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Erin Bentley and Sara Griffith attended attended the MAX 2019 Space Festival in May of 2019 with the goals of figuring out how to put together a festival (so that in the future the Microbestiary could put together their own) and seeing how to integrate Native American populations into outreach projects through examining how MAX had done it with their "Star Stories" exhibition with Lakota youth.
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- Emily Armitage (Unlicensed) look into how we get a vendor application for the Edinburgh festival in 2020
- Sara GriffithLook into the Abu Dhabi festival to see if it's a good match for the bestiary and how we apply to present
AAAS 2020
https://meetings.aaas.org/sponsors-exhibitors/This exhibition seems like the most promising. It's held in the United States and has a clear application process. The theme is "Envisioning Tomorrow's Earth", snippets from the statement about the conference include:
"This Annual Meeting celebrates the scientific position on appreciating and addressing the future of planet Earth by considering and collaborating with advances across disciplines, and the ways in which scientists are building networks with policymakers and the public to work more effectively and best take advantage of the many new developments that science and technology is introducing at an ever-increasing pace."
Topics of focus that they are looking for that the bestiary could potentially fit into:
- Biology at the molecular, cellular and organism levels, and how discoveries in this area may lead to further human well-being
- Determining the value and means of maintaining natural ecosystems and biological diversity in a changing planet