First Narcotics Anonymous Public Relations Week

We are excited to announce the First Narcotics Anonymous Public Relations Week, scheduled for 3-9 June 2019. This event will take place the first week of June each year. The theme and slogan for this year’s PR Week is We All Are PR.

We encourage every area, regional, and zonal PR subcommittee to commit to at least one activity during PR week. We are offering suggestions, but we look forward to your creative choices of what works best for your subcommittee and your NA community. Whether your PR team is young or seasoned, rural or urban; whether you have just a few or many members, we hope you will all come together enthusiastically to increase awareness of PR service and of the NA recovery program.

Check out the PR Activity page, which will include a PR Week link where, we will offer ideas for t-shirts, samples of flyers and posters, and a link to local resources submitted by worldwide PR subcommittees: http://www.na.org/pr_act

If you’re seeking PR tools for your PR Week event, you may order from na.org and receive a 10% discount by [entering the code PRWEEK] [including the code PRWEEK in the comments section of your order].

If you have any questions, please write worldboard@na.org. Please take pictures of your activities, (bearing in mind that we cannot publicly publish photos of members’ faces), and send to pr@na.org.

PR MATERIALS DISCOUNT CLARIFICATION

Hello again. Unfortunately, in our excitement to announce the first NA PR Week, we were not as clear as we needed to be about the 10% discount on PR tools. During the period 9 March-31 May 2019, we are lowering the cost of PR tools by 10%. You will not need to enter a discount code in your order. We apologize for any confusion, and we hope the 10% price reduction on materials to distribute to professionals will help to support your PR Week events.

The PR Week 10% price reduction is applicable to the following items:

#2301—NA Membership Survey

#2303—European Membership Survey

#2302—Information about NA

#2306—NA and Persons Receiving Medication Assisted Treatment

#2307—Public Relations Pamphlet Holder (blue hard card stock)

#2308—PR Pens

#2309—PR tote bags

Please visit the Public Relations Activities webpage for more information and ideas about PR Week: www.na.org/pr_act. If you have any questions or concerns, please write to worldboard@na.org. And please send your PR Week photos to pr@na.org. We wish you well in your PR Week activities.

WNIRCNA XXXIV (2019) Online Registration is now open starting February 1st, 2019.   Please use the C&E Registration link on the left menu to navigate to the registration site landing page (http://wnirna-reg.org) or go directly to the WNIRCNA 2019 Reg Site via http://reg2.wnirna.org   To view more details about this convetion, please see the Registration Flyer.   Register by March 31, 2019 to receive the pre-registration price.

The IT Services committee at region will be changing location, the new location starting July 2018 will be held at Holiday Inn Express, 1620 Canyon Rd, Ellensburg, WA 98926 in the conference room from 10:30AM – 12:30PM On Saturday. This will be the location Regional IT will be meeting for the foreseeable future. If you have any questions feel free to reach out to the IT Chair itservchair@wnirna.org, or IT Vice Chair itservvicechair@wnirna.org

WNIRCNA XXXIII (2018) Online Registration is now open starting February 15, 2018. Please use the C&E Registration link on the left menu to navigate to the registration site or go directly there via http://wnirna-reg.org

Saturday January 20th, at 1 PM Location: Fort Borst Park, Kitchen #2.
West of I-5, Off Exit 82
Centralia, WA

• Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 2 PM – 6:30 PM Location: OSLC, 1015 Veneta Ave, Bremerton, WA
• for more info see events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/112672066116372/

Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 12:30 PM – 5 PM United Way, 401 N Young St., Kennewick, WA for more info see FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1674243419321104/

Jan 7th at noon in Spokane Location: Corbin Senior Center, 827 W Cleveland Ave, Spokane, WA. See the FB event for more details at: https://www.facebook.com/events/2045571605731814/

We know everyone is excited about WCNA 37, and we are happy to announce that the registration and hotel accommodations website will go live on Monday, 25 September 2017 at 10:00 am PDT! Links will be posted at www.na.org/?ID=wcna-index

PRE-REGISTRATION
There are many advantages to pre-registering, and one incentive is that all members who pre-register by 31 July 2018 (without cancellation) will be entered in a drawing for two (2) full convention packages, including registration and all WCNA special event tickets! (Does not include pre-reg merchandise.)

HOTEL OPTIONS
While we realize many people are accustomed to booking hotel rooms on their own, it really helps WCNA when you book rooms in our room block. As an encouragement to pre-register and book rooms in our room block, if you do so by 31 July 2018 (without cancellation), you will be automatically entered into a drawing for a free, three-night stay at one of the WCNA hotels. We will randomly select two pre-registrants and cover their room and tax charges for the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights of WCNA.

CONVENTION EVENTS
We are excited about having Mike Zito & Anders Osborne for the Thursday afternoon Blues Luncheon. They are a powerful blues force that will surely move your soles and your souls. We’ll provide more details about Zito and Osborne on the Convention Events pages; in the meantime, you can check out one of their videos at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WnAo4V8T7o

Join us for the Friday morning Jazz Brunch with Keiko Matsui and Euge Groove. Matsui is an internationally acclaimed pianist and composer who will pair up with veteran smooth jazz saxophonist Euge Groove. Check out these remarkable artists at www.keikomatsui.com and www.eugegroove.com and on our Convention Events pages.

Alonzo Bodden will headline the Saturday night Comedy Show, and he’ll be bringing along a few of his hilarious friends, too. Bodden is well known for his cynically good-natured social and political humor and as the winner of Last Comic Standing. Check him out at www.alonzobodden.com.

We’ve also confirmed artists for two coffeehouse events: Nakia and the Blues Grifters and Orchestra Fuego.

We’re very close to finalizing additional performers for the comedy show and concert, so we’ll provide updated information as it becomes available—but you need not wait to register. Special event seating assignments are based on your pre-registration date, not by the date you purchase the tickets. The key to getting the best seats is to register early.

BEING OF SERVICE
Interested in being considered as a WCNA main speaker or workshop speaker or want to participate in the WCNA 37 speaker evaluation process? We’ll make that information available on the website 10 October 2017.

We’ll have more information in the spring of 2018 on other ways you can help before and at the Convention.