Stage left -- Camp BCAMP to take place January 19 to 21

Camp BCAMP, the annual conference for British Columbia Association of Magazine Publishers, will be headlined by Sara Angel, the editor-in-chief of Chatelaine. The keynote address, sponsored by Indas Limited, takes place on Friday January 19, with various panels and sessions taking place on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21st.

The whole event takes place at Dunsmuir Lodge in Sidney. For further information and pre-registration (mandatory; deadline January 12) call 604-688-1175 or e-mail projects@bcamp.bc.ca. You can go the BCAMP website for further information. A weekend pass is $250 for members, $400 for non-members, or you can graze through various individual sessions. These include:

• Patty Osborne from Geist and Lisa Sweanor from BCAMP talking about how format and binding affect newsstand results.
• Karen Foss, of Canada Wide, publisher of GardenWise and BC Home magazines, Nick Noorani, Publisher, The Canadian Immigrant and Sara-Ann Pereira, Circulation Manager of NUVO magazine, talking about strategies for success in controlled circulation publishing
• John Barton, editor of The Malahat Review, Catherine Montgomery of the Canada Council and Mary Schendlinger an editor and consultant and senior editor at Geist, discussing different perspectives on applying for and getting grants.
  
• Lisa Whittington-Hill, the publisher of This Magazine, talking about how to keep government relations sweet.