Attended a day conference today on creativity.

Not like the last one I went to 18 months back which was very 'serious'.

This one started with a woman in a bag 'dancing' on the floor very slowly. Quite compelling. And then had poetry and even a song or two all as a 15 minute welcome to the conference.

Great keynote speech from one of four acting brothers.

Good opportunities to network and discuss how and if creativity can be measured (the practical upshot was 'not easily' but there were things that could contribute to a kind of measuring process).

Once again I felt very much the 'outsider' as a librarian amongst all these creative types (the rest of the delegates were either artists of some sort or members of the creative technology faculty here at the university). But that paid off as they were pleased to attract what they saw as the creatively challenged! (I didn't tell them about my extra-curricular activities that would count as performance or art or both). But did get a chance to talk about 'guerilla creativity' which one delegate was very taken with and make sure they knew that the Library wasn't completely uncreative.

Great day, well organized and more useful than my boss thought it might be!