{"id":8547,"date":"2020-10-03T17:50:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T07:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2020-10-03T17:51:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T07:51:24","slug":"seattle-symposium-2020-is-an-anywhere-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=8547","title":{"rendered":"Seattle symposium 2020 is an anywhere symposium!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/unnamed-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2020\/10\/unnamed-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2020\/10\/unnamed-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2020\/10\/unnamed-440x440.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2020\/10\/unnamed-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2020\/10\/unnamed.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">This year&#8217;s annual Seattle Metals Guild Symposium is happening and will be presented online for your convenience on Oct. 10, 2020. If you&#8217;ve never attended one because of expense or distance you&#8217;re in luck! There will be an outstanding lineup of speakers, artists, silent auction, speaker panel, and even a Happy Hour! It will all be recorded for viewing anytime from your time zone. You can register<a href=\"https:\/\/seattle-metals-guild-symposium.heysummit.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/seattle-metals-guild-symposium.heysummit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> and get tickets now.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Symposium 2020\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yn5ZIPrG2UQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Seattle Metals Guild put on the symposium annually &#8211; you&#8217;ll have seen me spruik it here before &#8211; and this year a few of my buddies are speaking. It&#8217;s not a local affair by any means &#8211; the 5 main speakers are all very much non-Seattleites, but 3 of them just happen to be colleagues\/friends I would pretty regularly catch up with around the US at different events. There&#8217;s Cappy Counard, Stephen Yusko and Maria Eife, my occasional SNAG wife (or wifey, cos Eife and wifey&#8230; For those unfamiliar, there&#8217;s a lot of people who share a twin room at SNAG every year with the same friend, who claim their shared-room-partner as their SNAG-spouse \ud83d\ude09 ) along with Andrea Hill and Morgan Asoyuf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes! They still managed to get an international guest! <a href=\"http:\/\/The Tsm'syen people are makers of traditional cultural artwork for thousands of years.\">Morgan Asoyuf<\/a> hails from British Columbia and is a jeweller and cultural education teacher. She is from the Tsm&#8217;syen people and has a rich First Nations and traditional goldsmithing background. And Andrea Hill will be talking growth for jewellery businesses, so it&#8217;s a very well rounded year, with those two, Stephen the precision blacksmith, (I bought a lovely bottle opener made by him the first time we met, which was nicked by some rascal at a party at ours one time &#8211; something tells me I shoulda searched Andy Cooperman [see video above] as he left the party&#8230; He and I both were introduced to Stephen at the same event and he lusted over it too.) Cappy the professor of jewellery who I did the Smitten Forum with in 2018, whose beautiful layered practice really makes you think, and Maria the designer <em>par excellence<\/em> who has been innovating with laser and 3D print technologies her whole career, and who knows the ins and outs of the jewellery fair scene. See pic below for proof!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-instagram wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/23-qOohuZJ\/\n<\/div><figcaption>Maria at the Smithsonian Craft Fair with Jamie Lannister. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So the benefit of not being <em>in realbody <\/em>for this symposium, aside from the &#8216;no pants&#8217; option Andy has kindly laid out to us, is that those of us in completely non-synced time-zones can get onboard and see these unique and talented makers talk about their works when it&#8217;s convenient for us. For a price that&#8217;s about a third of the usual dirt-cheap SMG Symposium sign-up fee. Huzzah! COVID-19 can&#8217;t take all our fun \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so, I will get up at 7am next Sunday and while still bleary-eyed make myself an early morning mimosa, to toast all of my friends at the Zoom Happy Hour. Feel free to join me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(And don&#8217;t let it slip, when I tell them it was all great, that I won&#8217;t be watching them speak until later that day. Ssshhhh&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s annual Seattle Metals Guild Symposium is happening and will be presented online for your convenience on Oct. 10, 2020. If you&#8217;ve never attended one because of expense or distance you&#8217;re in luck! There will be an outstanding lineup of speakers, artists, silent auction, speaker panel, and even a Happy Hour! 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