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| Presentation by SCT alumnus Steve Sansweet |
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| Start Date: | 10/19/2009 | Start Time: | 9:30 AM |
| End Date: | 10/19/2009 | End Time: | 11:00 AM |
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Event Description
Steve Sansweet, head of Fan Relations for LucasFilm, will talk about his career as a journalist and in the film industry. Sansweet has had two very different but equally fulfilling careers, one fairly unusual for a corporate organizational chart. Born and raised in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia, Sansweet knew he wanted to be a journalist from age 6, when he hand-printed the “Hobart Street News” and sold copies to neighbors for three cents. School newspapers, magazines and yearbooks followed, and a major in Journalism at Temple University’s School of Business seemed preordained.
As head of Fan Relations for LucasFilm, Sansweet has turned his love of the Star Wars saga into a second career, acting as the company’s liaison to fans worldwide, and their liaison to the company. Sansweet has amassed the world’s largest private collection of Star Wars memorabilia, housed in a 5,000-square-foot private museum — a converted chicken barn — in Sonoma County, Calif., where he lives with his partner of 33 years, Bob Canning. Not abandoning his love of writing, Sansweet has 15 books to his credit, 13 of them on Star Wars, including a 1.2 million word encyclopedia in 2008 and his latest, due out in November 2009 from Abrams, Star Wars: 1,000 Collectibles – Memorabilia and Stories from a Galaxy Far, Far Away. |
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