MaineBiz Sunday Highlights Juice

John Rohman, Skip Bates and Amber Heffner appear on MaineBiz Sunday.

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Last Minute Details

We know how it is, you signed up this week but still do not really know the details you need for the conference.

So here's a little guide:

Day 1 of the conference begins Friday, November 13, at the Camden Opera House. We begin with registration and breakfast between 7:00 - 8:30am.

There are directions to the Opera House on the Juice website, and you can also find the full day schedule there too. If you are wondering about accommodations, well that information is available too.

Below is the confirmation PDF that covers just about everything else you need.


Attendee Confirmation Newsletter

Friday Night at the Juice Conference!

Once the Juice conference winds down for the day on Friday, then the night will come alive with creativity and fun.

Pecha Kucha at the Camden Opera House
The doors open at 6:45pm and show begins at 7:20 PM; admission is $5 per person to the public but free with your conference badge.

The line-up of presenters is a dynamic group with diverse topics including Mary Barnes, unconventional dry and wet drawings; Sam Cady, shaped canvas painter; Paul Chartrand, importer of organic wines; Autumn Cipala, translucent porcelain potter; Anastasia Fischer, interaction designer; Bill Laurita, owner of Swans Island Blankets; Scott Minzy, book artist and printmaker; Antonia Small, film photographer and writer. The emcee for the evening will be Midcoast Magnet’s Mary Bumiller.

Party: at Bayview Landing
Starts at 7:30 at Bayview Landing, off of Bayview Street near Route 1.

Locations: Atlantica, Bayview Lobster, Gilbert’s Public House, Paolina’s Way, Peter Ott’s, and The White Lion.



Details:

• There will be a “passport” in your badge. Bring it with you to each of the party venues to get a stamp. All completed passports are entered into a drawing. You must have all six stamps to enter the drawing.
• Each location mentioned above is serving a great drink special, some late night food options, and offers a relaxing place to continue networking with Juice and Pecha Kucha participants.

Yellow Light Breen Speaks in 2007

Yellow Light Breen, from Bangor Savings Bank, gave an insightful speech at the 2007 Juice Conference.

Juice Opens the Gubernatorial Debate on Creativity

The race for the Blaine House is over a year away, but there are already many candidates preparing for what is sure to be another interesting race for the position of Governor of Maine. Although that vote is many months in the future, Juice Conference attendees will be the first to be present when many of the candidates come together to outline their views on Maine’s creative economy.

A session, called “If I were Governor,” will take place at 2:15 pm on Saturday, November 14, and will be moderated by Don Carrigan of WCSH 6 and WBLZ 2.

The session will allow gubernatorial candidates three minutes each to present their stance or views on Maine's Creative Economy. They will also field questions and listen to ideas from the audience. This gives Juice attendees the opportunity to provide their input and to shape the future of the debate in its relation to Maine’s creative sector.
Gubernatorial candidates that will be present for this session are as follows, Steven Rowe, Marty Vachon, Paul LePage, Lynn Williams, Samme Bailey, Beverly Cooper-Pete, Matt Jacobson, Rosa Scarcelli, Peter Mills, Elizabeth Mitchell, Donna Dion and John Whitcomb.
This session is just one of 40 great sessions available at the 2009 Juice Conference. Sign up today by visiting, www.JuiceConference.org.

PechaKucha “Faces of the Creative Economy”

PechaKucha Night Hits the Camden Opera House during Juice-2 Conference
“Faces of the Creative Economy”

Friday, November 13 at 7:20pm

The fifth PechaKucha Night Rockland will be open to the public at the Camden Opera House on Friday, November 13. The Midcoast Magnet is hosting this event in conjunction with the Juice-2 Conference also being held at the Camden Opera House on November 13 and 14. The doors open at 6:45pm and show begins at 7:20 PM; admission is $5 per person.

The line-up of presenters is a dynamic group with diverse topics including Mary Barnes, unconventional dry and wet drawings; Sam Cady, shaped canvas painter; Paul Chartrand, importer of organic wines; Autumn Cipala, translucent porcelain potter; Anastasia Fischer, interaction designer; Bill Laurita, owner of Swans Island Blankets; Scott Minzy, book artist and printmaker; Antonia Small, film photographer and writer. The em-cee for the evening will be Midcoast Magnet’s Mary Bumiller.

PechaKucha Night is an internationally recognized event based on a unique presentation style in which artists, designers and other creative individuals share twenty images, with twenty seconds for each image. PechaKucha Nights are currently taking place in over 250 cities around the world.

In the past six months four such events have drawn record crowds in the Midcoast—most recently on August 14 outdoors at the Waterfall Art Center in Belfast, where over 300 guests gathered on the back lawn to enjoy a summer’s evening. The response continues to be inspiring, as a diverse group of presenters from the local area share images and stories of their work, their process and what inspires them to live and work as creative individuals among us.

Save the date for Friday, November 13 at Camden Opera House in Camden. Doors will open at 6:45 PM and the program will begin at 7:20 PM. For directions, visit . If the turnout is anything like the last four, it should make for quite an evening. The PechaKucha Rockland partners look forward to seeing you all and are excited to hear from the next group of presenters!

For general information or questions about PechaKucha Night Rockland, please visit www.pecha-kucha.org or email rockland@pechakuchamaine.org or call Mary Bumiller at 207-949-9155

Juice Updates

The deadline for the pitch session is November 7.

Organizers of the Juice Conference have received an anonymous donation of $30,000, with the intention that the funds be invested on behalf of Midcoast Magnet into innovative Maine businesses (Existing companies trying to expand as well as start-ups are eligible).

Below is the form required for this session. You can download or view this document using the links above it.

Tickets are still available for the Saturday night performance by the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. These tickets can be purchased through Bay Chambers Concerts, and there is an added incentive for Juice Conference attendees who will enjoy a 20% reduction on their admission price.

Why Juice? Why You?

If you read a newspaper, work, or drink coffee at a local coffee shop, you have undoubtedly heard about Juice. But like so much information we encounter it may be something that sounds familiar but has not registered on your radar. For those of you fully aware you might think it sounds interesting, but why does it have value for me?

At its most basic level Juice 2.0 is about the economic future of Maine. It is a forum for the innovative, creative, prestigious and yes sometimes wacky minds that strive to make Maine a viable economic environment. It offers insights to thriving businesses and entrepreneurial ideas in their infancy and provides knowledgeable resources to help with financing, marketing and networking ideas.

As a seasoned worker I am interested to learn how old challenges are met with new ideas. I also find that an old idea may have new relevance in an emerging market. Young careerists can benefit by learning about trends in their area or other areas that might be of interest, as they contemplate the future direction of their working future. Individuals concerned about building or refurbishing homes can learn about new materials and green trends to save them money while being kind to the environment. New entrants to the job market might learn about an industry or organization that they can be passionate about. Stay at home parents, seniors and professional volunteers might discover new community centric ideas they can help to bring alive in their own communities.

If you are interested in making a living in Maine, if you hope your children will have jobs that will keep them here, if you have an idea that you would like to bring to fruition, if you are interested in creativity, passion and the courage to bring an idea to reality or you want to feel confident the Maine economy can evolve with sustainability, you will savor the experience of Juice.

Post courtesy of Lee Heffner, Midcoast Magnet blogger

Creative Economy – Creative Solutions

There are two things that virtually every American believes. You can own your own home and you can make your own living. True, not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur but the power of the option is unassailable.

Independent fishermen are a prime example of entrepreneurship. They invest in their businesses, they strive to be their own bosses and they work hard to provide for their families. Imagine owning a business that every related economic variable is negative. What would you do? Many would be discouraged to the point of defeat. That is the place ground fishermen found themselves in 2007. The Maine fleet of ground fishermen had declined from 350 boats to 70. Stocks were declining, costs of operation were spiraling upward, days at sea were cut by increased regulation and global climate change impacted the stock in ways yet to be defined. Every market indicator pointed to the demise of the industry.

Photo:Peter Ralston
Port Clyde fishermen, as notoriously independent as any fisherman you may know, banded together to save their businesses. They knew to survive they would have to be creative and look at a centuries old business model in new ways. They formed a cooperative, leased a dock for joint use and forced themselves to look at the obstacles that confronted them. They had to seek an alternative way to sustain their businesses.

Two things evolved. They learned to brand their product and they educated their market on the importance of ground fish to the informed consumer. They learned from the example of organic farmers and the Community Supported Agriculture model.

The educated consumer wants to know where their food comes from, how it is acquired and most importantly that it is fresh. Fresh means local. The price for these assurances can be somewhat higher but what is more important than knowing that you are serving the freshest seasonal food available.
The Midcoast Fishermen’s Cooperative launched a Community Supported Fishery (CSF) that allows consumers to buy harvest shares. In two years the number of share holders has grown from 35 to 350. In addition to shares the cooperative has offered its product at local farmer’s markets and a restaurant demand has also developed.

Photo: Kim Libby
The CSF serves shareholders from Bath to Mt. Desert. To better serve their customers the cooperative has built its own processing plant and the supposed issues of dissent fostered by independence have been mitigated by the results.

The Midcoast Fishermen’s Cooperative has proven you can preserve heritage and livelihood by looking at old problems as new opportunities.

Post courtesy of Lee Heffner, Midcoast Magnet blogger

Build Green Maine Explores Innovation at Juice Conference

Following the successful Built Energy Forum held at the Augusta Civic Center in February, Build Green Maine is producing four sessions for Juice 2.0 “Building Maine’s Innovation Networks.” Build Green Maine is dedicated to facilitating the rapid transformation of Maine’s built environment to greatly reduce energy inputs and reduce carbon emission.

“Sustainability is an essential theme for the creative economy,” says Skip Bates, Board President of conference producer Midcoast Magnet and Vice President of Business Banking at Bangor Savings. “’Ugly’ is not sustainable, and energy efficiency is essential. This conference represents an opportunity for architects, designers, builders, material scientists, entrepreneurs and consumers to develop relationships and to learn about the forces driving change in our built environment.” The Juice Conference will take place on November 13 and 14 in Camden, Maine. The conference will bring together over 500 of Maine’s most creative entrepreneurs, artists, innovators and statewide leaders at the intersection of technology, tradition and design for the purpose of charting the future of Maine’s economy.

The sessions produced by Build Green Maine are:

• “20/30 Vision: Maine’s Energy Efficient Housing Stock 20 Years into the Future” The heads of key state agencies engage in a moderated dialogue of the elements of a sustainable built environment deep into the future for Maine and its effects on our cultural and economic development. Panelists include John Richardson, Department of Economic and Community Development; John Kerry, Governor’s Office of Energy Independence and Security; Donna McNeil, Maine Arts Commission and Adam Krea, Maine Housing

• “Gutting the Money Pit: A Case of a Deep Energy Retrofit” World-renowned building scientist, Joseph Lstiburek will walk participants step by step through a case study of a deep energy house retrofit. Learn how to prioritize retrofit tasks, learn what NOT to do and learn about the new materials and technologies that will get the job done

• “Smart Houses Don’t Just Stand There: Exploring a collaborative design and construction process with the goal of producing affordable net-zero houses” Matthew O’Malia and Alan Gibson of GO Logic Homes will present an overview of the design process and construction methods for their net–zero model home in Belfast, Maine. The process demonstrates how a close collaboration between the design and construction processes proves that affordable net-zero houses are viable and possible, right now

• “Preservation as a Development Strategy” Staff of Maine Preservation will explain the keys to success where preservation strategies initiated downtown economic development and significant energy savings.