Slightly cart before the horse I know, what with no date announcement.
Looking for speakers for Birmingham Fail Camp 2010.
What sort of things are we looking for?
Whatever you want to talk about. If it relates to failure and you don’t mind sharing it, we’ll be interested, attentive and supportive. You’ll get ten minutes to present and then there’ll be some Q&A, feedback, discussion. (As Jon correctly pointed out in the comments section- single people talking would be a presentation, a panel requires more than one person. More than happy to have suggestions from a small group of people to have a panel discussion)
What to talk about?
Here’s some thoughts I’ve had around what I’d talk about if I were giving a talk.
“Ben’s Bad Hair Days”- I’d give a presentation showing that I’ve not always had a grade 2 buzz cut and groovy glasses & confess my bad hair/bad glasses combinations.
or I’d give this talk, a little more serious but fun still.
“The days the dreams changed”- Growing up I always wanted to do two jobs. Be a teacher or run a theatre company. They were my dream jobs, I’ve worked in both of my dream jobs. I no longer have either of those jobs, but that’s ok.
You might want to talk about your latest online failure, DIY failure, parenting failure. You might want to talk about your biggest failure, most public failure, or funniest failure. Maybe you’d like to challenge our perceptions of failure, demonstrate a failure to us or just spend 10 minutes educating the room about the most famous failures in history.
This really is open to you – the event has the capacity to be both serious and fun, moving and uplifting. Make us laugh, make us cry, make us think!
You’ll make the event, not us. This is your event. And that, gentle reader, is the best thing about all of this!
Email benjaminbrum [at] gmail dot com with the subject “Fail Camp” to get involved.
Here’s one for you… failure of grammar in calling things where one person talks a “panel”
Ahhh. Yes.
Er. Yes. You’re right.
*nods*
Presentation?
This sounds great – lots of successful failures and interested in getting involved – when is the event? thanks Sandra (Friction Arts); this is very Brummie !