Martin Booth – The Joy of Eccles Cakes

Posted on 14 October, 2011 by Dan


Move over Sheila Dillon! Martin Booth, as well as writing a rather wonderful blog about how fantastic Bristol is, also happens to be the UK’s foremost expert on Eccles cakes. In this sweeping epic of an Ignite talk, Martin takes us round most of the artisanal bakeries in Bristol and also to a cellar in Eccles. This being video, I’m afraid you miss out on the cakes he passed round. I’m told they were delicious.

If you have a particular corner shop confection you want to tell the world about, let us know and you too can come and treat the front row at Ignite Bristol.

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Carole Jackson – Child Abuse: a reality check

Posted on 13 October, 2011 by Dan


The media love to report about missing children. But what sells papers or what makes for compelling television isn’t necessarily representative of the facts of child abuse. Carole Jackson tells us what the facts really are and asks us to face up to the reality of society around us and to be vigilant.

You’ll notice from the timing that Carole’s talk ran longer than the 5 minutes she was expecting. We missed a couple of slide timings not being quite as we thought, so sorry Carole, from all of us on the team.

http://nspcc.org.uk

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Caitlin Greenwood – It’s all just ancient history

Posted on 13 October, 2011 by Dan


Ancient history is interesting. It’s a great source of stories and more historical fiction than you can fill a library with. But it shaped our world, from our governments and to our hallway floors. Caitlin Greenwood wants us to remember that it’s not from the pages of textbooks though; it’s the stuff of people’s lives.

Caitlin studies Ancient History and Archaeology at University of Bristol. Will future archaeologists dust off a YouTube server two millennia hence and find this talk? What will they make of it?

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Sam Phippen – Games, Gamers and Gaming

Posted on 11 October, 2011 by Dan


Gaming is no longer the preserve of solitary teenagers lurking in bedrooms. It’s a global, mobile activity more people take part in than perhaps even the participants themselves realise! For his excited second talk at Ignite Bristol, Sam Phippen wanted to speak about his passion. An ardent gamer himself, Sam addresses the stereotypes that exist and makes the case for

The astute among you will notice we’ve had to skip a bit out of order to bring you our next talk. Blame Sam. He was staking out our YouTube channel in anticipation of seeing himself again and when we uploaded the videos we weren’t quick enough to hide them – he got in and started posting it and, well, it’s picking up views already…

See what enthusiasm does for your delivery? If you have a passion you think the world needs to be informed about, tell us and you could be on our stage next time.

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Joe Cainey – How (not) to win at roulette

Posted on 10 October, 2011 by Dan

To start our sixth event we chose a talk that touched on a real core Ignite value – a “How To“.

And boy, does Joe Cainey know about his subject – a third year PhD student at the University of Bristol*, his chosen specialist subject is “Monte Carlo algorithms”, which are not an attempt for devising a new and innovative way of funding higher education, but a technique for using (pseudo) random numbers to answer questions about the world. And the question he was asking in his talk was whether or not someone was being entirely free with the truth…

Ignite Bristol #6 was, as ever, made free by the generosity of our hosts the Tobacco Factory Theatre (and secured by the reliable thirst of our guests).

*and part-time zombie too it would seem – check his home page!

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Thanks for coming!

Posted on 22 September, 2011 by Dan
Martin Booth expounds his loves of Eccles cakes.

A big thank you to all of you that came along to Ignite Bristol 6 last week, and an especially big thanks to our 9 wonderful speakers who made the evening so worthwhile.

Our gifted video team members, Penny, Hamish and Oli, are toiling away on the videos and as soon as they are ready we’ll be posting them here, on our YouTube channel and on IgniteShow.com so you can relive the joys of Eccles cakes, disappointment at the infeasibility of light sabers and the horror of bared mountain biker bottoms.

Your entertainment for the evening was provided by:

  • Joe Cainey – How (not) to win at roulette
  • Caitlin Greenwood – It’s all just ancient history
  • Sam Phippen – Beauty and games
  • Carole Jackson – 21st Century Blinkers: blind to child safety?
  • Martin Booth – The joy of Eccles cakes

And of course, your host was the omnipresent Paul Parry.

The crowd gathers in the pleasant surroundings of the Tobacco Factory Theatre bar.
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