FotoFreo e-Newsletter

Issue 1: 7 December 2007

Welcome to our first e-newsletter

The details for FotoFreo 2008: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography are now beginning to crystallise.

While the form of the event will be pretty much the same as for 2006, that is, exhibitions in a wide range of venues throughout Fremantle and Perth, a conference, seminar, audio visual projections and floor talks, there will be a much more extensive programme of workshops (in Fremantle and Perth) and informal afternoon lectures (at Kulcha in Fremantle). In addition, there will be guided bus and walking tours. More details of these activities will be published in this newsletter and on the FotoFreo website in the near future.

I would also like to urge you to update your 'subscriber profile' by re-registering your subscriber details together with the information about where you live and your special interests.  We require this in order to complete the integration of our old database into the FutureMail software package.

To do this, go to the newsletter page on the FotoFreo website and click on ‘Subscribe’ to open up the subscription window. Fill in the required fields and at least one ‘interest’ then click on “Join Mailing List” at the bottom of the form.
When you do this, you will be told that “the email address supplied is already registered” and you are invited to “click here to update your profile”. This then requests your email address and a password which, in fact, you were not issued with when you first subscribed on the old website page.  Your password will be immediately emailed to you. Copy this to the ‘edit profile box’, press enter and complete the profile update.

However, please note that in the ‘interests’ section there are two items of information you are being asked to indicate – your general place of residence (WA, Australia or overseas) and your own particular interests in regard to photography (and most probably there will be more than one or two of those). So please fill in this information as completely as possible. 

This information is very important to us. We need it in order for FotoFreo to substantiate the nature of our audience to sponsors, potential sponsors and funding bodies alike.

Festival organiser calls for assistance

FotoFreo Inc, the organisation that undertakes the FotoFreo festivals, is an incorporated non profit association that relies on sponsorship and income derived from a variety of grants. It has no paid employees. Each festival is managed by an Organising Committee and a range of sub committees. But in the end, come the time of the festival, we need a large number of additional volunteers to assist with every aspect of the conduct of the festival.

We are now seeking to recruit a cohort of volunteers and ask that if you have a passion for photography and would like to be involved at the ‘coal face’ of the festival, meet an incredible number of marvellous people involved in photomedia and have some fun at the same time – put your hand up and become one of the FotoFreo 2008 Team.

ll you need to do at this stage is to send us an email with your name and contact details. We are currently developing the FotoFreo Team programme and this should be finalised before Christmas. There will be a bit of paper work and there will be an induction programme closer to the time of the festival.

Editor