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:
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Famous quotes containing the word conventions:
“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)
“Art, it seems to me, should simplify. That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole—so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader’s consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)