TABI News | 2010 Conference | 24/25 July, Birmingham UK

Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 July, Aston Conference Centre - Birmingham. Our Conference will take place in the Aston Business School.

Conference Aston is Located just off Junction 6 on the M6, 25 minutes drive from Birmingham International Airport and 15 minutes walk from New Street Station, Conference Aston offers a convenient and accessible location in the heart of vibrant and cosmopolitan Birmingham for your delegates travelling by road, rail or air. < from their website.


Bed and Breakfast is at £66.50 per night.



You do not have to stay at Aston to enjoy the fun. The Conference Centre is in the middle of Birmingham - you can make your own accommodation arrangements elsewhere if you'd prefer. Aston has accommodation to suit all ranges of mobility - be sure to tell them if you have special requirements.



Dinner is £21 - not including drink. Please check out the website details. Again you will book dinner at the same time as you book your accommodation. Dinner on the Saturday night will be at a specified time. Probably about 7pm. I believe that you can even book dinner here even if your accommodation is elsewhere. You will need to give details of any special dietary requirements.


Don't want to dine here? There are oodles of great restaurants in Brum, so feel free to organise diner elsewhere, if that better suits your pocket.



Friday evening - informal session in the bar 'My favourite thing about Tarot'. Can be your favourite deck (bring it along to show it off!), a spread, a technique, a book, an author, a shop, a forum - let's share our favourite Tarot stuff.

note - I will be posting back here with full details of the various sessions as the details emerge - so check back here regularly!

Saturday:

Registration 9.30 - 9.55 (welcome coffee etc)

Emily Carding 10 - 12 (15 min break for coffee/cakes etc) Emily hopes to provide a workshop based on her Transparent Tarot and Transparent Oracle and attendees will have an opportunity to apply their new knowledge.

About Emily: Emily Carding is the author and artist behind The Tarot of the Sidhe, The Transparent Oracle and the internationally acclaimed Transparent Tarot. She has been reading Tarot since 1997, when she bought her first deck, John and Caitlin Matthews’ Arthurian Tarot. Her interest in Tarot lies in the mystical nature of symbology and the power of images to unlock the subconscious, but is also fascinated by its usefulness as a tool for divination.

Her visionary art has also appeared in magazines and on book covers, and she has contributed essays to various anthologies on esoteric themes, including Both Sides of Heaven and From a Drop of Water from Avalonia Books.
Future projects include an illustrated children’s book and several collaborations with other well-known authors. She is currently working on the Neverland Tarot and a series of paintings inspired by the Qabalah.

Emily lives in the inspirational landscape of Cornwall with her husband, daughter and Albus Dumbledog.


Lunch 12 - 1pm - lunch is a fork buffet, proper sit down stuff :-) - 3 courses (I think)

Mick Frankel 1.10 - 3.00 - Tarot and Hebrew. Over the past year, Mick has created a course that helps with the Tarot/Hebrew link - there will also be a smattering of Astrology - to keep his die-hard fans happy!

(coffee break)

Barbara Moore 3 - 5pm - Knowledgeable and approachable, Barbara Moore has written many books for Llewellyn. See here for full biog Full details to follow

Saturday evening - in the bar - TABI auction and raffle, plus fiendish Tarot Quiz and general relaxation.


Sunday

Coffee and buns: 9.30am

Paul Hughes Barlow 10 - 12 (15 minute break - coffee etc) Paul and TABI member Catherine Chapman have recently published a fantastic new book about the Celtic Cross spread. Paul will be showing you the techniques covered in this new book - plus there will be an opportunity to buy Beyond The Celtic Cross and Paul's previous book Tarot and The Magus (both of which are excellent - Ali x)

12 - 1pm - lunch - same quality as Saturday's lunch

1 - 3pm Barbara Moore (15 minute coffee) - session details to follow ;-)

Finish :-)


You book your accommodation direct with Aston Conference Centre on
0121 204 3726 (note this is a new number)

OK - so I've given you the price of the accommodation, breakfast and dinner....but what's the price of the actual Conference?!

For TABI Members, for both days, including lunch, the Conference is £120.00 (£60 per day - you may come for a single day if you prefer)

For early bird TABI Member bookers - for bookings made by 30 April a 10% discount will apply - so you'd get £12.00 off the Conference price

(accommodation and dinner are not affected by the discount)

for non TABI members - the price for the 2 days is £130.00 (£65 per day. You may come for a single day if you prefer) and an early bird discount also applies - £10 off for bookings made by 30 April.

Places limited to 50

Accommodation and dinner - payment directly to Aston
Conference - payment directly to TABI

Xara will work out a way whereby you can pay the Conference part in installments to TABI.

Cancellations - see Aston Conference Centre for their cancellation terms for accommodation and dinner.

I'm sure that I've forgotten something really important, but can't think what it is......I'll post session details shortly ;-)

If anyone wants to ask anything about the Conference - and you are a member - check out the forum page. If you're not a member, but still fancy coming along to meet some like-minded people and to have a great Tarot-soaked weekend, please just post here or e-mail me.  See the top of the blog for e-mail details.

Ali