10-1-2020 Invitation

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ATTENTION 'ALL' PORCELAIN PAINTERS:

The FLWOCP Retreat Team would like to personally invite you to attend the upcoming 2021 Porcelain Painting Retreat themed ‘Roaring Twenties’. The event will start on Friday afternoon, February 19, and end late Sunday afternoon, February 21. We hope you will save these dates.

The Canterbury Center is a spacious retreat facility located in Oviedo, just north of the UCF campus. It features lovely accommodations, Wi-Fi, delicious meals, a one-mile fitness trail, lake access, kayaks and canoes, 24/7 security, and a ropes course for any of you fearless painters! It offers us both a memorable and productive setting in which to enjoy relaxing, lots of painting and fellowship as well.  (*Please note the Canterbury link to see how they have been taking necessary precautions to protect its guests.) 

Overnight guests will be able to select one of two options which include six meals and two nights of lodging: $315 for a single occupancy and $240 for a two-person room, double occupancy. Day commuters will have options which are shown on the Registration Form. Our three fabulously talented featured artists include Paula Collins, Mary Gosden, and Jane Wright. They will conduct 6-hour seminars, 3-hour paint-a-longs, and 1-hour demonstrations.

Attendees will be encouraged to dress for Saturday evening’s social and dinner in the style of the Twenties. Wearing a hand-painted porcelain piece would be the icing on the cake! In addition to a silent auction, there will be a live auction on Saturday evening featuring unique items., etc. A special Friday evening program is being planned as well.

We hope you will join us for this exciting Roaring Twenties retreat. Since spacing is limited, please make sure you get your registration form in by November 2, 2020. Happy Painting! 

The 2021 FLWOCP Retreat Team

Co-chairs: Connie Lowery and Carol Pickler

Jana Filip, Dot Morley, and Lora Pearson 

•  Nation's wealth more than doubled between 1920 & 1929.
•  Women were nicknamed "Flapper" because of their bobbed hair and short skirts.
•  Women could finally vote, because of the 19 amendment to constitution in 1920.
•  Millions of women worked in white collar jobs as stenographers.
• There was new machines and technologies like washing machines and vacuums.
• During the 20's, the extra money was spent on ready to wear clothes and home appliances like electric refrigerators. In particular they bought radios. The first radio station in the U.S. was Pittsburgh's KDKA and it hit the airwaves in 1920. Just 3 years later more than 500 stations were in the nation. By the end of 1920 more than 12 million households had radios.
• Historians estimate that by the end of the decade, 3/4's of the American population went to a movie every week.
• Most important consumer product of the 1920's was the automobile. (The Ford model T cost just $260.00 in 1924.) In 1929 there was 1 car on the road for every 5 Americans.
• Jazz was the new music. People attended dance halls to listen and the tunes were carried from clubs, radio stations and phonograph records. (100 million records were sold in 1927 alone).
• The novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), "The Great Gatsby" chronicled the Jazz Age.
• In the 20's some freedoms were expanded and others curtailed. The 18th Amendment to Constitution, ratified in 1919 had banned the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors and at 12 AM on January 16, the Volstead Act closed every tavern, bar and saloon in US. This just drove it underground to illegal speakeasies controlled by bootleggers and crime figures such as Al Capone. (Who reportedly had 1000 gunmen and half of the Chicago police force on his payroll).
• Some Icons of the 20's: F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda  Josephine Baker Louise Brooks Coco Chanel Salvador Dali