IPTW 2001Call for Commercial Exhibitors

The Preservation Trades Network is holding the 5th annual International
Preservation Trades Workshop (IPTW 2001) at Gateway National Recreation
Area, Jamaica Bay Unit, Floyd Bennett Airfield, Brooklyn, NY, October
26-28, 2001.

Because PTN is an organization centered on craftspeople, this annual
event will feature forty or more trade skill and craft technique
demonstrations, and as usual the watchword is “hands-on.”

This is NOT an event open to the general public; it is specific to the
interests and attendance of the working preservation trades.  If you
provide services or sell products to the preservation trades, or would
like to show your support to the preservation trades, then this workshop
may tie in with your marketing needs.

The demonstrations will occupy two 1930s-era aircraft hangers as well as
classrooms at the Ryan Visitor Center and an outdoor space – some of the
demonstrations at an IPTW can’t be held indoors.  In attendance will be
trades people, design professionals, apprentices and students,
contractors, and building owners.

The theme of IPTW 2001 is “Partners in Preservation.” This is an
extension of the IPTW 2000 theme “Convergence: Architecture and Craft,”
which promoted dialogue between skilled tradespeople and project
specifiers.  The theme of IPTW 2001 takes convergence into an
interaction in partnering.

To help support this event, and to provide valuable information on
preservation related products and tools; a series of exhibit areas will
be set up. Vendor spaces will be assigned on a first come, first serve
basis

If you are interested in being an exhibitor, please send a letter of
interest on your letterhead, with a description or catalog cuts of your
products or tools, by August 1, 2001.  A package of information will be
sent to you.

More information about this year’s IPTW is available at www.ptn.org, or
by contacting the PTN Manager at (860) 633-2854, through e-mail at
[log in to unmask], or by writing to Preservation Trades Network, Inc., 731
Hebron Ave., Glastonbury, CT 06033-2457.