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2008 Portland Creative Conference – Highlights

The Portland Creative Conference (or Cre8con) returns this Saturday to Newmark Theater. There are some really interesting speakers this year including Emek (book with his art here) and Dan Wieden (Wieden Kennedy), Jerry Ketel (PAF president) & Bill Oakley (Simpsons!). Lastly, this event benefits K-12 art education in the Portland area.

We are also giving away a pair of tickets to this event + rap Wrap party. To win, just comment on this post on why you want to go. We will draw a winner on Friday at 11AM and email you. Don’t want to take your chances or want to purchase a ticket now? We have a discount code for you. Just go here and use the code “CRE809″ for 25% off registration!

On the Twitter? Kristen Imes from the Pipeline Posse will be there and you can follow her tweets on our @pdxtweet account. You can follow the official twitter account at @cre8con.

Reminder: We give out free tickets every week to our Portland Facebook Group including to many of the top music and art venues in Portland. Join it if you like free stuff.

Press Release info for Portland Creative Conference after the break…

ARTS EDUCATION GETS A MUCH NEEDED BOOST AT REVIVED PORTLAND CREATIVE CONFERENCE

After a successful re-launch in 2008, the Portland Creative Conference (cre8con.com) is back to inspire, educate and network professionals across a variety of Creative Industries once again. The event, which takes place September 12, 2009 from 10am-5pm at the Newmark Theater in the Portland Center for Performing Arts, not only serves to give the audience a peek inside the creative process of the presenters but to benefit Keeping the Beat, a nonprofit that supports K-12 arts education in Oregon. The cost to attend the conference is a recession-friendly $99 per person (an additional 25% off is offered to those with a discount code from associations.)

“Re-Launching the Portland Creative Conference in 2008 as a nonprofit fiscally sponsored project of Keeping the Beat was a win-win situation for the regional creative economy and for arts education,” said Steve Gehlen, chairman of the Portland Creative Conference and founder of Keeping the Beat. “The first-year results exceeded our expectations due to the outpouring of support received from sponsors, individual donors, volunteers and attendees.  That allowed us to distribute funds from proceeds to two different arts education programs in the region.”

After a day of motivation from some of the most influential creatives in a cross section of disciplines, participants are invited to attend the “Wrap Party,” a networking event after the conference, at 5pm.

Speakers include:

• Co-founder, president and creative director of Wieden+Kennedy, Dan Wieden
• Television writer/producer (most notably for the Simpsons), Bill Oakley
• Rock poster artist, Emek whose work has been commissioned by folks like Neil Young and the Beastie Boys
• Novelist, screenwriter and former pitcher for the Texas Rangers, Larry Brooks
• Designer and MTV documentary Director/ Producer, Jen Jako
• Creative Marketing Director at Leopold Ketel & Partners and PAF president, Jerry Ketel
• The Portland Creative Conference will be emceed by KUFO’s Rick Emerson and conference attendees will be entertained by international improvisation troupe and consultancy group, On Your Feet.

The event is produced by Oregon Creative Industries, a trade association in the formative stages of development, whose mission is to sustain and grow Oregon’s creative economy.

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