2025 Guild Show Special Events

September 9 - 14, 2025  |   Hilton Hasbrouck Heights/Meadowlands   |   Hasbrouck Heights, NJ

 

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Learn to Play Mahjong! with Ana Dan
Tuesday, September 9
6:30pm to 9:30pm

Learn to Play Mahjong! Instructions on Playing American Mahjong and Play.

How about a fun game of Mahjong in the Hotel on Tuesday night? A great way to meet new friends and have some fun! Please join us !

Grab some dinner and start playing at 6:30 pm.

IGMA Members $30 / Non-Members $40

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2025 Panel Discussion: Selling Your Miniature Collection
Friday, September 12
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Salon E

FREE TO ALL

Please join us for an informative panel of experts that will provide advice on selling your miniature collection.

Please register online for the Free Ticket. This will also us a better headcount for hotel staffing and room location.

Show it on your phone at the entrance table. Your registration confirmation will serve as your ticket. Don't worry you will also be on the list if you don't bring it.

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The Gathering of the Guild: Desserts & Demonstrations
Friday, September 12
7:00pm – 9:00pm

Be sure to join us for this popular event on Friday evening. We will be offering complimentary desserts, while you visit our artists demonstrating their crafts, catch up with friends, and enjoy this casual and fun event!

Our wonderful demonstrators coming soon!

Complimentary Event: FREE to all Members and Non-Members

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Guild Show Preview
Saturday, September 13
8:30 - 10:30am

Early admission before the general public to purchase the unique and exquisite items handmade by our Artisans and Fellows.

$30 IGMA Members and $40 Guests (includes 2-day admission).

IGMA Member Preview Ticket

Guest Preview Ticket

 

Live Auction of Fine Miniatures
Saturday, September 13
5:00pm

Social Hour/Cash Bar & Live Auction

Don’t miss the opportunity to bid on and win some wonderful miniature items for your collection!

If you are interested in donating to the Guild Auction, click here for more information.

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Silent Auctions
Friday 7:00pm – 8:15pm
Saturday 11:00am – 12:30pm and 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Sunday 11:00am – 12:30pm

How Does a Silent Auction Work?

At a silent auction, each item has its own specific bid sheet where guests can place their bids. When the time is up, the last and highest bidder wins! Check out and get your item at the end of the sale.

Sit Down Dinner and Speaker Darren Scala of "Meet the Miniaturist!"
Saturday, September 13
6:30pm

We are pleased to announce that this year's Guild Show Dinner Speaker will be Darren Scala. Darren is no stranger to the Guild, Guild members and artists and the miniatures community it serves; he is a former Board Member of the Guild and proprietor of D. Thomas Miniatures.

Darren's lifelong passion for miniatures as an art form has led him to a successful career in promoting the miniatures world through his online Meet the Miniaturist and MiniVersity series, discovering sought after tiny treasures for his popular estates sales and curating exhibitions of works in small scale.

Darren's dinner talk will discuss the history of miniatures in culture and media, and will focus on the birth of the modern fine art miniatures movement during the 1970s and 1980s that helped shape today's miniature currently enjoying a surge in interest, awareness and popularity.

 

Individually crafted plated dinner
  • Salad
  • Choice of Chicken or Vegetarian
  • Dessert
  • Freshly Brewed Coffee, Decaffeinated Coffee, Hot or Iced Tea

Your registration confirmation will serve as your ticket.

The last day to register for the dinner and speaker is Monday August 25, 2025. We need to give the Hotel an accurate headcount.

No refunds will be given after August 25, 2025 so if you paid and need to cancel please do so prior to August 25, 2025.

IGMA Members $64.00 / Non-Members $68.00

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IGMA Annual Meeting
Sunday, September 14
8:30am - 9:30am

You are invited to the Annual Meeting of the International Guild of Miniature Artisans.

See what this wonderful organization has to offer!

Meet the Board Members and New Artisans and Fellows.

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