Cryptid Cat Conference: March 2009
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 4th, 2009
Mark Fraser’s organization Big Cats in Britain will have their third annual conference in March 2009.
The venue is at the Marton Country Club near Teesside and the dates are the 20th to the 22nd. Attendance may be one day, two, or the entire weekend. It is your chance to meet local investigators and friends, talk to key mystery cat researchers and discuss the topic openly.
Tickets are full weekend £25 and one day £15.
Some researchers will have display stalls. Authors will be on hand to sell their books also. Overseas researchers may have posters and flyers of their own research, which will have been sent to the conference.
The itinerary so far is given below (please note, a couple more speakers will be added).
Program will be available at the venue for a modest price.
Stands & Displays
BCIB display stands
Field equipment display – N/V cameras, hides.
Northumbria Mammal Group
Memorabilia
Books
After each talk there will be a five to ten minutes audience question time.
Friday 20th March
17.00 – 18.00 Staff set up at venue informal get together
18.00 Gather at hotel bar
18.15 Welcome and introductions – Rick Minter (to be repeated in the morning)
18:30 30 minute film show made by BCIB
Saturday 21st March
09:00 Rest of displays set up, registration & chance to view the displays
09:20 Introduction by Rick Minter – weekend’s itinerary
10:00 30 minute film show made by BCIB.
10:45 The East Kilbride cat with Jimmy (confirmation needed)
11:20 Tea Break
11:40 Jonathan McGowan
12:30 LUNCH
13:30 TBA
14:30 Eddie Bell
15:30 Tea break
15:45 Di Francis
17.00 TBA
Sunday 22nd March
09:00 Welcome and introductions by Rick Minter
09.30hrs: Dr Peter McCue
10.45hrs: Brian Percival & Sam Ingleson
11.15hrs: Tea Break
11.35hrs: Chris Hall & local witnesses
12:30hrs Lunch
14:00hrs Rick Minter
14.30hrs: Ian Bond followed by question time with the panel – (Researchers Panel: Di Francis – Eddie Bell – Mark Fraser – Dr Peter McCue – Ian Bond – Brian Percival – Rick Minter – Alan White – Shaun Stevens).
16: 30 Break
18:00 Raffle results and closing moments with Rick Minter
Rick Minter will be running workshops at the conference also, and Big Cats in Britain hopes to have the webcam running by then.
Stokesley Road
Marton
Middlesbrough
TS7 8DS
Tel: +44 (0)1642 317141
Fax: +44 (0)1642 325355
The Restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Light snacks can usually be ordered throughout the day. The restaurant is open to non-residents (non-guests).
Breakfast starts at 7:15am and takes orders until 9:30am. Choice ranges from Full English to a continental style.
Coffee and tea is served throughout the day, so why not drop in with a friend.
Most affordable lunches can be ordered from 12 noon until 2pm. Menus normally vary from a selection of sandwiches to full a’la carte with an excellent choice of deserts.
Afternoon tea is served between 3:30pm to 5:30pm daily. Ranging from sandwiches, scones, toasted teacakes, cream cakes and pots of tea.
Dinner can be ordered from 5 to 9:15pm, Monday to Friday. On Saturdays, orders start from 7pm. The Restaurant offers a wide range of wines. Deserts are changed nightly.
If anyone has any problems with directions or need picking up from the train station, please do not hesitate to ask – ring Mark Fraser of Big Cats in Britain on 07766416211 (in the UK).
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
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