Speakers Corner is an educational offering to the public. Guest speakers present topics of general interest or to a specific audience. Speakers Corner topics for the 2009 year were as follow:
September 2008: Martin Ingles from Henry’s Cameras, in Newmarket, presented a workshop on digital cameras in September. Martin spoke to us about the aspects of buying a digital camera. Many of the participants wanted to update existing cameras and so Martin discussed lens quality, pixel size, basic usage and operations. Thank you to Brian Atherley, Sears, Alliston for donating the use of his store for our event.
October 2008: SSAC hosted award-winning Susan Menzies at the Gibson Centre. Susan spoke about Digital Art in Animation and demonstrated her skills in Corel Painter, Flash and Photoshop. She showed some of her work for Nelvana, including painted backgrounds for animated television series like Braceface.
November 2008: The Tyler Seidenberg Composition Workshop was a resounding success! Over 25 young musicians came to listen, learn and play their compositions with Tyler Seidenberg, a young musical genius from Mississauga. The creator of the ty`SOLOS series and a multi-award winning composer/pianist/singer, Tyler discussed many topics at his workshop such as common chord progressions, compositions, sound and harmony, and the importance of theory.
January 2009: Sharlene Rankin, Executive Director of Headwaters Arts, spoke at the Millpond Centre. Her topics included Emerging Artists, Talking with Dealers, Pricing Art, Consignments and Pearls of Wisdom. Sharlene had lots of practical advice for all artists. She gave cited websites, magazines and recommended art shows that are great reference tools and learning experiences for all artists.
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