2019 Summer Clay Camps

2019

Clay Camps

June 10 – August 16 | Ages 6 & up

Last summer, nearly 400 campers participated in our clay camps and we eagerly await another 400 in 2019!

We’ve got the perfect camp for your child, with 40 weeklong camps designed for all ability levels, ages 6 and up.

Fees for all camps

Fee for half-day camps: $175 (NCC members $165)* Fee for full-day camps: $315 (NCC members $295)*

*Unless otherwise noted, member rate applies only to children who are NCC members themselves.

Register online or by phone beginning at 10 am on February 5, at www.northernclaycenter.org or call 612.339.8007.

H H: Handbuilding or Sculpture camp. Students will make sculptures or handbuilt vessels using a variety of techniques. Students will not use the potter’s wheels. Great for kids ages 6 – 9.

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Join Northern Clay Center for a fabulous and fun summertime clay adventure!

Campers will expand their imaginations while accomplishing LASTING FEATS OF CLAY. Whether working with sculpture, tiles, or wheel-thrown pottery, students will learn to work INDEPENDENTLY AND COLLABORATIVELY in a small class setting with plenty of individual instruction. Camps are offered in a variety of themes (birds or dinosaurs, serving platters or ice cream dishes, giant vases or tiny garden houses) and they incorporate instruction for a variety of clay techniques—leaving PLENTY OF ROOM FOR EXPLORATION and decoration.

Half-day camps meet for three hours each day (from 9 am – 12 pm or 1 – 4 pm) and include a short break for snacks provided by parents and caregivers. Half-day camps do not include lunch. Full-day camps meet for 7 hours each day (from 9 am – 4 pm unless otherwise noted) and include an hour-long supervised break for lunch and non-clay activities. Parents should provide snacks and lunches for full-day campers.

Each camp is led by a teaching artist; on average, one additional teaching assistant is present for each camp. New camps begin each Monday, June 10 through August 12.

Please call to find the appropriate age and skill level for your child. Unfortunately, we cannot make exceptions to the published age restrictions.

W: Wheel camp. Students will work primarily on the potter’s wheel learning the basic techniques for creating handmade pottery. Ages 9 & up. Some camps are marked for students with previous experience.

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Hip to Be Square*

Throw Me How Much...

Flower Power Dino-Mite

Week 5 July 8 – 12

• Camps marked with an asterisk* are for students with previous experience.

• Other camps are generally for students ages 9 & up. Some camps are for older students. Please check the camp description to verify the age group.

Camps shaded grey are for ages 6 & up.

You Spin Me...#1

Super Bowl in the Summer A Royal Affair

Week 4 July 1 – 5 no camp 7/4

It’s All About That Vase

Teen Boot Camp* I Scream, You Scream For the Birds

5 Centers: Lift Off Doggone Good Pots Thrown Off Balance There’s No Place Like Gnome Clay Games

Jug Heads Just a Pinch

Set the Table...* Front and Center

Week 3 June 24 – 28

Week 2 June 17 – 21

Week 1 June 10 – 14

1 – 4 pm

9 am – 12 noon

Center of Attention If You Give a Kid a Cookie

Perfect Pairs Weird Science Monsters and Minions

Bowl Lotta Love

You Spin Me...#2

Articulture and NCC: Doors to Other Worlds First Year Potions Beautiful Wares...* Aardvark to Zebra Garden Tiles

Harry Pottery* Can You Handle Me? I Could Do That Blindfolded Castle Keepers

5 Centers: Shadows of the Night Quest for the Holy Grail Facets of Fun Kids, I Bought a Farm Winter in July

1 – 4 pm

• NCC will send confirmation of registration two weeks prior to the start of camp. If there is insufficient enrollment, we will cancel the camp, notify registered students, and refund all payments. This cancellation may occur at the very last minute.

• Unfortunately, we cannot make exceptions to the published age restrictions.

Week 10 Aug 12 – 16

Week 9 August 5 – 9

Week 8 July 29 – August 2

Week 7 July 22 – 26

Week 6 July 15 – 19

9 am – 12 noon

2019 Clay Camp Summary

Week June 10 – 14

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W 19CC01 Set the Table for Two or Twenty*

Throw a matching place setting on the wheel: plate, bowl, and mug or tumbler. Experiment with size, shape, color, and textures to create dishes for your family. Previous experience may be helpful, but is not required.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up W 19CC02 Front and Center

Great for beginners and intermediate learners — focus on how we start to throw a pot. Everyone will make and decorate several bowls, cups, or mugs.

Repeat students will refine their skills and try new techniques.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up W 19CC03 Jug Heads

Make mugs and jugs on the pottery wheel; then add eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair, and more to create awesome characters for your home. Be inspired as we learn from historical examples and use basic wheel techniques.

Time: 1 - 4 pm Ages: 9 & up H 19CC04 Just a Pinch

From a small ball of clay, pinch your way through the creation of your own vessels. Add a handle for a mug, or feet for a vase or planter. With a final pinch of color from an array of colored slips and glaze, finish your pots to become those you use every day.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 6 & up

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Week June 17 – 21

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W 19CC05 5 Centers: Lift Off

Going airborne in . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . 1! By glider, plane, helicopter, or rocket, leave your terrestrial constraints behind and take to the skies. Utilizing the multimedia resources of the five partnered centers, you will create aeronautically themed landscapes from your travels afar and models of the many vehicles to take you there. With your seatbelts fastened, and a course plotted, you will spend one day of the week at each of the partnered centers in the following order: Textile Center, FilmNorth, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, and Northern Clay Center. Please register through Northern Clay Center.

(Membership discount will apply to campers who are members at any of the five partnered centers.)

Time: 9 am – 3 pm Ages: 9 & up W 19CC06 Doggone Good Pots

Feed and water your pets in style! Make personalized dishes and bowls, fancy nametags, and even a treat jar for your favorite pets — real and imagined. Learn basic wheel techniques for functional ceramics and decorate with colorful slips.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up H 19CC07 There’s No Place Like Gnome

Create an entire gnome village for your garden or yard. Accessorize with other garden decorations such as borders, tiles, or animals. Students will learn coiling, pinching, and slab-building techniques.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 6 & up

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W 19CC08 Thrown Off Balance

Take the leap and let yourself fall off balance. Combine your wheel-throwing and handbuilding techniques to add coils, slabs, and knobs to your thrown pieces. Turn your work sideways and upside down to make a whole new kind of piece.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up H 19CC09 Clay Games

Learn the basic handbuilding techniques to create board games for your summer’s adventures. From a board for Tic-Tac-Toe and a container for your Xs & Os, to a game of your own creation, make the board and the pieces and get ready to play. Decorate your boards and pieces with colorful slips to make them your own.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 6 & up

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Week June 24 – 28

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W 19CC10 Teen Boot Camp*

Our best class for teenagers with intermediate wheel skills. Refine your throwing skills, learn new forms and techniques, and participate in constructive, collaborative evaluation of your work as a group. Practice what you already know and learn something new while you’re at it!

Previous experience required (minimum two wheel camps or documented participation in our Teen Pottery Punch Card program).

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 13 & up W 19CC11 I Scream, You Scream

Use the wheel to create your own set of ice cream party dishes! Create your ultimate sundae dish and decorate with colorful glazes. Complete the week with a frozen treat party. Lactose intolerant folks are welcome too!

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up H 19CC12 For the Birds

From the deepest nooks of the Amazon, to the sheer cliffs of Iceland, explore exotic and everyday birds of the world. Living or extinct, real or imagined…they’re all fair game! Create your own flock of colorful avian creatures.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 6 & up W 19CC13 It’s All About That Vase

How tall can you throw? We’ll start with basic wheel-thrown forms and build up from there! Make all types of towering vases and vessels by focusing on skills that will help you throw taller forms.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up 8—

Week July 1 – 5

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W 19CC14 Super Bowl in the Summer

Make all kinds of bowls on the potter’s wheel: cereal bowls, soup bowls, tea bowls, serving bowls, and even dog bowls! Finish your pieces by trimming; then decorate with colorful slips and glazes.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up Fee: $145 (Members $135) H 19CC15 A Royal Affair

Transport yourself to ye olde medieval times. Travel back to the days of yore to craft goblets, plates, and magical wands of clay to revive the times of wizardry and royalty.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 6 & up Fee: $145 (Member $135) W 19CC16 You Spin Me Right Round Baby #1

Use the wheel to create a variety of functional pots including cups, plates, bowls, and vases. Great for both beginner and returning students. Buckle in to get ready for a lot of good practice!

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up Fee: $145 (Members $135)

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Week July 8 – 12

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W 19CC17 Throw Me How Much You Care

Create beautiful gifts for the special people in your life — parents, friends, siblings, or pets. This camp will introduce basic throwing and decorating techniques needed to create heartfelt mementos.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up W 19CC18 Flower Power

Whether starting new sprouts, moving them to a spacious new pot, or showing off blooms in a vase — make pots for your plants of all sizes. Work on the potter’s wheel to make many forms; then decorate with colorful slips and glazes.

Time 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up H 19CC19 Dino-Mite

Working from pictures or your favorite toy dinosaur, create your own dino and its proper habitat in clay. Use a variety of handbuilding techniques and decorative colorful slips.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 6 & up W 19CC20 Hip to Be Square*

Pick up where you left off from your school art class or jump into another NCC summer. If you are feeling up for a challenge, we welcome you to join us in making fun, functional serving pieces that have been squished, pinched, paddled, tossed, trimmed, and tweaked into various shapes. Previous wheel experience recommended, but not required.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up 10 —

Week July 15 – 19 H

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W 19CC21 5 Centers: Shadows of the Night

The creatures and beings of myth, fable, and folklore are hidden behind a veil of darkness. Focus your senses and let creativity illuminate the unknown within your periphery. Spending one day at each of the five partnered centers, you will use an array of media and art forms to explore the creatures of legend or to create your own. Deconstruct enigma and set your creativity free while visiting the following centers in this order: Textile Center, FilmNorth, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Northern Clay Center. Please register through Northern Clay Center.

(Membership discount will apply to campers who are members at any of the five partnered centers.)

Time: 9 am – 3 pm Ages: 9 & up W 19CC22 Quest for the Holy Grail

Learn basic wheel techniques to make goblets and other feast dishes fit for a knight or queen at King Arthur’s court. Decorate with colorful slips!

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up H 19CC23 Kids, I Bought a Farm

Make a barn and all the animals to fill it. Cows, horses, pigs, chickens, and bunnies all have a place at the trough. Earn a blue ribbon in clay by sculpting and coloring a proudly Midwestern scene.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 6 & up

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Week July 15 – 19 continued

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W 19CC24 Facets of Fun

Get out your fettling knives and wire tools! This camp will introduce basic throwing and simple forms that will be transformed by the magic of FACETING! Your wares will be inspired by sparkling jewels, geological wonders, and geometric symmetry. Tired of the same old circles? This is the camp for you!

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up H

19CC25 Winter in July Escape the summer heat while exploring the best of seasons past and coming again. From snowflakes and the ice castle of your dreams, to polar bears and penguins, spend your week thinking cool and building even cooler clay creations.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 6 & up

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W 19CC26 Can You Handle Me?

Make pots with different styles of handles — mugs, pitchers, casseroles, and lids. Learn basic wheel-throwing skills and a variety of handle techniques such as coils, lugs, sculpted handles, and traditional pulled handles.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up W 19CC27 Harry Pottery*

This all-day camp is inspired by everyone’s favorite child wizard. Each morning, work on the potter’s wheel to make fantastic bowls and jars to hold all your potions. Then focus on other magical crafts in the afternoon. Great if you have some experience with clay wizardry, but also open to new muggles.

Time: 9 am – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up H 19CC28 Castle Keepers

Look to castles from myth and medieval times to create your own fortress. With mortar setting, bring to life the guardians of your castle. From dragons and gargoyles, to fantastical creatures, be sure that no foe gets through the walls of your castle.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 6 & up W 19CC29 I Could Do That Blindfolded

Campers, prepare for an experimental camp where the focus will be on chance and collaboration. You will practice throwing BLINDFOLDED!!!

Then we’ll learn to turn mistakes into magical pieces through a mix of collaborative and individual work.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up — 13

Week July 29 – August 2

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W 19CC30 Articulture and NCC: Doors to Other Worlds

Let no threshold go uncrossed during this week-long adventure as you explore cosmic worlds yet undiscovered. From the most far-reaching fantasy landscape, to the creatures that inhabit this newly found land, turn your science fiction dream into reality. You will spend mornings at Northern Clay Center working with clay while handbuilding and throwing on the potter’s wheel. Afternoons will be at Articulture, exploring with mixed-media, to bring your imagined realm to life. Students will walk 1.5 blocks, from Northern Clay Center to Articulture, with a chaperone over their lunch break.

Please register through Northern Clay Center.

(Membership discount will apply to campers who are members of either of the partnered centers.)

Time: 9 am – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up W 19CC31 First Year Potions

Take a spin on the potter’s wheel before starting your first year in potions.

Jump start your studies by making the potion bottles and ingredient jars to store your best creations. Mark them well using colored slips and notes on what they will hold for you.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up H 19CC32 Aardvark to Zebra

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Would you like to have a wild menagerie of pets to bring home with you?

Would you like to build places for them to live? OK. Through simple slab and pinching techniques, we can make you feel like Steve Irwin in no time!

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 6 & up

W 19CC33 Beautiful Wares, Beastly Skills*

Learn to be a BEAST on the wheel by making beautiful wares that will show off your skills: throwing and trimming, and handle, lid, and spout making.

Make your own pouring sets this summer for anything from tea to lemonade to cocoa, yes cocoa! You know winter’s going to come around again, don’t ya? Previous wheel experience recommended, but not required.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up H 19CC34 Garden Tiles

Lines, and tiles, and planters, oh my! Learn the basics of handbuilding to decorate your yard and gardens. With carving and layering techniques to adorn your tiles and planters, you can bring your outdoor spaces to life with stories and pictures.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 6 & up

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Week August 5 – 9

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W 19CC35 Perfect Pairs

One is the loneliest number, so let’s make two of everything! Make matching sets of cups, bowls, and more on the potter’s wheel so that you can share and use your creations with friends and family. Make your pairs match by decorating with colorful slips and glaze.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up W 19CC36 Weird Science

Start with basic throwing techniques, then home in on the anatomy of the pot.

Talk about weird science! Feet, mouths, shoulders, bellies, and lips! Explore various renditions of these “body” parts with a variety of trimming techniques and additive tricks. Investigate examples from NCC’s Sales Gallery, sketch out your theories, and then put everything into practice on your pots!

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up H 19CC37 Monsters and Minions

Use your imagination to make monsters, minions, dragons, or anything else you can dream up. Is your monster squishy or muscled? Scaly or furry?

Learn sculpture-making skills to create monsters of any shape and size.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 6 & up W 19CC38 You Spin Me Right Round Baby #2

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You know, “like a record, baby!” Use the wheel to create a variety of functional pots including cups, plates, bowls, and vases. Make whatever you want with this amazing tool that capitalizes on the magic of centripetal force! A great class for both beginners and returning students. Spin that table ‘round and get all the practice you can handle.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up

Week August 12 – 16

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W 19CC39 Center of Attention

Use the wheel to throw and assemble clay parts to make centerpieces, candleholders, bowls, and vases for your dining room table. Give pieces their final touches with colorful slips to fit perfectly into any room’s decor.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up H 19CC40 If You Give a Kid a Cookie

Use slab and coil methods to create cookie jars, serving platters, and cups to share cookies with your friends and family. But hey, you could also make a personal cookie jar just for yourself or a small pedestal platter for the perfect bedtime treat. Did you ever think about a mug that could hold your cookies and your milk at the same time? Why not? What will you devise to serve up sweet treats?

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 6 & up W 19CC41 Bowl Lotta Love

Create different size bowls for different purposes, from teeny-tiny to humongous-gigundous. Make your pieces on the potter’s wheel, then decorate and add fancy slips to each piece.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up

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Registration Information — Please Read Carefully Fee for half-day camps: $175 (NCC members $165)* Fee for full-day camps: $315 (NCC members $295)* *Unless otherwise noted, member rate applies only to children registered as members.

Register online or by phone beginning at 10 am on February 5, at www.northernclaycenter.org, or 612.339.8007.

Age and Ability Restrictions We work closely with instructors to develop optimal age ranges and ability levels for each class. At the time their camp begins, children must have reached the minimum age and ability level indicated. In order to ensure the success of our classes, we ask that you observe these restrictions when registering your children for camps. NCC makes NO exceptions to the ages or ability levels indicated in the descriptions.

When registering online, if you register your child for the wrong age group, the registration will be canceled and we will contact you via phone to secure your second choice. If you have questions regarding the age ranges for a camp, please call Northern Clay Center at 612.339.8007 to register.

Drop off / Pick up Check in will take place at the Sales Gallery desk on day one. Please enter through the main entrance facing Franklin Avenue. All other drop-offs and pick-ups will take place through the Teaching Studios door located on the west side of our building. Please be punctual with all drop-offs and pick-ups; do not drop off campers more than five minutes before the start of their camp. NCC does not provide day care or supervision before or after camps. There is free parking on the west side of our building.

Lunch Caregivers must provide supervision from noon to 1 pm for children registered in separate morning and afternoon camps or pay a $25.00 fee for NCC to provide supervision during the lunch hour. This option is available only to children registered for morning and afternoon camps during the same week. Caregivers must provide the campers with their lunch.

Snack Break Campers take a short break every day, so please pack a snack for your child and label the bag with their name.

Caregivers need to supply lunches and snacks for children in full-day classes. Please note: NCC’s facility is NOT peanut free. Please notify us three weeks in advance if your child has special dietary issues that would affect the other campers and we will do our best to notify other parents of the issue.

What to Wear and Bring Kids may get messy, so make sure your child wears appropriate clothing and footwear (sneakers are best; no opentoed shoes). For all camps, kids must bring a reusable bag to hold finished projects. We recommend canvas or nylon, roughly the size of a grocery bag. For wheel classes, we suggest, but do not require, a one-quart bucket (such as a large yogurt container) and an old towel.

Completed Projects Completed projects may be picked up one week after your camp ends; we will NOT call you when they are ready.

We strongly recommend that you bring your child with you to help identify their projects. Projects left more than four weeks after the camp ends will be discarded. If you cannot pick up your child’s projects by this date, please make arrangements for someone else to pick them up.

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Product Output Expectations Your children will be encouraged to create several pieces of clay art during class. You can anticipate that your child will have at least four completed works. Please make note: not all camps result in the same number of objects for campers to take home. Several camps are focused on ideas of production, while others are more experiential in nature, or require a longer investment of time and energy into more complicated wares and objects. Regardless of output, ALL of our camps aim to create a positive and memorable experience for your camper.

Instructors and Class Content All instructor listings are subject to change. Students can expect to make new work Monday through Thursday and spend Friday glazing. By the very nature of the material and the short tenure of these camps, some projects will not be glaze fired, but “once-fired” instead, rendering them decorative in nature and not for use to consume food or beverages. Class periods will include time for cleanup, an integral part of the process. Class descriptions are subject to change depending on ability levels of participating students.

Other Information Please note: due to the very nature of clay and the firing process, NCC cannot be responsible for any damage to work caused by poor construction or the firing or glazing processes.

Scholarships NCC has a small number of need-based partial scholarships for children. Please call 612.339.8007 for an application form. Applications can also be downloaded from our website at www.northernclaycenter.org.

Special Needs Signed interpretation is available for any camp. Please call the Center to request an interpreter at least three weeks in advance. NCC’s building is wheelchair accessible and is equipped with a wheelchair accessible potter’s wheel. The information in this brochure is available in large-print format upon request. To contact us via the Minnesota Relay Service, please call 1.800.627.3529.

Registration Information Tuition must be paid in full to hold your reservation. NCC will make absolutely no exceptions to age ranges indicated in camp descriptions.

To Register: register for your child’s class online; visit NCC during business hours, TWFSa, 10 am – 6 pm; Th, 10 am – 7 pm; Su, 12 – 4 pm; or call 612.339.8007. Payment may be made by cash, check, VISA, MasterCard, or Discover.

You may also send the registration form with your check or VISA/MasterCard/Discover number and expiration date for the full fee to: Northern Clay Center, ATTN: Clay Camp, 2424 Franklin Avenue East, Minneapolis, MN 55406. Make checks payable to Northern Clay Center.

NCC will send confirmation of registration two weeks prior to the start of camp. If there is insufficient enrollment, we will cancel the camp, notify registered students and refund all payments. This cancellation may occur at the very last minute.

REFUNDS: 100% of tuition (less a $15 processing fee) will be refunded if a student elects to drop or transfer a class no later than one week (seven days) before the day of the first camp meeting. A $15 processing fee will be charged if a student transfers from one camp to another. No refunds or transfers will be given with less than one week’s notice.

Tuition is not pro-rated. There are no make-up sessions.

Camps usually fill quickly, so please register early!

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