§ Friday, September 4 · Welcome Reception · Salons A–D
The Cultural Passport Challenge.
Your mission on Oldies Night: fill your passport with 12 entries — 8 signatures and 4 stamps — and drop it in the raffle drum by 9:30 PM. Every entry is a new friend; the passport just keeps score.
§ How to play
Four steps.
- 1
Collect your passport
Booklet and pen come with your badge at the Registration Desk, Friday from 2 PM.
- 2
Fill 12 entries
8 region signatures + 4 stamps during the Welcome Reception, 7:00–10:00 PM in Salons A–D.
- 3
Drop it in the drum
Collected 8 or more? Write your name on the cover and drop your passport in the raffle drum by 9:30 PM.
- 4
Win live
The winner is drawn before the night ends. Keep your passport afterwards — it's your souvenir of the weekend.
§ The 12 entries
Signatures & stamps.
8 signatures
One from each region
Find a member from each of our eight regions — Oma Iwere NY/NJ, Oma Iwere Florida, Itsekiri Association of Chicago, UIA DC/MD/VA, INA Houston, IANC Northern California, Oma Itsekiri Colorado, UIA Dallas Fort Worth. They sign a page and write their region beside their name.
Stamp 1
Culture & language quiz table
Answer a question at the quiz table run by volunteers in gold ribbons.
Stamp 2
Selfie with someone new
Take a selfie with someone you just met and post it with #INCUSA2026.
Stamp 3
Exchange an Itsekiri greeting
Greet a volunteer in Itsekiri — and get the greeting back.
Stamp 4
Visit the Year Two pledge wall
Stop by the pledge wall and add your hand to the bridge.
§ Also on Friday night
Icebreaker networking at 7:15 · the Oldies dance floor from 8:00 — Old School, Afropop classics and ’70s grooves · Best-Dressed of the ’70s Soul Train line at 9:00 with cash prizes · passport raffle draw at 9:30. Hors d’oeuvres and a premium cash bar all evening; the reception ends at 10:00 PM. Dress code & everything else →
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