Thursday, September 25, 2025

     
    4:30 – 5:00 pm Registration at the Drury Plaza Hotel St. Louis at the Arch

    Meet and Greet
    5:00 – 6:00 pm Dinner at the Hotel
    6:00 – 6:15 pm Isabel Uria and Suzanne Karr Schmidt – Welcome Statements
    6:15 – 6:30 pm Charlotte Johnson & Bill Harroff (site hosts) – A Special Welcome to St. Louis
    6:30 – 7:15 pm Simon Arizpe – Pop-Off: Season 2
    7:15 – 7:30 pm BREAK
    7:30 – 8:15 pm Emerging Engineer Prize Presentation 
     

    Friday, September 26, 2025

     
    8:00 – 9:00am Coffee and Pastries at the Hotel
    8:30am – 1:30pm TOUR: Curated Books at the Medical Library

    DEMO: Make-and-Take with Amy Lopez Naïve

    LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
    1:30pm – 2:15pm “What’s New” with Simon Arizpe – Presentation on his recent Pop-Ups
    2:15pm – 2:30pm BREAK
    2:30pm – 3:15pm Ellen Rubin & Larry Rakow – History of Meggendorfer Presentation
    3:15pm – 3:30pm BREAK
    3:30pm – 3:50pm Amy Lopez Naïve – New Works of Pumapapel Crafts
    3:50pm – 4:10pm Charlotte Johnson – Collection of Flipbooks
    4:10pm – 4:30pm BREAK
    4:30pm – 5:10pm Bruce Foster – Large Scale Pop-Ups
    5:10 – 5:30pm TBD
    5:30pm – 6:15pm OPEN MIC SESSIONS
    6:15 – 8:00pm DINNER on your own
    8:00pm Informal Show-n-Tell 

    Theme: SPEAKEASY – Pop-Ups After Dark (Location TBD)
     

    Saturday, September 27, 2025

     
    Until Lunch On-Site (& Virtual) Silent Auction open for Bids
    Until 6:00pm Voting: Meggendorfer Prize for Best Paper Engineers –Trade Publications
     PLEASE give your ballots to Ellen G. K. Rubin no later than 6pm
    8:00 – 9:00am Coffee and Pastries at the Hotel
    8:45 – 9:00am Business Meeting – Denise Price (MBS Treasurer) and Suzanne Karr Schmidt (MBS Board Director)
    9:00 – 9:45am TBD
    9:45 – 10:00am BREAK
    10:00 – 10:30am Maike Biederstädt – Selected Works
    10:30 – 11:15am Alastair “Ally” Low – Video Games & Pop-Up Books
    11:15 – 11:30am BREAK
    11:30am – 12:15pm Jie Qi – Chibitronics Presentation, Interactive Lights in Pop Ups
    12:15 – 1:15pm Lunch on your own
    1:15 – 2:15pm TBD: Panelists Discuss How to Build, Organize, and Asses a Pop-Up Book Collection – Open Q&A
    1:30 – 2:00pm Ellen Rubin – Animated Advertising exhibit – 200 years of premiums, promos, pop-ups
    2:15 – 2:30pm BREAK
    2:30 – 3:00pm Set-Up for Book Sales, Swaps, Signings
    3:00 – 4:00pm Book Sales, Swaps, Signings
    4:00 – 4:30pm BREAK
    4:30 – 5:45pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Book Detective: Unlocking the Vocabulary of  Meggendorfer”

    Julie Chen, Book Artist, Flying Fish Press

    5:45 – 6:00pm BREAK
    6:00 – 6:30pm Pre-Banquet Reception
    6-30pm – 8:00pm DINNER at the Hotel
    8:00pm Silent Auction proceeds announced / Meggendorfer Prize for Artists Book  Announced / Meggendorfer Prize for Best Paper Engineer – Trade Publications winner announced / Closing Remarks

    Sunday, September 28, 2025
    ALL DAY EVENT Post-Conference Tours and Activities [TBD]

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