For statewide events lists, visit the HPO Facebook events list, Preservation North Carolina events list, or a December 2014 - February 2015 calendar of events and workshop and conference list courtesy of the Federation of NC Historical Societies.

2015 Advisory Council on Historic Preservation training schedule is now available Visit this page for registration details and pricing. Please contact Cindy Bienvenue at cbienvenue@achp.gov if you have any questions.

2015 National Center for Preservation Technology and Training workshop and event list is available here. 

February 9-12 Engineering for Historic Timber Framing Workshop, Natchitoches, LA. The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training is partnering with the Preservation Trades Network, the Association for the Preservation Historic Natchitoches, and the Friends of NCPTT on this workshop investigating the engineering issues facing historic timber structures. For more information go to this page.    

February 12 National Register Advisory Committee meeting, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, Department of Cultural Resources Building, 109 E. Jones Street, 3rd Floor Conference Room,  Raleigh.

February 18   Preservation commission training, Greensboro. The City of Greensboro and the NC State Historic Preservation Office are co-sponsoring a one-day training session to be held in the auditorium of the Greensboro Historical Museum, 130 Summit Avenue. Join HPO staff, commissioners, preservation commission staff, and interested members of the public for a day of training on key subjects such as meeting policy, procedures, ethics, and conduct; case studies of old vs. new wood; tours, and more. This training is free. Click here to register or contact Stefan-leih Geary by phone at 336-412-6300.    

February 21 Finding Your African-American Ancestors, 10:00 - 11:00 AM, Department of Cultural Resources Building, Room 208, 109 E. Jones Street, Raleigh. This session introduces research techniques for finding African-American ancestors prior to 1870 and will discuss slave laws during this time period as well as what materials are available at both the Government and Heritage Library and the State Archives. Admission is free. To register please visit the North Carolina Government and Heritage Library in person, call (919)807-7450, or email slnc.reference@ncdcr.gov. This program is part of the Saturday genealogy workshop series sponsored by the North Carolina Government and Heritage Library and the State Archives of North Carolina.       

March 18-20  NC Main Street Conference, Morganton, NC. View the complete agenda and register here.    

March 30 - April 2 National Main Streets Conference, Atlanta, GA.  With the  theme "TEAM Main Street: Teamwork and Entrepreneurship across Main Street,"  the conference will focus on bringing partners together to foster new ideas for building economic, financial, and business development successes. For the latest news and information, sign up for conference email alerts here.  

April 13 Harry Rosenblatt Memorial Speakers' Series, "Heritage at Work for All Generations: Project Snapshots of Preserving Places that Matter," 5:30 PM at Shepard-Pruden Library, Edenton. Reid Thomas, HPO restoration specialist, will be the speaker. For more information call 252-482-4112.

April 13-16 Mid-Century Modern Structures: Materials and Preservation 2015 Symposium, Drury Plaza Hotel in St. Louis, MO. Focusing primarily on the history, use, and preservation of materials found in Mid-Century Modern architecture, the three-day symposium will provide in-depth understanding of the complex issues associated with the preservation of these structures. Special emphasis will be on modern architectural metals, but presentations on other materials, such as concrete and curtain wall structures, will be included. The call for papers/posters and registration information can be found at this page.

April 15-18 National Council on Public History Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee. This year's conference is organized around the theme of "History on the Edge" and will offer a program of sessions, tours, working groups, keynote addresses, and workshops. Visit this page for more information and to read the full conference program.

June 17-19 National Rosenwald Schools Conference: Sharing the Past → Shaping the Future, Durham, NC. Riding the wave of the wildly successful 2012 Centennial Rosenwald Schools conference in Tuskegee, AL, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is partnering with the NC Department of Cultural Resources, Preservation Durham, the Conservation Trust of North Carolina, and others to sponsor a second national Rosenwald schools conference that will feature thirty educational sessions, poster sessions, field sessions at area schools, and other thematic tours. For more information in the coming months, see this page. Click here to sign up to receive conference updates by email.

Adventures in Preservation is a non-profit that offers trips to heritage sites around the world to teach participants conservation and preservation skills while helping conserve historic sites. Please see the schedule on their website for trips in 2015, including one in Virginia that features archaeology and preservation. Visit the organization's website for more.