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December 15th 2011
"Secrets & Lies" The Largest Scientific Instrument Ever Built College of Lockpicking: Pick it like it's 1899 How to Become a Human Lie Detector ** With Live Painting by MEAR ONE **
PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS Live music from DJ Creepuscular PLUS Games from Wise Guys and Interactive Art Work from WeAreMatik, Crashspace & Syyn Labs |
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November 16th 2011
The Power of the Crowd Dana Mauriello / Co-Founder and President, ProFounder
The Joyful 99: Activating the Crowd Francis DellaVecchia / Founder, Cultural Connections LLC
Mob Mentality: When Good Crowds Go Bad Kevin Reeve / Founder and Director, onPoint Tactical Tracking School ** With Live Painting by MEAR ONE **
PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS Live music from DJ Charles Fox PLUS Games from Wise Guys and Interactive Art Work from WeAreMatik, Combiform & Syyn Labs |
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October 19th 2011 HOST: Jayme Waxman / M.Ed Human Sexuality Education and Author Vision + How Cameras Will Shape the Future The Real Application of Permaculture How To Fly a Motorcycle Investigating the Paranormal Empowering Women Through Erotic Dance PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS Music: Boom Boom Boom, the most energy pushed acoustically this side of the Mississippi, Super Tall Paul (of Helios Jive) & Eban Schletter on his home made theremin! Wise Guys returns with a new game. Syyn Labs showcased a variety of current projects and new experiments. |
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September 21st 2011 HOST: Douglas Campbell / Co-Founder & Curator, Mindshare LA Abigail Alling / President Biosphere Foundation & Mark Van Thillo / Chief Operations Officer Biosphere 2, from Sea to Space Lei Liew / Ph.D. candidate, USC, Brain and Creativity Institute Who's the Boss? Cross-Cultural Differences in the Workplace Daniel Kish / President, World Access for the Blind Echolocation & Giving Sight to the Blind Sandra Daugherty / Sex Educator & Host of the Sex Nerd Sandra Podcast Sex, Spaghetti and Human Variability PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS Music: Love in the Circus & Super Tall Paul (of Helios Jive) Wise Guys returns with a new game. Syyn Labs and Crash Space LA showcased a variety of current projects and new experiments. ink+cotton provided live T-Shirt screen printing! |
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August 17th 2011 GUEST HOST: Jamye Waxman / M.Ed Human Sexuality Education & Author Garrett Lisi / Theoretical Physicist The Beauty of Particle Physics Autumn Rooney / Co-Founder, Echo Park Time Bank Complementary Currency & Transaction Matt Brauning / Author, Master NLP Trainer, and Entrepreneur Spiral Dynamics: The Flexibility of Human Nature PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS Music: Lounge-O-Rama & Super Tall Paul (of Helios Jive) Wise Guys returns with a new game. Syyn Labs and Crash Space LA showcased a variety of current projects and new experiments. |
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July 20th 2011 GUEST HOST: Jamye Waxman / M.Ed Human Sexuality Education & Author Dr. Marvin Belzer / Associate Director, Mindful Awareness Research Center, UCLA An Experience of Mindfulness Alex Leavitt / PhD student, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, USC. Social Disruption: How We Complicate Technology Reid Mihalko / Sex and Relationship Expert Date Your Species: Pragmatic Tools for Navigating Love, Lust and Intimacy PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS Music: Zane Musa & Super Tall Paul (of Helios Jive) Wise Guys returns with a new game. Syyn Labs showcased a variety of current projects and new experiments. |
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June 22nd 2011 GUEST HOST: Jamye Waxman / M.Ed Human Sexuality Education & Author Dr. Sean Carrol / Senior Research Associate in Physics, CalTech From the Kitchen to the Multiverse Jeff Potter / Author of Cooking for Geeks Who Knew Science Could Be So Delicious? Emily Levine / Comedienne Philosopher Paradigm Paralysis: America's Problem - and How to Fix It Charu / Founder, Embody Tantra Tantra: Beyond Sex... Liberation & Mindfulness in Every Day Life PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS Music: Boom Boom Boom & Super Tall Paul (of Helios Jive) And as a special treat, Wise Guys will be in the house, with their game Twistianapolis 500. Syyn Labs showcased a variety of current projects and new experiments. |
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May 18th 2011 GUEST HOST: Jamye Waxman / M.Ed Human Sexuality Education & Author Oded Aharonson / Professor of Planetary Science, CalTech Unveiling Titan: A World Strange and Familiar Alan Horsager / Neuroscientist at USC Keck School of Medicine Blindness & Sight Dan O'Shannon / TV Producer, Cheers, Frasier, Modern Family Just What the Hell Are You All Laughing At? The Science of Comedy Marty Barrett (AKA Gram Ponante) / Veteran Porn Journalist Oh The Things You Didn't Know About Porn Valley! PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS Music: The Shoestring Trio & Super Tall Paul (of Helios Jive) And as a special treat, Wise Guys will be in the house, conducting a social game called "Prize Ribbons" Combiform is a game platform that involves four wedge-shaped controllers that can be played separately or “stuck” together for cooperative play. Dr. Nuclear will be setting up his interactive whiteboard. Dance Pad is a dance game for the iPad that turns your fingers into legs. AND David Guttman (Syyn Labs) will be showing his newest installation "TwitterChimes" in the auditorium. See some of his other projects here. |
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April 20th 2011 Kurt Othmer / President, EEG Info Julia Bossmann / Research Assistant and Masters Student (Cand. Psych.), Institut für Experimentelle Psychologie, Dept. of Biological Psychology, University of Düsseldorf, Germany Kurt Daradics / Co-Founder, CitySourced Kestrin Pantera, Scott Watson & Jonathan Grubb / Mobile Karaoke Superstars! Paige Nesbitt / Blogger, Martini Rescue Squad PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS The all acoustic Gonzalo Bergara Quartet & singer Holland Greco & Super Tall Paul will be bringing his headphone lounge! ART: Explore the work of kinetic sculptor Karl Lautman, including his acclaimed circle of falling dominos: Ouroborus. As well as DancePad and Inneract in the Tech Demo Lounge! |
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March 17th 2011 Alex Lightman / Author, Entrepreneur, and Futurist @lxlightmanThe Sea Shepherds: Defending Ocean Wildlife Worldwide Maja D'Aoust / The White Witch of LA Leprechauns, Fairies and Mythology's Role in Culture Victoria Campbell / Wild Animal Rescuer & Rehabilitator @wildthingsny Wild Things Sanctuary: Passion, Perversion and Opossums PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS Bootie LA's DJ Shy Boy (www.shyboymashups.com) played some crazy fresh mashups! INTERACTIVE: Syyner David Guttman 's audio reactive graphics. |
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February 17th 2011 Tamara Knutsen / PhD Candidate, Computation and Neural Systems Department, Caltech. Emilie Baltz / Creative Consultant and Founder, Fork and Design Jamye Waxman / M.Ed Human Sexuality Education & Author of "Getting Off: A Woman's Guide to Masturbation."
A Brief History of Masturbation
PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS Live Jazz from OmKneeBus as well as an interstitial performance by Benny Parkes, soulful guitarist. INTERACTIVE: Syyners Eric Gradman, Brent Bushnell, David Guttman and Quin Cabalquinto display work! |
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January 20th 2011 Moran Cerf / Neuroscientist at Caltech, UCLA's Department of Neurosurgery, and NYU PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS A Return Performance by Benny Parkes, soulful guitarist. INTERACTIVE: Syyners Eric Gradman and Brent Bushnell display work! |
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December 16th 2010 Professor Philip Lukeman / Cal Poly Pomona, Chemistry Department PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS A Return Performance by Eban Schletter on the Theremin! INTERACTIVE: Jonathan Toomim will be showcasing his mood visualizer as well as work from Syyners Pehr Hovey, Eric Gradman and Brent Bushnell. |
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November 19th 2010 John Bates / Consultant, MindArk Syuzi Pakhchyan / Experience Designer David de Rothschild / Adventurer and Environmentalist, Adventure Ecology PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS PLUS: A Special Performance by Eban Schletter and his Theremin / Vibraphone Duo! INTERACTIVE: Interactive installations including Syyn Labs Game Table |
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October 21st 2010 Nathan Makino / CEO, ImTech Ali Vanderveld / Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago Maryam Henein / Writer & Filmmaker Seamus McKeon / Wiccan High Priest & Bacon Enthusiast PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS INTERACTIVE: Imtech will be leaving their 15+ installations AND immersive dome up for our enjoyment! The list & videos of exhibitors can be seen here... |
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September 17th 2010 Mike Dooley / VP of Product & Marketing Development, Evolution Robotics Alicia Danforth / Ph.D. candidate & Research Associate, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute Azhar Hussain / Founder, TTXGP Andrew Macgregor / Founder, Tiziano Project Barry Martin / LA Outback & LIVE DEMO by Debra Wilson
PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS MUSIC: Boom Boom Boom Band Beautiful video work from Scott Pagano of neither-field. |
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August 19th 2010 Paul J. Zak / Director, Center for Neuroeconomics Studies, Claremont GraduateUniversity The Moral Molecule: Love and Connection in the Age of the Internet Taylor Krauss / Founder, Voices of Rwanda On the Limits and Possibilities of Oral History Micki Krimmel / Founder & CEO, NeighborGoods.net How to Save Money, Live More Sustainably, and Stick it to the Man Through Sharing. Jason Eugene Boardé / Executive Director, Edible & Urban Garden Guru The Pedal Patch Community Greg Ptacek / Festival Co-Director of Downtown Film Festival L.A Ethan Nicholle / Illustrator, Axe Cop
PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS MUSIC: DJ Jacob Henry // PARTNERS: Ploom, Pama & IZZEINTERACTIVE: Installations include: the BioRhythm project. Pehr Hovey, Dick Whitney and Brent Bushnell will also be showing projects. DISCUSSION TABLES: after program there will be breakout discussions |
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JULY 15th 2010 Frances Arnold, a Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at CalTech, is taking Darwinism into the future by researching and designing evolution algorithms to fuel a process of “directed evolution.” Arnold will speak about Molecular Sex and How to Construct Things You Don’t Understand. Eduardo Caccia, is a self described "Any Possibility Officer" at Mindcode, a company he founded with the objective to maximize brand value for clients by revealing an innate, profound understanding of their markets. Caccia will be discussing The Cultural Code as source of innovation Hear Me, a non-profit organization aiming to create an international online network where orphans and other marginalized children can collaborate to create music – gaining friends and creative skills in the process. Mileece is a sonic artist who uses bio-emissions from plants to create dynamic soundscapes through a unique process called aesthetic sonification (replaying data through sound waves). July’s Mindsharians can witness aesthetic sonification in action with musical plants from Mileece’s recent installation “Soniferous Eden” at the See Line Gallery in West Hollywood. Nina Hartley (NSFW) is the feminist author of “Nina Hartley’s Guide to Total Sex” and one of the most recognizable adult film stars of the past three decades. Hartley will discuss the sex-positive feminist idea of sexual freedom as a key component of female freedom and equality. PERFORMANCES & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS Sci-Tech Academy Award winner J-Walt will perform “Spontaneous Fantasia,” an animation technique utilizing CG technology to bring still imagery to life. ALSO, Jamye Waxman will be offering a sex advice booth after the talks together with nina Hartley!
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JUNE 17th 2010 Bhagwan Chowdhry / Founder, FABcampaign Brian Selzer / Founder, Ogmento Stuart Gibbs / Author & Screenwriter Chef Spencer Walker / Blogger and Author, Cook to Bang
PERFORMANCES, VIDEOS & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS Bob Reynolds and his Jazz troupe will be playing as people arrive. MegaRan - the original nerdcore rapper - will be performing some his futuristic tunes and his DJ will rock the crowd after the performances. Sketch Theater will be showing some of their excellent videos. There will be a musical instrument that requires no actual contact, a couple of new brain activated projects and an SMS voting system that that askes such important questions as "Who would win in a fight between a lion and a bear?" |
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MAY 20th 2010 Bob Lancaster / Intellectual Property Attorney, Bryan Cave LLP Jake Meyer / LA Ballet & New Wave LA Kasey McMahon / Conceptual & Multimedia Artist
Finding Beauty: Pattern Recognition, Perception and Visual Culture
Floris Van Breugel / Award-Winning Photographer & Graduate Student, Caltech
Encounters with Ents: Seeing Suffering and Love in Nature's Inanimate Creatures
The Art of Illusions (and being Marilyn Manson's Roommate)
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Boom Boom Boom / KID KAMELEON [Surya Dub, XLR8R, SF] / TINKER [False Profit, SF] ...and interactive work:
The international debut of ShareSquare QR technology and D-dub Software announces their next 'Adult' Videogame |
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APRIL 15th 2010 Brand X presents: Richard Metzger
The Infinite Mind of Artist Paul Laffoley
Gerard Minakawa / Founder, Bamboo DNA Building with Bamboo, A World Changing Material Tiffany Persons / International Activist & Founder How to Keep SoCal Rolling Benjamin Bidlack / Engagement Director, Innovation Protocol The Heros Journey in Everyday Life
Douglas Campbell, Co-Founder of Mindshare LA & Syyn Labs |
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MARCH 18th 2010 Matthew J. Smith / Harvard Law School Wil Carson / Senior Project Designer, Michael Maltzan Architecture Dustin Feider William Pomerantz / Senior Director, Space Prizes | X PRIZE Foundation David Orban / Founder, Chief Evangelist, WideTag, Inc. & Advisor, Singularity University DJ: Joanna Gikas of IO Echo |
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FEBRUARY 18th 2010 Gabriela Garcia Medina / Spoken Word Artist & Award Winning Poet Jan Chipchase / Design Strategist and User Experience Researcher - "Love" Moran Cerf / Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computational Neuroscience, Caltech Jesse Genet / Founder, Lumi Co. Cerraeh Laykin / Photographer Jason Porath / DreamWorks Animation
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JANUARY 21st 2010 Jim Bell / Cornell Astronomy Professor & President of the Planetary Society Sasha Strauss / founder of Innovation Protocol & prof. in USC's school of communications Tino Schaedler Gabriela Garcia Medina / Spoken Word Artist & Award Winning Poet Ben Morrison / Humorist
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DECEMBER 17th 2009 Dan Busby / Physicist and Freelance Tinkerer Jamie Zigelbaum / Oblong Industries Vanessa Van Petten / Youthologist & CEO Radical Teenagers, Inc Doug Campbell / Founder, Mindshare.LA ALSO, Tim Nordwind, Bassist for the band OK Go, will be DJ’ing! You can see the content here...
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NOVEMBER 18th 2009 Alex Lightman / Executive Director of Humanity Plus Todd Huffman / Freelance Technologist Alexandra Hall / CEO, Airship Ventures Dr. Tristan Ursell / Adventurer & Biophysicist, Stanford |
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OCTOBER 15th 2009 Mark Milian / Technology Writer, Los Angeles Times |
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SEPTEMBER 17th 2009 Steen Strand / COO & VP Design, ICON Aircraft Matt Davis and Pete Sistrom also showcased their new music visualizer: "Name the Machine" and work from sculptor Ben Parkes was on the patio. |
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AUGUST 20th 2009 Dr. John La Puma / Practicing Internist and Author, ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine |
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JULY 16th 2009 Marc Barasch / Author & CEO, the Green World Campaign And of course, there will be some interactive installations on display from the great brains from Mindshare Labs! |
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JUNE 18th 2009 Jessica Jackley / Founder, KIVA And of course, there will be some interactive installations on display from the great brains from Mindshare Labs! |
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MAY 21st 2009 William Pomerantz / Senior Director of Space Projects, The X PRIZE Foundation After the talks, VJ Strangeloop will be showcasing some crazy visuals to the tunes of DJ Dirty Dave and installations on display from the great brains from Mindshare Labs! |
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APRIL 16th 2009 Ravi Rao / President, Rao Leadership |
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MARCH 19th 2009 Neville Page / Character Designer (Watchmen, Star Trek, Cloverfield) Thanks also to the fantastic talents of Bob Reynolds and his jazz duo! |
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FEBRUARY 19th 2009 Jason Jacobs / Director of PR, Los Angeles Zoo There will be some beautiful light sculptures from Sean Sobczak of Sandman Creations. And of course there will be a number of installations on display from the great brains from Mindshare Labs! |
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JANUARY 15th 2009 Christof Koch / Koch Laboratory, Caltech There will also be an energized and exotic performance from the girls of Leela Bellydancing! And of course there will be a number of installations on display from the great brains from Mindshare Labs! |
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DECEMBER 18th 2008 Douglas Campbell / Freshmaker, Mindshare There will be games on display from uWink interactive restaurant, the ArtFall installation from Eric Gradman and Brent Bushnell |
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NOVEMBER 20th 2008 Dr. Amir Give'on / Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory There will be games on display from uWink interactive restaurant and 'acoustic painting' visualizations from David Guttman. We are also pleased to announce that we'll have a live Jazz duo, including the saxophone talents of Bob Reynolds, and as usual, our resident DJ's Android Cartel will be offering up some ambient and energizing tunes. |
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OCTOBER 16th 2008 William Kohnen / CEO, SEAmagine Hydrospace Corporation The FINALE was a surprise sppearance from Cirque Berzerk: trippy marionettes, fire eating, juggling and more! ! As usual, our resident DJ's, Android Cartel will be offering up the freshest ambient tunes. |
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SEPTEMBER 18th 2008 John Marlow / Writer, journalist, futurist. Proton Radio will also be showcasing the music of Android Cartel and Joy Song, the Cellist of the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, will return for another warm up before the Strada Trio's appearance next week at Zipper Hall. |
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AUGUST 21st 2008 BRAINOLOGIES: NEURO, PSYCHO AND COGNO VISIONS With a special appearance by the Android Cartel of Proton Radio and a special appearance from the Cellist of the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Joy Song. |
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JULY 17th 2008 John Smart / Futurist & Founder, Acceleration Studies Foundation With a special appearance by the Android Cartel of Proton Radio Tech experiments on display around the space by Chris Hughes and Chris Nelson. |
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JUNE 19th 2008 Genya Frankel / Bio-Physicist, CalTech With a special appearance by the Android Cartel of Proton Radio Laser Graffiti on display around the space by Chris Hughes and Chris Nelson. |
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MAY 22nd 2008 Jeanette Paredes / Photographer & Philanthropist In addition to our fine line up of speakers we also had short intros from people involved with Mindshare, our SMS wiffiti board was once again a running commentary for the night and a summery fresh shmorgasboard of fresh fruits... And special video projections by Tiff Graham You can see the pictures here...
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APRIL 30th 2008 Jenka Gurfinkel / The Do Lab: Creating Culture. And a Special Appearance by Multi-Talented Musician TLark We has an unbelievable April Mindshare! Our Mixologist created a fully custom bar and the full Thai catering was delicious. Our tech team had experiments through the LED lit spot (thanks LuzLab!). the speakers were engaging and Tlark sang us into party mode! |
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MARCH 27th 2008 Travis Savo: The Skynet Syndrome: How I Taught My Computer To Think For Itself And an appearance by UK Musician Freddie Stevenson We had a great relaunch! The Wiffiti Message Board was a big hit with people sending it SMSes from their cell phones throughout the night. The name badge game was a success - congratulations to the raffle winners! The talks were diverse and inspiring and the elixers were delicious - THANKS TO ALL INVOLVED! |
