Hello all -
Greetings from Columbus, Ohio - home of CenterFold Origami Convention.
As some of you may have heard, the guests of honor this year are:
Tomoko Fuse, from Japan
David and Assia Brill from the U.K.
Carmen Sprung from Germany
It should be a fantastic convention due to the varied styles of the guests.
Assia just published her first book (Curlicue: Kinetic Origami), David has
Brilliant origami, Carmen has "21 Sterne" (21 Stars), and of course Tomoko
Fuse has thousands of origami books in print (Well, maybe not thousands, but
a lot).
We did have to move the convention up a few weeks to avoid conflict with
6OSME and Tanteidan, so the dates are Thursday July 31st through Sunday
August 3rd, 2014. We are once again at the Holiday in Worthington Ohio - a
very nice, small hotel/convention center. Just large enough for us, and
surrounded by restaurants and stores. There is a shuttle from the airport
($15).
All the details are at www.ohiopaperfolders.com - but here are a few
important notes:
1) Full convention registration is discounted to $150 until March 31st, then
goes up to $175 until May 31st, when it goes up to $190.
2) Please use the link on our convention page to register for the hotel -
the national reservation desk for Holiday Inn seems to be manned by idiots,
who last year kept telling people our room block was full. The direct link
on our page will take you straight into reservations for our block. If you
DO call the toll free number to book your room, do not let them tell you the
room block is full.
3) This year, we are likely going to hit our max capacity (around 225
people), so register early, and reserve your room early. Registration went
online a few days ago, and people are registering now.
4) We will be doing a silent auction, Artist Trading Card swap etc.
And lastly - Ohio Paper Folders now sells origami paper to help fund our
community activities. Our store is online at shop.ohiopaperfolders.com with
over 400 origami and Japanese art papers (up to 32" art paper!).
If you run an origami group, contact John Scully at
jscu...@ohiopaperfolders.com for a wholesale login at 25% discount. We also
are allowing other groups to use "promo codes" and offer paper to their
members, and we will pay 20% as a donation to the group. Contact me for
more info
So far, this has gone very well. We hope to raise enough money to ship
origami kits to many children's hospitals, instead of the two we did this
year (about 400 kits).
