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Creative Cities Summit begins with youth appeal
The three-day Creative Cities Summit began in Lexington today with tours of horse farms and bourbon distilleries for out-of-towners and appeals to Kentucky’s young professionals to stay here — or, if...
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Cool art installation at Creative Cities Summit
Take a look at this cool art installation, which has been put up in Lexington Center for the three days of the Creative Cities Summit. Called “Big Pink,” it is an undulating wall surface fabricated...
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March Madness Marching Band opens CCS
What better group to open the Creative Cities Summit tonight than Lexington’s March Madness Marching Band? Click on each thumbnail to open full photo:
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Richard Florida’s creativity class at CCS
Richard Florida, who opened the Creative Cities Summit in Lexington last night, is one of those pop-culture social scientists people either love or hate. His “creative class” books have been widely...
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Watch KET in coming weeks for CCS interviews
Bill Goodman of Kentucky Educational Television interviews Jeremy Gutsche, founder of TrendHunter.com and one of the speakers at the Creative Cities Summit in Lexington this week. Goodman also...
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At Creative Cities Summit: What’s Pecha Kucha?
Nathan Cryder, left, and Griffin Van Meter do a Pecha Kucha at the Creative Cities Summit today. Pecha Kucha — Japanese for “the sound of people talking” — is a rapid-fire presentation that includes 20...
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At the CCS: Shelling out for creativity
A few minutes after I took this photo of speakers Charles Landry, right, and Rebecca Ryan, left, talking with attendees at the Creative Cities Summit today in Lexington, creativity paid off. Lori...
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Creative Cities Summit: Good talk, now for action
Downtown developer Phil Holoubek and other locals who organized the Creative Cities Summit last week had three main goals. They wanted to have out-of-towners feel Lexington’s creative buzz. They wanted...
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Trying to turn Creative Cities ideas into action
The Creative Cities Summit a week ago generated a lot of energy. But it was nothing compared to what I felt Saturday at an all-day session called Now What, Lexington? Perhaps that’s because this...
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Pittsburgh’s Strickland inspires Lexington efforts
Organizers of Lexington’s Creative Cities Summit last month made Bill Strickland the last speaker for good reason: he’s a tough act to follow. By the time the president of Pittsburgh’s Manchester...
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