Last years winning logo
The 8th Annual Penturners Rendevous will be held on Wednesday evening, May 5th in Provo UT. This year, as in recent years, it will be held at 7PM after the CSUSA Super Wednesday. We'll be having our gathering in the McKay Event Center. You can find a map to the campus here. The McKay Event Center is designated "MC" on the map. Plan time to park and find the room for a 7PM start. We will have a pen display, pen related vendors and authors, and demonstrations. At 9PM, we'll start the door prize drawings.
For those who haven't attended the event, it goes a bit like this. The Wednesday before the Utah Woodturners Symposium is the Craft Supplies USA Open House. There is a huge clearance sale at CSUSA beginning at 8am. There are demos all day long from 10 to 4 featuring many of the national and international turners in town for the Symposium. There will be a room with penturning demos as well. The CSUSA event winds down after 4pm. The Penturners Rendezvous begins at 7pm. From 7 PM onward are displays, demos, sales, and mingling. At 9 PM, the drawings for the door prizes b egin. They continue until everything is gone. Not long afterwards, the Rendezvous winds down as most attendees are going to be up early to attend the Symposium.
8 AM - Craft Supplies USA Open House Clearance Sale
10 AM - 4 PM - Craft Supplies Open House Demos
7 PM - Penturners Rendezvous at the conference site (details to follow)
7:30 PM - 9 PM Penturners Rendezvous Demos - to be announced
9:00 PM - Drawings for Rendezvous door prizes
Last years winner was Glenn McCullough. Design a logo for this years event and submit it. All designs will be considered. Keep in mind that the logo should leave room for the attendees name. Submit your design(s) before the March 15th deadline. You can submit as many designs as you wish. Submissions need to be in a jpg format. We'll have a vote on them and the winner will be selected. The winner selected will not only receive the glamour and adoration of the masses but will also win a prize worthy of their stardom.
If you are planning on attending the Rendezvous, we would appreciate it if you register ahead of time. This will allow us to do a better job of planning based on the expected attendance. In addition, pre-registration will allow us to make your personalized name badge with your name and the logo selected from the contest. The registration fee is $10 per person to help offset the costs associated with planning and executing the event. Vendor tables are available for pen making related product suppliers. Product displays and sales are encouraged. The registration fee for vendors is $50.
A great added bonus for those who pre-register! Not only will you get a personalized name badge for the event but Ken Nelsen from Kallenshaan Woods will have a laser engraver there to engrave your pens. If you are a pre-registered attendee, you'll get one of your pens engraved for free while you watch.
You can use PayPal by clicking the button below. Vendors can pre-register via PayPal using the Vendor Registration button below. Registration for the Penturners Rendezvous has no relationship with the Utah Woodturning Symposium registration. The last date to register online is Tuesday, April 13th.
We'll be having an on-site Provo pen display this year. The display will be prominently featured at the Rendezvous. Here's your chance to have the over 100 pen aficionados at the Rendezvous. Attendees are encouraged to bring their favorite work and display it on the table areas provided. You are welcome to bring business and/or contact cards to put near your work. While we welcome you to show your work and have your contact info available, please refrain from pricing or sales efforts on the display tables.
Logo Contest Submissions - Sunday, March 15th
Online Rendezvous Registrations - Tuesday, April 13th
You can take a look at photos of the event since it's inauguration in 2003.
The 7th Annual Penturners Rendezvous - 2009
The 6th Annual Penturners Rendezvous - 2008
The 5th Annual Penturners Rendezvous - 2007
The 4th Annual Penturners Rendezvous - 2006
The 3rd Annual Penturners Rendezvous - 2005
The 2nd Annual Penturners Rendezvous - 2004
The 1st Annual Penturners Rendezvous - 2003
Check back often for the latest information on the Rendezvous. While we'd like to have everything available now, we are still putting the details together.