White Light in partnership with the UKickstart Event 2020 adds a Live Performance Panel

Following the recent announcement of the

expansion of UKickstart Event 2020, the first UK-wide live and virtual

gathering of event professionals post-lockdown, it has once again extended its

programme to include a Live Performance panel discussion on kickstarting the

events industry. Not only will the panel discussion take place at one of White Light’s

managed venues, Illuminate at the Science Museum, but it will be chaired by its

Managing Director Bryan Raven.

 

 

 

 

 

The panel is called ‘Working in a

Post-Covid World – How to Kick-Start Live Performance’ and will take place on

Tuesday 8 September at 4.30pm. Alongside Bryan, industry experts speaking will

include Adam Blackwood, Founder and Creative Director of Private Drama; Jon

Drape, Director of Engine No 4; Clara Cullen, Venue Support Manager and

Nicholas Wells, Owner of Power Plan Services Ltd.

 

 

 

 

 

The

panel will discuss issues encountered due to the pandemic, covering small music

venues, theatres, indoors/outdoor venues and arenas, as well as the solutions

needed to overcome these. We are particularly excited to have Jon Drape,

Director of Engine No 4, on board who will be discussing the challenges and

lessons learnt from his recent experience working on the Virgin Money Unity

Arena Festival in Newcastle.

 

 

 

 

 

Bryan comments: “The Live Events industry

is on a cliff-edge, particularly as we approach October and the end of

Furlough. There are so many jobs and buildings at risk of simply collapsing

that we need to look at safe and practical ways in which we can kick start live

performance and work with our clients again; something which this discussion

will initiate”.

 

 

 

 

 

The panel discussion is part of the wider

UKickstart Event 2020, the first UK-wide live and virtual gathering of

event professionals post-lockdown. This free-to-attend nationwide multi-hub live and

virtual event takes place from 1-5:30pm on Thursday 8th September

and will bring together meeting and event leaders and professionals who want to

drive the UK to have the confidence to start meeting again. Participants will be able to attend in-person at one of

many UK venues located in major cities and towns such as London, Birmingham,

Manchester, Farnborough and Liverpool. Up to 30 socially distanced delegates

will be able to attend in person at each venue, in accordance with current

government guidelines. All the panel sessions will be streamed online as a

virtual experience for professionals who cannot participate in person.

 

 

 

 

 

Adam Simpson, leader of UKickstart and Director of Marketing of

etc.venues, said:

 

 

 

 

 

“We’ve had phenomenal interest for UKickstart; so much so that it

felt only right to extend the event programme and have an in-depth discussion

about live performance and how we can bring this back. As seen when we opened

registration, hundreds of event professionals immediately signed up to attend

mostly the live locations, which, for us, indicates that united desire to get

back to meeting in-person. The panel has the power to act as a catalyst to

kick-start this and we look forward to welcoming Bryan and all the other

speakers.”

 

 

 

 

 

UKickstart Event has been created and led

by etc.venues as well as backed by major industry bodies, such as BVEP, HBAA,

MIA, VisitBritain, ILEA, MPI, ABPCO, EMA, AEO, ESSA, EVCOM, AEV and the London

Convention Bureau.

 

 

 

 

 

Register here!

 

 

 

 

 

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