CATHOLIC PRODUCERS, PUBLISHERS, & ARTISTS ASSOCIATION

A professional network association of Catholic and other Christian producers, publishers, artists, authors, and sponsors involved in performance and media development, production, publishing, and distribution.

PURPOSE

CPPAA is an informal network of Catholic and other Christian media professionals who get together occasionally to share their projects, both real and proposed. The goal is to stimulate ideas, create friendships, and find partners -- for the sake of Global Evangelization. The organization had its beginning in 2004 when 8 video producers in S.E. Michigan met together for the first time and spent an evening of "Show and Tell."

Spring 2008 Networking Conference

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A Networking Conference is being planned for S.E. Michigan April, 19, 2008. Details below. Sign up below for e-mail notification. In your e-mail address book add "sdw AT stanwilliams DOT com" to ensure that our emails to you do not go to your junk or spam folder.

Join us and let's see if the association can evolve into a useful networking resource. There are no dues, only a small charge for the meetings to cover food. We gotta eat.

What: CPPAA Asociation Networking Conference

When: April 19, 2008 Noon to 8 PM (see schedule)

Where: St. James The Greater Catholic Church
New Mini-Conference Center
46325 Ten Mile Road, Novi, MI 48374
(Direction: From I-96 Novi Exit (12 Oaks Mall) 1.5 miles South to 10 Mile. Then 1.5 Miles West.)
MapQuest or GoogleMap for coming from other directions.

E-Mail Notices: Sign up below. (The sign up below is NOT the RSVP.)

Exhibits: We will have tables (6 footers) for anyone that wants one to showcase your stuff in the gathering area just outside the meeting room. No charge. (See RSVP):

Mass: We will break to attend the regular St. James Saturday Mass in the sanctuary. This will not be a special Mass just for us. (See schedule)

Easy Questions: Call: Deb Davis or Stan Williams: 248-344-4423

Complex Questions: Send a notarized email in triplicate to Stan and wait 30 days.

Registration and Cost: Pre-registration (by April 12) $20 per person (for food, lunch snacks and sit down, but not fancy catered dinner.) After April 12 and at the door $25 per person. Click on the registration button below to pay, and then send us an email as described below the button. It's the new CPPAA Two-Step Registration Dance.

This button will take you to a PayPal Site operated by Nineveh's Crossing. You do not have to be a member of PayPal. You can use any credit card, personal check (e-check), or you can join PayPal if you're not a member already.

You can also call the Nineveh's Crossing Customer Service (M-F, 9-5) at 877-606-1370 to register by phone. We will just take payment information over the phone. Please follow up with the email RSVP information below.

CPPAAA Network Conference Registration Step 1
Pre-Registration
(by April 12) - $20.00


RSVP: Please copy and paste the following list into your email and complete before sending to: sdw@stanwilliams.com

  1. Attendee Name(s):
  2. Company:
  3. Phone No.:
  4. Do you want a table to exhibit?
  5. If you want to present, what media playback will you need? (We will supply High Def 40-inch LCD, good component sound system, and Std Def DVD playback.)
  6. A short description of what you and/or your company does:
  7. Websites URL:
  8. Your email address:
  9. Your phone number:
  10. Do you want to do a show and tell (10 min. max) presentation: YES or NO (Delete one). Note: Your presentation's purpose should be to simply show and tell us what you've been doing, and if you want to ask, tell us what kind of partnerships you're looking for. Leave the questions for the networking time.
  11. Will you volunteer to do something before or at the conference to help it run smoothly? If so, what might you like to do? The hall-monitor and food tester positions are already taken. (DIBS!)

I will post registered attendee's names and organization on this site at the bottom of the page as they register.

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Conference Agenda

It's called an "agenda" because it's not a schedule.

Here's a suggested agenda for the afternoon, evening. Your suggestions are welcome.

11:00 AM - 12:50 PM: Arrive, Lunch Spread, Sign-in, Setup Tables, Network

12:50 - 1:00 PM: Welcome and Announcements

1:00 - 2:30 PM: Show and Tell 10 Minute Presentations

2:30 - 3:30 PM: Exhibits and Network

CONCURRENT:
3:30 - 4:30 PM: Confession Available

3:30 - 4:50 PM: Show and Tell 10 Minute Presentations

4:50 - 5:00 PM: Break and Move to Sanctuary for Mass

5:00 - 6:00 PM: MASS

6:00 - 7:30 PM: Sit-Down Dinner (Catered) and Networking

7:30 - 8:00 PM: After Dinner Entertainment — recording artist and inspirational speaker
Lorraine Hartsook who's flying in from Saskatchewan, Canada to be with us.

8:00 - 8:05 PM: Closing Remarks and Thank Yous

8:05 - 8:45 PM: Network, Break-Down, and Departure.



Pre-Registrations

  • COLLEEN HEFFERAN & JACQUELINE HEFFERAN
    Representing Tuscany Author & Theologian
    Eric Puosi, Ph.D.

  • AMY LEWKOWICZ
    The Dogma Dogs (et al)
    Producer
    Cincinnati, OH

  • DAVID & JUDY ARMSTRONG
    Catholic Apologist, Author, Coming Home Network Web Forum Moderator
    Melvindale, MI

  • TERESA TOMEO
    Radio Host, Author, Speaker, Holy Land Tour Guide
    St. Clair Shores, MI

  • CHARLENE HELEN BERRY, DIANE MARIE LEACH, LAWRENCE LEACH,
    Concert Artists and Performers in multiple genres
    Dulcimer Evente & In God's Image
    Plymouth, MI

  • TERRY HERALD, Composer, Producer, Arrange, Conductor
    Oakland, Michigan

  • AL KRESTA, Author, Speaker, Radio Host and President
    Ave Maria Radio, Ann Arbor, MI.

  • NICK THOMM, Producer, Host
    Ave Maria Radio, Ann Arbor, MI.

  • WEAM NAMOU, Novelist, Filmmaker, President of IAA
    Iraqi Artists Association (IAA), Sterling Hts., MI.

  • BILL McNANNEY, Musician, Guitarist, Songwriter
    RPM Solutions, St. Clair Shores, MI.

  • AL JACQUEZ, Singer-Songwriter
    One Voice/Measured Chaos, Ann Arbor, MI.

  • SALVATORE (SAM) DELIA, Concessionaire and Event Stager
    Sam's Specialty Sausages, Rochester, MI.

  • CATHERINE ADAMKIEWICZ, Author
    Bezalel Books, Waterford, MI.

  • HEIDI HESS SAXTON, Writer, Author, Publisher
    Christian World/Bezalel Books, Milan, MI.

  • MARIAN STROZIER, Multi-hyphenate Producer & Marketing-PR
    SCI MediaWorks, Ypsilanti, MI.

  • ELLEN FINN, Producer
    Nakota Sun Productions, S.E. Michigan

  • LORRAINE HARTSOOK, Song-writer, Recording Artist, Speaker
    L&L Music, Saskatchewan, Canada

  • STANLEY D. WILLIAMS, Ph.D., Executive Producer/Director
    SWC Films & Nineveh's Crossing, Northville, MI

  • MIKE SROKA, Editor
    SWC Films and Nineveh's Crossing, Northville, MI.

  • PAM WILLIAMS, Assoc. Producer & Co-Owner
    SWC Films and Nineveh's Crossing, Northville, MI.

  • DEBORAH DAVIS, Business Manager
    SWC Films & Nineveh's Crossing, Livonia, MI

  • (Your Name here)



Remote Reports Received From

  • SETH STARK, Director, Kensington Community Church, Troy, MI
    Seth directed and produced the popular DVD Common Ground: What Protestants and Catholics Can Learn From Each Other. He writes: "Last Thursday, our youngest child, our daughter Eve, was diagnosed with leukemia." Let's all pray for Seth, Eve, and his family.

  • KRISTEN WEST McGUIRE, Founder/Editor, Secretum Meum Mihi Press, Mother of 8
    Great Falls, MT
    Secretum Meum Mihi Press (My Secret is Mine)

  • RAYMOND LONG, JR., Writer, Screenwriter, Organist, Father of 10
    Detroit, MI.

  • DR. CHRISTINE A. MUGRIDGE, Writer, Producer, Speaker
    Sacred Arts Communications - Roma, Italia.
    Malcolm Muggeridge's Great Niece

  • SUSAN BAILEY, Song-writer, Singer, Publisher
    GrapeVine Magazine and Podcasts
    Susan's Music Site
    North Grafton, MA.

  • (Your Name here)



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