The first session of the day was a meeting with the organizers of the local cultural event festival Give & Get. Meeting was held outside of LAMPA space and in more informal atmosphere. During this session participants could get the inside information about large scale event organization. As the festival is not a commercial event, participants were able to find out about how to attract volunteers to work at the festival, to get practical experiences that are connected with social and cultural event organization. Also this was another possibility to exchange contacts and experience with local experienced representatives working in the field of cultural event organization.
One of the most interesting and positive experiences for the whole group was the next activity of the day — a walking tour around Old Riga.
This was one of the best possibilities for the participants to explore Riga, the city that hosts the event, to see the most famous landmarks and monuments in the old part of the town, to find out about its cultural heritage through most interesting sightseeing, to get some rest from work in the project, to spend a day with other participants in informal, relaxed atmosphere, to get deeper emotional connections with other project participants.
The dinner in the most famous restaurant of the national cuisine in Riga — LIDO — was continuation of informal Friday afternoon, that helped not only to get familiar with the local cuisine, but also to continue participants companionship and to create better connections between representatives of different countries and cultures.
The day finished with the usual sharing of participants thoughts about past activities, about gained experience, about future expectations.
The morning session was fully dedicated to the discussion about the project and the concert. During this session participants shared their thoughts and experience and their future visions about the possible projects that may have been born during the 9 days of the project.
This day was fully dedicated to the final preparations for the final ESSENCE Concept project event — concert of the group BARAKA.
During the morning session the project participants were working in the teams as usual in order to deal with technical issues that are arising during any cultural event organisation and before the ESSENCE Concept concert.
During the first session of the day participants had a short introduction about the financial part of cultural event organization. After that they got a practical task of developing a financial strategy for some nominal event.
At the first session of the day, participants have received vital information about press releases, presented by the course trainer Sergey Bremer who as a journalist himself has a huge experience in this field.
After tuning to the informal wave, participants have introduced others to their vision of cultural events in their home countries and were talking about local event organization specifics.
Erasmus+ project «ESSENCE: Eight Steps to a Successful and Entertaining Cultural Event» Day 2, or the first work day. The following activities happened today...
And so the Erasmus+ project called ESSENCE begins!
The participants have arrived, we got them from all over Europe. The introduction evening continued with warm music and cookies.
Good news! Our ESSENCE project — «Eight Steps to a Successful and Entertaining Cultural Event» — was accepted in the European Union education, youth and sports program Erasmus+. The project ID is 2015-1-LV02-KA105-000710.
Big thanks to our partners, most of them did an excellent job. We had a huge number of candidates, one country sent more than 250 applications!