Thank you to attendees, speakers, sponsors, volunteers and crew!
September 13, 2009
September 10, 2009
The Buzz is Building!
The Tweets are Twittering, the bloggers are blogging, and the buzz is building, but the wait is nearly over! Of course we’re all getting excited about this year’s Portland Creative Conference. (Saturday the 12th) And why wouldn’t we be! It’s such an amazing and eclectic mix of talent, it’s guaranteed to get your creative juices surging. I mean, have you seen our speaker list!
Where else can you see a living advertising legend like Dan Wieden share the stage with a rockin’ world-class poster artist like Emek?
Animation fans are snapping up tickets to meet Bill Oakley of The Simpson’s fame and Teresa Drilling . . . think Coraline, Wallace & Gromit, and Chicken Run, to name a few.
Adding to the energy will be best-selling novelist Larry Brooks and documentary filmmaker Jen Jako, owner of hotshot architecture firm, Fix Studio. Plus you’ll see cutting-edge brand-builder, Jerry Ketel (who also happens to be the president of the Portland Advertising Federation).
And if the improv group, On Your Feet, is only half as funny as they were last year, expect to still be laughing long after it’s over.
Rick Emerson, edgy radio guy from KUFO, will be tying things together as Emcee and everyone’s invited to stick around and rub elbows at the wrap party afterwards. There’ll be dancin’ in the streets!
As if you needed any more incentive to be there, don’t forget this: thanks to our non-profit fiscal agent, Keeping the Beat, part of the event proceeds goes to help support art education in our public schools.
If you haven’t already bought your ticket, (and if not, why ever not?) time is of the essence. OK, enough ranting. See you there!
August 27, 2009
Supporting Arts Education while Producing a Great Event
When you register for to this year’s Portland Creative Conference on Saturday September 12, you’ll be buying a lot more than a blast of creativity for yourself. You already know you’re going to get a peak inside the heads of some of our most innovative and visionary thinkers. But did you know that you’ll also be making it possible for the kids in K-12 to explore their own creativity? Well, you will!
Once again, Keeping the Beat is proud to be the non-profit fiscal agent for the event. Keeping the Beat is a nonprofit public charity dedicated to supporting arts education in Oregon. That means proceeds from the Portland Creative Conference will be distributed to one or more K-12 arts education programs. In today’s economy, that kind of support is more important than ever.
Last year Keeping the Beat was able to distribute a total of $4,000 from the Conference proceeds to two educational programs: Caldera, an arts education program for underserved Oregon youth, and the Performing Arts Department of the St. Helens School District. The programs were related in some way to two of the keynote presenters at last year’s conference.
For more details see the recent press release on the Keeping the Beat site.
