We are pleased to announce that the Research Park at the University of Western Ontario will be hosting the official SMArts London launch party on Friday November 13th
The event will begin at 6:30 at the Windermere Manor in their Great Hall. Everyone is encouraged to come out and meet many of the attendees and prepare for the next day of informative and entertaining sessions.
For directions and more information about Windermere and the Research Park.
SMArts London is pleased to announce that Brad Frenette, online arts editor for the National Post, will be delivering the keynote address at this years SMArts Conference. The title of Brad’s address is “Beyond 140: The Benefits Of Being Social”
Brad Frenette has been working in the spaces between online and print media since 2003, when he established a web presence for the Canadian arm of the international daily, Metro News. After a move to the UK, and a stint at The Guardian newspaper, he returned to Toronto, where he is currently Online Features Editor at National Post. In the role, he either runs or manage all web projects and initiatives for the Arts and Life desk, including one of the nation’s most popular arts and culture blog, theampersand.ca and books blog, The Afterword. He also hosts a variety of podcasts, produces several video projects and runs a slate of Twitter accounts. In addition, he writes about books, music and travel, and has been published in a variety of major newspapers and magazines.
For more information on Brad Frenette check out his blog at bradfrenette.wordpress.com or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/BradFrenette
Be sure to check out the sessions page for more information about the topics and the schedule page for times!
The final schedule has been posted for the 2009 SMArts Conference this Saturday, November 14th. If you are just attending then please check out the schedule page on the website (www.smartslondon.com/schedule).
If you are speaking on Saturday, then please make sure you fill in a time slot for your presentation on the wiki. We will be finalizing the schedule on Friday afternoon.
There are still lots of spaces available to speak, so if you would like to present, please check the sessions page!
SMArts London is now less then a month away! We are busy preparing the session topics and speakers, but we are always welcome to more presentors and suggestions.
If you haven’t already I suggest you check out the wiki page. There you’ll find a complete list of the topics and who is planning on speaking. There are a number of very informative topics already booked, and we are confident that many more will be scheduled in the days and weeks ahead.
Some of the sesssion you will hear on November 14th:
Be sure to register, because spaces will fill soon! See you in November
After a conversation between Andrea Halwa, Executive Director at The London Arts Council, Carol Kehoe, Partnerships Manager at Museum London, and Adam Caplan of web.isod.es the idea for an Un-Conference on Social Media for the Arts was born.
Titus Ferguson and Bill Deys from TJ & F Consulting, organizers of the very succesful PodCamp London, are on board as the event’s key organizers.
SMArts London will be a free “unconference” that will feature a full-day of sessions and discussions that seeks to connect artists (performing arts (theatre, dance, performance), visual (fine arts, photography, painting, etc.), multimedia (film & video, computer) and academic/curatorial artistic communities), art administrators and art dealers with the social media practitioners and enthusiasts who can help them understand the value, potential and benefits of new media.
Blogging about SMArts London? Tag us with smartsldn09 for hashtag, use #smartsldn09
Date: November 14th, 2009
Place: Museum London
421 Ridout Street North
London ON N6A 5H4
(see map)
