Day 6
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.
The idea was to help participants get a better idea of such essential event organization aspect as finances and sponsorship. The practical task was a necessary experience to get the better understanding of how does financial and sponsorship systems work during cultural event organization, to learn how to get financial help for the desired event according to certain conditions, and to learn how to manage the budget of the cultural event in such conditions.
The next session of the day was a lecture from the local representative and activist of local youth organization with huge experience in working with Erasmus+ programs and other youth projects. Participants were presented to Erasmus+ youth mobility programs through lecture in the form of an active game, that helped them get better understanding of how most of youth exchange programs work and to find out how such programs could be practically helpful with event organization in their future.
The next session was a visit to the local art gallery Arsenal and a lecture with an art curator who has huge event organization experience. Participants could get necessary knowledge about the key elements of any cultural event, about the best ways of how to deliver the cultural product to the clients and customers, about the qualities necessary for a successful event manager, to develop creative vision that is a necessary quality of any event manager nowadays.
As always, the day ended with the session of sharing gained experiences and new expectations.
Pārējās lapas
Day 9
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.
Day 8
This day was fully dedicated to the final preparations for the final ESSENCE Concept project event — concert of the group BARAKA.
Day 7
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.
Day 5
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.
Day 4
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.
Day 3: starting to plan the real concert
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.
Day 2: The first work day
Erasmus+ project «ESSENCE: Eight Steps to a Successful and Entertaining Cultural Event» Day 2, or the first work day. The following activities happened today...
Day 1: Introduction
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!
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.
Gathering the participants
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!