Festival Event Management

Understanding the festival market and the key factors to consider when planning an event.

• The history of festivals and the different types of festival now
• The skills needed to manage mass participation events
• How to create robust sales and marketing strategies
• The key permissions, licenses and health and safety requirements
• Different types of entertainment and attraction to festivals
• Headline Acts, Weather, Children and access, staff and volunteers

Running your event involves keeping control of many moving parts, we discuss the key elements to ensure success

• Queues, pinch points, flow of traffic and users
• How to manage traffic and create good eventflows/signage
• How to deal with congestion and get the most from emergency services, site security
• Onsite structures, the dos and donts
• How to make the most of your venue and which ones to avoid
• How to set up and how to break down
• How to make the most off final briefings and walk throughs…