Monday, February 1, 2010
Beach Break Live organisers have announced a new venue for 2010 after licensing issues forced the event from its original Cornwall home.Filed Under: Festival News No Comments
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Download is to follow other festivals such as Reading and Leeds in banning flags from their main arena after an “overwhelming number of complaints”.
Announcing the decision to impose the ban, the festival’s director John Probyn said: “I hope you all understand that this is to ensure that everyone can enjoy what’s onstage.”
Last August Reading and [...]
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Leading events organiser and former private secretary to the First Minister, Joan Serafini, will be the guest speaker at a lecture on 5th February to HNC Events students as they plan major events at Stevenson College Edinburgh to celebrate their 40th anniversary.
An audience of 60 students from the Events and Administration courses [...]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Sustainable Event Management: A Practical Guide by Newcastle’s Meegan Jones has been launched offering event organisers information on how events can be managed with a lighter carbon footprint and impact on the environment.
Jones, who’s returned to Australia after working for the past three years in the UK as Sustainability Manager for [...]
Monday, February 1, 2010
Beach Break Live organisers have announced a new venue for 2010 after licensing issues forced the event from its original Cornwall home.
The festival will now take place at Pembrey Country Park in Carmarthenshire in South Wales.
The new site, which is next to the award winning dunes of Cefn Sidan Sands beach, [...]
Friday, January 29, 2010
Firefly have announced that they are to be the exclusive technical production partner for the Brighton Festival Fringe in 2010. Firefly will be with the festival to ensure internal productions are delivered sustainably.
Brighton Festival Fringe is one of the largest and fastest-growing open access arts festival in the world and [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
The BBC’s governing body was under fire tonight for lavishing thousands of pounds on hospitality and expenses.
Despite the painful economic climate, BBC Trust officials spent £11,000 on lunches with MPs and hosting boxes at the Proms over a six-month period.
This came even though a number of them also received Proms hospitality [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Thursday 21st January 2010 lat week saw the Premiere of this year’s hottest and most awaited Event Documentary hitting the London Noir Twitter Streets!
Adrian Silas, Creative Director of Masquerade Events brought the Industry his special and unique fun offering MASQUERADE RELOADED in full Feature Film format for a special Screening for one night only and [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The city of Liverpool and host venue BT Convention Centre, part of ACC Liverpool, last week hosted the prestigious Association of British Professional Conference Organisers Annual Conference, 21-23 January 2010.
Titled ‘Change Matters’, the three-day conference which drew over 50 high-profile conference and event organisers looked at how professional organisers [...]
Monday, January 25, 2010
ORGANISERS of some major Gwent events are being told they have to manage their own traffic problems, a senior police officer says.
Officers have previously helped traffic manage events such as Hoggin’ The Bridge and the Monmouth Show.
But Superintendent Nigel Russell told the Argus that the police had been taking on additional responsibilities [...]
Sunday, January 24, 2010
A former member of the RAF who broke his neck during an “It’s a Knockout” type event at an air force base has had his bid for £6m damages turned down.
Robert Uren was 21 when he dived into an inflatable pool to retrieve plastic fruit at an event at RAF High [...]
Sunday, January 24, 2010
GOVERNMENT and council officials are this week planning to announce a deal to save The Gathering that formed the centrepiece of last year’s Homecoming celebrations and repay hundreds of thousands of pounds to creditors.
Insiders close to the deal last night said the intention was to take over the brand rights to the event and allow [...]
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
MAJOR public events in Monmouthshire could be left without any traffic police support, putting their very future in jeopardy it has been claimed.
Gwent Police says it may no longer provide officers to direct traffic at major public events such as Hoggin’ the Bridge and Monmouthshire Show, even if organisers wish to pay the costs themselves, [...]
Sunday, January 17, 2010
CBA Limited and Spindlewood Limited, two of the UK’s leading event technology suppliers, have announced that they are to merge.
CBA has been the UK market leader in telephone and IT networks for events since 2006 and services many festivals including Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds, V festivals, T in the Park, Download, Wireless Festival and many more. [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
A hot ticket among start-ups in the events industry these days is San Francisco based Eventbrite.
The online event ticket-selling company for event organisers is backed by $6.5 million from Sequoia Capital partner Roelof Botha, the same guy who took a gamble on YouTube, is just coming off a successful year in which it had $100 [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The arctic weather that has gripped the nation over the past couple of weeks has led to a rise in claims for the cancellation of trade fairs and conferences, says specialist event insurer Hiscox.
As many as 1 in 10* people may have missed work last week, as much of Britain was blanketed in thick snow [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
One of NI’s most popular sporting events has been praised as Stormont Sports Minister Nelson McCausland joined with the North West organisers in launching the 2010 International North West 200.
Speaking at the reception in the Waterfront Hall, the Minister said: “Last year proved particularly challenging for event organisers across Northern Ireland due to the [...]
Monday, January 11, 2010
Experts have warned Scotland is unlikely to see any new festivals launched for the foreseeable future, as it emerged a string of top events have been axed.
Connect, Outsider, Big in Falkirk, Live at Loch Lomond and EH1 are among festivals shelved in the wake of poor ticket sales and funding problems.
Their demise has come in [...]
Sunday, January 10, 2010
In this months Event Venue Spotlight we take a look at The Chimney House in Sheffield which is a grade II listed building home to The Meeting Room for events and gatherings on Kelham Island in the City of Sheffield.
The Meeting Room has been created to offer a creative space for people who are accustomed [...]
