Out for Business!

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Sessions included:

• Getting to Yes: How to Win the Contract
• LGBT Supplier Diversity: Bringing Parity to Your Corporate Diversity Practices
  
• Strategic Growth & Development: Taking Your Business to the Next Level
• LGBT Business and the 2008 Election: Why You Should Care
• Women's Business Initiative: Women Leaders Roundtable
• Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch
• And Much More!
  

Click here to view the final agenda for the 2008 National Business & Leadership Conference!

Accommodation & Venue

The luxurious Hilton Minneapolis hosted the NGLCC 2008 National Business & Leadership Conference. 

What is the Spoon and Cherry?


The centerpiece of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, and an icon of the city, is the Spoonbridge & Cherry Water Fountain.

Created by famed sculpture artists Claes Oldenburg and his wife and collaborator Coosje van Bruggen, the utensil emerged - in humorously gigantic scale - as the theme of the Minneapolis project. Van Bruggen contributed the cherry as a playful reference to the Garden's formal geometry, which reminded her of Versailles and the exaggerated dining etiquette Louis XIV imposed there. She also conceived the pond's shape in the form of linden seed. (Linden trees are planted along the allees that stretch before the fountain.)


The complex fabrication of the 5,800 pound spoon and 1,200 pound cherry was carried out at two shipbuilding yards in New England. The sculpture has become a beloved icon in the Garden, whether glaceed with snow in the Minnesota winters or gleaming in the warmer months, with water flowing over the surface of the cherry and a fine mist rising from its stem.


There are over 40 sculptures in the garden but the Spoonbridge & Cherry remains one of Minneapolis' top attractions. The Sculpture Garden is an 11 acre park in Minneapolis and claims to be the largest of its kind in the country.

To learn more about Minneapolis, please visit our Minneapolis Information Page.

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