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I think the festival is to highlight what we're doing on campus that's creative and that there's creativity in
everything. So creativity is not about the arts only, it's about everybody so that we recognize as a campus
that we all have the ability to be creative
and to be leaders in our respective fields and really celebrating that. It's really about celebrating what we do
already on campus.
We had several events today and so we probably had about 200 people come through the atrium and the ballroom
looking at what is going on on the OSU campus creative wise. We had the
insect zoo and a staff member who makes paper flowers to the
Center for Executive and Professional Development, wild game safety. We've had a lot of things here at the union.
Then we also had Creative Cuisine out on library lawn.
And we had the Vietnamese Student Association, the Russian Student Association, hispanic students,
and Indian students. Then the psychology club we're raising money for Haiti relief and that's gone well.
Now we're at the keynote speaker, Ravi Naidoo, from South Africa. Then we'll have the challenge contest finals.
We have 5 finalists
in the Re-create Your Community challenge contest and they're going to compete.
We're also going to announce the winners of the kids contest. We also have a free concert by Sherree Chamberlain.
I'm going to talk about creativity.
That's just been the source code for South Africa's economic renewal and how our country from the dark days
has
really got its groove back. With this new found confidence and with us being able to leverage our diversity
and fabulous heritage and how people are starting to really jam with creativity.
If there's one quotable quote that I'd like them to leave with is that creativity is the ultimate renewable resource.
It's something you're born with,
something you must continue to cultivate,
and it's something which is the most amazing problem-solving tool.
We should all have it as part of our tool-kit.
It helps us in our daily lives, it helps us in enterprise,
it helps nations and regions. It's a fabulous
resource to have as part of your arsenal.