News & Events

Orycon November 21 - 23, 2008

OryCon is a fan-run, non-profit convention presented by Oregon Science Fiction Conventions, Inc.

It includes art, writer’s workshops, and a masquerade ball.

This is another event held here in Portland, Oregon!

Day rates and membership available at the door. See the site for details.

More Information: Orycon.org

Wordstock, November 6-9, 2008

Wordstock is an annual festival of books, writers, and storytelling in Portland, Oregon.

This year’s festival is coming right up! Wordstock features ten author stages, a book fair with over 150 exhibitors, a special children’s area and children’s literature stage, a series of workshops for writers and for K-12 teachers, a special broadcast of Live Wire!, the popular public radio variety show, featuring writers from the festival, and more. It is presented by Community of Writers, a nonprofit that works to promote writing in the community and in the classroom.

Workshop Fees
One workshop......................................$50
Two workshops....................................$80
Each additional workshop.....................$20

Events carry additional fees.

More Information: wordstock ’08

Montreal International Game Summit Nov 18-19 2008

Organized by Quebec’s digital industry network, Alliance numérique, the Montreal International Game Summit (MIGS) looks like it’s going to be something special!

Speakers Include:
· Laura Fryer of Microsoft Game Studios
· Dominic Guay of Ubisoft
· Warren Spector of Disney-Junction Point Studios
· Dean Giberson of Slant Six Games
· Edoardo De Martin of Next Level Games
· And a whole lot more.

Price: $355 pre-registered, $475 after october 1st (for individuals)

More information: www.sijm.ca

Word of Mouth Marketing Summit: Nov 12th - 14th, 2008

All about using word-of-mouth in your marketing efforts. Topics include viral video, email marketing, getting employees to create buzz, and more.

Located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Prices average $1495 - $1895 for attendance before travel and lodging.

More Information: http://womma.org/summit08

Singapore International Storytelling Festival, Aug 25th - Sept 9th 2008

From the website:

Digital Storytelling is increasingly being used to entertain, teach, train, inform, promote and advertise. It can take the form of tributes to important persons, capturing of family stories and memories for posterity, exploration of places lived in or visited.

Corporations and public institutions use digital storytelling to motivate their human capital, create legacy of corporate stories, impart core values, and devolve to difficult content the ease of understanding.

Digital stories will not only engage learners, but also ensure the development of skills in research, writing, technology, organisational communication and problem-solving.

Looks interesting! Find out more information.

Business Innovation Factory’s Collaborative Innovation Summit

More conversation than conference, BIF-4 will bring together many of today’s most compelling innovators, business model renegades and true transformers to reveal the secrets of innovation success through personal storytelling.

October 15-16, 2008
Providence, RI

Registration fee: $1000 if by August 15th, $1,200 after

More information: BIF Website

Power of Words Conference, Sept. 12-15, 2008

Seek greater freedom and transformation for yourself and your community through the power of words at this unique gathering of people who write, tell stories, perform, and do other language arts. Over 25 presentations by writers, storytellers, performers, community leaders, medical professionals, songwriters, healers, and social change artists include workshops on storytelling, creative writing, music, mythology, drama, poetry therapy, performance, social change, media literacy, culture, spirituality, sexuality, health, dance, right livelihood, diversity, oral traditions, and finding your calling. Organized by Goddard College’s Transformative Language Arts concentration, this conference features hands-on workshops, performances, talking circles, open readings & celebrations that fire up your life, work and community.

Speakers include:

• Bread & Puppet Theatre
• Kelley Hunt, rhythm & blues singer-songwriter
• Rick Jarow, author of Creating the Work You Love
• Sherry Reiter, poetry therapy pioneer
• The Afrikana Madonna, performing spoken word soul
• Lewis Mehl-Madrona, author of Coyote Medicine

Conference costs start at $210 for registration

For more information: Power of Words Conference Website

National Storytelling Conference

Looks like some interesting topics this year including the rebranding of storytelling—yes, of storytelling itself!

Presenters Include:
Sheila Arnold, Thom Bristow, Ralph Chatham, Karen Czarnik, Leeny Del Seamonds, Kate Dudding, Heather Forest, Steven Henegar, Donna Ingham, Jennifer Jacobson, Olga Loya, Doc McConnell, Motoko, Ellen Munds, Lou Ann Homan, Pat Nease, Caren Neile, Roslyn Bresnick-Perry, Loren Niemi, Cristin Thomas, Dylan Pritchett, Dennis Rader, Anne Shimojima, Eric Wolf, Elizabeth Ellis, Bobby Norfolk, David Novak, Joy Nack

Date & Location:
National Storytelling Conference 2008
August 7th - 10th
Gatlinburg, TN

Registration is now OPEN!

Follow this link: National Storytelling Conference