Publicity, PR and event management

From 1995 until 2000 I took on a number of event management and publicist roles. My first role was organising and publicising a show called World Without Strangers for our world music ensemble, Many Hands. The success of this show prompted the Fringe Festival's organiser Malcolm Turner to invite us to create and organise a series of events to mark the opening of the Festival. I was in charge of event management and publicity for these events. Through the dance party I organised for our second Fringe Festival I met The Gathering crew - and went on to become their publicist and one of their main organisers for the next four years.

As with all event management and publicity work there was a considerable amount of writing involved - including producing publicity packs, press kits, and press releases for the media, writing grant applications and resource consent applications, and (for The Gathering) writing a comprehensive booklet which was given away with every ticket sold. Much of this material was also put online on The Gathering website.

I've written case studies for each of these events (listed in chronological order so that you can follow the progression of my work):

• World Without Strangers
• ONE
• Omnivore
• The Gathering 97/98
• The Gathering 98/99
• The Gathering 2000
• The Gathering 2001