Outline of the 1st Annual International APUG Conference

[jd callow]

What: 1st Annual International APUG Conference

When: The first weekend of May 2006; 4-7 May 2006


Where:
Elevator Gallery
42 Industrial Avenue
Toronto ON Canada
M4G 1Y9

How Much: $75.00 Canadian for a weekend pass or 50.00 for a 1 day pass

Events

Work Shops
Workshops will be a approx. 1/2 day each and will cost 50.00 to attend. Most of the workshops have instructors. Your feedback here would be greatly appreciated.

Split Printing
PT/PD
Lith
Cross-Processing
Basic Colour Theory
and Printing
AZO
Wet Plates
Portfolio Review
Studio Portraiture
Architecture
Street Photog
Child photography
Intro to Large Format
Mounting, Matting & Framing
Ilfo/Ciba printing
carbon printing.
Basic Colour Theory
Vision
1 on 1, seeing with the Camera​

Photo Outings and Tours
Outings and tours will be free to attendees. We are very interested in adding to this, but will need volunteers.

Credit Provincial Park
Streets of Toronto
Junkyard Adventures
Gallery Tours​

Round Table Discussions:
There are two round table discussions currently planned. These will be chaired by some of APUG’s finest.


Demonstrations
Demonstrations will be free to attendees. We only have one demonstration planned. Please give us an idea of what you'ld like to see and we will do our best to add it to the event.

ULF​

Vendors and Sponsors
We will have a small vendor area. Will be pursuing sponsorships and vendors shortly. Now is the time to either recommend a vendor/sponsor or contact us regarding becoming a vendor/sponsor. We plan on asking those who already support APUG, but have yet to define the structure of a sponsorship.

APUGGERS Please comment. This is your conference.

 

[MattKing]

It would be really interesting if Kodak Canada would be willing to be a sponsor.

 

[hortense]

Rules: Do I understand that entries are to be FRAMED (not just matted)?

 

[Bruce Osgood]

" Outline of the 1st Annual International APUG Conference"

Very ambitious and very exciting and deserves every effort to be financially assisted by manufacturers of photo products.

Is there going to be an attendance fee? Would a Subscriber get a different fee than Member?

 

[thedarkroomstudios]

Hmm...
Matt - I like the idea but would feel sorry for the schlepp they send who will be pounded with "Your company abandoned us" statements!
Hortense - Those questions are throroughly answered in these locations:
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Bruce - "How Much: $75.00 Canadian for a weekend pass or 50.00 for a 1 day pass" it didn't mention any discrimination based on subscriber/non-subscriber

 

[Thomassauerwein]

This is going to be a lot of fun! I think we are going to make a big effort to be there.

 

[MattKing]

Hmm...
Matt - I like the idea but would feel sorry for the schlepp they send who will be pounded with "Your company abandoned us" statements!

Actually, as I think about it more, it would give Kodak an opportunity, if they should choose to do so, of publically stating that they do not intend to abandon analog film, and intend to continue supplying markets like LF photography. To do so makes great business sense for them, because the success they are currently enjoying in the digital arena comes in large part, I would suggest, because of their reputation as a photographic company (as compared to an electronics company).

I think a pilgrimage to the "Camera Heights" area of Toronto, where Canadian Kodak used to have such a large presence, might be in order too. For those of you who are in Toronto, are there any remnants of Kodak's formerly large presence there still visible? Are there any abandoned buildings worth photographing?

 

[Bob Carnie]

Hi Folks

John Eric and I have discussed a subscribers rate to all the conference events and lectures.
Basically what we would like to do is give APUGers an advance price that John has outlined. We are hoping for advance bookings to get all of this in order.
We have an number in our minds of APUGers that we need to have to make this go well.
Once we are closer to the event we will start pushing local photographers who are not APUGers.
I am extremely happy with the instructors we have selected for this first conference. All are world class in their respective genres and we will have no problem filling the event with Local Participants, in fact we have not advertized in Toronto for this very reason. We would hope that subscribing members to APUG would be the first to join in.
As we get closer to the event the prices will possibly increase to give the first people a better rate than those waiting till the last minute.
To close down my facility for close to a week for set up and tear down is an enormous commitment for myself , partner and staff. A surge of commited entrys in the competition and conference would be huge kickstart to this event.
I don't want to sound ants'y but 11 months is not very far away and I would like to have a base of commited attendees to work from.

 

[rogueish]

Count me in! I'll attend and am interested in at least 3 of those workshops!

How do I sign up and where do I send my $$ ?

 

[Sean]

It all sounds great! I sure look forward to finally meeting many of you in person

Well done guys!

 

[grahamp]

Convention passes for the TTC? Not that the 56 looks to pass the door.

Toronto is certainly tempting - I haven't been there since '95 and both my wife and I have friends there.

 

[wendyr]

WOW - I am so excited to see this posted. It's the first I have heard of it and I AM ALREADY HERE !!!!!!! Are all the workshop instructors listed anywhere? You guys will LOVE Toronto in May. You MUST come. Best of luck with everything and I would love to be involved and help out if needed!

Wendy

 

[Gay Larson]

From Tulsa, Ok. it seems far but I'm going to try to get there. It sounds great!

 

[waynecrider]

What: 1st Annual International APUG Conference


Vendors and Sponsors
We will have a small vendor area. Will be pursuing sponsorships and vendors shortly. Now is the time to either recommend a vendor/sponsor or contact us regarding becoming a vendor/sponsor. We plan on asking those who already support APUG, but have yet to define the structure of a sponsorship.

APUGGERS Please comment. This is your conference.

I would like to see SatinSnow, J&C as well as Ilford represented, since so many of us talk about, rec and use their products. Also, workshop operating photographers should be interested as well. I'd be more then happy to lend a hand to scout vendors and sponsers.