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From our 2024–2025 Season
On 30 November, 2024
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Supercrawl and the Creative Industry in Hamilton

The Evolution

Tim Potocic, {Degrees, ...}

Music Recording and Events Entrepreneur

Tim Potocic is the owner of Hamilton`s Sonic Unyon Records and Distribution and co-owner of Sonic Unyon Records, which was the organizing force behind Supercrawl, a free music and arts festival held annually in Hamilton since 2009.

Supercrawl received

  • the Festival of the Year Award in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 from Tourism Hamilton (City of Hamilton);
  • the Tourism Event of the Year award in January, 2016, from the Tourism Industry Association of Ontario; and
  • was a finalist in 2017 for Event of the Year, in the Canadian Tourism Awards competition.

Among several career positions, Mr. Potocic

  • is Festival Director, Supercrawl (2009 to present);
  • is Chairman of the Board, the Canadian Independent Music Association (Dec. 2019 to present));
  • was a Director of the Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Record (2015-2023);
  • was named Distinguished Citizen of the Year in March, 2013, by the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce.

Watch Tim Potocic`s Presentation

Our speaker's presentation is followed by a few words of thanks from HAALSA Councillor Herb Schell­horn, a ques­tion-and-answer ses­sion, and Herb`s clos­ing re­marks. (1h 12m 37s. The first 8 or 9 seconds have no audio.)

Concerning Our Recordings

  • The video is limited to what was dis­play­ed to the audience on the large screen at the front of the lecture venue. We have no picture-in-picture video of our speaker at the podium.
  • The audio was captured by a hand-held microphone. You may occasionally need to increase the volume.
  • Questions from the audience were, as usual, too faint to be heard. (We always ask our speakers to repeat the question before starting their response.)