Ready For Reinvention? ASPP’s Idea Packed Workshop for Creatives

If you’re a creative professional wondering what to do to keep up, stand out, impress and land that next gig in the Bay Area, be sure to join Danita and the ASPP this unique event featuring an extraordinary panel of career professionals who will provide practical tips, advice, tools and some useful forecasts for navigating the new creative marketplace. Danita will moderate the event, drawing from her extensive involvement in the photo and creative  industry to help get answers to the questions that matter most. 

This event happens:
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
at Blue Sky Rental Studios, 2523 3rd Street, Suite 434, San Francisco

A light lunch will be served and valuable door prizes given away including books and other gifts. Visit ASPP for more info.

Our Panel:

Erik Proulx spent nearly 15 years in advertising agencies across the country, including Madison Ave (literally) conglomerates, Main Street (literally) boutiques, and everything else in between. Today, as founder of Please Feed The Animals, he is an activist for those in advertising who have been laid off, including himself. He recently completed filming Lemonade, a short film about people whose unemployment was the single best moment of their lives, even if they didn’t realize it at the time.

Suzannah Scully knows her mission is to inspire others to discover and follow their passion. She is a career and small business coach in San Francisco who believes that what you do should reflect who you are. Suzannah challenges, motivates and holds her clients accountable to make positive changes in their lives and career. She also is the resident Career Coach writer for the SF Examiner.

Michelle Estrin as the former Education Program Director/Marketing Director at Communication Arts Magazine she designed special sections in the Photography and Illustration Annuals displaying award-winning artists. Michelle currently works at Creative Circle, a specialized staffing agency that represents advertising and creative professionals in San Francisco. She acts as a New Business Development/Account Manager/Creative Coach to candidates with different skill sets ranging from print, copywriters, account management and marketing to UI designers, Web developers and Web designers. When she’s not working she’s hiking, running and traveling.

Where: Blue Sky Rental Studios, 2523 3rd Street, Suite 434, San Francisco, CA  94107
For directions, please visit their site here.

Cost:    ASPP Members – $15
New ASPP Members – Free
PACA, APA, ASMP, AIGA – $20
Non-members – $25
Students (with ID) – $10

RSVP: Because of limited space, you MUST reserve in advance to attend this event. Please RSVP by November 6th to Michael Masterson at michaeldmasterson@gmail.com