Following some intensive months of planning, we can finally announce the date for the 6th Eat Drink Blog Conference! It will take place over the weekend of 16th – 18th October 2015. And of course, you all know by now that it will be taking place in the Nation’s Capital – Canberra!
The Committee is busy working behind the scenes finalising the program, sponsors, speakers, registration dates and activities – and we’ll be announcing further details soon. In the mean time, if you’d like to find out more about who is organising the conference this year, head over to the Committee page.
Stay tuned and make sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the latest conference updates.
We are extremely pleased to announce our second Sunday Activity option. We will be working with Sarah Bazar from Emotive Light Photography and the Wandering Cooks venue.
Wandering Cooks is a fantastic multipurpose venue located in South Brisbane. They support local food businesses by providing resources and a venue that is a commercial kitchen, storage space, garden space and a warehouse space for events.
Our Sunday Activity at Wandering Cooks on 21st September will be a morning of fun with Brisbane based food photography student and food stylist Sarah Bazar from Emotive Light Photography. Sarah’s passion is food photography and styling. She is self taught, but has incredible knowledge of good composition and what makes a good photo.
The workshop will cover a styling session with items you would find around the house, and then a more detailed one. There will be an interactive session with delegates styling their own image, and a discussion of camera angles and lighting that is best for shooting food images, so be sure to bring along your cameras and phones!
We are pretty excited about this workshop, and feel that it will be a particularly useful exercise for a lot of our attendees!
Check out the Wandering Cooks Website for more on this venue, and have a look at Emotive Light Photography for some examples of Sarah’s work.
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Food Blogging in the Lion City: The Nation’s Pastime
Singaporean blogger Nathaniel Ho from Rubbish Eat Rubbish Grow will chat about the popularity of food blogging, blogging trends in his home city and the cultural differences in blogging. Being a travel blogger also, he will discuss the impact of blogs on locals and travellers, and how food and travel tie in together.
Blogger Economy
Christina Soong of The Hungry Australian will discuss blogging for fun and profit and share her top tips regarding blog content, marketing, ethics and monetisation.
Breaking: Media Secrets You Need To Know NOW
We have Damien Condon, Managing Director of Brisbane based communications and PR company Lucid Media discussing how to prepare a media kit, getting involved in social media, and microblogging on other platforms such as Instagram.
Chef Vs Blogger: Panel Discussion
We have some of Brisbane’s top chefs on board to grill about the relationship between bloggers and restaurants (the good, the bad and the ugly), upcoming food trends and refining your palate.
Just reiterating, this is NOT a complete session list!
Stay tuned for more updates on the overall program and speakers closer to the date… Eat Drink Blog 5 in Brisbane September 20th-21st 2014!
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We are very excited to be working with The Beer InCider Experience to be bringing you the first of our Sunday activities.
The Beer InCider Experience is a craft beer and cider festival taking place over the same weekend as Eat Drink Blog (September 20th-21st) in Albion, Brisbane. There will be 100+ different beers and ciders showcased, live music and food!
Our activity will involve a beer blogging workshop for those bloggers interested in beer and cider blogging, attendance at the festival and a walkthrough, and tastings of different craft beers and ciders!
Transport to Albion from Brisbane CBD will be arranged for those attending the workshop.
This is definitely a workshop for those bloggers interested in the more liquid side of life, recognising the “DRINK” part of Eat Drink Blog!
Check out the Beer InCider Facebook page, and Instagram…..
Stay tuned (hang in there!) for further Sunday activities to be announced….. Keep checking the Eat Drink Blog Twitter account and Facebook page to stay up to date.
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Aaron Nathanael Ho, who is known affectionately as Nat to the culinary world, spent his childhood in the kitchen with his grandmother, rolling tangyuan between palms for winter solstice, deep-frying nian gao, baking kueh baulu over charcoal stove, and curling love-letters for Chinese New Year.
When he studied a PhD in English literature at New York, he was exposed to a whole new world of food. He now adjuncts at two universities in Singapore to pay for his food.
The name of his food-and-travel blog – Rubbish Eat Rubbish Grow, is transliterated from a colloquial dictum when mothers tell children not to be picky with food. Once in a while, the blog has contributions from his close friends as he believes his blog is a book of memories, eating with people he loves.
Rubbish Eat Rubbish Grow is featured in New York Post and Suria(a Singapore TV channel); and has been nominated for “Asia’s Best Food Blog” by Asia Rooms (2013), and “Best Singapore Food Blog” by Hotel Club (2013), and by Singapore Blog Awards (2012 & 2013).
Please extend a big welcome to Nat!
Massive thanks to Scoot Airlines for their support in bringing Nat to Australia for Eat Drink Blog 5.
Christina is well known to many Australian food and drink bloggers, having been an organiser of Eat Drink Blog 3 in 2012 which was held in her hometown of Adelaide.
She was born in Australia to Chinese parents who both had a great love of both cooking and eating out, which certainly was passed along to Christina. She has also travelled extensively and spent time working overseas in London, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Christina has a marketing, PR and writing background, and began The Hungry Australian in 2011 upon her return to Adelaide. Her food blog has since led her to many opportunities in writing, recipe development, consulting and photography.
All her blogging efforts have recently culminated in The Hungry Australian being judged both Overall Winner and Best Food Blog at the Best Australian Blogs 2014 competition organised by the Australian Writers’ Centre. The Hungry Australian was also one of five Lifestyle Finalists in the Best Australian Blogs 2013 competition and won the Outstanding Use of Photography Award that same year.
A big welcome aboard to Christina!
Further speakers will be announced soon, as well as sponsors, conference program and Sunday activities so stay tuned….
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Australian food bloggers who are keen to attend the 2014 Eat Drink Blog Conference will be extremely pleased to hear that registrations are now officially open!
This years Australian Food Blogger’s Conference is to be held in Brisbane, on the weekend of 20th -21st September at our venue Studio Thirtyfour in the suburb of Newstead.
- Eat Drink Blog 5, as in previous years, is FREE for all delegates to attend.
- Delegates are responsible for their own flights, accommodation, transfers and expenses.
- There are currently 60 places available.
Food blogging has evolved in recent times and as such, we are looking for a wider variety of bloggers this year. As usual, bloggers who cover food, wine, drinks, coffee, home cooking, restaurant reviewing and food discussion may apply.
We will also be looking for a certain number of applicants who are microbloggers and use other platforms or means of blogging (such as Instagram). You must specify how and where you blog or microblog at the time of application.
- Due to limited places, we must specify that only one person per blog may attend EDB.
Complete the Online Registration Form to apply for a place at Eat Drink Blog 5. Applications close strictly on 20th June 2014, at Midnight, AEST.
Applicants MUST agree to the Eat Drink Blog 2014 Terms and Conditions.
Merely applying to attend Eat Drink Blog 5 does not guarantee you a place. Applications will be reviewed and an email will be sent to all applicants regarding their status by 30th June 2014.
In the event of oversubscription (there are more applications than places being offered), the Eat Drink Blog 2014 Committee will use their discretion to allocate places to a selection which are representative of a variety of blogs and blogging platforms.
This means regretfully some applicants may be disappointed. The committee’s decision regarding applications will be final, and no correspondance will be entered into.
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Hello from the 2014 Eat Drink Blog committee!
We are extremely pleased to announce that the fifth Australian Eat Drink Blog Conference will take place over the weekend of 20th-21st September 2014 in Brisbane, Queensland.
New Venue announced! info here
More information on the program, sponsors, speakers, registration dates and Sunday activities will be announced soon. Stay tuned and make sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the latest conference updates.
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Situated in the heart of Northbridge in the city, European Foods are proudly W.A. family owned and operated – importing, manufacturing and distributing specialty foods, beverages, liquor and catering equipment from Europe and around the world to the retail and hospitality industries in Australia.
They carry thousands of products, which are constantly updated to keep abreast of the food industry’s ever-changing palate.
European Foods opened The Re Store in 1936 which was Perth’s first retailer of continental foods in and is still the go to place in Perth for Italian deli goods and fresh made to order rolls. It has been the centre of Perth’s Italian community for over 60 years and also offers a huge range of imported wines, liqueurs and grappa.
We thank European Foods for feeding delegates and making sure we have a stage, AV, projector and all the bells and whistles to run the stage for the conference at Eat Drink Blog.
Here’s a small selection of some of the amazing work European Foods do at their functions to whet your appetites.
- This event is entirely FREE to attend. There are no registration or attendance fees.
- There are 80 seats available.
- Delegates are responsible for their own flights, accommodation, transfers and expenses.
We have put in place some criteria in order to make this process as fair as possible, so here are the rules:
- You are an Australian food blogger, that is, either a food blogger living in Australia or an Australian food blogger living abroad.
- Your blog must be at least twelve (12) months old.
- You must have published a minimum of 25 posts.
- You are not a commercial blogger i.e. those blogging only for money or as part of their job, for example, a chef blogging for a restaurant or staff blogging for a brand.
- We are looking for a cross-section of bloggers covering food, wine, drinks, home cooking, restaurant reviewing, and food discussion.
- Due to space restrictions there is a strict limit of one person attending per blog.
Complete the online registration form to apply for a place at Eat Drink Blog 4. Registrations close on Monday 2 September at Midnight (ACST) so make sure you apply before then.
Please note that filling in this form does not guarantee you a place due to limited seating. All applicants will receive an email confirming the status of their application by Friday 6 September.
In the Event of Over-Subscription
If Eat Drink Blog 2013 becomes over-subscribed – that is, we receive more registrations than we have places to offer, the Eat Drink Blog 2013 Organising Committee will use our discretion to allot conference places to a selection of blogs representative of the current Australia food blogging sphere. Our criteria for this will include:
• Quality and frequency of posts;
• Demonstrated commitment by the blogger to extending and improving their skills; • Ongoing, active engagement in social media; and
• Support and promotion of fellow food bloggers and the wider food blogging community in general.
Unfortunately oversubscription will mean that some applicants are disappointed. While we regret this outcome, the committee’s decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
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The Eat Drink Blog 3 (EDB3) organising committee is delighted to announce that the fourth Australian Food Bloggers Conference — Eat Drink Blog 4 — will be held in Perth, Western Australia.
Eat Drink Blog 4 follows Eat Drink Blog conferences held in Adelaide (EDB3 in 2012), Sydney (EDB2 in 2011) and Melbourne (EDB1 in 2010).
“We are thrilled that Eat Drink Blog will be hosted by Perth this year,” said Christina from the EDB3 organising committee.
“Eat Drink Blog is the only national food blogging conference in Australia so it’s an important way for Australian food bloggers to network and improve their skills and knowledge,” she said.
“We can’t wait to see what Perth come up with.”
At this stage, Eat Drink Blog 4 will be held in November 2013.
The organising committee for Eat Drink Blog 4 will be chaired by Ai-Ling from Food Endeavours of the The Blue Apocalypse. Other confirmed committee members are Matt from Abstract Gourmet, Bri from East Meets West and Chris from Bon Viveur.
“Some people might think Perth is a boring mining state but talk to any Perth food blogger and they will be quick to tell you otherwise and share why they think living in Perth is unique and great,” says Ai-Ling.
“Perth has a growing and vibrant food culture with many new farmers’ markets, street festivals, small bars and restaurants popping up, and an emerging street food scene,” she says.
“We look forward to having bloggers from around Australia visit our state and experience it for themselves. We will also be incorporating a unique WA experience into EDB4 through the food provided and workshops that we plan.”
Each year Eat Drink Blog is managed by a different organising committee from the host state. Last year’s conference was organised by Christina from The Hungry Australian (Co-Chair), Amanda from Lambs Ears and Honey (Co-Chair), Erin from She Cooks She Gardens, Alex from Eating Adelaide, Kirsty from The Natural Foodie (Secretary), Natasha from Playing House and Celeste from Travelling in Mary Janes.
The Eat Drink Blog 3 Committee will be handing over to the new EDB4 committee over the next couple of weeks.
Any inquiries regarding Eat Drink Blog can be made via email to [email protected]
(c) Image courtesy The Food Pornographer.
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