Urbana: 28 December
Highlights from the first full day: The first day in the exhibit hall began more slowly than we anticipated. Hannah actually found two journalism seminars on the schedule and attended one of them at a...
View ArticleUrbana: Housing (and taking the train)
I had originally hoped to stay with friends while in St. Louis, however their schedule didn’t allow it (not to mention their two-week old infant). We were blessed to visit with them, however, before...
View ArticleUrbana: 29 December
Highlights from Urbana on Friday: Peter had fruitful conversations with a number of people today, including a former VP of AOL, three Koreans working on a missions moblizing project in Florida and...
View ArticleUrbana: 30 December
Yesterday was a shorter day for exhibitors and the one day of the conference no seminars were offered. Just about everyone was exhausted: attendees, exhibitors and volunteers. Hannah and I were able to...
View ArticleUrbana: In the newspaper
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Alias: Newspaper with a really long name) ran an article about Urbana this morning. Read it via this link. It’s a little curious to me the article more or less only talked...
View ArticleUrbana: 31 December
With the bell of the New Year, the Urbana attendees took communion last night and the conference officially ended. Hannah and I didn’t make it into any of the plenary sessions but don’t harbor any...
View ArticleOM ArtsLink update
My wife and I lunched with Geinene Carson and her husband, Mat, while at the Urbana 2006 conference. Geinene launched ArtsLink a few years ago, and I talked to her while at Portland’s Missions Fest...
View ArticleUrbana Arts Track
Being an exhibitor I did not get to spend time in the Arts Lounge at Urbana 2006 last December. I felt then and feel now like I missed out on a great opportunity to encourage and connect with the...
View ArticleUrbana Arts Track: Photoessay II
Urbana has created a second photoessay of the Arts Lounge via this link. I’m partial to this gestural, grafitti-esque work: An accompanying article (which I’ve yet to read all of yet) by the Arts...
View ArticleUrbana and the arts
I received an email from Urbana today focused solely on the arts. I had been wondering when they’d get back to this topic; it seems like more than a year since I’ve seen any art related content in...
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