The North Face Speaker Series Event: GII – promotional support

It was so much fun and really inspiring to work with The North Face and Moving Adventures teams, with Matt Heason of Heason Events (thanks for bringing me in on this one Matt!), and of course to Simone Moro, Cory Richards & Denis Urubko, in helping create this incredible sell out Speaker Series event ‘Gasherbrum II: the first winter ascent’ at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London in November of last year (yes, it has taken me this long to get round to posting about this!). Thanks also to Patrick at Sound Publicity for helping us out with the promo team for the night.

I worked on the regional promotion across: online, social, direct mail, VIP invite lists and postering/flyering of local climbing walls. A special thanks to Juliane Kurzke for all your help.

The event was just fantastic – such inspirational speakers and I was so impressed by the quality and smoothness of the live link up to Denis Urubko – a really beautifully organised event, in a top quality venue – a perfect end to the 5 date tour.

Really hope I have the chance to work with all involved in this again soon!

(I like a picture, so I’ve made a little collage of the event below, but I have absolutely no good shots of the speakers – so I apologise for their absence – lots of great shots on the TNF site though!)

Photos to impress / capture sponsors and Festival Event Management

Camden Crawl approached PRS for Music Foundation’s British Music Abroad programme to curate The Monarch during this year’s festival. We were so flattered to be asked and jumped at the chance to be involved in a festival full of our target audience for this programme – young, emerging talent, with a forward-thinking edge.

Laura (British Music Abroad, Manager) got busy programming the night – with her outstanding pair of ears we all knew the line-up was never going to be anything other than spot on. I was put to charge with Event Managing the weekend of events.

We weren’t wrong! Both nights were absolutely rammed and audience and bands were going wild the whole time – this was the perfect opportunity for me to get a photographer to capture some images for our sponsorship pitches. I wanted to show the engagement, creativity, depth and reach of the British Music Abroad brand. With Gregory Nolan on the case I knew I was going to get a moment of genius, and I really think this shot (below) is just that. Perfect Gregory, perfect. Thank you. Hopefully this shot will capture a few sponsors eyes in our next pitch.

It’s of Sarah McIntosh aka The Good Natured – doing her trademark saunter and posture right into the crowd and round the audience. I’m a big fan of the band and a big fan of Sarah’s front-woman antics and performance. It’s so refreshing to see such creativity – both musically and in terms of interaction with the crowd.

Thank you to all of you who came along and supported us at Camden Crawl and to all the bands who played – you were all incredible. And thank you to The Monarch for hosting us and, perhaps most importantly of all, the Camden Crawl for inviting us – without you, none of this would have been possible.

PRS for Music Foundation’s Women Make Music funding opportunity flyer and launch Event Management

This is the first time the Foundation has launched an open call that welcomes applications from both commissioning organisations and music creators working independently of other organisations. We needed a flyer that was bold and clear, that appealed to music creators from all genres. This white background, with elements of the Foundation’s brand colour red – and simple, clean, clear and crisp layout is proving a successful platform to communicate with the Foundation’s broad target market. It is warm, yet sophisticated and professional, yet creative. I’m really happy with how this communicates their ‘all genre’ brand.

To find out more about this funding opportunity and to see some great shots of the programme launch, that I Event Managed, at WOW festival visit the PRS for Music Foundation website.

Sky Arts At New Music Award – Promo Film Producer and Awards Ceremony Event Manager

It is with great excitement that I present to you Sky Arts At New Music Award – the film! (click on the image below to be taken to the Sky Arts HD website to view the film). The full length version will be shown throughout the month on Sky Arts HD 1 & 2 – and is premiering this Sunday at 6:30pm on Sky Arts HD 1.

It has been an absolute joy to produce this film – working with the Sky Arts HD crew and team – and all the other New Music Award artists, judges and supporters – past and present. A massive thank you to all of you. It’s been a lot of hard work, but a lot of fun and everyone at New Music Award HQ is really happy with the result. The film clearly and powerfully demonstrates why the PRS for Music Foundation New Music Award is so important and why it’s so relevant. For all info about the New Music Award and this year’s winner – The Organ of Corti – visit the Foundation’s website.

As well as being a powerful tool of communication for showing exactly what the New Music Award is about, it’s great to have documentation of the New Music Award 2010 ceremony at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, designed by Jean Nouvel – a ceremony that I Event Managed. A special thanks go out to Katie and all the team at Serpentine Gallery for making us so welcome and being so accommodating and very patient with all our filming and ceremony requirements – and for providing us with such a beautiful – and perfect space for the PRS for Music Foundation New Music Award 2010 ceremony.