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DreamLarge Invites Students, Mentors, and Nonprofits to Participate in New Initiative
DreamLarge, local changemaking organization and the first benefit corporation in the Gulf Coast, will host the inaugural DreamLarge Weekends. A new initiative consisting of a weekend-long experience that empowers the next generation to ideate and prototype solutions to meaningful challenges Sarasota’s nonprofit community is facing.
From atLarge to DreamLarge on a Road Less Travelled
For years, the accepted premise about Sarasota was that for bright, creative young people, the region’s good schools and abundant cultural offerings made this a great place to grow up. But 15 years ago, a young man in his 20s executed a remarkably successful reverse migration. At a low point in his short life, he moved here from Detroit, and — with encouragement from some visionary local business leaders — gradually discovered an environment where he could flourish.
PINC Experience returning to Sarasota in December
Looking for what’s being billed as “a bubble bath for the brain”? The PINC Experience announced the eclectic conference will be returning to Sarasota in December, along with the first of its many speakers.
Tickets for Sixth Annual PINC Experience on Sale Now
Tickets for this year’s PINC Experience Are on sale now. The annual, all-day experience, dubbed the most creative day in Sarasota, will make its return to the Sarasota Opera House on Dec. 12, 2019.
PINC Returns This December
PINC, the annual creativity conference, will return to the Sarasota Opera House on Dec. 12, 2019.
USFSM ALUMNA: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DREAMLARGE
USFSM alum Julia Groom attended a recent Mind the Gap career fair not knowing she had arrived at the right place at the right time. She had second thoughts about attending, and arrived a bit late, but her decision to be there would ultimately lead to the job of her dreams, at a company called DreamLarge.
DreamLarge Hosts Community Bike Ride
The BLVD Bike Ride is the first of many future community events planned by DreamLarge, a benefit corporation that started a decade ago. It spun into its own entity in 2015 with a mission to connect the community and promote positive growth.
Coding Academy Grant is a Key Win in Closing Tech-Skills Gap
State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota was awarded a $3.6 million grant by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to create a Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation in the old SCF library on the Bradenton campus and a regional coding academy that will include a location in downtown Sarasota.
Education Foundation Moves Hackathon to DreamLarge
The Education Foundation of Sarasota County announced today they are partnering with DreamLarge, the philanthropic arm of local innovation agency ATLARGE, which will assume production of #SRQHacks, a free, three-day hackathon focused on engaging students in technology, entrepreneurship, design and marketing.
PINC Pushes the Bounds of Creativity
People. Ideas. Nature. Creativity. Better known as PINC, this unique event, now in its fifth year, brought together 12 global thinkers on our local Sarasota Opera House stage, presenting their forward-thinking initiatives to a sold-out audience.
PINC Conference Held to Spark Creativity Throughout Sarasota
PINC showcased twelve unique speakers, which included puppeteers, balloon artists, and a game creator. The purpose was to bring creative minds to an area like Sarasota in hopes that those in the audience watching will leave with a different outlook on life and spice up their day to day routine.
PINC Blends Entertainment with Myriad Perspectives
From the quasi-slapstick antics of an extreme balloon sculptor to an examination of “a culture of hate” documented by experiments on ravens and crows, the fifth annual “bubblebath for the brain,” otherwise known as PINC, left another sold-out audience standing and swaying in a hip-hop sing-along during Thursday’s finale at the Sarasota Opera House.
A Bee Crusader. An Advisor to Presidents.
Known for showcasing exceptional international speakers, astounding artistic intermezzos, and culinary delights, DreamLarge announced the list of 12 speakers participating in PINC this December at the Sarasota Opera House.
We Learn about the Unique Speakers Coming to the PINC Experience
DreamLarge Founder, Anand Pallegar, visits Suncoast View to tell us why the event is so popular that it has a sell out audience every year.
PINC Challenges and Inspires with Innovative Thinkers
People. Ideas. Nature. Creativity. Better known as PINC, this unique event, now in its fifth year, brought together 12 global thinkers on our local Sarasota Opera House stage, presenting their forward-thinking initiatives to an appreciative audience.
Neighbors Weigh In On Selby Gardens' Future
The public got its chance to speak to a master plan for the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens at a Sarasota Planning Board meeting last week. But even after two extended meetings on a series of planning and zoning matters around vision, the board has yet to make its recommendations.
Green No Longer
Begun in 1999 in The Netherlands by Peter and Nelleke Van Lindonk, the annual PINC (People. Ideas. Nature. Creativity.) conference has grown into a yearly celebration for the inquisitive and forward-thinking, the passionate and the bold, bringing speakers from around the world to open their hearts and minds to the audience.
Creative Conference Returns for Fifth Year in December
The creative conference PINC (People, Ideas, Nature, Creativity) will return for its fifth year from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 6. The event, created by DreamLarge, the philanthropic arm of the web development company AtLarge, and presented by Ringling College of Art and Design, is intended to present a diverse selection inspiring, creative speakers.
PINC Sarasota 4.0
It can be a difficult sell, the notion that spendingall day sitting in a dark theater is good for you. Even more challenging? Telling everybody that it’s work.