In addition to the main conference, some of the speakers at the 2012 Toffie Pop Culture Festival will be conducting more intimate workshops with groups limited to only 20 people per session.
In these workshops you will get the opportunity to meet some of the world’s best designers, sharing their skills and knowledge first-hand. All workshops are one hour long, except the Spanish workshop that is two hours. Workshops are scheduled in the conference breaks and can accommodate 20 people per session at R250 each. Booking is easy. Once you’ve purchased your 3-day Toffie pass, you can send an e-mail to toffie@thepresident.co.za to book your workshop sessions.
Some of the workshops that you can book for include:
TEAM SPAIN (ALEX TROCHUT // DVEIN // SUPEREXPRESSO // APPARATU)
An intense 2-hour exercise, combining clay modelling, graphic design and stop motion animation. Please bring an iPhone if you can with the iMotion HD app installed.
HANNES BERNARD (ZA) Jungle Jim Magazine – One Year Later
Jungle Jim is a bimonthly African pulp fiction magazine featuring genre-based writing from across the continent. In the workshop they will discuss small-scale DIY publishing & production methods, and make the next issue together from editorial and illustration to layout and publishing.
RUBEN PATER AND YURI VEERMAN (NL) FREE Workshop! (FREE T-shirt included!)
FREE Egypt, FREE Ringtones, FREE Mandela, FREE Downloads, FREE Tibet, FREE Speech, FREE T-shirts, FREE Workshop.
EMMA GIBSON Installation artist, radio producer (UK) and WILL HUDSON / IT’S NICE THAT, Independent publisher (UK)
How to expose a story: The anecdote you try and pass off as your own in the pub. The break-up story that changed everything. The heroic tale that kept you on the right path. The funniest thing you ever saw. Come prepared with a one minute idea for a story and learn how to script, interview and record it. All interviews will be collected for use on London’s ‘The Butcher’s Apron Radio Show’. Smart phones allowed.
Stefan Schaffer (DE) and Seunyong Moon (NL): istockphotoforreal
The photograph became a personal object when people collected them in photovalbums, hang them on the walls in their domestic surrounding. Carrying it around in a wallet or under a shirt, touching ones skin, gave the photograph the status of a relic. It became a personal object, a temporary part of the body.
Nowadays we identify ourselves with a photograph in the form of a poor image, cropped into a template on our profiles in social networks. The material aspect disappears.
Instead of just identifying with an image, how about participating in an image? On the website www.stockingisthenewplanking.com people recreate and imitate existing stock photos. As important as the image and the imitated image, is the tagline underneath. The official stockphotos describe what is shown on the image, the imitated ones include a cynical version of it, from dry humor to total bullshit, everything is included.
For the complete list of workshops and programme visit pop.toffie.co.za/workshops/
