Tickets on sale!
Posted: March 29, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on Tickets on sale!Ignite Bainbridge tickets are now on sale through Brown Paper Tickets so get your tickets now for the show on May 16. Tickets are $5 online or at the door.
And please help us out by spreading the word. Post on Facebook, Twitter, Google+; tell your friends, family, neighbors, and random strangers! We need your support.
See you on May 16!
Huge thank you to our sponsors
Posted: March 29, 2012 Filed under: Information, Sponsors Comments Off on Huge thank you to our sponsorsWe’d like to extend a huge thank you to our wonderful sponsors. Without these sponsors, we couldn’t put on the Ignite Bainbridge show. So, thank you!!
First, thank you to OfficeXpats for hosting Ignite Bainbridge. They have provided space and support for all the planning meetings, Ignite Workshops, as well as the pre-show mixer on May 16.
Thank you to Jeff Brein and Bainbridge Cinemas for providing the space for the event.
Thank you to Sound Reprographics for generously printing all of our posters, cards, and more.
Thank you to Alex Sanso and Artopia Creative for designing all our cool posters, cards, presentation slides, and more.
Thank you to Steve Stolee and Stolee Communications for video recording the Ignite event. We’ll be posting the videos online, so you can watch them a second time.
Thank you to the crew at InsideBainbridge.com for writing up an article about Ignite Bainbridge and promoting the event on InsideBainbridge.com.
Thank you to Mike Cyger and BainbridgeIsland.com for advertising Ignite Bainbridge on BainbridgeIsland.com.
We are still looking for sponsors, so if you are interested in sponsoring please contact us! We still have a lot of production costs to cover in order for the show to proceed!
Ignite Workshop
Posted: March 16, 2012 Filed under: Event, Photos Comments Off on Ignite WorkshopAnother fantastic Ignite Workshop this week at OfficeXpats!
We had so many great ideas floating around the table. Everything from “paying attention” to “healing with whole foods” to “how to prevent information obesity” to “what is a local currency”. I am so excited to see all these presentations at Ignite Bainbridge on May 16, 2012.
If you are interested in attending Ignite, please use the form on the home page to submit your email address so we can keep you posted about the event.
If you’re interested in presenting, volunteering, or sponsoring, use the links above to let us know! And join us at the next Ignite Workshop, April 11 at 1pm at OfficeXPats.
Join us for Ignite Bainbridge!
Posted: March 8, 2012 Filed under: Event, Information Comments Off on Join us for Ignite Bainbridge!Do you have a story to tell? Are you interested in hearing stories? We’d love to have you join us at the first annual Ignite Bainbridge, on May 16th, 2012. It will be a night of ideas, stories, and community.
The pre-show mixer beings at 6:30pm at OfficeXpats upstairs in the Pavilion, where you can also buy tickets if you haven’t pre-purchased them at Brown Paper Tickets. The show begins at 7:15pm in the cinema.
If you’re interested, let us know and we’ll keep you posted about the upcoming event:
See you on May 16th!
The first monthly Ignite Workshop
Posted: February 9, 2012 Filed under: Information Comments Off on The first monthly Ignite WorkshopOur first Ignite Workshop was a great success today. We had several “igniters” sharing fantastic ideas for presentations, ideas that included “The science of Karaoke”, “Be the Bee”, and “Building Birdhouses”. One participant shared his great passion for singing with the Kitsap Barbershop quartet, and another her passion for communities and co-housing.
One of the benefits of the workshop is getting feedback from the group, and today was no exception. We’re reminded of how important it is to make a story personal, and make it about something you’re passionate about. We’re also reminded to think about the one thing we want the audience to take away from the presentation at the end of that 5 minutes.
We all came away energized and inspired, and with an assignment: to create the first draft of our 5 minute presentation to share with the group at the next Ignite Workshop on March 14 (join us at OfficeXpats at 1pm if you want to test out your own ideas!).
Here are a few more Ignite talks from past Ignites around the world to inspire you. One of my favorites is Seattlite Scott Berkun’s “Why and How to Give an Ignite Talk”, which is a great intro to Ignite, if you’ve never heard of it before. I love this talk about “How to Jump off a Cliff” by Steph Davis. She makes me want to go jump off a cliff! Here’s a great one that illustrates how humor can make a great talk even better, “Make Art not Content” by Scotto Moore. Alex Berger’s presentation on The Art of Wayfaring is inspiring and makes me want to go on adventures.
As you can see from these presentations (and the ideas for presentations we heard at our workshop today), there is no shortage of possibilities for creating a great Ignite talk. We’d love to hear your ideas, so join us at our next workshop meeting and/or submit a presentation idea. All we ask is that you use your presentation to inspire and educate, so don’t pitch your business. Pitch your passion, instead.
Cheers!
