Blender Class ‘Animation and Rigging in Blender’ at SIGGRAPH 2011
An amazing bit of news: for the first time ever, SIGGRAPH will be hosting a Blender workshop!
Animation and Rigging in Blender
SUNDAY, 7 AUGUST 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
An introduction to Blender for users of other 3D software. The talk focuses on rigging and animation for “unusual” setups: effects sequences such as growing, time lapse, and motion graphics. But it also touches on some of Blender’s character-animation tools and add-ons, modeling materials and rendering, and the Blender “mental model” for user interfaces, data structures, and scripting.
Bassam Kurdali

Sweet! And SIGGRAPH is right in my area. wow!
Yay, this already promises that Siggraph is going to be awesome this year :D
oh no!
Too far from Italy :-(
Hope the organization makes it downloadable, like Blender Conference does