{ leeds 06.02.12
Join us for the tenth edition of Leeds' Girl Geeks, one of a number of year-round LSx events, presented by Linda Broughton, Imran Ali & Monica Tailor.
Just for this February, we've remixed Girl Geek as a less formal occasion, at Old Broadcasting House, coupling a talk from one of Leeds' foremost digital artists with a documentary screening, from LSx's buffering… series. Our programme for the evening is as follows...
6pm - Registration, refreshments
7pm - Megan Smith
8pm - Screening of Top Secret Rosies, the true story of WW2's "female" computers
9pm - Skype Q&A with director LeAnn Erickson
9:30pm - Close
the evening's guest speakers are...
megan l. smith // @cawsand is a new media artist, with a PhD in Contemporary Art & Graphic Design from Leeds Metropolitan University. Her projects probe new systems for delivering syndicated data through narrative structure and she often works with Arduino, geo-location, digital print, video, installation, and community projects as methods for storytelling.
Her work has been shown at ‘Unleashed Devices‘, Watermans Art Centre, London, ‘Twitter/Art+Social Media’, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, and the Leeds pavilion at the ‘Amsterdam Biennale’, 2009.
leann erickson // Director and Producer of Top Secret Rosies, LeAnn Erickson is an Associate Professor at Temple University in Philadelphia and has been an independent filmmaker for over 20 years.
Her work has appeared on television, in galleries, and has won international recognition in video/film festivals.
She is a recipient of regional and national production grants for her work from such funding sources as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation and the Leeway Foundation.
so what's a girl geek dinner anyway?
where can i register?
where will the dinner take place?
who'll be coming?
The evening will be informal, friendly and chilled. For just £10, you can enjoy some food, drinks and the chance to hang out with the city's brightest creatives, technologists, developers, entrepreneurs, marketeers, PR professionals and creative & digital girls - yeh yeh, we'll have a smattering of boys too ;)
Do tell your friends, Girl Geek Dinners are open-invitation events and we'd love for you to tag your blog posts, Twitters and photos as... #leedsgirlgeeks
6:00-9:30pm @ old broadcasting house
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