Wednesday

• 2pm
  Music Panel: “Tuning into Songwriting”
  We kick off HATCHfest Music with our groundbreaker and mentor songwriters joining together to interact with young HATCHfest attendees to share their stories and lessons learned while pursuing a creative profession.
• 4pm
  Design & Technology Panel: “Is Innovation dead?”
  Innovation has become the catch word for the 21st century. But what exactly is innovation, really? Our panel of HATCH mentors who represent a diverse range of perspectives will explore the very nature of how we innovate and why innovation is important. Hear what NASA industrial designer Evan Twyford, toy inventor Joe Wilcox, interaction designer Manuel Lima and video artists Scott Pagano and Robb Pope have to say about what makes an organization or a process “Innovative.” Find out how we can be more creative, and how play leads to innovation.

Thursday

• 11am
  Cross-Discipline Panel and Discussion: Marketing for the Creative Professional
  This will be a panel event, comprised of local professionals that will be available to field your questions on understanding and mastering the power of the media in promoting your art business.
• 1pm
  Music Panel: “The New Music Curators”
  The art of music discovery is drastically changing. Traditional gatekeepers like radio, Rolling Stone and MTV are losing their significance, and consumers are lost in a diverse landscape of fragmented and unending media choices. Thursday’s Music Panel at the Innovator’s Lounge explores the increasing importance of curation in music. You are invited to listen to our esteemed group of mentors who will share their experiences in how musicians will be discovered in the new paradigm. The panel consists of Ashley Capps (founder of Bonnaroo Music Festival), Sean Moeller (founder / producer of the Daytrotter blog) and Nate Douglas (Chief Curation Officer for Paste Magazine).

Friday

• 11am
  Journalism Panel: “The New Media Landscape: Challenges and Possibilities”
  The Journalism discipline’s panel, on Friday, April 17, will welcome the public to a fast-paced, in-depth discussion of “The New Media Landscape: Challenges and Possibilities.” Our panel of veteran professionals from print and broadcast to online media, moderated by Journalism discipline coordinator Jon Elliston (see bio below), will share perspectives and ideas on the sea of changes in mass communication, from the decline of print media to the rise of the Web and other multimedia platforms. Underlying the discussion will be ways to survive and thrive as journalists amidst the information revolution, and new opportunities for collaborating with citizen journalists.
• 3pm
  Design & Technology Panel: “HATCHfest Mentors Discuss the Creative Process”
  The creative process is a noble beast. Some days ideas bubble up fully formed and other times nothing seems to work. Our panelists give a candid perspective on their own challengest and triumphs as creative professionals and how they make their art. Discount tire coupons.

Saturday

• 11am
  Design & Technology Keynote: Manuel Lima
  Network Visualization in the age of infinite interconnectedness
  VisualComplexity.com (VC) is a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. With over 600 projects, the goal is to glean a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. This talk will leverage the existing pool of knowledge from VC to convey a current portrait of network visualization. It will illustrate some of its current trends and representation methods, and explore the reasons behind the recent outburst of interest in the field, while focusing on the key challenges of mapping complex networks.

From July 2006 on Writer’s Almanac:

It’s the birthday of the Nobel Prize winning playwright and poet Wole Soyinka (Books by Soyinka), born in Abeokuta, Nigeria (1934). He won a scholarship to England’s University of Leeds, where he studied Shakespeare. While he was in school, he learned that his home country would soon be freed from its colonial rulers, and he couldn’t wait to return home to a newly independent nation. So he was horrified when the new native rulers of Nigeria turned out to be just as corrupt as the colonial rulers had ever been.

In 1965, on the day of an unfair election in Nigeria, Soyinka drove to the local radio station, where they were about to broadcast a prerecorded victory speech by the corrupt new president. Soyinka walked in the front door of the radio station with a gun and a reel of audiotape, and he forced to station managers to play a dissenting broadcast instead. Somehow, he managed to stay out of jail until 1967, when he was thrown in prison.

He spent the next two years in solitary confinement. They would not give him anything to write with, so he made his own ink and wrote on toilet paper and cigarette packages. His prison writings were incredibly popular, and they were eventually collected in Poems from Prison (1969) and The Man Died: Prison Notes (1972).

In time, Soyinka went into exile in England, where he began teaching at Cambridge. It was there that he wrote his play Death and the King’s Horseman (1976).

He’s continued fighting against corruption in Nigeria while writing books. In 1994, he had his passport revoked by Nigerian officials, and had to escape his home country on a twelve-hour motorbike ride over the border. He spent the next several years writing his memoir You Must Set Forth at Dawn, but he didn’t finish it until he was able to return to Nigeria. The memoir came out this year (2006).

The part that resonated with me:

Wole Soyinka said, “A book if necessary should be a hammer [or] a hand grenade which you detonate under a stagnant way of looking at the world.”

Hammers and Hand Grenades. The name of my EP when I am done recording.

School Writing Project: A time I spilled my mom’s beads

by Tate

One morning I woke up and found my mom doing jewelry at the dining room table. I decided to ask her if I could help her do her beads. After she agreed to let me do beads, I began to make a necklace with tiny rainbow-colored beads. I was going to tie my necklace so I could put it on, but, I accidentally flung the necklace out of my hand! As that happened I knocked over my mom’s jar of beads! It looked as though a rain shower was comeing into my house. When it crashed to the ground you could hear pop! pop! pop! on the wood flooring!

I got the broom and swept up the beads, or I thought at least. Because the next day I sat down on the couch and realized I was sitting on something. I picked it up and realized it was one of my mom’s beads!

The End

-SKM Feb 6 2007

School Writing Project: “If I Were President”

By Tate

If I were President I would make there be parties at school every day!

If I were President I declare we eat dessert for lunch and candy.

If I were President I would make there be ice cream and cookies! All day!

If I were President I would let people everywhere have one hundred thousand dollars.

If I were President I would let everyone play outside for four hours!

If I were President I would let everyone watch TV and eat ice cream every day!

If I were President I would let every one have a lot of money so they can do whatever they want!

If I were President I would declare no summer school!

-SKM. Feb 27, 2007