Richard Aldorasi established the Philadelphia Handmade Paper Company in 1989. He has since continually conducted hands-on living history programs and art workshops in Turkish (ebru) and Japanese Suminagashi marbling, paper making, letter press printing, decorative paper, and book arts. Sharing his programs at numerous arts, historical and educational institutions, Mr. Aldorasi has displayed his expertise and experience as a teacher and artist with all ages and skill levels. As a working artist for 40 plus years, his talents go unsurpassed in handmade paper and marbling. Sharing and applying these ancient techniques while working with 100% authentic tools, Mr. Aldorasi provides an adventure into the world of art, as you experience history come alive.

“Create Your Own Silk Scarf” is one of Mr. Aldorasi’s most popular events. Price is based upon number of participants and number of scarves created.

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"Discovering your differentiation is the most important thing you can do for yourself - and your business.
- Michel Néray

If you’re a coach, consultant, business leader, or in any field where you have a lot of competition, a Michel Néray’s keynote, workshop or longer residency is the best thing you can do for yourself - and your business.

It’s easy to ask the question, "What makes you different?" But, how easy is it for you to come up with an answer that truly sets you apart? Your Essential Message is the most compelling thing about your business. It would make anyone want to do business with you, if only you could tell him or her what it is.

Michel Néray understands that when you are so talented and skilled at something, you don’t even realize you are doing it. It just comes naturally. That’s your Essential Message. Michel will work with you and your organization to help you discover what yours is. You will discover things about yourself that you never knew were so powerful and compelling. That confirmed, Michel will then help you to communicate your Essential Message in the most compelling ways. Under his tutelage, businesses have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled their marketing and sales results.

Michel Néray has a science undergraduate degree from the University of Waterloo, a second-degree black belt in Karate and an MBA from McGill University. He's married with three children, two dogs, two canoes and one motorcycle.

He also has over 25 years of experience as an award-winning copywriter, an Internet pioneer, a tradeshow pitchman and a senior sales and marketing executive. He has worked with major corporations including Honda, Volvo, Upjohn, Alias-Wavefront, Nikon, The Royal Bank, The Quaker Oats Company, Marathon Brokerage, Guardian Mutual Funds, Mackenzie Financial and many, many others -- big and small.

Michel has material to fit sessions from 30 minutes to 7 days, and can adjust his talks to your needs, even at the last minute. Because his material includes interactive exercises, however, shorter than 30 minutes just doesn't work as well. Most keynotes are between 60 and 90 minutes.

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Gigi Guthrie's talk will equip you with valuable information to fight chronic Lyme disease and its effects on individuals and families. Always remember: Chronic Lyme disease is treatable!

Gigi Guthrie's life changed profoundly when her young son and her mother both developed chronic Lyme disease and could not find a treatment to help them get better. Her husband, conversely, discovered a bull's eye rash, went to the doctor, took the prescribed antibiotic, and recovered quickly. When conventional medical therapies were not helping her mother and son to recover, Gigi felt compelled to learn as much as she could about Lyme disease--and where, how and to whom she could find or go for help.

This is not uncommon. Lyme disease is mysterious, smart and tenacious—and strikes each person differently. Conventional medicine does not have all the answers. Many insurance companies do not recognize chronic Lyme disease as a legitimate diagnosis.

Gigi's talk resembles her book Chronic Lyme Disease: Ways to Outsmart a Smart Disease, which is a compilation of conventional, as well as non-antibiotic, complementary, and alternative treatments being used today to successfully fight chronic Lyme disease and its associated conditions.

The value of inviting Gigi Guthrie to speak is that you will be listening to and speaking with someone who has walked and fought--and is walking and fighting--the Lyme disease fight, both personally and professionally. It took Gigi more than three years to find combinations of treatment that would work, one set for her son and one set for her mother. They as individuals and as a family then began and continue the journey back to health. Because Lyme disease is so prevalent in Connecticut and so many individuals and families suffer with it, Gigi Guthrie's psychotherapy practice is devoted almost exclusively to clients who suffer from Lyme disease, are a caregiver for someone with Lyme disease—or both.

Gigi Guthrie is an intelligent, knowledgeable and highly skilled woman, who also happens to be a gentle soul and a lovely person. You learn a great deal, but she doesn't pound you over the head. After Gigi outlines the history of Lyme disease, dispels myths, and talks about different ways of treating it, she answers questions and welcomes input about experiences people have had, treatments that have worked or are working for them, and diagnostic labs that are doing particularly good work. Essentially Gigi and her audience join in a mutual journey of discovery as they share together the most current available information on ways to outsmart a very smart disease, Lyme disease.

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How close are you to your dreams? Do you have any “buts” holding you back? In his signature program, No one can stop you, but you!, Walter Bond connects with each individual in his audience. Based on his book All Buts Stink! Mr. Bond’s presentation is packed with powerful insights on how to build healthy confidence, become a peak performer, dominate in your current role, and eliminate all excuses and point the finger where it needs to be…at yourself.

Winner of the Minnesota Meetings & Events Magazine’s 2006 Speaker of the Year Award, Walter Bond is a keynote speaker, business expert, and best-selling author who delivers a powerful message about how to overcome professional and personal challenges in order to move to the next level of excellence. His storytelling skills and deep insight into personal and professional success have captivated audiences around the globe. Walter’s presentations combine a sparkling sense of humor, intense drama, and wisdom that take his listeners on a journey of self-discovery.

The problems and challenges that beset corporations and individuals often seem overwhelming. At a time when the need for a practical and moral compass has become greater than ever, Walter gives a message of hope and a plan for action. His powerful but simple message initiates personal transformation that leads to greater professional and personal success.

Timothy D. Hillman, Ph.D.
Educator, Computer Technology Expert
“Parenting in the Internet Age: My Space, Your Space, Whose Space?”

“Without dialogue, without communication, without listening, without hearing, we are condemned to functioning in ignorance and lives sheltered from the truth of each other.”                       -Tim Hillman-

“How do we guide our children as they reach out to embrace the computer world?” It’s a question which confounds and concerns any parent—and today that means all parents.

Tim Hillman, author of Amazon’s No. 1 best seller on boarding schools, Behind the Walls: A Parents’ Guide to Boarding Schools, educator, computer ace, husband, and parent of three sons, age 19, 16 and 12, guides parents and students to answers that make sense to them. “No one gives you a handbook about parenting,” says Tim. “It’s a profession you figure out as you go along. What I do know is that changes demand that a parent be nimble and quick, while still holding on to basic parent skills.”

Any parent of a pre-adolescent, adolescent or teenager has serious questions about the Internet—and particularly about My Space, the social networking web site for kids which receives more traffic than any other site on the web. “The computer is the world itself and we have to understand it,” posits Dr. Hillman. “We bring our children into the world and we, as parents, need to know how to guide them as they go out and embrace the world and the computer world.”

“The problem,” states Tim Hillman, “is that parents have no idea what lines to draw because we are living in a time of paradox. Boundaries are falling around us yet it is essential to have boundaries because only within boundaries do we discover our potential and our freedom.”

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Brenda Marie Osbey is by nature witty, inquisitive and deeply tuned to the human condition in all its vagaries, mysteries and earthiness. Audiences are in for a treat when she marries her dramatic flair and mellifluous voice to her readings and presentations. No dull monotone coming out of this talented woman’s mouth! In addition to readings of poetry and prose (creative nonfiction), Brenda Marie Osbey speaks on New Orleans cultural history, expression and identity, and also lectures on Afro-francophone poetry; poetry in translation; and a number of topics in American literatures: African American, Caribbean, Native American (including Aztec and Toltec poetry), Latin American and Brazilian. Bi-lingual, Ms. Osbey can give a presentation in either English or French.

Brenda Marie Osbey is the author of All Saints: New and Selected Poems (LSU Press, 1997, 1999, 2005), which received the 1998 American Book Award, as well as of Desperate Circumstances, Dangerous Woman (Story Line Press, 1991); In These Houses (Wesleyan University Press, 1988); and Ceremony for Minneconjoux (Callaloo Poetry Series; 1983, University Press of Virginia, 1985).

If you wish to get a feeling for this fascinating poet’s mind and scope of knowledge, try to gain access to her essay, “Writing Home,” which was published in the Spring 2008 Southern Literary Journal (Volume XL, No. 2). That and her poems will entice you, we believe, to want to hear Brenda Marie Osbey in person.

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Mary Bosrock is the founder and CEO of International Education Systems. She is also the author and publisher of the Put Your Best Foot Forward books, an award-winning series on cross-cultural communication and behavior, as well as her newest books, Asian Business Customs and Manners and European Business Customs and Manners. The Put Your Best Foot Forward series has been published in Polish, Chinese, Russian and Thai.

Ms. Bosrock’s expertise comes from extensive international experience. She is a former editor of Foreign Trade magazine. As glasnost was unfolding, her travels took her to the Soviet Union. She was present when the Berlin Wall came down and in Hong Kong when the handover took place. During the evolutionary period of the 80’s, Mary worked in China. She spent the summer of 2002 traveling and working in the Middle East.

A featured speaker and consultant to multinational corporations and organizations, Ms. Bosrock is known for her informative and entertaining style of discussing customs and practices around the world. She speaks at conferences and conventions and presents a training program on globalization. Her audiences have included such prominent organizations as Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research, Northwest Airlines, American Express, and the Association for Corporate Travel Executives.

Mary is a popular radio and television guest, appearing on CNN, CNBC, Fox News and A&E Network, among many others. USA Today said that “travelers will want to take along” the Put Your Best Foot Forward books. They have been endorsed by business and civic leaders such as former Vice President and Ambassador to Japan Walter Mondale, former Senate Majority leader George Mitchell, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Chairman and CEO, Carlson Companies, Inc., and former Chairman and CEO of American Express Harvey Golub.

Ms. Bosrock is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Masters of International Business School at the University of St. Mary’s. The Protocol and Diplomacy International Protocol Officers Association honored her in 2004 with their Spirit of Diplomacy Award for her longstanding work in promoting respect and understanding across borders. She also serves on the board of Africa Calls Today, the American subsidiary of The Damietta Peace Initiative.

Gregory Stephens is the author of On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob Marley, now in its second printing by Cambridge University Press, which has aroused a great deal of public debate. It features a ground-breaking study of Marley, "Bob Marley's Zion: A Transracial 'Blackman Redemption.'" Also a teacher, public speaker, DJ, and activist, he has spent 20 years advocating and participating in diversity and equal rights issues; multi-ethnic art forms, and sustainable lifestyles.

In his talks Gregory Stephens says, "I am trying to help people develop a multi-ethnic sense of kinship, which is what King meant by Beloved Community, what Douglass sought, what the Bible means by One Blood, what Marley meant by One Love. On a very simple level, he talks about an expanded definition of what it means to be an American. By merely speaking from life experience, he connects to a lot of different people on this.

Further, he expands the notion of equal rights and justice to include environmental themes, equality for women, etc. He argues that our very survival requires not only multi-ethnic kinship, but kinship with the earth. Gregory wonders, "Where is the Creator, after all, if not in Creation? We cannot love our Creator and continue destroying creation, there is no line between the two. That is an approach to spirituality I want to pursue. "
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Evan Weiner is an award-winning journalist who has covered the gritty, pragmatic, dollar driven sports industry since 1971. He is among a very small number of people who cover the politics and business of sports and how that relationship affects not only sports fans but non-sports fan as well. Mr. Weiner began his journalism career while in high school at the age of 15 and won two Associated Press Awards for radio news coverage in 1978 and 1979. The United States Sports Academy inaugurated their Distinguished Service Award for Journalism in 2003 when they presented it to Mr. Weiner.

Evan Weiner is a weekly columnist for The New York Sun, a Sports Journalist with MCNSports.com, and also writes and contributes audio articles on baseball for 108 Magazine and does the "Off the Wall" series for the National Hockey League’s nhl.com.

As sports, media and business rapidly change, coalesce, and go global, Mr. Weiner consistently speaks with the owners, players, lawyers, elected officials and broadcasters responsible for this steamroller synergy. His book, The Business & Politics of Sports, slated for an updated second edition in 2008, contains over 100 of his columns written between 1998 and 2005. Evan Weiner’s daily radio commentary “The Business of Sports” aired nationally June 1999 thru June 2006 as part of Westwood One’s Metro Source.

An astute observer and persistent reporter, Evan Weiner calls the shots as he sees them and describes the power plays, players, media and political connections which rule the multi-billion dollar a year business of global sports. “The public,” Mr. Weiner suggests, “needs to be aware of the relationship between politics, government, the media and sports ownership. Americans generally view sports as fans and do not realize that hundreds of millions of their tax dollars go to big sports. It’s great to watch and report on a game, but democracy deserves more than a box score when it comes to scrutinizing the business of sports.”

Evan Weiner participates in electronic blackboard classes at colleges and universities across the country. A thought provoking speaker, he regularly speaks to colleges, universities, civic organizations and senior groups.

You can hear Evan's most recent guest appearance on Billy Sample and Vinny Micucci's January 5th "Baseball Today" program on Major League Baseball's www.mlb.com.

Frank Deford is among the most versatile of writers and his work has appeared in virtually every medium. In magazines, he is the Senior Contributing Writer at Sports Illustrated. On radio, he may be heard as a commentator every Wednesday on “Morning Edition” on National Public Radio and, on television, he is a regular correspondent on the HBO show “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.”

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Following upon the steps of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Marge and Gower Champion personified the romance of ballroom dance in MGM musicals, on Broadway, and on television programs during the 1950's. Ms Champion continues to direct and choreograph productions and teaches master classes at Jacob's Pillow. She speaks at colleges, museums, and special events on the history of dance in American theatre and the movies.
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Working with Peg Sherry you can learn the necessary skills for interesting, powerful presentations, interviews, teleconferencing and public speaking.

Speaking to an audience of one or to a roomful of people is an event that can raise the stress level of even the most verbal of us. From chairing a committee to a critical job or college interview to that "make or break" boardroom presentation to Congressional testimony, all too many people leave their verbal communications to chance.

Peg Sherry specializes in the spoken word. She has spent a lifetime helping people get their point across clearly, firmly and with confidence. With a unique system developed in the theatre, classroom and on the podium, Peg shares tested strategies and techniques you can use to master the aspects of appearance, content and style whether speaking one-on-one or to a group.

The end result is clarity, credibility, command and confidence!
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Randall Kenan has established himself as one of today's best non-fiction writers and also a fabulist of our times. Disarmingly humble and witty in person, he charms audiences with his profound knowledge of books and films. He is also both caring and thoughtful with the questions audiences ask him. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with a new generation of Americans confronting what James Baldwin called our “racial nightmare,” Randall Kenan in The Fire This Time (Melville House, 2007) asks, “How far have we come?” It is Mr. Kenan’s response forty-five years later to Mr. Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, one of the essential and galvanizing books of the American civil rights movement. Mr. Kenan's Walking on Water, Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Alfred A. Knopf, March 1999) is a profoundly moving and provocative account in the form of individual essays--both timely and enduring--of the thinking, feelings and lives of more than 200 African Americans in the nineties. His first two books, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, and A Visitation of Spirits, mingled myth, folktale, magic and reality.

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Neil Miller is author of Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok and In Search of Gay America. He traveled through small towns, rural areas, mid sized cities, suburbs and large urban centers in search of what it means and is like to be gay in America and overseas. He explores the enormous changes that are taking place in the lives of lesbians and gay men.
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Reagan Fletcher and his three colleagues Maryann Chach, Mark E. Swartz and Sylvia Wang comprise the staff of the Shubert Archive, which concentrates on the work of Sam, Lee, and J. J. Shubert, the company they founded, and the history of Broadway and the Shubert Organization. From its somewhat chaotic early days, the Shubert Archive has evolved into one of the most unique and valuable specialized research collections in the world. From this vast storehouse of theatre history and memorabilia, the Shubert Archive staff prepared and penned a magnificent book entitled The Shuberts Present – 100 Years of American Theatre.

Reagan Fletcher is an engaging fellow and experienced speaker. His talks reveal his encyclopedic knowledge of theatre, each of the Shubert’s legendary theatres, and the Shubert Organization.

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