GroundSpark
Scheduled to start Friday 3pm and will end Sat 7pm
400 artists expected, will program 1 stage, and will have a First Aid tent. Efforts also fro working with Marbles Museum and/or YouthSpark.
MusicSpark
Chico taking one venue at Riviera.
Bugfest will program their stage Sat until 9pm.
Steve Popson suggested getting in touch with Musicmaker. He will also contact Paul Siler to see if he has any interest.
Band Together was another suggestion.
BugSpark / BugFest
Jeff and Steve came from the Museum of Natural Sciences to fill us in about BugFest.
Bugfest is a giant deal: 20,000 people from 9 am to 9 pm with a main stage and includes eating bugs.
Since they intend to close down Edenton and take over half of the Capital, the suggestion was that SparkCon connect directly to it by taking over the other half of the Capital and some of Fayetteville Street. This could make for a really nice transition for pedestrians.
FashionSpark
Allison Beale has taken the reins and already made a lot of strides. Last year’s designers have been contacted and sent the FashionSpark footage up on the main site. 3 designers are already signed up.
Event is Friday at 8 pm on the main stage (main stage location TBD)
Marbles Museum is already reserved for FashionSpark on that Friday by Pam Hartley.
Bruce deBoer has requested being involved for photography. Alex Mengle for Videography.
StorySpark
Greg Behr and Billy Warden expressed their mission to “Celebrate Storytelling” on a variety of venues across town. They are making great progress and were encouraged to “build density” as much as possible, and to take a portion of the main stage on Saturday night. Recommendations included tapping SparkConners Stammer, using the City Museum to frame Oral Histories, and possibly work with local author Lee Smith.
GrafSpark
Organizer Matt Currin was not present but Gab Smith spoke for him. They are waiting for avenue to be selected. They plan to reach out beyond their own personal network and bring in new faces to the group. Paul Friedrich mught check into getting the Barnstormers out to the event.
YogaSpark
Lea Peace and Carsen Efivo presented their vision for a comprehensive weekend of free yoga and meditation. 30 people are in the group from 5 studios. Green space would be ideal - whether on the Capitol grounds or in Moore Square. They meet @ Helios Thursdays at 2 pm. SparkCon also coincides with International Peace Day.
SparkBazaar
Ty Beddingfield has interest building amongst various groups. THe Bazaar will require tents - which could work fine on Fayetteville Street. Ty wants more food involved this time.
DanceSpark
Katherine Ferrier discussed interest in starting this component. Ideas included having performances in various venues around town or evn having dancing tour guides. A performance scavenger hunt might be involved somehow. Schizophrenic Octopus should be connected with Katherine for connecting the breakdancing element. They are in search of good venues for dance.
GiveSpark
Heather Yandow presented a vision for combining all the sparks with an element of charitable giving. She also suggest a 1 hour workshop on a creative angle on collectively giving.
GourmetSpark
Not many updates here. Local breweries were suggested.
IdeaSpark
Heather Hesketh and Steve Champeon presented a concept for rethinking IdeaSpark and integrating with the tech crowd by working in other conferences like BarCamp and FooCamp models. An essential part is getting participants to hang out more - with things like lunch. A main focus will be social entrepeneurship.
GoSpark
Hopefully we will find someone to integrate various transportation modes for getting around SparkCon.
HealthSpark
Maurice wants this to be active but could not attend this week.
Other topics were touched upon that I missed here. Feel free to add comments on the rest.
