SayWhatClub

We love our conventions!

Our first New England convention will be held from July 30 to August 3, 2024, at the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel, One Monarch Place, Springfield, MA 01144. The hotel is centrally located in downtown Springfield, right across the street from the Memorial Bridge. It is within walking distance from the MGM hotel and the Casino and the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Suggestions for future conventions?

If you have a suggestion for a future convention, please let the Convention Steering Committee (CSC) know. We are currently looking for proposals for the 2025 convention site in the Midwest or South. All proposals should contain the following:

  • Name of location
  • Why it would make a good convention site
  • Transportation overview such as airports and ways to get around town
  • Possible hotel suggestions
  • Things to do
  • Local SWC members and willingness to be a local chair

Proposals can be sent to the CSC Chair.

Sponsorship

SWC Convention PARTNERS

Thank you, Sponsors, Vendors, and Providers for your generous contributions and donations, and for helping to make SayWhatClub conventions a time of learning, inclusion and communication with friends. SWC cons are empowering and we’re glad to have you a part of our events.

SWC Convention History

Back in the mid-1990’s founding members of the SayWhatClub met online and saw the benefit of connecting with others with hearing loss.  It didn’t take long to get to know one another and to talk about meeting in person. Thus, our annual SayWhatClub conventions were born.

Those first few years were more informal—1997 in Monterey, California, and a camp-out in Colorado in 1998—but the gatherings in years following became more organized and “official”. Below is a reverse chronological list of where we have gathered over the years.

  • 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia
  • 2022 Nashville, Tennessee – Program Book
  • 2021 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Program Book
  • 2019 Sacramento, California – Program Book
  • 2018 Saint Paul, Minnesota – Program Book
  • 2017 Savannah, Georgia – Program Book
  • 2016 Boise, Idaho – Program Book
  • 2015 San Antonio, Texas
  • 2014 Madison, Wisconsin
  • 2013 Williamsburg, Virginia
  • 2012: Salt Lake City, Utah
  • 2011: Baltimore, Maryland
  • 2010: Denver, Colorado
  • 2008 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 2007 Las Vegas, Nevada
  • 2006 St. Louis, Missouri
  • 2005 Clearwater Beach, Florida
  • 2004 Bloomington, Minnesota
  • 2003 Seattle, Washington
  • 2002 Alexandria, Virginia
  • 2002 Amsterdam, The Netherlands*
  • 2001 Chicago, Illinois
  • 2000 San Diego, California
  • 1999 Cape May, New Jersey

*SayWhatClub’s first International get-together!

Pictures

SWCers love to take pictures at the conventions! Take a look!