It’s happening.
The California Beaver Summit is becoming a reality. And not just in my dreams. Our first meeting was off the charts productive and we are well on our way to our second, with a dynamic conference structure to boot. Folks weighed in on the naming and considered forum and colloquy and meeting, but Summit seems to be the most popular. There are three artists working on our logo at the moment, and it is rapidly becoming something I can no longer keep you posted on until we are ready to go public with details.
It’s not just my dream anymore. It belongs to eight other fantastic folk who, even if I got hit by a train tomorrow, are going to make it happen. That’s strange and wonderful, and very good news for beavers. In the meantime, assume we are all hard at work and that sometime next spring there will be a virtual beaver summit for California and you’ll ALL be invited.
One person who expressed interest in the summit and really wanted to help was Ian Boone, formerly of Kentucky now of Portland. I’m hoping he gets very inspired because I can see a claymation short would be an AWESOME way to promote the conference. Of course he’s very busy right now because this just happened to him…You might remember we met Ian when he was 13 years old because he made the following short film. At the time he was using his father’s last name {Timothy) and his dad was playing the banjo. Now he’s an accomplished animator and banjo player himself, both our fathers have since died and he uses his mom’s last name and I can’t help feeling,,.I don’t even know the word,,.maternal? dotish? Awwwwww…..
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How cool would it be to have a little short claymation showing how beavers help fires and salmon and climate change devastation in California that people can send to their friend and colleagues to spread the word?
Pretty dam cool.
