On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

So this got announced today:

https://apt613.ca/animation-festival-confirms-2021-will-be-online/

I suppose I'm not surprised. Less disappointed than I might've been in years past mainly because attending this particular festival has been a "nice to have if I can afford it" thing for me. When I went to Algonquin Animation, being able to attend as a volunteer was a perk of being a student in the programme, and to some extent a career-building tool as well, or so I'd hoped. For others in my class, that worked out reasonably well.

I wish that I'd better kept in touch with the rest of my graduating class, though, but diverting into other lines of work in order to pay off the student loan helped steer me away from such activities. So keeping in touch with classmates became a luxury first. The only person I keep in touch with these days from those times is Gerry Paquette, who ran the programme in those early years. Gerry's in game design these days, but still working at Algonquin.

I hope to partake of some part of whatever this year's festival offers. I am unsure of why I want that, though. More on that another time, perhaps.

More on other topics later today...

Every so often on a Tuesday night in the summer months between semesters at Algonquin College, instructor Rich Lauzon holds forth in B Building's Rotunda/Portable Feast room, inviting animation, game design and other arts students past and present to get together and sketch whatever suits'em.

I happened to be there for the session the night before Canada Day 2009.

If you're an artist yourself, and the Algonquin Campus off of Baseline Transitway Station's within easy reach for you on the right night of the month in the summer, you might want to have a look.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12032267235