One of FaffCon’s missions is to leave a positive footprint in each of its host cities by making a donation to a local communication-related non-profit. FaffCon 2’s charity partner is Everybody Wins Atlanta. Their mission is to reach young students, stimulate a love of reading, and help them develop the reading skills they need to succeed in school and in life.
You can read the whole story here.
You can register for Faffcon2 here.
Voice Talents Peter K. O'Connell and Bob Souer in Pittsburgh, PA, January, 2011
It has been noted before in other ways but this is what I thought tonight: as it always does, having dinner tonight with Bob Souer reaffirms my faith in the goodness of mankind.
Voice over is nice.
Good friends are better.
That’s all.
But please don’t let that deter you from registering as well. 🙂
And the Early Bird Registration (read DISCOUNT!!!) ENDS AT 23:59 hrs ON DECEMBER 31, 2010 (which I’m guessing is Pacific Time cause that’s Faffcon founder Amy Snivley’s time zone).
If you are an experienced, professional voice over talent and want to attend a conference that will provide you with unlimited access to the incredible knowledge bank that is your fellow, widely experienced voice talents, you need to attend Faffcon 2.
If you want to attend a conference where no one is trying to sell you anything but rather where your peers freely share information in a comfortable, intelligent environment, you must attend Faffcon 2.
If you feel your career is a bit adrift or you need some nuggets of information to take you to the next level of your professional voice over career, you need to get your sorry ass to Faffcon 2!
Make every excuse to world why you can’t go to Faffcon 2 but for goodness sake don’t lie to yourself. From many folks, it’s not a “can’t”, it’s a “won’t” and their reticence is too bad for them.
Faffcon is low cost with a minimal time commitment and the opportunity to learn as much as you will allow yourself to learn.
I hope you’ll join us in Atlanta. You’ll miss us if you’re not there.
Voice Talent Peter K. O'Connell in Raleigh with Debra Stamp and Donovan Corneetz
The only reason my friend Rowell Gorman gets a pass for blowing me off on my trip to Raleigh is because he was a good son, going to visit his Mom.
While I missed seeing him, I hope to see him at Faffcon in Atlanta in February. But two great voice talents, one an old friend and one a new friend were kind enough to spend some time with me in this fine city.
If you’ve not had a chance to work with the great Female Voice Over Talent Debra Stamp, well then it’s your loss cause just about everybody else in the world has. She’s an awesome voice artist and a good friend. She used to live in Buffalo, NY and then moved down to Raleigh – she likes it there quite a bit too!
Donovan Corneetz (aka “The Voice of Cool”) started in voice over about 5 years ago and is already doing promos for TBS and PBS among others. As unpretentious a man as you’ll ever meet, he was gracious enough to have breakfast with me during a snow an minor ice storm in the city. Carolinians do not know how to handle such weather – but the former New Yorker did and I was very honored he made the trip.
Great to see these talented friends.
If you’ve ever been to Voice Talent Production’s NYC Voiceover Mixer, you know it’s either like being tailed by the paparazzi or being in a high school photography class. There are flash bulbs everywhere with people taking pictures with and of their new and old friends. It’s quite fun.
So here are links to the Facebook photo albums I have found so you can sift though them at your leisure. If you see I am missing one or two, please let me know and I will add them. Thanks.
> The NYC 2010 Voiceover Mixer Photo Album of voice talent Trish Basanyi
> The NYC 2010 Voiceover Mixer Photo Album of voice talent Michael Schoen
> The NYC 2010 Voiceover Mixer Photo Album of voice talent Connie Terwilliger
> The NYC 2010 Voiceover Mixer Photo Album of voice talent Joe Rodriguez
> The NYC 2010 Voiceover Mixer Photo Album of voice talent Linda Ristig
> The NYC 2010 Voiceover Mixer Photo Album of voice talent Peter K. O’Connell
The VOBB in New York - From Left to right going around the table Tom Dheere, Caryn Clark, Peter K. O'Connell, Darren Altman, Trish Basanyi, Philip Banks, Elisa Canas, Liz deNesnera and Melissa Exelberth PHOTO COURTESY of Connie Terwilliger
My head is kinda spinning from the whirlwind activity of this past weekend in New York City where Erik Sheppard of Voice Talent Productions held his annual New York City Voice Talent Mixer at Tonic on Seventh Avenue.
I believe this is the third annual and its my second time attending and I liked it better than last year (and I had a really good time last year).
The question with these events always is: are you doing this to be social or are you doing this for business. As much as I like my voice over friends, I do it for business contacts.
I can NEVER say for certain where business opportunities may come from nor can I say for sure who I am going to meet at these kind of networking events…but I know I’ll have a guaranteed success rate of not meeting any new possible contacts if I don’t go.
But on the social side, it was great spending time with my old VO friends and making some new ones…certainly seeing from familiar faces from VOICE 2010 was an added benefit as well.
The smartest thing I did versus last year, though, was to go into the city on Friday night. Last year I went in on Saturday morning and left on Sunday morning…it was too much. Coming in on Friday, I got to grab dinner and then Saturday lunch with VO friends from the VO-BB and have some great voice over conversations.
One never knows where such conversations are going to go and I picked up some real business nuggets by talking a little and listening a lot. These meals were a bit like what I think Faffcon is like (and I will see you there in February).
At any rate, my thanks to LindZ Reiss and Erik who put it all together and everyone who allowed me to spend a little time with them over this weekend. It renewed my faith in this business and the people who make it special.
The Private Room at Ted's Montana Grill on 51st with Rachel Rauch, Elaine Singer, Marian Massaro, Elisa Canas, Philip Banks, Liz deNesnera, Melissa Exelberth, Trish Basanyi and Caryn Clark
A quick visit to Edge Studios to say hi
As you might tell from the picture, this was about as close as I could be bothered to get to the Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center
Another angle of the some of the lunch table at Mustang Harry's - more folks would soon joing us
At the mixer with Voiceover Thespian Joe Rodriguez
Voice Talents from Around the Globe - U.S. Voice Talent Peter K. O'Connell, Canadian Voice Talent Elaine Singer and UK Voice Talent Darren Altman
Male Voice Talents Tom Dheere and Peter K. O'Connell
Voice Talents Peter K. O'Connell, Randye Kaye and Paul Strikwerda
Three women and a baby - wait, that's not right - Liz deNesnera, Peter K. O'Connell, Linda Ristig and Amy Taylor
Ho, Ho VO! Ron -Santa- Levine and Peter K. O'Connell
Voice Talents Peter K. O'Connell and the great Bobbi Owens
Male Voice Over Talents Peter K. O'Connell and Chris Mezzolesta
Voice Over Talents Peter K. O'Connell and Trish Basanyi
Great Dinner Pals - Voice Talents Peter K. O'Connell, Connie Terwilliger, Diane Dimond and Michael Schoen PHOTO COURTESY of Lee Gordon
