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• NFTGA Education Program on Cemeteries & Gravestones

  • When
    21 Apr 2025
  •  
    7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom (register to get the link)

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  NFTGA Education Program on Cemeteries & Gravestones
  

  Monday, April 21

  Starting at 8:30 pm EST / 7:30 pm CST / 6:30 pm MST / 5:30 pm PST

  Register to get the Zoom instructions for this virtual event

  
  

  The NFTGA is hosting two experts discussing cemeteries and gravestones:

  

  • Dr. Joy M. Giguere is an associate professor of history at Penn State York where she teaches courses on American history, medical history, the history of technology, African American history, the Civil War era, and the history of death and mourning. She is the author of Pleasure Grounds of Death: The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth Century America (University of Michigan Press, 2024) as well as articles in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. She is currently also the co-chair of the Pennsylvania AGS Chapter and the book review editor for Markers.

  

  • Dr. Perky Beisel is the current National President of the Association of Gravestone Studies and a professor of historic preservation and history at Stephen F. Austin University in Texas.

  This virtual meeting is open to all NFTGA member organizations, and if you are an officer for your local tour guide association, please forward the registration email invitation to all of your members. If you get an email about login information for the CTPA website, you can ignore it (unfortunately there is no way to disable these automatically generated messages).

  
  

  If you are unable to attend the live-stream, the recording will be available to watch for the following 30 days. If you have any feedback, including changing the contact information for future NFTGA Education Programs, please email Mike McMains (mike@tourswithmike.com) from the Chicago Tour Guide Professionals Association.

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• NFTGA Education Program with Fred Ferguson

  • When
    14 May 2025
  •  
    7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom (register to get the link)

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  NFTGA Education Program with Fred Ferguson
  

  Wednesday, May 14

  Starting at 8:30 pm EST / 7:30 pm CST / 6:30 pm MST / 5:30 pm PST

  Register to get the Zoom instructions for this virtual event

  
  

  
  

  For the NFTGA's next educational program, we welcome Fred Ferguson, President and CEO of the American Bus Association (ABA). He will discuss trends in the world of motor coaches and answer our many questions. 

  
  

  This virtual meeting is open to all NFTGA member organizations, and if you are an officer for your local tour guide association, please forward the registration email invitation to all of your members. If you get an email about login information for the CTPA website, you can ignore it (unfortunately there is no way to disable these automatically generated messages).

  
  

  If you are unable to attend the live-stream, the recording will be available to watch for the following 30 days. If you have any feedback, including changing the contact information for future NFTGA Education Programs, please email Mike McMains (mike@tourswithmike.com) from the Chicago Tour Guide Professionals Association.

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• Pre-quarterly meeting informal gathering for foreign speaking guides

  • When
    21 May 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Hilton Chicago lobby (720 S Michigan Ave)

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  Members Shirley Fastner and Leentje De Leeuw would like to invite all interested foreign speaking guides to meet at 4pm in the Hilton Chicago's main lobby by the fireplace, northend for an informal chat about the state of the business and comparing notes, ahead of the CTPA quarterly meeting at 5pm at The Revival.

  You can contact Shirley at shirleyfastner@hotmail.com for any additional information.

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• CTPA Quarterly Meeting at The Revival (In-Person)

  • When
    21 May 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    The Revival (906 S Wabash Ave)

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  CTPA Quarterly Meeting (In-Person)
  Wednesday, May 21 from 5:00-7:00pm
  The Revival (906 S Wabash Ave)

  Our 2nd quarter meeting is happening at one of Chicago's newest entertainment venues: The Revival! The event will take place in their improv theater space close to the one-year anniversary of moving into this Wabash Ave location (check out the Block Club Chicago feature). Here is the tentative agenda:

  • Mingling with refreshments.
  • An overview of The Revival and how your tour guests may be interested in the improv comedy events here, especially your student groups.
  • Dr. Greg Foster-Rice, Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago, is also the co-lead of the Wabash Arts Corridor and is here to discuss the stories about this dynamic arts program and how you can integrate the wonderful murals into your tour experiences.
  • An organizational update from your CTPA officers.

  
  

  Parking is available at directly across the street in surface parking lots at the intersection of Wabash Ave and 9th St. We are also working on potentially making the presentation portion of the meeting available virtually.

  
  

  If you register for this event and can no longer attend, please cancel your own registration on either the CTPA website's calendar or the WildApricot app.

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