AAW symposium attendees ask when recorded videos will be available

AAW symposium attendees who paid their way to Raleigh are still waiting on the same practical answer: where are the recordings? In an AAW Forum thread sparked by Mike Novak, members said they could not find any video links on either the symposium site or the American Association of Woodturners site after the June 4-7 gathering at the Raleigh Convention Center.

Novak framed the problem plainly. He said he had gone to Raleigh for the event the previous weekend, believed his attendance should entitle him to the recordings, and then came up empty when he looked for access. That question quickly shifted the thread from complaint to service update, because other attendees were clearly wondering the same thing.

Dave Landers supplied the first useful timetable. He said the recordings usually take a couple of weeks to get sorted out and that the organization should send an email when they are ready. For symposium-goers trying to decide whether to keep checking the website or wait for a message in the inbox, that is the kind of detail that matters. Novak immediately thanked him, which helped close the loop for everyone who had been watching the thread without posting.

Kirk Amidon then widened the issue beyond one missing link. He said he had made several hard choices between demonstrations in Raleigh partly because he expected to be able to catch the videos later. That is the new reality for woodturning’s biggest event, where live attendance and delayed viewing now shape each other. AAW describes the International Woodturning Symposium as the biggest woodturning event in the world, and its standard format includes three and a half days of demonstrations, panel discussions, and special events.

The organization’s own recent event pages show that delayed access is not a one-off promise. For the 2024 AAW Virtual Woodturning Symposium, registered attendees were told the recordings would be available by email after the symposium, with viewing listed from May 26 to August 25, 2024. AAW also promoted livestream access to 20 demonstrations and later replay access, and the 2025 virtual symposium repeated the same basic model of livestreams followed by high-definition recordings at attendees’ convenience. AAW says members also get curated educational videos and other learning materials, which makes video access part of the broader membership value, not just an afterthought.

For the people who were in Raleigh and are now refreshing their inboxes, the thread answered the question that matters most: the videos were not lost, just delayed. The only remaining issue is the one Novak raised from the start, when the links will finally arrive.