IPPP's 2010

Instead of being at school this week, I attended the annual IPPPs (Independent Professional Project Presentations) put on by Rose Dominguez and Melanie Fatouros from Wednesday-Friday at the Park theatre.

An IPP is CreComm's version of a thesis paper. In March of your first year, you choose a project you'd like to do. After presenting to a panel of judges, your idea either gets rejected or passed. If it gets passed you have the go-ahead to start your project. If not, it's back to the drawing board.
The IPP goes on all throughout second year, on top of all your classes and assignments. Near the end of your second year, you present your project to the whole Creative Communications program and invited guests.

March 10,11 and 12 were the presentation dates this year and were held at the Park Theatre on Osborne.

Highlights:
Day 1
- SANDBOX magazine. This was so successful and looked so professional. You could tell Jeffrey Vallis is really passionate about the project and it was a smashing success! His marketing tactics were very planned out.
- Women's Chairty Soccer Tournament. I think i'm biased to this because I love soccer! Katie Hartle put on a soccer tournament for women over 35 and gave the money to osteoporosis research. I loved her idea of the 'just in case' suitcase.
- Pass it Forward. Pass it Forward was a program to give used hockey equipment to youth that could otherwise not afford it. Kalen Qually partnered up with Perth's to clean the equipment then distributed it. Great idea!
- Alice Mother. I don't know what it was about Kerilee Raven's novella, but it sounds really raw and interesting. She did a great presentation.

Day 2
- The World Would Be Better If.. Oh man. I will definitely buy this book. Anna Harrison compiled postcards from around the world from people aged 2 to 95 answering the questions ' The world would be better if..' She got some really interesting submissions, one of them being her Irish boyfriend proposing to her! Such a unique and fresh idea.
- Bear Your Heart. This was a fundraising event put on by Gina Nasuti and Karine Driedger in support of Children's Wish. They held the event at Earl's and it looked great! They got really interesting prizes for the auction. They raised about $10,000! Good job girls!
- The Travel Bug Diaries is a book by Emily Baron Cadloff about her travels across Canada. She went from Halifax to Victoria in 3 weeks and for under $1,000! She has some interesting stories about her adventures which includes a rapping priest and a terrifying experience in Vancouver. I will be buying this one too!
- Calamity Jane. These girls can definitely sing! And they are so funny! I really enjoyed their presentation which included a video with a Tina Fey look-a-like. Good job Chandra Rempel and Janna Paluk.

Day 3
- I Will Always Remember, an audio documentary by Laurie McDougall. I was privileged enough to go to high school with Laurie and remember her recounting her stories from her trip overseas to honour war veterans. Laurie is a great person to tell the story of two WWII vets.
- Taming The Wild, Wild West..In A Dress. David Turnbull raised about $27,000 in support of a centre that supports people living with HIV and AIDS doing dinner theatre shows. Holy!
- RRC's Basketball Broadcast organized by Dustin Stewart was really cool. He got Shaw on board and organized a crew of about 20 people to operate cameras, anchor and do ops. It looked really well done!

There was a lot of other really great ones, but those are my favorite. Next year, it'll be me presenting!