events

Here’s a complete list of upcoming events and speaking engagements.

Sendak on Sendak at the Rosenbach Museum & Library

If we had to choose one word to define Night Kitchen’s work it would be storytelling. And if we had to choose one book, it would be In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak. So we’re particularly excited that a retrospective of this master-storyteller just opened at the Rosenbach Museum & Library. Running through May next year, There’s a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak explores how this brilliant author and illustrator mixes childhood emotions and haunting memories into stories with witty word play, brilliant drawings, and engaging characters.

Sendak’s classic, In the Night Kitchen, inspired our name – you can read about that story here. His belief that both picture and word serve vital and distinct storytelling functions is among our key design principals in all we do.

Matthew Fisher speaks to City Council on Philadelphia’s Creative Industries

Matthew Fisher, President of Night Kitchen Interactive, joins other business leaders to testify before City Council in a public hearing on the impact of creative industries on Philadelphia’s economic growth. Event was held on May 7 at 1 p.m. in Philadelphia City Hall.  You can read his testimony here.

Workshop: Designing a Template-based Website

Designing a Template-based Website workshop was facilitated by Matthew Fisher, President of Night Kitchen Interactive at the American Association of Museums 2008 annual meeting in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, April 29th 2008.

The Art of Storytelling Paper Presented at Museums and the Web

The Art of Storytelling: Enriching Art Museum Exhibits and Education through Visitor Narratives Paper (PDF) was presented by Matthew Fisher, President of Night Kitchen Interactive at the Museums and the Web 2008 conference in Montreal, Canada on Thursday, April 10th 2008.

Improving Online Training with Stories and Scenarios

Improving Online Training with Stories and Scenarios Workshop facilitated by Dr. Juan Leon and Matthew Fisher of Night Kitchen Interactive and Gregory Sapnar of Bristol-Myers Squibb on the topic of leveraging emerging technologies to optimize the story-based training development process at the SPBT conference in Hollywood, Florida on June 20th, 2007.

Museums Remixed Part Two

Museums Remixed Part Two: Can We Allow Users to Become Participants? Matthew Fisher participated in panel discussion about collaborative online tools, their relevance for museums, and the possibilities and pitfalls of user participation at the American Association of Museums 2007 conference in Chicago on Tuesday, May 15th 2007.

Remixing Museum Education through Online Participatory Learning

Remixing Museum Education through Online Participatory Learning Pre-conference workshop conducted by Matthew Fisher and Dr. Susan Hendrich at the Museums and the Web 2007 conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, April 11th 2007.

Remixing Exhibits

Remixing Exhibits: Constructing Participatory Narratives with Online Tools to Augment Museum Experiences Paper presented by Matthew Fisher, President of Night Kitchen Interactive at the Museums and the Web 2007 conference in San Francisco on Thursday, April 12th 2007. The paper was co-authored by Beth Twiss-Garrity, Associate Professor of Museum Education at The University of the Arts. Read the full paper online.

WEB 2.0: Marketing Hype or the Next Generation?

WEB 2.0: Marketing Hype or the Next Generation? PANMA educational event hosted by Night Kitchen President Matthew Fisher with Dr. Juan Leon as a featured panelist at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA on October 26th, 2006.

Fostering Dynamic Communities of Practice in the Workplace

Fostering Dynamic Communities of Practice in the Workplace Workshop presented by Dr. Juan Leon of Night Kitchen Interactive and Lori Prusso of Bristol-Myers Squibb at the 2006 Workforce Performance Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada. September 12, 2006.