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The 2009 Ideas Festival team |
What is your role in the Ideas Festival?
Director.
What do you love most about your role?
Meeting amazing people: thinkers, doers, and makers of all descriptions, each exercising their creativity in different ways - Learning from each and all of them, and sometimes being able to put them together to form new friendships/ partnerships/ creative opportunities.
Who are you in five words?
optimistic, idealistic, enthusiastic, happy, grateful... that's the wish list.
What are you looking forward to most about the Ideas Festival?
Watching ideas bumping into each other, evolving into new ones, and watching people getting excited about being part of that process.
Favourite quote:
Well this changes all the time, though some favourites fight their way back into the consciousness just when they're most needed it seems. At the moment the most relevant for me is:
“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed” Charles Darwin
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What is your role in the Ideas Festival?
Project Officer - creating spaces and events.
What do you love most about your role?
The potential to change people's minds and hearts and therefore culture.
Who are you in five words?
cultural creative, social artist, interested.
What are you looking forward to most about the Ideas Festival?
Learning.
Favourite quote:
"We must be the change we wish to see." Gandhi
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What is your role in the Ideas Festival?
Program Officer, schools and young people.
What do you love most about your role?
I am intrigued and challenged by the process of identifying and engaging with the ideas that engage young people. I love the energy involved in bringing an event to the stage.
Who are you in five words?
energetic, organiser, mother, facilitator, advocate.
What are you looking forward to most about the Ideas Festival?
The energy that more than 1000 school students will bring to the Festival over two big days.
Favourite quote:
"You can do anything Janeo baby" - my dad.
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What is your role in the Ideas Festival?
Technical Director/Production Manager
What do you love most about your role?
Being a mushroom
Who are you in five words?
Grumpy middle-aged man
What are you looking forward to most about the Ideas Festival?
Being inspired
Favourite quote:
"Less is more"
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What do you love most about your role?
I have been involved with the Festival since its inception and love working with a great bunch of people; being involved in researching and programming amazing speakers from all over the world for this great event. My biggest passion is discovering new speakers and finding out all about the brilliant things people do.
Who are you in five words?
adventurous, organised, creative, generous and spirited
What are you looking forward to most about the Ideas Festival?
To once again seeing all the hard work of hose involved in the Festival come to fruition and watching the audiences walk away creating, debating, thinking and taking action.
Favourite quote:
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison
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What is your role in the Ideas Festival?
Communications Officer
What do you love most about your role?
I have been to the last three Ideas Festivals, and I’m excited about my role in raising awareness of the 2009 Festival. The festival gets interesting people together to share their visions, and it’s a great learning experience.
Who are you in five words?
enthusiastic, creative, inquisitive, passionate, pedantic!
What are you looking forward to most about the Ideas Festival?
Meeting all of the great speakers and collaborators, and seeing it all come together as an interesting and enjoyable festival.
Favourite quote:
"I'm very idealistic, I want to make the world a better place for me to live in."
--Lucy van Pelt, Peanuts
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What is your role in the Ideas Festival?
Production Assistant
What do you love most about your role?
Working with a progressive team of people who are committed to delivering an event which inspires thought, education and creativity.
Who are you in five words?
Misunderstood . . . .
What are you looking forward to most about the Ideas Festival?
Witnessing the results of stimulated audience members.
Favourite quote:
"Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope." The Great Gatsby
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