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Creativity In The 'PINC' Coming To Sarasota

PINC Sarasota
WUSF's Lisa Peakes, right, speaks with Anand Pallegar, Director of PINC USA.

Sarasota this week is hosting an out-of-the-ordinary symposium that has its roots in the Netherlands.

This is the second year the city has hosted the Amercian version of the PINC Conference, a symposium that's brought together creative types in the Netherlands the past 16 years. Think of it as a European version of TED Talks, with a twist.

Sixteen speakers will be featured at the second conference of PINC, which stands for People, Ideas, Nature and Creativity. They range from a BMW executive who focus on how the car brand cars sound, to natural history filmmakers to a scientist who created what's called The Cloud Appreciation Society.

WUSF's Lisa Peakes spoke  with Anand Pallegar, director of PINC USA, about how the program's blending of arts, science and even food together changes the way people see the world.

 

After more than 40 years learning and helping others understand more about so many aspects of our world and living in it, I still love making connections between national news stories and our community. It's exciting when I can find a thread between a national program or greater premise and what is happening at the local or personal level. This has been true whether I’ve spun the novelty tunes of Raymond Scott or Wilmoth Houdini from a tiny outpost in a Vermont field, or shared the voices of incarcerated women about what it’s like to be behind bars on Mother’s Day with the entire state of New Hampshire.
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