Every year at Pirie, we set a theme to direct our focus. 2017 is our year of connection. In alignment with this theme, we decided to host an event to bring together a few creative organizations whose work we admire - to learn what drives them to do what they do.
We’ve invited three of our excellent collaborators to join us in sharing their stories. Each of these organizations is fiercely mission-driven, all serving their clients and communities in different ways. We’ve invited them to talk about what they do - not in the typical elevator-speech sort of way - PechaKucha-style with 20 slides at 20 seconds apiece. We’ve given them the theme of “Idaho to Igloo,” asking that a word between these two inspires the content of their presentation to encourage a unique and intimate spin.
For us, it’s inspiring to look outside of our industry to see how others meet their challenges, which in turn leads us to innovate in our own work. We invite you to join us, engage in this fun, informal, and inspiring format and see what new ideas are sparked in your imagination!
Krissy Velardi was Pirie Associates' awesome intern who spent a good portion of her summer helping to conceptulize and plan this event. She developed the theme.
"I had been reading The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, in which a character, Beatrice Rumfoord, has a collection of poems. Between Timid and Timbuktu...because all of the words between deal with time."
Krissy then selected the book-ending words Idaho and Igloo for our event because the words between them deal with ideas...and there are other fun words in the bunch too.
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