Showman’s Show reveals Campfire programme
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A session moderated by Production Services Association general manager Andy Lenthall entitled Are you an event freelancer? will kick-start the event at 10.15am on Wednesday, 18 October, providing tips and advice on taxation, insurance and how to win work.
Also confirmed is a session delivered by Iren De Pasquale, an assessor for A Greener Festival. The scheme has assessed over 400 festivals on their environmental management over the past 10 years. In 2017, it launched the Greener Event Award, opening the scheme up to the event industry as a whole. Taking place at 11.45am on Wednesday, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about their work and how to get involved, gaining insight in to the latest challenges and actions following this summer’s assessments of 37 events across 12 countries.
This will be followed at 2pm by a session entitled How to successfully geo-clone your event; as more and more event organisers take successful events and repeat them in different parts of the UK and around the world, the discussion will deliver handy tips for getting it right, as well as providing a platform for attendees to ask questions of the experienced panel.
At 10:15am on Thursday 19 October, Katie McPhee, head of marketing for music, arts & entertainment, Eventbrite will present Innovation - what really counts. Now that we can project holograms onto the stage, enjoy festivals remotely via VR goggles and create impressive aerial crowd shots using drones, this session will explore if it really makes a difference.
Drawing the Campfire Sessions to a close will be an Event Surgery with James Heappey, MP for the Wells Constituency in South West England and chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for events.
Commenting on the Campfire Session programme, event director, Johnny Lance said: “We were thrilled with the response to the introduction of the Campfire Sessions in 2016 and we’re definitely looking to build upon their success this year. The intimate and informal setting of the tipi, and the programme’s topics and speakers are all unique to the Showman’s Show and we’re very proud of that.”
(Jim Evans)
