THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16
4 – 6 pm
Registration opens
Reception and cash bar
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17
8 am
Registration, sales tables open
Continental breakfast, coffee & tea
9
Program begins
“Die Gedanken Sind Frei”
Dan Barker
Welcome
Sadie Pattinson
“South Carolina Welcome”
Herb Silverman
FFRF Highlights of Year
Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor
Chapter Welcome
10
Henry Zumach Freedom From Fundamentalist Religion Award
Center for Reproductive Rights
Nancy Northup
10:30
BREAK
10:50
“Money, Lies & God”
Katherine Stewart
11:30
Break, book signing
Noon BUFFET LUNCH (ticketed)
1:30
Ballroom, sales tables re-open
2
FFRF Legal Highlights Report
3
FFRF Legislative Highlights
3:30
Break
4
Forward Award
Dr. Maggie Carpenter
4:30
Emperor Has No Clothes Award
Mary Trump
5:15
Booksigning for Mary
6
Cash bar opens
6:30
Dinner
8
Clarence Darrow Award
Jamelle Bouie
8:45
Roy Zimmerman in Concert
9:15
Dessert reception
(concludes by 10)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18
8 am
“Nothing Fails Like Prayer” Breakfast (ticketed)
Moment of Bedlam
Freethought Invocation
“Let’s All Give Thanks” — Godless Gospel quartet
9
Ballroom, tables reopen
9:30
Major Student Activist Awards
Bailey Harris — “Out of God’s Closet Diane & Stephen Uhl Memorial Award
Eli Frost — Beverly and Richard Hermsen Award
10
Student Essay Winners
TBA
10:30
Break
10:45
Avijit Roy Courage Award
Mubarak Bala
11:15
Freethought Heroine Award
Chrissy Stroop
11:45
Break, book signing
Noon
Buffet Lunch
1:30
Ballroom re-opens
2
“Godless Gospel” song
3rd Annual Secular Legislative Panel
3
F.O.R.W.A.R.D.
Rep. Mickey Dollens
3:45
Break, book signing
4:15
“How to Save our Democracy”
Steven Levitsky
Book signing
6
Cash bar opens
6:30
Dinner (ticketed)
8
Drawing for ‘Clean Money’
8:30
An Evening with John Fugelsang
Book signing
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19
8 am
Coffee, tea, pastries
9
Business (Membership) Annual Meeting
11ish
State Representatives Annual Meeting
Disband by noon
