Schedule – Golden Gate Conference at Asilomar 2012

FRIDAY, MARCH 2

3:00 – 4:00 p.m.        Registration, Fred Farr

3:15 – 3:45 p.m.        Optional Warm-up Exercise: Unlock Your Inner Genius, Naomi Kinsman, Evergreen

4:00 – 4:45 p.m.        CONFERENCE KICK-OFF, Fred Farr

4:45 – 5:30 p.m.        Trusting Your Inner Idiot—Balancing Effort and Surrender, Charlie Price, Fred Farr

5:30 – 6:15 p.m.        PANEL 1 – Creativity: Sparking Innovation, Fred Farr

6:15 – 7:30 p.m.        Dinner, Crocker Dining Hall

7:30 – 8:30 p.m.        KEYNOTE: Yes!, Dan Yaccarino, Fred Farr

8:30 – 9:30 p.m.        Portfolio Show, Peer Critique Meet Up, Cocktail Party & Mingling, Fred Farr

Local Author Book Sales

SATURDAY, MARCH 3

7:30 – 8:30 a.m.        Breakfast, Crocker Dining Hall

8:30 – 8:45 a.m.        Door Prize & Announcements, Fred Farr

8:45 – 9:30 a.m.        Denying the Heartless Future, Arthur Levine, Fred Farr

9:30 – 10:15 a.m.      Get the Heck Out of Your Own Way, Erin Murphy, Fred Farr

10:15 – 10:30 a.m.    Break

10:30 – 11:15 a.m.    Unblocking Your Inner Genius, Tamra Tuller, Fred Farr

11:15 – 11:45 a.m.    PANEL 2 – For the Love of Revision, Fred Farr

11:45 – 1:00 p.m.     Lunch, Crocker Dining Hall

1:00 – 1:45 p.m.        All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in SCBWI, Tracey Adams, Fred Farr

1:45 – 2:30 p.m.        BREAKOUT FOR ILLUSTRATORS, Digging Down to my Roots: The Story of Dan Yaccarino’s All the Way to America Dan Yaccarino, Fred Farr

2:30 – 2:45 p.m.        Break

2:45 – 3:30 p.m.        BREAKOUT FOR WRITERS: Playing for Workability, Tracy Maurer, Fred Farr

3:30 – 3:45 p.m.        Break

3:45 – 4:45 p.m.       Faculty Readings, Fred Farr

4:45 – 5:45 p.m.        Don’t Be a Twit: Making the Most of Twitter, Sara Sargent, Fred Farr

Private viewing of portfolios by faculty judges, Evergreen

5:45 – 7:15 p.m.        Dinner, Crocker Dining Hall

7:15 – 7:30 p.m.        Announcement of the 2011 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award, the Third Annual Golden Gate Portfolio Award and the First Annual Golden Gate Writers’ Award, Fred Farr

7:30 – 8:30 p.m.        KEYNOTE: My Inner Incompetent: How We Turn Our Internal Mess Into Fiction, M.T. Anderson, Fred Farr

8:30 – 9:30 p.m.        Faculty Book Signings, Fred Farr

SUNDAY, MARCH 4

7:30 – 8:30 a.m.        Breakfast, Crocker Dining Hall

8:30 – 9:15 a.m.        PANEL 3 – Media Presence: Go Social in 2012, Fred Farr

9:15 – 9:45 a.m.        Announcements, Fred Farr

9:45 – 10:30 a.m.      Inspiration, World Building and Other Indoor Sports, Sara Sargent, Fred Farr

10:30 – 10:45 a.m.    Announcements, Fred Farr

10:45 – 11:45 a.m.    Commitment Ceremony, Fred Farr

Noon                           Lunch, Crocker Dining Hall

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