Archive for December, 2010
PSI Supplies Tech production for Children In Need Belfast concert
Belfast, UK based Production Services Ireland (PSI), supplied lighting, video including screens and media servers, trussing and rigging to BBC Northern Ireland for the 2010 Belfast Children In Need concert staged at the city’s Odyssey Arena. PSI has been involved with this annual fundraising event for at least 7 years, but this was the first [...]
Point Source Productions Join La Soirée on London’s South Bank
Point Source Productions has supplied the lighting, power, control and smoke solutions for La Soirée, a new show on London’s South Bank. La Soirée exudes the glamour of a by-gone age as it presents a ‘twisted take on cabaret and variety’. Playing to audiences of 900 people a night, the show takes place in a [...]
Kinesys For Stage Design, Israel
Leading London UK based automation specialists Kinesys has sold the first variable speed motion control system into Israel, to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv based Stage Design, one of the country’s leading rental and staging companies. The sale consists of a 24 way Kinesys Elevation 1+ variable speed motor control system, with 16 x Liftket 500kg [...]
MPI Selects Cvent as Official Meetings Management Technology Partner
Cvent, the world’s largest provider of online event management, meeting site selection and web survey solutions, today announced that Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the leading global membership association for meeting and event professionals, has renewed its alliance with Cvent as its preferred technology partner. Through the partnership, Cvent’s software is powering online event management and [...]
Protect against those big problems for small events
Insuring an event is always part of the project plan but it doesn’t always become part of the project. If a budget is being squeezed some organisers, particularly for smaller events, take the risk of a short cut by deciding not to insure, or under insuring. Some insurers will offer early booking discounts as a [...]
Association pavilions see Event Production Show hit highest score
An exhibition concept designed to appeal to the event industry’s plethora of associations has kept the Event Production Show on course to attract the largest number of exhibitors in its history. The Event Production Show takes place from 2nd – 3rd February at Olympia’s Grand Hall in London, and will reveal the new products, innovations [...]
Simon Clifton appointed Sales Director at 360 Creative Event Services
360 Creative Event Services, the event services and creative solutions group has appointed Simon Clifton as Sales Director with immediate effect. Clifton joins 360 from Melville, where he has been Sales Director for the past 3 years, prior to that he was Account Director at the NEC. He will be responsible for sales and key [...]
Stageco Build Royal Drum in Middle East
Stageco supplied an impressive temporary building, called The Drum, for the production of one of the largest events in Qatar’s Oil and Gas Industry, organised by WRG Qatar LLC in Ras Laffan Industrial City. Qatar Petroleum, Qatargas and RasGas held this prestigious event on the 13th December, in honour of the three companies’ achievements, when [...]
Understanding Event Risk Management
Dr Rob Harris, an innovative leader in international events education, co-author of ‘Event Management’, one of the most widely used texts dealing with the area in the UK, will be visiting London in January to lead a short course on event management at the University of Westminster. Ahead of the festive party season, with many [...]
4D secures its largest design & build programme for Mobile World Congress 2011
Event design agency 4D Design will be building 14 separate stands at the show totalling in excess of 1000sqm of space. The stands range from 17.5sqm to 400sqm, for clients from 7 countries including the UK, US, Canada, France, Israel and India. 4D’s MD Pete Allen commented: “MWC 2011 is a major success for 4D, [...]
Robe Lights Miss South Africa
Intelligence, personality, beauty and independence in abundance were de rigueur for the 2010 Miss South Africa final at Sun City Superbowl – and that was just the lighting – which featured Robe moving lights supplied by Johannesburg based Dream Sets for a design by Mauritz Jacobs. The show was an up-tempo megamix of colour, movement [...]
EA Sports appoints EA Sports Active 2- UK Brand Ambassador and Launches UK wide Tour for 2011
Circle Agency’s Gemma Riley has been recognised as one of the world’s leading EA Brand Ambassadors, with her appointment as the EA Sports Active UK Brand Ambassador. With 4 years experience as an EA brand ambassador for Circle, Gemma has been appointed as the key trainer and brand advocate for the UK’s EA Sports Active [...]
Hotelzon signs a global direct connectivity deal with IHG
The world’s largest hotel company by number of rooms, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has signed a global direct connectivity deal with Hotelzon, Europe’s leading software supplier and hotel booking agent. The deal will see IHG adopt Hotelzon’s system integration service and become a preferred partner for 4,500 of its hotels in over 100 countries. The [...]
The evolution of the British music festival to be told by BBC Four’s Britannia music series
Continuing the critically-acclaimed Britannia music series for BBC Four, this documentary tells the story of the emergence and evolution of the British music festival through the mavericks, dreamers and dropouts who have produced, enjoyed and sometimes fought for them over the last 50 years. The film traces the ebb and flow of British festival culture [...]
Portakabin Events cleans up at Feastival Awards
Portakabin Events is celebrating a new record after picking up the UK 2010 Festival Award for Best Toilet at a music festival for the second year in a row, recognising the quality of its toilets at T in The Park. The award is voted for by the fans who attend the festivals and it is [...]
Farnborough International Ltd to only use contractors who are ESSA members
At the ESSA Drop-In session on 9 Dec 2010 held at FIVE, the home of the Farnborough Air Show, Jonathan Smith, Head of Operations at Farnborough International announced that any relevant new contractors wishing to work at the venue for Farnborough International Ltd would need to be members of ESSA from this date forward, as [...]
LTM Supplies New LoadGuard® Motors to OTT for JLS Tour
Merseyside, UK, based lifting, control and rigging sales specialist Lift-Turn-Move (LTM) has supplied 40 x 1 tonne LoadGuard® hoists to Over The Top Rigging (OTT). These were specified by Mark Wade, who is production rigger for the current JLS UK arena tour with his company OTT supplying all the tour’s rigging equipment and services to [...]
Heart Health roadshow takes centre stage at the Angina Monologues
The Angina Monologues provided the perfect platform to promote the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) Heart Health roadshow, which took its own starring role outside the Theatre Royal Haymarket this weekend. The roadshow vehicle, designed, built and operated by Event Marketing Solutions (EMS), took a pit stop from its busy national schedule to be at the [...]
First Robe LEDWash 600s “Outta This World” on The Road with JLS
The very first batch of the new Robe ROBIN LEDWash 600 LED Wash fixtures off the production line in the Czech Republic were delivered to leading UK lighting rental company HSL, with 40 of them going straight out on JLS’s UK arena tour, specified by lighting designer Dave Lee. JLS are the UK’s favourite boyband, [...]
Premier Meetings space for Cambridge Menzies unveils major meeting investment
Menzies Cambridge Hotel & Conference Centre has completed a major investment programme set to assert the hotel as a premier conference and event destination within Cambridgeshire and bordering counties. Situated off the A14 and in close vicinity to the historic city centre; the hotel researched their clients and addressed the ergonomics behind a conference to [...]
HBAA announces executive committee line up for 2011
Juliet Price will lead the HBAA into the next decade as the chair of the association. Juliet takes the reigns as chair from Stephen Usher and will oversee a new executive committee line up throughout 2011. The association represents the interests of parties involved in the procurement and management of conference, meetings and accommodation in [...]
Initiative Partners Award Finalist For Commemoration Of Dunkirk Evacuation
One of the most ambitious events of 2010 – the 70th anniversary commemoration of the World War Two evacuation of Dunkirk – is a finalist in this year’s IVCA Live Com Awards. The IVCA LiveCom Awards recognise creative and effective communication through live events and experiential marketing campaigns. Initiative Partners were also finalists at the [...]
Rising Talent with Showsec at Military Tournament
Showsec’s London Office successfully implemented a complex event security operation at Earls Court for the British Military Tournament. VIP Royal guests and senior military officials were among 56,000 visitors attending the return of Britain’s oldest military tattoo, on December 4th and 5th, at Earls Court. Over 500 troops and 145 horses appeared in two performances [...]
Dartmouth House appoints two new members to its management team
Lime Venue Portfolio have appointed Richard Fisher and Maria Scullion to head up its management team at Dartmouth House in Mayfair. Richard joins as general manager and previously managed Stationers’ Hall, another of Lime Venue Portfolio’s properties. Maria takes on the role of sales manager and has joined from a diverse sales background. Both new [...]
Gorilla wins contract to provide go anywhere DJ platform to the Varsity Trip 2010.
The Varsity Trip, targeted at Oxford and Cambridge students, will see 2500 people descend upon Val Thorens, the highest European ski village for this year’s events. The week long Varsity Trips were first held in 1922 and have hosted a number of sporting events between the two universities as well as plenty of recreational events. [...]
Spinning Clock Scoops Gold For Creativity At The Eventia Awards
Nottingham-based events agency Spinning Clock has been awarded gold for the most creative use of technology at The 2010 Eventia Awards. The Eventia Awards, honouring outstanding business-to-business and business-to-consumer events, were held at the Hilton Park Lane, London, and attended by more than 800 industry professionals. The ceremony was hosted by BBC Breakfast presenters Bill [...]
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