For Immediate Release
May 22, 2009
Contact:
Jean Maginnis, Executive Director, Maine Center for Creativity
(207) 775-4100, ext. 240
Web Site: http://www.mainecenterforcreativity.org
Maine Center for Creativity Launches Lecture Series June 10 with "Social Networking Sites: A New Economy for Creative People"
Part of Creative Toolbox & Su
The Maine Center for Creativity on June 10 is launching its lecture series, Creative Toolbox & Survival Guide, with a program called “Social Networking Sites: A New Economy for Creative People.”The event is scheduled for Wednesday, June 10 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the University of Southern Maine, Lee Community Hall in the Wishcamper Center on the Portland campus. To register, contact intern@mainecenterforcreativity.org. The cost is $25 for members, $35 for non-members.
The seminar will be presented by Bob Trikakis of Apple Education’s Creative Team, David Washburn of David Washburn Marketing and Mandy Davis of Mandy Davis Marketing. They will address social networks and media, viral video and marketing as well as other emerging technologies: as arenas of artistic collaboration, expanding exposure, as means to defining brands, and expanding recognition of artistic production and business nationally and globally.
The event is the first in a series of topic-specific lectures, seminars and workshops for innovative individuals who work in the Arts and Industries sectors of Maine’s Creative Economy. Each part in the series will host one or more presenters who are recognized leaders in their fields.
“The Creative Toolbox series delivers valuable concepts, theories and methods to attendees from understanding and maximizing the creative process to unique approaches to using e-commerce and viral marketing in art and business,” said Raphael DiLuzio, MCC Board member and creator of the Creative Tool Box & Survival Guide lecture series.
The Survival Guide series will directly provide artists and creative professionals with essential resources, key practices and need-specific information to directly assist them to develop and grow vital and sustainable roles in Maine’s Creative Economy, he said.
More than 63,000 Maine residents are currently employed in the creative sector, which covers a host of professions ranging from advertising and architecture, to software design and the performing arts.
The creative sector provided about 10 percent of all Maine’s wages and salary employment, according to data gathered by the Maine Department of Labor for the period 1997-2002. More than 44 percent of creative industry workers have earned at least a bachelor’s degree, compared to 25 percent for the workforce as a whole, the study also showed.
The Maine Center for Creativity is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating projects and programs that promote the arts and contribute to the vitality of Maine's creative economy. The Board of Directors and volunteers do this in collaboration with artists, businesses and communities by creating high-visibility projects that capture the imagination and foster the art of the possible.
For more information about the Maine Center for Creativity, visit www.mainecenterforcreativity.org or call Jean Maginnis, Executive Director, at 207.775.4100 ext.240.
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