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On a more pragmatic note, one unusual featme of
the Convention Center is the restrooms. Designed to accommodate the varying mL'\ of people at different events,
there are moveable walls which can convert fifty-four
units for use by either men or women.
The 2000 Annual Conference &
Stage Expo will include special events
and continuing programming designed
to attract a broad al~
ray of design, production and technology professionals. Plans include a
special 40th Birthday celebration, but that is only part of
what will make SlIT's first major event of the millennium a success.
The North Amelican theatre community will have its

Denver's own Tim Kelly will
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first chance to view tile United States entry in the Prague Quadrennial 1999, when tile geodesic structure is set up as a
special exhibit at Stage E.'\po. Tbe World ofDesign was produced by USITT \\itil Bl11ce Brockman, Malie Cloud, Dick
Durst and Arden Weaver as E.'\hibit Designers. Their intent
was ··to show the broad range of tile work of tileatrical designers in our nation" as Mr. Durst wrote in the catalog
which accompanied Tbe World ofDesign to Prague for tile
June 7 to 27 11m of tile prestigious event.
Design Expo, with its outstanding eXanlples of costume, scenery and lighting designs, will be adjudicated by
an exemplary panel of nationally- and regionally-recognized artists. Tltis panel will again choose designers for
special recognition as Pal·t of Design Expo. USIIT members can subntit their work for inclusion in Design Expo
which is held every second year.
Denver's own Tim Kelly, winner of the 1999 SlIT
Founder's Award, will again chair the A.J1 Auction which
raises money for the USITTlEdward F. Kook Endowment Fund. Art is already on hand for this
successful event, which in the past has featured
both silent and live portions \vith work by al·tists
such as Douglas Russell, Linting Tang, Carolyn
Ross, Sal'aIl Nash Gates and Desmond Heeley. The
A.J1 Auction is held every three years, so excitement has been building for a long tinle awaiting
its return.
Programnting, as always, is at the very heaI1
of the conference. Specific details al'e still being
worked out for another selies of blockbuster Professional Development Workshops to be held immediately preceding tile conference. There will be
more
than 150 sessions, covering the specific to
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the global, and they will be concentrated in meeting rooms at tile Colorado Convention Center.
Progranlming will also take advantage of nearby
facilities which will provide unique settings for
unusual sessions.
When not in sessions or at Stage Expo, visitors will find there is much to do within the city
limits and in nearby locations. Denver citizens
contribute more public money for the al1S than
any other American city, an attitude wltich is reflected in myriad cultural progranls offered in
perfornting and \~sual arts, museums and galleries. Shopping is upscale as well, especially in and
around tile 16til Street Mall \\~th its outdoor cafes
and hundreds of shops, restaurants and depm1ment stores along its ntile-long pedestrian walle
Denver has more college and high school
graduates per capita than anywhere else; has more
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baby boomers per capita tilan anywhere else and
tops the chart in libral)' cal'd holders. That is far
from Denver's frontier image, but it is actually fitting for the most educated city in the nation. *:.
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