[CREATE] Pre-LGM 2011 activities

[celine celines]

Hello Femke,

Brilliant!

I was going to contact Studio XX, glad they are open to host workshops. We
can add a page on WP LGM about these workshops and describe them so that
people can register to them.

Awesome!
Céline

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Femke Snelting <snelting at collectifs.net>wrote:

> Dear Louis,dear list
>
> We've been thinking about how and what pre-LGM activities to organise in
> the weekend of 7-8 May.
>
> First of all: are there already any concrete agreements with Foulab? I am
> asking because StudioXX has agreed to make their workshop spaces plus
> equipment available for the weekend. It looks like the
> Let's-Talk-About-Tools-exhibition can take place at StudioXX as well (more
> news about that soon from ginger), so that seems convenient. In addition,
> StudioXX has multiple computers available, dualboot Ubuntu. What do you
> think?
> One of the spaces available:
> http://www.studioxx.org/newsletter/images/BanniereBulletin58.jpg
> About the exhibition and debate:
> http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/?page_id=2
>
> As for the program, we were thinking to host a maximum of three workshops
> (one or two on Saturday and one on Sunday) and to have the public jury
> discussion Sunday at 17:00 and vernissage of the exhibition Sunday at 20:00
> -- as close as possible to the start of LGM itself on Tuesday.
>
> We'd like these workshops to be a mix techniques, tools and concepts and
> they would run about four hours each. We thought it could be interesting to
> extend the "Let's-Talk-About-Tools"-theme in relation to the debate and
> exhibition. The workshops would be aimed at art- or  design students plus
> creative professionals interested in F/LOSS; a maximum of 15 participants
> per workshop.
>
> OSP is ready to take on one of the workshops (we're still brainstorming
> about what we would like to do and we would like to connect to one of your
> proposals), so ... is there anybody here on the list planning to arrive
> early that wants to take on a workshop?
>
> It would be interesting to work on the tools-theme through illustration or
> animation for example, but I can also imagine a digital Pattern Making
> workshop with Susan Spencer ... or something mixing imposition, binding and
> mapping with Tom Lechner ... or exploring the idea of manuals-before-tools
> that came up here earlier ... or ...
>
> best!
>
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> Femke
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