Registration is your ticket to three immersive days of full participation in the 2023 IA National Gathering, “Radical Reckoning: Invoking the Elements for Collective Change” in Providence, RI from Friday October 20 – Sunday October 22, 2023.

  • Access to all programming:
    • Concurrent Sessions
    • Opening and Closing Plenaries
    • Creative Activities
    • Friday Reception
    • Access and transportation to Community-hosted Site Visits on Saturday
  • Complimentary breakfast, coffee/tea service, and lunches
  • Refreshments and appetizers at Friday Reception
  • IA lanyard and tote bag with printed program and Providence “swag” 
  • Optional transportation to Gathering sites 

As a member benefit, faculty and staff at IA Member Institutions can access reduced registration rates and each IA Member Institution receives one free registration. If your institution is not a member, contact IA at connect@imaginingamerica.org.

Registration Types and Rates

  • IA Member: You are faculty or staff at an IA member higher education institution. Not sure if your institution is a member? Find out here.
  • Non-Member Higher Education: You are faculty or staff at a non-member higher education institution, or you work in a higher education adjacent professional organization.
  • Sustainer: You work at a private business or foundation. Or, you are an individual who can afford the full sustainer rate.

If the registration types listed above do not apply to you, please select the reduced registration rate below that best matches your professional and financial situation. These rates are designed to support participation from our diverse network of collaborators and being honest in this selection allows us to subsidize reduced rates for students, community members, and independent creatives and organizers. 

  • Advocate: You work at an organization, governmental body, non-profit, or independently with resources to attend conferences.
  • Friend: You are an independent creative or organizer, or you work at a small, grassroots organization with limited resources to attend conferences.
  • Student: You are an enrolled student at any educational institution.

Registration Discounts

  • IA Member Discount and One Free Registration (members only)
    As a benefit of IA membership, each member institution is entitled to discounted registration rates, as well as one free registration. The decision about how to use this one free registration is left to the discretion of the member campus liaisons who receive the promo code. You can find a list of all IA member institutions here. If you do not know your campus liaisons, please email gathering@imaginingamerica.org.
  • Early Bird Discount – EXTENDED!!
    Available to all through August 15, 2023 August 27, 2023.
  • Team Discount – Buy 4, Get 1 Free
    Team discounts encourage the participation of institutional and campus-community teams. Teams receive one free registration for every four individuals registered from the same institution (or from collaborating partner organizations). This discount is valid for both member and non-member institutions. To receive the fifth free registration (applied to the lowest rate), please follow the directions here.

View registration discount options as a PDF. If you have any questions, please email us at gathering@imaginingamerica.org.

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