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Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament, London 09
SHINE unconference
SHINE unconference
2gether Festival
2gether Festival
2gether Festival
CLEAR Village Lab
CLEAR Village Lab
CLEAR Village Lab
24 Hour Film Challenge
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germination is a live events production company using the best of technology to bring people together for social progress.
We produce unique events that entertain people, inspire ideas and encourage collaboration to improve the world we share.
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News
1st February 2010
Looks like we’ve secured a fantastic new venue for Shine’10. Under wraps at the moment, but remember to hold the date – May 13th-15th, most likely right after the general election – the time and the place to discuss what the new government can offer social entrepreneurs.
Blog
1st February 2010
Brilliant talk at the RSA tonight – one of those events that give you a payoff you’re not fully expecting, and all the more satisfying because of it. Jaron Lanier – pioneer of Virtual Reality and musician amongst many other things – launched his book of the above title which, in essence, is a manifesto for people over technology, delivered with an unremitting optimism for the potential of the human spirit. His argument goes, and of course I’m paraphrasing, that after a generation of experiment, the evidence shows the web not to have delivered some of the things early evangelists (of which he was one) said it would. For example, the idea that open source would deliver the kind of bountiful return that would make producers (of music, software, literature etc) rich from the seed of their own generosity just hasn’t happened. The evidence, as you know from speaking to any musician trying to make an honest living these days – is that freemium has left many people poorer despite opening up the closed systems that went before.
11th November 2009
It’s been a full on couple of weeks for germination with a number of events throwing a light on new experiments in participation and collaboration. It’s now the holy grail in events production – especially in the social change arena – but how do you do it?
First, A Small Town Anywhere – produced by Solar Associates and interactive designers Coney and hosted by BAC – a theatrical game where the audience are the play. Before you arrive, each participant has exchanges by e-mail with Henri, the town historian, who assigns you a character and a past. The ‘play’ is the acting out of those characters (each with a skeleton in the cupboard) as external events are controlled by an unseen town crier, daily post and the town clock which marks the passing of time.
1st October 2009
germination launched 24 on Sunday 27th oct, at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, East London. 6 teams of 5 young people worked with us over the summer to make a film in 24 hours, showing what they think of the opportunities of the Olympics happening in their neighborhood three years from now. The films include a mixture of anticipation and concern, with fears that the young people who need it most will be the ones who fail to benefit from the regeneration plans.
21st September 2009
The Games – winners or losers? We got to visit the Olympics site, just as we premiere the films from our 24-hour film challenge, with stories from young people in east London speculating what the Olympics will mean for them.
15th September 2009
We FINALLY made it to Interesting this year, an annual shenenigan that invites an assortment of people to talk about something interesting (obvo) and that’s most definitely not to do with their work. We had high hopes as everyone always talks about how great the event is, and we weren’t disappointed. As event producers, yep, we go to lots of these, and it’s always a joy when they get it right.
8th September 2009
Great event at Good Pitch today – an event where the BritDoc Foundation bring film-makers together with NGOs and others integral to social change to see how campaign funding and networks can help to fund/distribute/gain audience for issue led documentaries, and how films can bring vitally needed oxygen to campaigns. Film-makers here were pitching not to one funder, but to many – and for help – with distribution, publicity and marketing. For example, using charity membership bases to publicise a film, help spread the word, and for an eventual sales channel for DVDs.