[Jewelry making - Article 00170] - [Orchid] Three Weeks of Show-and-Tell at Tucson 2007

[Hans Durstling]

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Hi All,

    All the commitments are firm; the size of the tent is known (twenty
    by 30 feet); the program is being filled in. So now it's time to tell
    the world about it - and it gives me great pleasure to do so. 

    (How's that for a mysterious opening?) 

    "It" is a unique new attraction for Tucson - the "Electric Park
    Learning Center", a twenty-by-thirty foot tent at the Electric Park
    Show entirely devoted to free, public, demonstrations and
    show-and-tell. For the full three weeks of Tucson, visitors will be
    able to watch jewelry and gem and lapidary techniques being
    demonstrated, hands-on, in the Learning Center tent at the Electric
    Park Show. Manufacturers of tools and machines such as flex shafts
    and faceting machines may demonstrate as well and answer questions
    about their devices. The program is still developing. Most likely
    it'll be three approximately one-hour presentations each day. 

    The new facility is a co-operative venture in which Electric Park
    exhibitors Alpha Supply, Diamond Pacific, The Graves Company, Kent's
    Tools, and Electric Park show promoter Al Sargent are all
    contributors and participants, and as far as I know it is unique and
    a first for Tucson. While other vendors certainly give demonstrations
    and instructional seminars, no other Tucson venue that I know of
    offers anything like the full-duration, day in day out, program of
    public instruction and demonstrations that will be available at the
    Electric Park show. 

    So that's the general background. Now I'd like to ask for some
    Orchid assistance. News releases have gone out to the
    gem-jewelry-lapidary publications. But not yet to smaller more
    specialist organizations. If you are a member of such, and would like
    the news release for publication in your bulletin, do please email me
    offline. 

    Likewise, if you have a presentation you'd consider giving at the
    Electric Park Learning Center, - or for that matter, a topic to
    propose or a speaker to propose - please email me your suggestions.
    While most of the presentations will be in the nature of workbench
    "how-to" techniques, variety is the spice of life. Are you a gem and
    jewelry photographer? How about giving a "how-to" talk? An enamelist?
    Or if you've been digging in some exotic gem and mineral locality, or
    have been watching the jewelry-makers of Senegal (or similar) how
    about a slide show? Or if you're a carver, or a sphere maker, or an
    expert in some other related field - how about showing the world how
    it's done? 

    Thanks everybody. Do email me offline with suggestions and comments
    and addresses to whom I should send news releases. I'll certainly
    keep Orchid updated as the schedule firms up and finalizes. See you at
    the Electric Park! 

Cheers,
Hans Durstling
Moncton, Canada
sinico AT nbnet.nb.ca
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