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SEMIOFEST AFTER HOURS / EATING PROGRAMME

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Dear All,

This is just a quick update to say that everything is coming together nicely for Semiofest. We are looking forward to seeing all those of you who can make it on Friday 25th or Saturday 26th May.

We just wanted to let you know our plans for the Friday and Saturday night. After the event is finished on Friday we would imagine that most of you will want to go out for a meal. All that talking and listening will make us hungry. It turns out that the area Semiofest is held in, W11, is blessed with some pretty good eateries. Rather than booking one place for 60 people which we’ve struggled to do however, we thought it would be more feasible for us to break into groups of 10 or 15. We can then perhaps check out different restaurants and then meet up later if we all want to.

The restaurants we have earmarked for Semiofest participants on Friday are the following.

1. Taqueria – Mexican, No Set menu, Westbourne Grove

2. Al Waha – Lebanese – Set menus £22 or £26, Westbourne Grove

3. El Pirata – Spanish – Set menus £20 or £25, Westbourne Grove

4. Khan’s – Indian, No Set menu, Westbourne Grove

Some of you have mentioned that networking is one of the prime reasons you are coming to this. Just to let you know that there will be places to go to prolong discussion after the programme has finished… This will not be all of you because I know you are probably all far too respectable for that but there are places to go for those who want to go out to party later.

Supper Club is less than 5 minutes walk from the venue:http://www.supperclub.com/html/london/calendar

Cuban band on Friday, funk and boogaloo on Saturday: http://www.floriditalondon.com/

And then Westbourne Studios itself has music / club on every Friday night and of course a bar…

Chris and Organizing Committee

SEMIOFEST AFTER HOURS / EATING PROGRAMME

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Dear All,

This is just a quick update to say that everything is coming together nicely for Semiofest. We are looking forward to seeing all those of you who can make it on Friday 25th or Saturday 26th May.

We just wanted to let you know our plans for the Friday and Saturday night. After the event is finished on Friday we would imagine that most of you will want to go out for a meal. All that talking and listening will make us hungry. It turns out that the area Semiofest is held in, W11, is blessed with some pretty good eateries. Rather than booking one place for 60 people which we’ve struggled to do however, we thought it would be more feasible for us to break into groups of 10 or 15. We can then perhaps check out different restaurants and then meet up later if we all want to.

The restaurants we have earmarked for Semiofest participants on Friday are the following.

1. Taqueria – Mexican, No Set menu, Westbourne Grove

2. Al Waha – Lebanese – Set menus £22 or £26, Westbourne Grove

3. El Pirata – Spanish – Set menus £20 or £25, Westbourne Grove

4. Khan’s – Indian, No Set menu, Westbourne Grove

Some of you have mentioned that networking is one of the prime reasons you are coming to this. Just to let you know that there will be places to go to prolong discussion after the programme has finished… This will not be all of you because I know you are probably all far too respectable for that but there are places to go for those who want to go out to party later.

Supper Club is less than 5 minutes walk from the venue:http://www.supperclub.com/html/london/calendar

Cuban band on Friday, funk and boogaloo on Saturday: http://www.floriditalondon.com/

And then Westbourne Studios itself has music / club on every Friday night and of course a bar…

Chris and Organizing Committee

Semiofest Co-Creation Task Briefing

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We’ve been pulling together the co-creation task for the Friday. The good news is that we’ll have a task and one with a real purpose behind it. These are sourced from a co-creation agency that one of the organizing committee has as a client. There are currently two tasks, both of which are very topical, interesting and give us a corpus of materials to look and to get to grips with. One of these tasks is a project eliciting posters designed to raise awareness about the importance of freedom of expression and safety for journalists globally. The other is a project focused on sourcing new ways to vote for the Facebook generation. We’ll be choosing one of these over the next few days.

The idea will be to get people into smaller mixed groups of 5 and analysing materials together and submitting the materials to a semiotic analysis together. This will both to use semiotics to create an analytic framework for extracting more meaning from the entires and sorting them into themes but also to dig for connotations and cultural codes that that will allow us potentially to go beyond the material.

The desired outcome of the task is to show how semiotics can add value to making sense out of creative work. We’re not looking for polished conclusions – the primary focus of the task is simply:

to work together towards a common goal, which is also good networking
to share ideas and perspectives (being respectful of each other’s ideas)
to have reflections and / or some sense of how the task and process went

The reality is that in each group there will be a mix of abilities and different theoretical persuasions in each group and varying abilities to ideate too. Some groups will have those less experienced in interpreting texts and they should feel free to sit back and chip in as they can. We will encourage people to dig into the material and to be creative. The format for the session will be as follows:

Briefing 10 minutes
Working 50 minutes
Sharing 30 minutes

So please bring your computer so we can upload materials. Look forward to working with you all.

Chris and Organizing Committee

Semiofest 2012 Programme Rough Outline

Announcements

The rough outline to SemioFest agenda is now available to view here. We have an exciting lineup of speakers who are presenting a wide gamut of ideas. Kicking off with our keynote speakers Prof Paul Cobley and Mark Taylor of Mr Mark Taylor’s Brand Emporium who will be followed by a line up of academics and practitioners presenting perspectives on semiotics.