35 a.m. Audience Q&A - Pigott Auditorium
- 10:10 a.m. Break Coffee in atrium
- 10: 30 a.m. Breakouts and Workshops
- Advocacy 101 - PIGT-103
- Effective Networking - PIGT-101
- Funeral Director Panel Discussion - PIGT-107
- Old Traditions, New Ways: Home Funerals - PIGT-109
- Start Spreading the News (Newsletter Development) - PIGT-106
- Rethink, Revamp, Be Relevant -PIGT-102
12:00 noon Lunch Cherry St. Market - Student Center
1:00 - 2:30 Anatomical Donation Panel-Pigott Auditorium
2:30 - 2:50 Break
2:50 - 3:30 PMA's Funeral Cooperative - PIgott Auditorium
3:30- 4:30 Open Mic for Affiliates - Pigott Auditorium
4:30 on Dinner/sighseeing on our own
Saturday, June 28
- 7 - 8:30 a.m. Optional Roundtable Breakfast Discussion - Campion Ballroom
- 7 - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast - Cherry St. Market Student Center
- 7 - 10 a.m. Registration - Pigott Atrium
- 8:45 AM Announcements - Pigott Auditorium
- 9:00 - 10:10 Natural Burial, Mark Harris - PIgott Auditorium
- 10:10 - 10:30 Mark Harris Book Signing - Break
- 10:30 AM Breakouts and Workshops
- Marketing Your Mission - PIGT-103
- Natural Burial w/Cynthia Beal - PIGT-101
- Advocacy 102 - PIGT-106
- Rethink, Revamp, Be Relevant (repeat) - PIGT-102
- A Grave Plot: Resurrecting the Memorial Society of Rhode Island - PIGT 107
- Advocacy 101 (repeat) - PIGT-100
- 12:00 noon Lunch Cherry St. Market - Student Center
- 1:00 - 2:30 Kathryn Tucker, Compassion and Choices - Pigott Auditorium
- 2:00-3:30 Breakouts and Workshops
- Marketing Your Mission (repeat) PIGT-103
- Diversity in Death PIGT-102
- Using Computers: They're Not Scary PIGT-207 Computer Lab
- Old Traditions, New Ways: Home Funerals (repeat) PIGT-109
- Advocacy 102 (repeat) PIGT-101
- 3:30 p.m. Break
- 4:00- 5:00 Open Mic for Affiliates - Pigott Auditorium
- 6:30 - 7:00 Cocktails/Appetizers - Campion Ballroom
- 7 - 10 p.m. Awards Banquet with Valerie Bayham - Campion Ballroom
Thanks for your comment. We're glad the funeral home you used was professional and courteous, whether it was corporate or locally owned.
No, we've never said funeral home shouldn't charge for what they do. And we've never said every family *should* bury its own dead. We only want to make sure every family has that choice.
You're clear that you find home burial undignified. That's perfectly fine. Just remember there are some who find it very dignified. It's an individual choice.
Josh Slocum
Thank you very much for pointing out that error so we could fix it.
Josh S.
The date above is incorrect - it should read Saturday, June 28, not January 28.
Thanks,
George
Please read above. You'll see the registration form includes information about the shuttle service. Attendees are responsible for arranging their own shuttle rides, but the more who ride together, the cheaper it is. Please visit our forum on this site (you'll see a link to it on the left-hand menu). There's a page there for folks to team up and share shuttle costs.
The shuttle service you want is www.shuttlexpress.com
Dave Hedden
please email to
wderrick@alumni.rice.edu