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Festivals Training 2024 - March 6th, 13th & 20th 2024

Venue:
Online
 
Date:
20/03/2024
 
Note:
Wednesday 6th, 13th and 20th of March 2024
 
Time:
7:00p.m. - 9:00p.m. each night
 
Category:
Workshop
 

These 3 short 2 hr workshops will help to equip Festival Committees with the knowledge and information required to run a successful Festival in 2024 which in turn will have a positive economic impact on the local area.

This event is no longer available
 

Festivals Training 2024:  Content Overview

Session

Content

  1. Festival organisation, management and finance

Festival structure

Governance

Future proofing

Resources/volunteers

Funding

Budgeting

Sponsorship

Pricing

Insurance

No 2: Programming and festival delivery

Scheduling events

Logistics

Fringe events

Artist/performer liaison

Innovation

Inclusiveness

Alignment with IHH and WAW

Digital/Virtual programme

Greening your festival

Health & Safety

Risk management

Child protection

No 3: Festival marketing and promotion

Online, offline promotion on: Festival’s own platforms, Other domestic platforms, International platforms

Collaboration with other tourism providers

Understanding your audience: motivations, trends, audience research, data gathering, privacy statements, GDPR

Post festival insights for future years

 All sessions to include a mix of:

  • Presentations by Bernadette Mullarkey from Bane Mullarkey Ltd
  • Breakout rooms (2 per session) where participants will be given a task specific to one or more festivals within the breakout room, relevant to the content presented.  The idea is to get them thinking about and working on practical actions that they can implement immediately after the training
  • Opportunities for Q&A throughout
  • Follow-up support documentation with templates that will enable them to implement learnings
  • Overview of upcoming sessions
 

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