The International Playing-Card Society


Calendar of Coming Events

Please note: Although we try to keep this information as up to date and accurate as possible, we cannot guarantee that all events will take place as listed here. For confirmation you should contact the organisers at the contact address given for each event. Please send any corrections, updates or additions to this calendar to Christian de Ryck at webmaster@i-p-c-s.org.

For clarity, meetings and exhibitions are now shown in separate lists.

Meetings

Date and PlaceEventDetailsContact
28th April 2012
London, UK
IPCS British Group Meeting Camden Head pub, Camden Passage, Islington, London N1 (underground: Angel). The pub opens at 12:00 but entry may be possible from 11:30. No earlier admission is possible.
Followed by IPCS Council meeting
Ann Smith
28/29 April 2012
Näfels, canton of Glaris, East of Zurich
Cartophilia Helvetica annual meeting Cartophilia Helvetica
17th to 20th May 2012
Darmstadt, Germany
BubeDameKönig annual meeting Associated with the meeting will be an exhibition of cards from the firms Frommann, Frommann & Morian and Frommann & Bünte.
For further details see the BubeDameKönig news page.
BubeDameKönig
14th to 17th September 2012
Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, France
IPCS Convention The ACCART and the Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer will propose a trading session in the French museum, many talks, a belote coinchée game session, a presentation of the museum's recent aquisitions and a dinner in Paris. On Monday, it will be possible to have a special visit of the collection of early playing cards housed at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Louis Badet
IPCS area representative and ACCART treasurer
20th to 22nd September 2013
La Tour-de-Peilz, Canton Vaud, Switzerland
IPCS Convention Hosted by the Swiss Museum of Games. Date and details to be announced.  

Exhibitions

Date and PlaceExhibitionDetailsLocation / Contact
From 9th June 2011,
Leinfelden, near Stuttgart, Germany
Werbung im Taschenformat
(advertising in pocket format)
Advertising on playing-cards, plus a cabinet exhibition of quartet cards featuring automobiles. Deutsches Spielkartenmuseum
Until October 28th, 2012,
Turnhout, Belgium
Tentoonstelling Poker
(Poker exhibition)
Poker ontstond omstreeks 1820-1830 in de VS. In de tweede helft van de 19de eeuw begon het spel aan zijn opmars in het gokmilieu. Vanaf 2003 nam poker een steile klim en werd snel een wereldwijde hit. De expo brengt de geschiedenis van het spel en zijn Europese voorlopers.
(Poker originated in the U.S. around 1820-1830. In the second half of the 19th century, the game began its march to the gambling society. From 2003 onwards, poker quickly became a worldwide hit. The exhibition brings the history of the game and its European predecessors.)
Nationaal Museum van de Speelkart

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Last updated 5th April 2012