At 2:00pm on Saturday, 1 October 2016 members of the Portland Flag Association will be holding a public show and tell at Salmon Street Springs at Waterfront Park in Portland, Oregon. Everyone is invited to bring a favorite flag to show, and to tell why they find it meaningful.
Salmon Street Springs is located in downtown Portland at the intersection of Naito Parkway and SW Salmon St.
The Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Assocation (Hrvatsko grboslovno i zastavoslovno društvo, HGZD) will be marking World Vexillology Day at the Fifth National Congress of Croatian Historians (Zadar, Croatia, 5 through 8 October). For details, contact Željko Heimer.
The Chesapeake Bay Flag Association (CBFA) is a group of flag enthusiasts from the Mid-Atlantic US States (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia) and the District of Columbia. Founded in 1993 they have been a FIAV member since 1995. Visit their website at cbfa.vexillology.info. We are happy to have their support for Vexiday!
For 2016, three members of the group will be displaying flags from their collections:
The first Georgian National Conference of Vexillology and Heraldry will take place in Tblisi from 29 September to 1 October. Representatives from a number of Vexiday sponsors will be attending and are planning to commemorate Vexiday on the last day of the conference.
The conference agenda is also available (PDF). The conference is organized by the State Council of Heraldry at the Parliament of Georgia.
Welcome to our first Asian sponsor: the Indian Vexillological Association (IVA)! The Association was founded in 1995 and has been a FIAV member since 2007.
For 1 October 2016, IVA President Kambhampati Sanjeeva Rao will be exhibiting all countries’ national flags at his workplace in Nalgonda. Email sanjeevarao1963@yahoo.com for more information about the exhibit and the IVA.
The Polish Vexillological Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Weksylologiczne, PTW) was established in 1992 and has been a FIAV member since 1995. PTW’s website weksylologia.pl has a wealth of Polish-language content, including back issues of the society’s colorful newsletter, Flaga.
Here is their statement regarding Vexiday:
Polskie Towarzystwo Weksylologiczne celebrates Vexiday by inviting new members to join our association. Sign up at weksylologia.pl. We will hold a meeting and everyone sharing our interest is invited. To celebrate Vexiday we encourage you to hang out your flags from balconies to show your adoration for our joint endeavour-vexillology. Visit our website for more information.
Sincerely,
Krzysztof Jasienski
We are happy for their support and participation!
The Spanish Vexillological Society (Sociedad Española de Vexilología or SEV) is sponsoring World Vexillology Day, and will be observing it later in the month at their annual National Congress of Vexillology in Segovia, 22-23 October 2016.
SEV was founded in 1977, and their website www.vexilologia.org is a great Spanish-language online resource on vexillology.
The North American Vexillological Association – Association nord-américaine de vexillologie (NAVA) is one of the world’s premiere flag studies organizations. Founded in 1967 it is one of twelve charter members of FIAV.
The association publishes the scholarly journal Raven, and has made freely available online nearly all of its contents, including four book-length special issues that should be part of any vexillological library. It also hosts an annual meeting in various cities across the US and Canada; the 50th of these major flag conferences will take place in San Jose, California on 14-16 October 2016.
We are honored to have their endorsement and participation in World Vexillology Day.
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