Archive for December 7th, 2009

Watch Ignite Bay Area | Women Innovators Live

Tuesday’s Ignite Bay Area | Women Innovators talks are to include everything from SF Weekly’s Alexia Tsotsis’ “Why hussle is more important than talent” and Neighborgoods’ Micki Krimmel “All I Really Need to Know (About Love) I Learned Playing Roller Derby” (with coffee talk and digital book publishing observations in between). If you weren’t able to secure a seat at Berkeley’s David Brower Center but would like to see these and other talks by women in technology, entrepreneurship and media, production network Business Boomer will be hosting a Livesteam channel starting at 7 PM PST thanks to O’Reilly Conferences’ sponsorship.

These talks are being brought to the stage thanks of the support of Intel, TechWeb, Automattic, and Microsoft BizSpark. We’re looking forward to having Rickshaw Bags, 9 Catering, TCHO Chocolates, and Venus Restaurant take part in tomorrow’s event as well.

“Alternorthern” to Open at The Lab

zoe yuristy

It’s frigid today in SF–bad for scooting but good for introducing “Alternorthern,” a show of work by notable Canadian artists to open locally at The Lab during the Vancouver Olympics. I’m especially intrigued by the Until We Have a Helicopter cutatorial project (whose recent exhibit featured only work that could fit through a third story gallery window and was featured on the fantastic regional site Vancouver is Awesome) and Zoe Yuristy (work above). The organizers say the Canada project “was conceived in the tension that exists between nationalism, globalization, and individualism: the exhibition is a product of both cultural values and cultural hybridism.” Eh.