AGF (A Greener Festival) and Edinburgh Napier Uni have collaborated with the British Council, Circle Culture project which is a fund for the development of sustainable festivals, whose main objectives are to promote cultural exchange between Mexico and the United Kingdom and strengthen the development of festivals through a sustainable culture. As part of these activities, the ‘Cultura Circular Toolkit’ was created to support training to 30 Mexican festivals for the British Council and new guidance produced especially for the Mexican festival and event industry. The Toolkit has been specially designed to help festivals develop a sustainable future, utilising AGF’s…
Author: Andy Lenthall
The Event Production Forum East (EPFE) returns to Budapest Arena on 4th November 2022. Delegates will enjoy a day of networking, centred around four panels, presented in association with Platinum partner EPS and Gold partners Visual Europe Group and Continest KFT. EPFE welcomes anyone involved in live events in Central and Eastern Europe and wider afeild. It attracts event professionals, technicians, bookers and entrepreneurs from production, venue management, promotion, hospitality, and suppliers. Organisers Carl A H Martin and Máté Horvath are delighted to be returning for EPFE’s sixth year, to the face-to-face format, having force to host a virtual conference…
The game-changing 808 Festival is back for its biggest and best edition yet from 9 – 11 December 2022. The leading event in all of Southeast Asia offers up three days of musical madness and brian-bogglign production with the likes of Andrew Rayel, Armin Van Buuren, Gareth Emery, DJ Snake, Hardwell, Madeo Live, Zedd, Morten, Illenium and more all playing at Bangkok International Trade Centre. Bangkok International Trade Centre will become a whole new party dimension with epic stage production, mesmerising lights and world class sound systems all ready to deliver an experience unlike any other in the region. This…
Party leads to rave leads to festival, it’s easy when you say it; but add the logistical challenges of a site 850m above sea level in Bulgaria’s Rhodope Mountains and the inevitable growing pains as the audience and festival offer expands, the organiser’s toolkit needs to grow. We take the opportunity to learn from Benji Sasse, co-founder of Meadows In the Mountains about the growth of their festival from a small party in June 2011 and their adoption of Easol as their specialist web commerce provider. Let’s start at the beginning and how Meadows in the Mountains came about: “It…
September 29th saw global forward thinking annual music conference and festival Linecheck, announces the first details, line up and program for its 2022 edition, taking place from 23rd November to 26th November at Milan’s hybrid centre for culture and creativity BASE. Acting as a catalyst for change in the music ecosystem, at its eighth edition, the Milan based event has grown to become one of Europe’s best new music economy conferences. The music meeting and festival is a celebration of talent, creativity and new ideas. Offering three packed days, with a program that showcases international diversity across over 60 events,…
Lyte, the live events e-commerce platform, has announced their acquisition of the assets of two UK-based companies, Festicket and Event Genius. The Festicket and Event Genius platforms enable attendees of events worldwide to book tickets, travel accommodations and make in-venue payments for items like food, beverages and merchandise. The acquisition represents significant immediate growth for Lyte, with a broad expansion of their services and team worldwide, and brings much-needed stability and solutions to the global promoter community. Festicket and Event Genius worked with hundreds of festivals and events across the UK, EU, Australia and Latin America. The asset acquisition enables…
Lolly, the hospitality technology specialist, has launched a new facial recognition system – LollyVerify, which helps hospitality providers automate the process of verifying a customer’s age. LollyVerify will confirm the age of an individual who purchases a product that has been flagged as age-restricted (for example: alcohol), within the Lolly database. The system is built using an age estimation algorithm. The camera activates and reviews the age of the customer wishing to make the purchase. There is no picture taken, but instead, the software simply compares digital face markers to ascertain the age of the purchaser** and prompts the…
Skiddle has shown its support for Skateboard GB, the NGB which supports skateboarders to reach the Olympic Games, as it announces that they will be co-hosting Skateboard GB x Skiddle Virtual Skate Championship. The groundbreaking event will enable entries without barriers based on location, gender or wealth that may normally stop skilled Skateboarders from competing in a traditional Skating Tournament. Skateboard GB, the organisers of the event, hope that the championship drives more people to compete in skateboarding, as searches for the sport grew to the highest ever level last year, with searches for skateboard lessons increasing by 25% after…
SeatlabNFT, an event ticketing platform that aims to completely redefine the events industry, has announced its latest venture to showcase the capabilities of NFT ticketing to fans. Seatlab Sounds will see the NFT ticketing provider host seven different events across the UK, just as the new academic year kicks off, with headliners Clean Bandit, Hardy Caprio, R3WIRE, LF System, Shane Codd and Karen Harding touring UK campuses for a huge freshers event series. Each event will feature unique NFT collectables for fans attending as a demonstration of some of their platform’s revolutionary features. Tickets will be available to buy via the SeatlabNFT…
Like the very best of festivals, Nozstock was founded by a fun-loving family and their friends. Known as the ‘Hidden Valley’, the Nozstock festival has successfully retained its homely, welcoming feel, but the team has now woven it into a delightful amalgamation of performance, art, electronic super-sounds and good old-fashioned guitar-strumming and drum-bashing. Now an established family event, Nozstock claims to be ‘a sonic escape,’ boasting eleven stages of entertainment, including theatres, a kid’s zone and an array of hospitality areas. The 2022 festival, which saw 5000 festival goers, included acts from Sister Sledge, Bill Bailey and a host of…