Info resource and tracking for organizers
Gang,
We’re excited to announce a new effort for SPARKcon 2009 – a Yearbook! Beth and Britt are looking for your best 10-20 photos from each SPARK. Based on the quality and quantity of images, we can figure out the layout and amount of pages. Our intention is to give everyone a chance to relive their [...]
Mon, October 5 2009 » ArtSPARK, BazaarSPARK, DanceSPARK, FashionSPARK, FilmSPARK, GamingSPARK, GrafSPARK, IdeaSPARK, MusicSPARK, SparkCon09, StorySPARK, poetrySPARK » 1 Comment
There are not enough words in my vocabulary to describe how thrilled I was to work with all of you and to see each group accomplish such wondrous results over the past few days. Beyond a truly ambitious roster of events with record participation, we saw many people achieve things that really stunned the community.
Speaking [...]
Mon, September 21 2009 » ArtSPARK, BazaarSPARK, DanceSPARK, FashionSPARK, FilmSPARK, GamingSPARK, GrafSPARK, IdeaSPARK, MusicSPARK, News, SparkCon09, StorySPARK, bikeSPARK, notes, poetrySPARK » 1 Comment
Thans to all of you for your incredible work this year. This will certainyl be the best SPARKcon ever! Newspapers, weeklys, radio and TV have all been covering the event, so we’re hoping to have a good crowd this weekend.
Please note: we hope to have all of you at the kickoff meeting at 6 on [...]
Mon, September 14 2009 » ArtSPARK, BazaarSPARK, DanceSPARK, FashionSPARK, FilmSPARK, GamingSPARK, GrafSPARK, IdeaSPARK, MusicSPARK, SparkCon09, StorySPARK, YouthSPARK, bikeSPARK, poetrySPARK, yogaSPARK » 1 Comment
SPARKcon Photography Policy
Given the growing nature of SPARKcon, photography of the event will be organized differently this year. Cheryl Gottschall and Bryan Regan will be our Overall Photographers. Their purpose will be to capture a few great shots of the whole event. As a result, they will not be documenting each and every work, artist [...]
Thu, September 3 2009 » ArtSPARK, BazaarSPARK, DanceSPARK, FashionSPARK, FilmSPARK, GamingSPARK, GrafSPARK, IdeaSPARK, MusicSPARK, SparkCon09, StorySPARK, bikeSPARK, poetrySPARK » 4 Comments
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IdeaSPARK to Highlight the Community’s Best Ideas in Fast-Paced Kickoff Event
RALEIGH (August, 27, 2009) The organizers of SPARKcon have announced their IdeaSPARK lineup for SPARKcon 2009. IdeaSPARK will have a kickoff presentation at 7 p.m. on September 17 at the Marbles Kids Museum in downtown Raleigh. The event will also include a dozen [...]
Thu, August 27 2009 » IdeaSPARK, SparkCon09 » No Comments
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (download pdf of press release here)Henry Copeland, Adblogs Founder, is IdeaSPARK Keynote Speaker for SPARKcon
RALEIGH (August, 24, 2009) The organizers of SPARKcon have announced that Henry Copeland will be the IdeaSPARK keynote speaker for SPARKcon 2009. IdeaSPARK will have a kickoff presentation at 7 pmon September 17 at the Marbles Kids Museum [...]
Tue, August 25 2009 » IdeaSPARK, SparkCon09 » No Comments
“firestarter” initiatives to make SPARKcon a greener event
Members:
Matt Tendam (mtendam77@gmail.com)
Todd Delk (Todd.Delk@kimley-horn.com)
Ryan Cummings (rcdec@earthlink.net)
Michael Gilchrist (mrg123@earthlink.net)
The greenSPARK team has been working since our kick-off meeting on 7/2/09 to put the following ideas into motion, with the appropriate event tie-in and contact person in parentheses:
·Recycling stations (eventwide – Matt Tendam)
We are acquiring bins/cans/etc. to provide 4-6 [...]
Mon, August 17 2009 » ArtSPARK, BazaarSPARK, DanceSPARK, FashionSPARK, FilmSPARK, GamingSPARK, GrafSPARK, IdeaSPARK, MusicSPARK, SparkCon09, StorySPARK, poetrySPARK » 3 Comments
Below is the information needed for us to be able to update the public SPARKcon site with your events. It is duplicated in the sheet you should have received at the General Mtg this past monday.
Please post the information here at plan.sparkcon.com and email it to dave@visualartexchange.org
For organizational reasons please title your posts
xxxSPARK EVENT INFO: [...]
Thu, August 13 2009 » ArtSPARK, BazaarSPARK, DanceSPARK, FashionSPARK, FilmSPARK, GamingSPARK, GrafSPARK, IdeaSPARK, MusicSPARK, SparkCon09, StorySPARK, poetrySPARK » 7 Comments
We had a very productive meeting last night with Zeke, David, Rob and myself.
Venue
Marbles will be our location for ideaSPARK Sep 17 6-10 pm Presentation will start at 7 pm sharp. We’ll see if we can open the doors a little earlier than 6 as well.
Reception
We plan to have at least one local brewery [...]
Tue, July 28 2009 » IdeaSPARK, SparkCon09 » 1 Comment
These calls have been trickling in. Please help promote this wide set of calls to your own circles:
http://www.sparkcon.com/call-for-talent/
We will have another big push for “Calls” on July 1.
Wed, June 24 2009 » ArtSPARK, BazaarSPARK, GroundSPARK, IdeaSPARK, MusicSPARK, SparkCon09, StorySPARK » No Comments