ACA-NECA 2019 CONVENTION
SCHEDULE
(Subject to Additions and Changes)
Monday & Tuesday 7/15-16/2019 (Work team/Vendors)
8:00 am 10:00 pm Tank delivery, show & rental room setup/ display tank setup
8:00 am 10:00 pm Vendor Room Set up
Wednesday 7/17/2019
10:00 am 5:00 pm Vendor Room, Show Room, Tank Rental Room Set up
10:00 am 5:00 pm Art & Photo Show Tables, BABES silent auction tables
4:00 pm 7:00 pm Registration Open
10:00 pm 2:00 am Hospitality Room Open
Thursday 7/18/2019
7:30 am 6:00 pm Registration Open
8:30 am 3:00 pm Excursion 1- Old Sturbridge Village/Lunch
9:00 am 5:00 pm Show Room/Tank Rental Room/ Art Show/ BABES auction table Open
9:00 am 5:00 pm Vendor Room Open
3:00 pm 5:00 pm Sunday Auction Pre-registration available
3:30 pm 5:30 pm ACA Board Meeting
6:00 pm 7:15 pm Jim Cumming
“From the Hobbyist’s Perspective: Keeping and Breeding Neotropical Holy Grail
Cichlids in the Home Aquarium”
7:30 pm 8:45 pm Les Kaufman
“Holy Grail Cichlids and Their Roads to Salvation: Revelations from Recent Surveys of
the Lake Victoria and Lake Kyoga Systems”
9:00 pm 10:15 pm Oliver Lucanus
“Holy Grail Cichlids of Lakes Kivu, Mweru, Fwa and the Congo in their Natural Habitat
and In the Aquarium”
10:30 pm 2:00 am Hospitality Room Open
Friday 7/19/2019
7:30 am 6:00 pm Registration Open
8:30 am 3:00 pm Excursion 2- Mystic Aquarium/Seaport/Lunch
9:00 am 5:00 pm Show Room/Tank Rental Room/ Art Show/ BABES auction table Open
9:00 am 5:00 pm Vendor Room Open
3:00 pm 5:00 pm Sunday Auction Pre-registration available
5:30 pm 6:45 pm Jim Cumming
“From the Hobbyist’s Perspective: Keeping and Breeding the Holy Grail Cichlids of Madagascar and India”
7:00 pm 8:15 pm Wayne Leibel
“South American Acaras: Holy Grail Cichlids You Never Knew You Wanted... and Why
You Do"
8:30 pm 9:45 pm Adrian Indermaur
“When All the Endemics are Holy Grail Species: Cichlids of the Cameroonian Crater
Lakes”
10:00 pm 12:00 am BABES Auction
10:30 pm 2:00 am Hospitality Room Open
Saturday 7/20/2019
9:00 am 5:00 pm Show Room/Tank Rental Room/ Art Show/ BABES auction table Open
9:00 am 5:00 pm Vendor Room Open
9:00 am 10:15 pm Oliver Lucanus
"Holy Grail Crenicichla in Their Natural Habitat and In the Aquarium"
10:30 am 11:45 pm Paul Loiselle
“Searching Across Time and Geography for my Holy Grail Cichlids”
1:00 pm 2:15 pm Adrian Indermaur
“Holy Grail Cichlids of Lake Tanganyika”
2:30 pm 3:45 pm Larry Johnson
“Diving Lake Malawi: Finding the Holy Grail Cichlids”
5:00 pm 6:00 pm Social Hour
6:00 pm 7:30 pm Banquet
7:30 pm 9:00 pm Keynote Lawrence Kent “An Amateur in Search of the Holy Grail”
9:00 pm 10:30 pm NECA/ACA Awards Presentation
10:30 pm 2:00 am Hospitality Room
Sunday 7/21/2019
9:00 am 6:00 pm Show Room Breakdown
9:00 am 6:00 pm Tank Rental Room Breakdown
9:00 am 6:00 pm Vendor Room Open/ Breakdown
10:00 am 6:00 pm Auction (rules will be posted by late May 2019)
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This is an incredible lineup, and the schedule is designed to maximize everyone's opportunity to see every speaker! We are even arranging lunch carts outside the speaker rooms so attendees won't miss programs while waiting to get their lunch served in the hotel restaurants! And you won't have to starve either.