This message contains images. If you don't see images, click here to view.
Advertise in this news brief.
|
|
|
|
Welcome to the IFEA's Event Insider-your location for up to date news in the
festivals & events industry.
|
'Burning Man' debauchery: 5 things festival's new czar should know
Los Angeles Times
So the Burning Man festival, that summertime celebration of counterculture debauchery and rock 'n' roll music, is getting a full-time event czar to oversee the zaniness that takes place each August in the middle of Nevada's nowhere. The federal Bureau of Land Management has announced that the new overseer of the weeklong party in the state's Black Rock Desert 100 miles north of Reno will handle contracts, law enforcement and safety concerns.
|
|
Share this article:
    |
|
|
Former Tulip Festival head sows seeds for horticulture celebration in 2017
Ottawa Business Journal
The International Horticultural Exhibition would take place from May to October at a series of local venues, including Lansdowne Park, Queen Juliana Park and a proposed botanical garden at Dow's Lake. Project director Michel Gauthier, a former executive director of the Tulip Festival, told OBJ he believes the event could draw up to three million visitors, create nearly 5,000 jobs and generate more than $500 million in economic activity in the capital.
Festicket reveals findings of the 1st International Music
Travel Daily News
Festicket, Europe's largest music festival travel platform, have released the findings of their International Music Festival Trends survey, which not only is the first study of its kind into international music festival travel, but offers insight into the differences between festival goers in the U.K. and overseas.
 |
|
When your next event calls for temporary fence, pedestrian barricades, portable toilets and more, think National Event Services!
Call 800-352-5675 today!
|
|
Winter Olympics: Most expensive Olympics in history worth every ruble to Vladimir Putin
New York Daily News
When all was said and won, the Russian president got the Olympics he'd always wanted, surely worth in political capital the $51 billion he spent on Vladimir Putin's Winter Games. Perhaps foreign journalists weren't thrilled about conditions here, and maybe Pussy Riot embarrassed him a bit. But the venues shimmered and the athletes were pleased with their surroundings. The weather held. The transit system was remarkable. The snow never entirely melted. There were no terrorist acts, despite the sometimes hysterical warnings of the Western media.
| Looking for similar articles? Search here, keywords OLYMPICS. |
|
IFEA Webinars begin March 13 with 'Volunteer Programs and Management on a Citywide Scale' — register today
IFEA
Volunteers put the "community" in "community events" and some events have legions of dedicated workers who bring valued skills to the table while holding costs to a minimum. This session will cover critical components of a successful volunteer program, including recruiting, training, management, communications, retention and rewards. We'll also address the value and challenges of creating a shared citywide volunteer program.
Brisbane Festival has funding knocked back
The Sydney Morning Herald
Tourism and Events Queensland has knocked back an $800,000 funding application from the Brisbane Festival. Festival artistic director Noel Staunton shrugged off the situation as the "swings and roundabouts" of the arts world. Staunton confirmed the Brisbane Festival, one of Queensland's largest annual cultural events, had a three-year funding contract with the department which ended last year, and an application for a one-year renewal had been rejected.
Festivals dinged for policing costs
The StarPhoenix
The city will now deny permits to summer festivals that serve alcohol in civic parks if organizers do not pay members of the Saskatoon Police Service to patrol their events. A new policy introduced last summer requires festival organizers who want to hold their events in civic parks to pay the cost of police stationed at their events on top of any private security they might already have.
Missed last week's issue? See which articles your colleagues read most.
Stampede scales back under new leadership
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
A new era for the Walla Walla, Wash., Balloon Stampede launches this year. The Walla Walla Valley Chamber of Commerce announced that after more than two decades at the helm it will no longer produce the community's annual hot air balloon festival — the Northwest's longest running hot air balloon event. Instead, the festival will transition to the leadership of Scott and Laurie Spencer, two Boise-based hot air balloon pilots who have long been a part of the Balloon Stampede and who also organize the annual Boise Balloon Classic.
Electric Daisy Carnival founder announces 2 new Las Vegas festivals
Las Vegas Weekly
Following in the footsteps of the Electric Daisy Carnival, festival founder and Insomniac Events CEO Pasquale Rotella has revealed that his company will launch Las Vegas editions of its popular Southern California festivals Beyond Wonderland and Nocturnal Wonderland. The announcement came in an open letter posted to Rotella's Facebook page early this morning addressing concerns over the future of the Wonderland festivals, whose Southern California editions have begun to outgrow the 65,000-person capacity San Manuel Amphitheater in Bakersfield, Calif., where the events have been held in recent years.
|
SFX adds 2 major Midwest festivals with agreement to acquire react presents
The Wall Street Journal
SFX Entertainment Inc., the largest global producer of live events and digital entertainment content focused exclusively on electronic music culture and other world-class festivals, announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase React Presents, one of the leading producers and promoters of festivals and events in the Midwest.
Central Oregon farms see uptick in events
Seattle Post Intelligencer
An improving economic climate and clearer state laws about agritourism have fueled an uptick in events on farmland in central Oregon. In 2010 and 2011, Deschutes County received just one permit application from a rural landowner for events and other commercial activities. Since 2012, it has received 65 of these permit requests, The Bend Bulletin reported.
Events bring £3 million into Torbay
Torquay Herald Express
The value of events and festivals in Torbay last summer to the local economy has been put under the microscope. The team from Torbay Council's @creativetorbay team which carried out the first investigation of the event program found that large scale free public events are an important part of the annual events mix and events can bring in footfall to the area and have a positive economic impact. Eleven events, exhibitions, opera and festivals were subjected to rigorous analysis including of feedback of those taking part.
|
|
|
|
7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063
|
