How is it August already?! For the week ahead, choose from a lineup of online activities, including the latest JCK podcast (featuring a legend among gem lovers), a virtual social club mixer, and a new docuseries about love in the Big Apple. If you’re in southern Florida, happy hour with your fellow WJA members is calling.
LISTEN
The Jewelry District Podcast, Episode 101 (ongoing)
On the latest episode of The Jewelry District, JCK editor-in-chief Victoria Gomelsky and news director Rob Bates speak with Jeffrey Post (pictured), curator emeritus at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, about how he started his career in mineralogy. He also describes what a visitor experience at the museum is like, and shares some of the stories associated with the gems he has encountered over the course of his 32 years as curator of gems and minerals (including a once-in-a-lifetime chance to study the famous Hope and Wittelsbach-Graff diamonds side by side).
ATTEND
Gem X Summer Virtual Mixer: Aug. 6, noon ET (online)
Gem X, the jewelry industry’s most prolific social club, is having a virtual member mixer today. Catch it if you can!
Chicago Responsible Jewelry Conference: Aug. 11–12 (in person and online)
Over the course of two days, the conference—at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill.—features scores of industry experts discussing “Opening Markets for Artisanal Gemstone Miners,” “Responsible Retail,” “Gold and Agriculture,” “Russian Sanctions,” and many more hot topics. Plus: On Aug. 13, the conference will host a Responsible Gem Boutique with suppliers including Columbia Gem House, Moyo Gems, and Virtu Gem. Can’t get to Chicago? Buy a livestream ticket for Friday, Saturday, or both days. Register here.
WJA Miami Chat ’N Chill Happy Hour: Aug. 11, 7 p.m. ET (in person)
Join members of the Women’s Jewelry Association’s Miami chapter at Don’t Quit Your Daydreams jewelry and art studio in Boca Raton for an evening of networking. Attendance is free.
WATCH
Engagement 101 Documentary Series: premieres Aug. 8 (ongoing)
Severine Ferrari, founder of Engagement 101, premieres the pilot of her site’s new documentary Romancing New York—in cinematic landscape format—this Tuesday on YouTube and Facebook. A seven-part series will also debut in portrait mode on YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Meta. The goal of the series is “to celebrate New York and love and talk about jewelry in an original and positive context,” Ferrari tells JCK. “We are planning other U.S. and international cities in the future—including my hometown, Paris.”
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