Being Awesome is Awesome
Use your talent to make some more good in the world, and have it be celebrated for more than just how you earn a paycheck.
Awesome, for the sake of this event, is defined as someone who has some ability that they are fantastic at, loves being the best they can at it, AND is interested in doing something with it beyond just earning a paycheck.
A gathering of 100+ people who are self-declared as awesome.
Being Awesome is Awesome Fest is 100+ awesome people meeting, mingling, and teaming up for 3 weeks with other awesome people to do an interesting project together that impacts the world. Each team of 5 or so people will either take on a project from the Awesome Fest Project Grab Bag or create one of their own, and show off & be acknowledged for what they’ve accomplished just three weeks later.
The Commitment
Be there at Being Awesome is Awesome Fest 2011 in downtown Denver in on Wednesday, June 8th, ready to mingle, team up, and formulate a project with awesome strangers.
Collaborate with your team on the project you choose or create for 3 weeks. Be ready to give at least 5 hours a week (no more than 10 will be expected).
Come back to the follow up event Wednesday, June 29th ready to share and brag on what you and your team accomplished on your project, and celebrate in style the awesome connections formed by you and others.
The Reward
- Meet and be inspired by a boatload of like-minded folks with more to talk about than complaining about work or what was on TV last night.
- Use your talent to make some more good in the world, and have it be celebrated for more than just how you earn a paycheck.
- Have an interesting project that you were part of be a brag-worthy feather in your cap, prominently displayed on this site for all to see.
- Know yourself as awesome.
Being Awesome is Awesome Fest is not for everyone.
Not everyone’s gonna want to do some random project with a bunch of strangers they just met. That’s cool, we understand that. We don’t expect that everyone should. This is only for people who have a talent they rock at and want to do some good in the world by sharing it. Sounds like a waste of your time and talent? Good, don’t apply. Bad-asses hungry to collaborate with other bad-asses only.
Sound like your kind of party? Fantastic. Join the Awesome and declare yourself. Declaring yourself is the only way to get in.
In summary...
Event One: Inspiration
Date: Wednesday, June 8th, 2011Time: 7:00pm
Location: Grant Avenue Community Center, Denver, CO (map)
Goal: meet, mingle, team up, and formulate a project with awesome strangers.
Event Two: Show & Tell
Date: Wednesday, June 29th, 2011Time: 7:00pm
Location: Grant Avenue Community Center, Denver, CO (map)
Goal: celebrate the awesome.
In great detail...
June 29th Event Logistics
Where to be:
- Same location, the Grant Steet Community Center on 216 South Grant (map)
How the event will flow:
- 6:30pm - doors open
- 7:00pm - MC opening remarks
- 7:10pm - mix, mingle and reconnect
- 7:30pm - group presentations/show and tell
- 8:00pm - Awesome Fest round table: what worked well, what didn't
- 8:30pm - closting remarks
- 8:45pm - after party at some nearby establishment (maybe the Irish Rover?) to celebrate the Awesome
What to bring:
- Anything useful to present the results of your project
- Brainstorming supplies (pens, paper, your iPad or laptop, whatever suits), just in case
- Your keen willingness to collaborate, play, and be inspired
What to expect:
- A bar with beer, water and soda. Liquor licenses are a pain to procure so we'll leave out a donation jar instead. Be cool, y'all.
- An assortment of light snacks
- Really kickass people
What to do beforehand:
- Be in touch with the folks in your group if you haven't been lately.
- Prepare whatever it is you'll share/show off about your project, including what worked and what didn't work (this is an experiment so it's completely ok if you don't have much to brag on at this point).
- Post an update of what's shakin' with your project these days.
- Again, get stoked.
See you on the 29th.