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.
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