About Winter-NET
FORBS began in 1994, when 10 professional actors were all hired to play SANTA CLAUS in the same TV commercial!
German catalog giant had just landed the
world's biggest supermodel (Cindy Crawford) for the cover of their
Fall/Winter catalog--
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to
celebrate, they planned the most ambitious TV commercial of all
time!
The shoot lasted nearly 13 hours, during which time they became such fast friends, they decided to get together (after their upcoming Christms Season was ended) to "do lunch". They had so much fun, they decided to do it again the following year-- and this time, a couple of them brought Santa friends they knew...
Fast forward THREE DECADES-- and their casual lunch has morphed into the oldest & largest event in the professional Santa World: our Sants Reunion now spans a full 3-day weekend & attracts the greatest Santas in the world!
Along the way, we have encouraged & supported the formation of local chapters to facilitate training & socialization among Clauses, old & new!
Eventually, of course, we began to realize that there were HUNDREDS of FORBS Clauses scattered around the country-- many in towns too small to support a second SANTA, much less the FIVE needed to form a chapter of their own...
And so, Winter-NET
was born!
The Challenges Of Spanning FOUR TIME ZONES!
In order to make these virtual meetings as convenient as possible, we tried just about every combination of scheduling possibilities: but ultimately, we discovered that MOST of the Christmas Community could join us on EITHER the first Saturday, OR the second Wednesday, of each month.
So Winter-NET meets twice each month:
- First Saturday Winter-Net meets at
11am (Pacific)
- Second Wednesday Winter-Net meets
@ 5p (Pacific)
