2022

NBS SHOW

SCHEDULE*

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Sunday, August 7, 2022

Noon – 3:00 pm       Creative Challenge Check-in

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm  Show Registration

Monday, August 8, 2022

9:00 – 11:00 am       Show Registration

9:00 am – 6:30 pm   Tray Check-in

8:00 am – 1:00 pm   NBS Board Meeting

11:00 am – Noon   Tray Slips for Sale

1:30 – 4:00 pm      NBS Classification Delegates Meeting

2:00 – 4:00 pm      Show Registration

2:00 – 3:00 pm      Program: “Introduction to the National Button Society”  

                                   by NBS President Lou Yeargain

3:00 – 4:00 pm      Creative Challenge Check-in

4:30 – 5:30 pm      Judges & Clerks Meeting/Training (Required)

6:30 – 7:30 pm      Cash Bar

7:00 – 8:30 pm      Welcome Reception and Program: “One of the Wonders

                             of Wisconsin, THE CIRCUS, and How it Influenced Button

                             Designs” by the Button Buds of Northeastern Wisconsin

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

8:00 am – 9:00 pm   Creative Challenge Check-in

9:00 am – 11:00 am  Show Registration

9:00 am – 9:30 pm    Judging

Noon – 2:00 pm  Judges & Clerks Lunch (staggered)

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm    Judges & Clerks Dinner Break (on your own)

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

8:00 am – 6:00 pm    Judging Continues

10:00 am – 4:00 pm  Show Registration

Noon – 2:00 pm  Judges & Clerks Lunch (staggered)

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm    Workshop:  “400 Years of Dorset Buttons”  by Jamie

                                 Young, Suzanne Proulx and friends

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm    Membership Classification Meeting 

8:15 pm – 10:00 pm   Button Bytes Gathering

Thursday, August 11, 2022

6:30 am – 10:00 am    Dealers Set-up

9:45 am – 4:00 pm      Show Registration

10:00 am – 5:00 pm    Showroom Open

11:00 am – Noon         Workshop:  “400 Years of Dorset Buttons”  by Jamie

                                   Young, Suzanne Proulx and friends

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm     Program:  “Satsuma Buttons and Buckles: Stories

                                   about Japan revealed through the artists' paintings,

                                  a program by Nishida Akiko and Nancy Bank Allen

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm     Judging Review

6:00 am – 8:00 pm     Cash Bar

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm     Auction Review

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm     Live Auction – Open to ALL

Friday, August 12, 2022

8:30 am – 9:45 am      NBS General Membership Meeting

9:45 am – 4:00 pm      Registration

10:00 am – 5:00 pm    Showroom Opens

11:00 am – Noon         Program: “History and Study of Goodyear Buttons” by

                                   Joy Worn with Sue Jordan presenting

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm      Program: “A Perspective on Enamel Buttons” by

                                   Karen L. Cohen

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm      State Judging Chairs Meeting

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm      Executive Board Meeting

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm      Cash Bar

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm      Dinner by Reservation

7:30 pm – 8:30 pm      Program: "Clowns & Kings & Fires & Rings” by

                                   Gary Brockman (Open to all)

Saturday, August 13, 2022

8:00 am – 9:45 am       Annual Breakfast & Awards

9:45 am – 2:00 pm       Registration

10:00 am – 4:00 pm     Showroom Open

10:00 am – Noon          Juniors: Craft a Circus

                                    Button Cart

12:00 pm                     Juniors: Pizza Party

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm     State Presidents Meeting  

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm       Program: “A Beginner’s

                                    Guide to China Buttons” 

                                    by Inga Ladd

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm       State Editors Meeting

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm       Juniors: 3 Ring

                                    Circus Challenge

4:15 pm                       Tray Check-out

4:15 pm                       Creative Challenge Check-out

*Schedule subject to change without notice.

Check this webpage for changes highlighted.

*Room selling is not permitted when the showroom

is open or when judging or other NBS events are occurring.