Conventions
FFRF has held conventions since 1977, one year after the group formed and one year prior to their official incorporation. The 2012 convention will be the 35th annual convention. The conventions typically include speakers, awards, “NonPrayer Breakfasts" with "moments of bedlam," and piano music by FFRF Co-President Dan Barker. The Foundation gives out several awards at its conventions:
Read more about this topic: Freedom From Religion Foundation
Famous quotes containing the word conventions:
“I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“Why does almost everything seem to me like its own parody? Why must I think that almost all, no, all the methods and conventions of art today are good for parody only?”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)