{"id":1201,"date":"2015-09-01T09:44:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T14:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=1201"},"modified":"2015-09-23T09:45:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T14:45:02","slug":"mark-aikman","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker\/mark-aikman\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Aikman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mark Aikman is a consultant, producer, and generally artsy bon vivant. He is currently the Artistic Producer at Birdtown and Swanville and the Director of Development and Communications at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/buddiesinbadtimes.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Buddies in Bad Times Theatre<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and has produced or managed projects for a bunch of arts organizations in Toronto \u2013 notably spending three years at Crow\u2019s Theatre and four at The Dietrich Group.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among the things he\u2019s been least qualified for, but still rocked, include producing a drag queen beauty pageant, dancing around in a giant vinyl record costume, and spending a brief stint as a kind of archivist at VideoCabaret. He is currently working on a coffee table book, and a collection of artisanal stuffed animals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Aikman is a consultant, producer, and generally artsy bon vivant. He is currently the Artistic Producer at Birdtown and Swanville and the Director of Development and Communications at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, and has produced or managed projects for a bunch of arts organizations in Toronto \u2013 notably spending three years at Crow\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6358608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-1201","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UjGY-jn","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1201\/revisions\/1202"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1101?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}