Teachers, students and business people alike, should see the Propellers!

A flurry of mail this week from teachers wishing they had seen and brought their students to Dinh Q. Le at aSaigon/CreativeMorning's last session but sadly, that time has passed - as will all Creative Mornings, so it makes only good sense to catch things as they happen. To that end, we are including the following flyer for posting at your school, company or otherwise place of business.

aSaigon/CreativeMorning.Propellers.Flyer

We are intent on increasing the student population at events and are happy to fly in the face of other more commercial 'seminar' series that seek to charge you real money to see, too many times, just commercial people, trying to sell you something. At aSaigon/CreativeMorning, we have but one thing to sell you - new ideas. And we hope that will provide a kind of lasting value, quite seriously lacking in business today.

Please download and post the following flyer for people who may not know us from the Internet. We have been pleased to have had many RMIT lecturers at events, but far fewer students. We hope aSCM to be an event for sharing information, so please teachers and others, share and share alike. Delloite, Raffles, Vietnam National, DDB, BBDO, WPP, Lowe and Navigos, join us as well.

Online Ticketing for aSaigon/CreativeMorning welcomes The Propeller Group - 15 April, 2011 powered by Eventbrite

Sponsors welcome to aSaigon/CreativeMorning

In response to the many requests we've had to open aSaigon/CreativeMorning to other agencies and industry sponsors we are doing exactly that. DDB, Lowe and BBDO have all expressed interest but we haven't booked yet, and it's not like just one agency can sponsor. TBWA remains our beloved benefactor for getting us off the ground (George gets huge props here). But now we're doing what we set out to do. We more like the idea of brotherhood and togetherness so if two coffee sponsors want to take a go at it and run a taste-off, we're game! Malongo is ready! But none of you guys get to show your company reels, bad PowerPoints or other silly promo stuff. Restaurants? Come cook against the Tin Foil Grill! They've got some game you know.

Sponsorship opportunities are now available for location, coffee, breakfast and other ideas to your liking. Sponsorships go from Gold to Bronze but trust me, nobody's going to want Bronze cause you look like 'Cheap Charlie' around here.

TBWA was smart enough to execute the following press release and we think this sort of press has value to many companies. aSaigon/CreativeMorning remains a non-profit enterprise and all proceeds go towards maintaining the event and printing the cool t-shirts we're making for those in the groove.

Please contact us for sponsorship ideas. We maintain a very select avenue to Saigon's top creative thought leaders and are not interested in numbers at all. Ideas rule and if you're in that business we hope we can work together and get a few better ones.

Campaign Brief Asia: aSaigon/CreativeMorning

TBWA gets behind aSaigon/CreativeMorning

Thursday 10, February 2011 at 8:04 AM by CB

  

TBWA\Vietnam is supporting aSaigon/CreativeMorning, 
a non-profit enterprise, to help build the creative 
community in Vietnam. aSaigon/CreativeMorning is a 
monthly series that focuses on fresh ideas, innovation
 and creativity. Held at TBWA\Vietnam's head quarters 
in Ho Chi Minh City, the event brings in key speakers on
a range of topics that inspire and support creativity.   

The first aSaigon/CreativeMorning speaker was writer, 
actor, producer, director, Dustin Nguyen (left). Coming 
off of the success of Để Mai Tính, Vietnam's biggest 
film of 2010, Dustin tackled the difficult question of 
trying to find the balance between art and commerce - 
something very relevant to those in creative industries.   

R. Streitmatter-Tran, an artist who attended the first Saigon/CreativeMornings event, 
praised Dustin Nguyen on tackling the subject in a very forthright manner: "Dustin was a 
fantastic start - honest, unpretentious, and informative. An ironic but good mix; his talk 
avoided self-promotion in a space where survival depends on promotion."

Campaign Magazine in Singapore has also covered the story here.
ADoBo Magazine has covered us here as well.
The Word Saigon has covered us below on the right hand page.

The Blogosphere Welcomes Saigon/CreativeMornings

Artist, Sandrine Lloquet, Photographer, Mads Monsen and agency, TBWA have covered the launch of Saigon/CreativeMornings on their blogs. Click the respective links for a 360 view of the event.