Forrest Pando and Zaynah Akeel
• – • Light House Studio
About the speaker
Forrest Pando and Zaynah Akeel have lived in Charlottesville and been together for most of their lives. They have made commercials, promo videos, and music videos under the name Pando Creative Co. and wedding videos under Citrus Ceremonies for the past seven years. Their work has been recognized by Rolling Stone Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Nerdist, and NPR, and you may recognize them from their work documenting past Charlottesville Creative Mornings. Zaynah and Forrest are moving to Scotland next month to attend the University of St Andrews’ Film Studies program.
Local partners
Ting
Ting Internet provides crazy fast fiber Internet here in Charlottesville. We build, light and service our fiber optic network for a digital world. We don’t just provide fiber and all of its inherent benefits. Ting sponsors local programs, events, charities and public services in Charlottesville, investing in the future of our town.
UVA Arts
The Arts are an essential component of the University, its mission, and are a leading presence in the Charlottesville community. The Arts are crucial to the residential experience at UVA, enriching us all while inspiring our students to innovate, create, collaborate, explore, and discover. UVA Arts offers an array of performances, exhibitions, and creative opportunities for students, faculty, staff, visitors, and our entire community. Significant outreach efforts include the President’s Speaker Series for the Arts, artist residencies, and public-facing programs designed to cultivate a vibrant community that promotes creative expression and to augment and enrich the artistic offerings across the Commonwealth, nation, and world.
WillowTree
We help our clients realize the potential of rapidly evolving mobile technologies, from developing a mobile strategy to launching mobile products. Our unique team permits us to address our clients concerns at the highest strategic level, while ensuring that all recommendations are presented in the context of real-world build costs and timelines. We then have the expertise to take the strategy through the mobile product design, development, testing and launch phases. Now hiring in Charlottesville, Durham, and Columbus! Learn more on our website.
Worth Higgins & Associates
Just as we did when our company was founded in 1970, we continue to call ourselves “printers” – and so do our customers. Makes sense. Offset, digital, wide-format, and letterpress printing are today the core technologies of Worth Higgins & Associates. UV ink and coating, foil stamping, embossing and die cutting are tools of the printing process that we handle extraordinarily well in helping our clients achieve their creative goals and take their ideas beyond their imaginations.
The Bridge PAI Fiscal Sponsor
The Bridge strengthens and enriches the community through the power of creative interaction and shared experience. We engage with a diverse and ever growing group of artists and citizens to foster a more deeply connected and robust community. To learn more about our mission and current projects, visit thebridgepai.org
New City Arts
New City Arts is a 501©3 community arts organization founded in 2009 to support artists and facilitate cultural participation in Charlottesville, VA. Working to make Charlottesville a more livable place for artists by creating connections between artists and unique audiences through creative conversations, art spaces, and community-building collaborations, New City Arts serves approximately 60 Charlottesville area artists and 6,000 audience members annually. For more information about core programs including Welcome Gallery, Charlottesville SOUP, the New City Artist-in-Residence Studio Space, Housing2Home, and more, visit newcityarts.org.
Location
Hosted at
Light House Studio
220 West Market Street
Charlottesville, Virginia United States 22902
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