Three Minute Sydney
Friday, May 29th, 2009
Photo credit: Phil Rogers
The big marketing exercise that is Creative Sydney, itself a part of VIVID festival, has created its list of Sydney’s “Creative Catalysts”, and since SquatSpace/NUCA (listed as one slashed up org) is one of them, I was invited to speak at their opening event, a night called Three Minute Sydney. The brief was to describe what is Sydney in three minutes. Phew!
I think normally I might have been lodged deeper within the forums, probably on the panel about space for creativity, The Space Race. But I have a hunch that since I am a minor celebrity now, thanks to Guerrilla Gardeners, I was catapulted to the big launch night. Three Minute Sydney, unlike most of the rest of the Creative Sydney events, was not a panel format, but was more like ten short keynote addresses. An opportunity not to be missed, despite the fact they don’t pay any of the artists. Well, Eno got a cool mill. But he’s a bona fide celebrity!