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Conference Registration Packet

Dear Haviland Collectors,

We are pleased to send you the registration packet for our 2026 Indianapolis Annual Conference, which will be held from June 11 to 14 at the Embassy Suites Indianapolis North.

All of the conference details are in the packet, but we want to call your attention to a few items.

Just as we did last year, we are planning a conference presentation that will involve conference attendees. It is called “Our Favorite Bowls.” Haviland made bowls in many different sizes, patterns, and blanks. We are asking our attendees to share photos of favorite bowls in their collections. It might be just because they are in your pattern, or in a pattern or shape that you find appealing or different. You can even send photos of your bowls in use, if you wish. Please send photos to Karen Levin at hcifmemsec@gmail.com. Send as many as you wish, and please include backmarks. Photos on a solid background in a color that contrasts with the item are preferred.

All of our meals this year will be buffets.

The Benefit Auction is the main fundraising activity of HCIEF, which uses the proceeds to fund Archives purchases, scholarships, tour subsidies, and other educational purposes. It is also a lot of fun. We are thankful to the members who have been our donors year after year. If you are able to do so, please bring items for the Benefit Auction. Your cast-offs will be someone else’s treasures.

Please also bring items for the Sunday Show and Sale, even if you do not have enough for an entire table. We will have shared tables available, so bring as many or as few items as you wish. The Sunday Sale has always been an important part of our conferences, and we want to have enough sellers to make it a success again this year.

The tour will cost HCIF approximately $100.00 per person. As we are trying to keep the costs down for our attendees, the price of the tour is $80.00, with HCIEF subsidizing the difference as an educational expense.

The hotel does not have shuttle service to and from the airport. We will try to arrange transportation on Wednesday, June 10, via Uber, with the costs shared by the riders. Please let us know your arrival time, airline, flight number, and cell phone number, and we will do our best to arrange Ubers for small groups of members arriving at about the same time. Riders will be asked to pay for their shares of the cost in cash. If you plan on arriving on Tuesday, we will try to arrange small group travel from the airport. We will also try to arrange Ubers from the hotel to the airport for small groups on Sunday and Monday. More details are available on the last page of the registration packet.

We encourage you to send in your registration form soon. We request that you send in your registrations by April 30, 2026, but no later than May 21, 2026. This year, registrations are to be mailed to HCIF, c/o Karen Levin, 42 Cedar Drive, Wheeling, IL 60090. Checks are to be made out to HCIF. There is no PayPal option for registration payments.

Every conference registrant will receive a complimentary copy of Celebrating 150 Years of Haviland China 1842-1992.

We hope that you will join us at “Haviland in the Crossroads of America.” We look forward to seeing you, our old and new Haviland friends.

Very best regards,

The HCIF Board of Directors

Karen Levin
Registrar
Haviland Collectors International Foundation
www.hcif.org

  • Click   HERE   to download the 2026 Registration documents in pdf format.
  • Click   HERE   to download the 2026 Registration documents in Microsoft Word.
  • The conference will be held in Indianapolis, IN, from June 11 through June 14. Come early and stay late.
  • A regularly-updated list of conference registrants will soon be available in the Members Login area.