[CREATE] Pre-LGM 2011 activities

[ginger coons]

I've got Studio covered. In talks at the moment about logistics and what
level of support we can expect. Now we just need some people to propose
workshops :)

-ginger

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:40 AM, celine celines <celinecelines at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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!
>>
>>
>> Femke
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> CREATE mailing list
>> CREATE at lists.freedesktop.org
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Celinecelines
> http://celinecelin.es
>
> _______________________________________________
> CREATE mailing list
> CREATE at lists.freedesktop.org
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
>
>


-- 
ginger "all-lower-case" coons
adaptstudio.ca
647.865.7757 (Toronto)
514.213.1318 (Montreal)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/create/attachments/20110405/82e95b94/attachment.htm>