Coming to Your Town, The Art of Relevance in Hand

Co-pilot sadly not attending these events.

One of the basic criteria for relevance has to do with effort. The more effort it takes to attain an experience, the less relevant it will feel--even if you know it will be meaningful. When your favorite band comes to town, you'll buy a ticket and go to the show. But you probably won't be in the audience when they perform thousands of miles away.

Maybe you've been feeling this way about coming to an event related to The Art of Relevance. You'd like to participate, but it would have taken too much effort to attend the summer book launch events in Edinburgh and Santa Cruz. Fortunately, I'm hitting the road this fall, and I hope to be able to discuss this book with you at a time and place that hits your sweet spot in the effort/meaning calculus.

All the 2016 book events are here (and frequently updated). But here's a quick list of the conferences, public events and workshops where I'll be appearing in the next few months. I'd love to meet you there.

PUBLIC EVENTS TO WHICH ALL ARE INVITED

• September 28, 2016: St. Paul, MN at the Minnesota History Center, 8-10am - Free! Register Now
• September 30, 2016: Philadelphia, PA at the Barnes Foundation, 3:30-5pm - Free! Register Now
• October 2, 2016: Brooklyn, NY for a workshop and book signing in partnership with Museum Hack, 11am-12:30pm - Ticketed! Register Now
• October 18, 2016: Chicago, IL at Navy Pier, 3:30-5:30pm - Free! Registration info TBA
• October 19, 2016: Denver, CO at the Ellie Kaulkins Studio Loft for NAMP Regional Workshop, 3-5pm - Free! Registration info TBA
• October 20, 2016: San Francisco, CA at University of San Francisco, 5-8pm - Free! Register Now

CONFERENCES WHERE I WILL BE KEYNOTING

• September 26, 2016: Sacramento, CA for the Confluence CFTA conference
• September 29, 2016: Duluth, MN at the Minnesota Library Association conference
• September 30, 2016: Philadelphia, PA at the National Council of Arts Administrators conference
• October 18, 2016: Chicago, IL for the Illinois Library Association conference
• October 20, 2016: Denver, CO for the Mountain Plains Library Association/Colorado Association of Libraries joint conference
• November 5, 2016: San Francisco, CA for the International Conference of Independent Libraries & Mechanics’ Institutes
• November 11, 2016: Austin, TX for the National Arts Marketing Project pre-conference
• November 17, 2016: Houston, TX for the National Trust for Historic Preservation conference

I'd like to pick up a public event in Austin and/or Houston around those November conferences--if you are a motivated Texan with a venue and a dream, let me know. See you on the road!