HAVING BEEN CREATED to highlight the Trinity River area of downtown Dallas, TrinityFest was all about flow. “Dallas had never in the history of the city done an event this big downtown,” says native son Steve Kemble, who produced the July Fourth...
SOMETIMES CREATING the perfect event is all about getting creative with what you've already got. That lesson was driven home full force for the design team at Vancouver, British Columbia-based Rare Indigo, assigned a mere six days to cook up a...
Fund-raisers have taken center stage in the world of special events. Special Events Magazine saw a 50 percent rise in entries over last year in the “Best Fund-raising Event” category for our 2002 Gala Awards competition. The fervor for fund...
The second time was a charm for a $130,000 incentive event produced for a major pharmaceutical industry client by DMC Pacific Agenda, San Francisco. Originally scheduled for Sept. 15, 2001, the event was rescheduled for June in the aftermath of 9...
Sometimes you have a vision for the event,” Doug Matthews muses. “Other times it doesn't gel until the last minute.” For the December “Glacial Fantasia” gala he produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, coming up with a design to dazzle 160...
Combining philanthropy with fun is a great idea — but making it pay is problematic. Here, five fund-raising experts share their secrets...
WITH A STAFF OF 15 SPECIALISTS IN every field from hotel management to festival logistics, NHL Enterprises' events and entertainment department is a gold mine of event expertise. Even with all of that horsepower, the group, led by 10-year National...
Helping guests feel secure at special events is vital today, and the larger the crowd, the better security needs to be...
FOR SPECIAL EVENT SPONSORSHIPS, IT'S NOT JUST the budgets that are getting bigger. The expectations are, too...