NEWS & EVENTS
DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES TO PRESENT AT INTERNATIONAL ARTS CONFERENCE
Wintec CCI Director Cheryl Reynolds will be presenting her paper "Transforming Hamilton, Creatively: How to Change a City from a Cowtown to a Wowtown" at the Arts 2009 International Conference on the arts in Society in Venice, Italy, on Friday 31 July.
Information on the programme can be found here . For more information about Chery's paper visit here.
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PECHA KUCHA NIGHT
www.pechakucha.co.nz
Thursday 6 August 2009 | Gallagher Hub | Wintec | Anglesea Street |Doors open 7.00pm
Starts 7.30pm | $7 entry cash door sales (no eftpos) | Cash bar available
Lineup for August includes:
Grant Collier | General Manager SODA Inc
Gaye Jurisich | Multi media art practitioner | V8 Supercards, Pit Lane Art Projext
Fiona Mackinnon | Presenting images from her new book "ROAR"
Cameron & Lucy Kay | Avatar
'Pecha Kucha' a japanese term which roughly translates as 'chit-chat'
is an event in which presenters show a slideshow of 20 images, each of
which is shown for 20 seconds - giving a total presentation time of 6
minutes 20 seconds. The audience experiences an exhilarating range of
speakers and images over the course of the evening, and there's also
music, drinking and the inevitable exchange of ideas that occurs during
Pecha Kucha nights. This world-wide event which has been replicated in
more than 183 cities, including London, San Francisco, Seattle,
Rotterdam, Shanghai and Berlin celebrates its first anniversary of
being held in Hamilton in August, and is proudly part of Wintec's Spark
Festival.
Pecha Kucha is for CONTENT and not profit. Pecha
Kucha was originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of
Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo, Japan in 2003.
Interested in presenting?
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SPARK FESTIVAL
www.spark.net.nz
Spark Festival is a contemporary arts, media and design festival, that
brings together in Hamilton City progressive artists and practioners
from our world's creative community. The guests offer specialised
presentations and workshops based around their own arts practise, which
are free to attend. This year Spark runds from the 3rd to the 7th
August.
Spark aims to reflect current thinking of contemporary culture,
provoke discussion and inspire new thinking by providing a diverse,
wide-ranging and engaging programme that demonstrates creativity at its
best. The festival is both an art and cultural event geared to
providing an inspiring experience for existing and developing arts
audiences in the Waikato region and New Zealand.
Now entering its eleventh year, Spark is a leading national forum
for practioners in contemporary culture, and fast establishing itself
as an event that offers free access to and opportunities for authentic
engagement with high quality international artists and practitioners.
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SODA INC LAUNCH
In November 2008 Soda Inc, New Zealand’s first dedicated creative industries business incubator, was launched. The incubator was a joint venture by Hamilton City Council and Wintec in response to the demand for increased employment opportunities and improved support for creative industries SMEs and start-ups in Hamilton.
Located in Hamilton’s flourishing Creative Precinct, our low-rental,
modern office spaces offer their tenants the benefit of being part of a
cluster core of like-minded creative entrepeneurs. Soda Inc is committed to nurturing local talent in an environment which provides unprecidented networking and support opportunities, cross polination of industry and encourages the sharing of stimulating new innovations in the creative industries sector. Beyond this, however, creative clustering serves to promotes growth and innovation across the entire CI sector in Hamilton.
Visit the Soda Inc website at www.sodainc.com for further details on the incubator.
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