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Provisional list of events

Wednesday 9

7:00 AM Exhibition Set-up
6:00 PM Judges meeting

Thursday 10

7:00 AM Coffee
8:00 AM Judgment
1:00  AM Judges Lunch

3:00 PM

Opening Ceremony  - Preview  of Florissimo followed by the World Orchid Show

6:00 PM

WOC preview party

Friday 11

8:00 AM

Exhibit opens to registrants (9:00 AM public opening, closes 11:00 PM)

9:00 AM

Plenary  Session   Dumont - Cribb - Chase - Hasegawa  Excursions

12:00 AM

                                                      Opening of the orchid art exhibition at the City Hall

3:00 PM

Stewart - Aveyrianov -  Hirtz

see lecture program for details

Beaune  (OT2)

4:00 PM

Tour of Dijon (OT1)

5:15 PM

Introduction to Burgundy wines and tasting : 
Mâconnais & Côte Chalonnaise

6:30 PM

Musical Cocktail hour - Charity Auctions
 

Saturday  12

8:00 AM Exhibit opens to registrants (9:00 AM public opening, closes 11:00 PM)
9:00 AM Discovery Session Scientific  Session Internet & Information Session Northern  Burgundy Trip  (OT3)
10:00 AM Tour of Dijon (OT1)
12:00 AM Reception for speakers Editor's and Publisher's Lunch
2:00 PM Cultivation Round Table

orchids in 3D

Scientific Session Web Sites Judging
4:00 PM Tour of Dijon (OT1)
5:30 PM Introduction to Burgundy wines and tasting :Côtes de Beaune
Later Musical Cocktail hour & Burgundian Gastronomy evening
Sunday  13
8:00 AM Exhibit opens to registrants (9:00 AM public opening, closes 8:00 PM) Côtes de Nuits  (OT4)
9:00 AM Horticultural Session Pollination Panel Session
10:00 AM EOC Meeting
10:30 AM Tour of Dijon (OT1)
12:00 AM Judge's Lunch
2:00 PM

Conservation and CITES Panel Session

Discovery Session
4:00 PM Tour of Dijon (OT1)
4:10 PM OSG  Meeting
5:30 PM Introduction to Burgundy wines and tasting : Côtes de Nuit
7:00 PM Musical Cocktail hour & Medieval evening and concert
Monday  14
8:00 AM Exhibit opens to registrants (9:00 AM public opening, closes 8:00 PM)
9:00 AM Horticultural Session Biology and Nomenclature Session IOC - Meeting Dijon and it's delicacies (OT5)
10:30 AM WOC selection C. Meeting Tour of Dijon (OT1)
12:00 AM Lunch
2:00 PM Horticultural Session  
3:30 PM Synthesis and Closing Ceremony
6.00 PM Leaving  for gala Diner at the Château of Clos Vougeot
Tuesday  15
10:00 AM Southern Burgundy (OT6)
Wednesday 16

Discover the Côte d'Azur (Nice)  OV1 
16-19  March

10:30 AM Champagne one day excursion
Thursday 17

Paris & Versailles trip  OV2  
17-19 March

Monday  21

Exhibition dismantling

Tuesday  22

Departure of the Canal Cruise in Holland OV4  
22-26 March

Departure of the Gardens of Jersey. Wonders of St Malo & Mont St Michel   OV3  22-25 March