Press Release:
The First Leixpo 2011 – The Leica Event You Don’t Want to Miss.
West Palm Beach, FL (August 29th, 2010) – The first Leixpo event will take place on February 12th, 2011 from 9:00 am till 7:00 pm. at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre located in downtown West Palm Beach. The facility has over 26,000 sq. ft. of classrooms, museum, studio, store and more and will be able to handle a large number of exhibitors and visitors.
Leixpo is an annual event that will feature numerous product manufacturers that cater to the Leica community. The event will bring Leica enthusiasts together and introduce them to the magical world of Leica photography, exchange ideas with peers and be part of a community of Leica users. Details about the participating exhibitors will be available at a later date. Tickets can be purchased at the door before the event for the price of $10. In addition to the main yearly Leixpo event, the Palm Beach Photographic Centre has a series of Leica related meetups during the year on various topics.
About Leixpo and the Palm Beach Photographic Centre:
For more information about Leixpo visit http://leixpo.com.
The Palm Beach Photographic Centre (http://www.workshop.org) is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to the enrichment of life through exhibitions, community programs, workshops and other educational activities that promote the arts of photography and digital imaging.
The Centre’s programming is divided into five sections:
• Year-round museum and gallery exhibitions
• Master photography and digital imaging workshops
• The annual five-day international FOTOfusion® festival
• Year-round community education programs
FOTObasics+, FOTOinsights Lecture Series, FOTOcamp for children, and the Picture My World community outreach program for at-risk youth
• Travel Workshops
Each year the Centre offers over 300 photography and digital imaging workshops with world-renowned photographers and digital imaging artists such as Vincent Versace, Robert Farber, Laurence Gartel, Douglas Kirkland, Lewis Kemper, and Ross Whitaker, and many others. Our learning environment is electric. Under the tutelage of professionals committed to sharing their skills and encouraging the growth of others, participants can develop creative potential, expand their vision, and master a broad range of photographic and digital imaging applications. Centre workshops are different than most others in that we stress the creative, visionary process. We encourage an open forum for ideas. After years of professional immersion, our instructors communicate the intuitive and intangible so vital to personal expression.
Contact:
Palm Beach Photography Centre: art@workshop.org
Palm Beach Photography Centre and Leixpo.com are not affiliated with Leica Camera AG.
