August 1, 2024
5:30 pm
7:30 pm
Relax by the water after a day of pre-conference events or travel at West Palm Beach’s Lake Pavilion. Located at the end of the historic commercial corridor, Clematis Street, attendees will enjoy breathtaking views of the Intracoastal Waterway and network with conference-goers while enjoying light refreshments. Conveniently located to popular local restaurants, the Lake Pavilion is a great starting point for your evening in West Palm Beach. Attendees are also welcome to stroll down the Waterfront Promenade area and take in the music of Clematis by Night, an award-winning weekly concert series that happens every Thursday evening from 6-9 pm adjacent to the Lake Pavilion. Chill out South Florida style at this community event that has been attracting locals and visitors alike for nearly three decades.
Tickets for The Lake Pavilion Event are $30.
August 2, 2024
8:30 am
10:00 am
We will gather at the conference hotel to kick off FORUM 2024: Preservation Under the Palms. Enjoy a light breakfast and program featuring Erica Avrami, PhD. Dr. Avrami’s research and teaching extend the heritage enterprise beyond a practice focused on sites and buildings, exploring preservation as a form of public policy that functions across geographic scales and diverse demographics. She interrogates the intentions, processes, and outcomes of historic preservation in relation to social justice and the climate crisis, and seeks to transition heritage tools and policies toward equity, resilience, and decarbonization.
This event is included with full registration.
August 2, 2024
6:00 pm
9:00 pm
Friday evening’s event will immerse conference attendees in Palm Beach history and culture during a program and on-site reception at the Flagler Museum. When it was completed in 1902, the New York Herald proclaimed that Whitehall, Henry Flagler's Gilded Age estate in Palm Beach, was "more wonderful than any palace in Europe, grander and more magnificent than any other private dwelling in the world." During the last 122 years, Whitehall has been many things: a private home, a private club, a grand hotel - and for the last 65 years, a museum and National Historic Landmark. Stripped of nearly all its contents a hundred years ago, today Whitehall’s appearance is nearly indistinguishable from when it was completed in 1902. The story of the restoration of Whitehall and the recovery of its contents over the last 25 years is one of incredibly good luck, two dozen capital projects, and a lot of very hard work by a team led by the Museum’s Executive Director, John Blades. Hear directly from Mr. Blades about this work during his lecture titled “From an Abandoned Hotel to a Nationally Recognized Museum and National Historic Landmark.”
Tickets for the "Night at the Flagler" event are $45.
August 3, 2024
11:45 am
1:00 pm
Rosa Lowinger is the Founder and Co-Chief Conservator at RLA Conservation of Art & Architecture. Rosa has over 30 years of experience as a conservator of sculpture, contemporary art and historic buildings. She holds an M.A. in art history and conservation from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation, the Association for Preservation Technology, the American Academy in Rome and the International Center for Conservation in Rome (ICCROM). She is most well-known for the 2006 non-fiction book Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub. Her memoir Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair was released in October 2023 and is available for purchase through the conference registration website.
Tickets to the Saturday Luncheon are $35.
August 3, 2024
5:15 pm
8:00 pm
Join friends and new acquaintances at the conference hotel on Saturday evening to celebrate NAPC’s Commission Excellence Award recipients and FORUM Scholars. Short videos highlighting the good work of commissions around the country will inspire you to take lessons learned at FORUM and apply them in your own community. Stay until the end to find out which city will host FORUM in 2026! A light reception will follow the program.
This event is included with full registration.