The programme for the Festival Vision:2025 meeting at the Festival Supplier Awards on January 26th at The Hurlingham Club is now out. 40 Vision Festivals will meet to shape the 10-year initiative, share experiences, discuss opportunities, take part in professional skills workshops to help in their onward journey towards sustainability and join the Festival Supplier Awards evening dinner and award ceremony free as a further chance to network with other Vision festivals. Full programme details below:
Festival Vision:2025 Meeting
Shaping the Future
26th January, 14:00 – 17:30
followed by drinks and awards at The Festival Supplier Awards, 19:00 – 02:00
Venue: The Hurlingham Club, Ranelagh Gardens
London, SW6 3PR
Programme
14:00 Arrivals & welcome
14:30 Setting the scene — Alison Tickell (Founder & CEO Julie’s Bicycle): The value of festivals and the arts in cultural leadership and climate change.
14:40 Festivals stepping up — Chris Johnson (Co-founder Shambala Festival & Chair of Powerful Thinking)
- Festival Vision:2025 project update — 56 festivals and counting
- Industry Green Survey 2016 — The results
- A changing industry — Defining the direction
15:00 Richard Gillies (Festival On the Wall, former Head of CSR for M&S): Supply chain change in a public facing industry — comparing notes from the corporate sector.
15:30 What’s possible? Case studies of successful practices and initiatives:
- How much can I save on energy? – Rob Scully (ZAP Concepts)
- Deposit systems – Victoria Chapman (Festival Republic)
- Tools for measuring impacts – Laura Pando (Julie’s Bicycle)
16:00 Tea & coffee break – Challenge & opportunity to share: meet 3 people you don’t know and find out something about what they are dong to make their event sustainable…
16:20 Data = knowledge – Quick-fire sessions (4 sessions of 10 minutes)
- How to monitor energy effectively (ZAP Concepts)
- Managing data and using the IG Tool (Julie’s Bicycle)
- Measuring travel (Lansdowne Associates)
- Getting the real story from you waste data (Kambe Events)
17:00 Shaping the future: Festival Vision:2025 — What do we want to achieve and how will we do it?
17:30 END
Festival Supplier Evening Dinner and Awards
Dress Code: Black Tie
19:00 Drinks reception
20:00 Dinner
21:30 Awards
02:00 End
Practical Information:
Advance queries: bethan@powerful-thinking.org.uk / 07841558445
Entry to the evening dinner & awards is by guest list – i.e. no ticket required.
Travel:
Nearest tube station – Putney Bridge
Map to venue: www.hurlinghamclub.org.uk/map-directions/
Hotel Suggestions:
Premier Inn – London Putney Bridge – 10 minutes walk form venue with rooms from £58 http://www.premierinn.com
The Lodge Hotel – Putney Bridge – about 10 minute taxi with rooms at around £120 http://www.thelodgehotellondon.com
Contact bethan@powerful-thinking.org.uk for ticket details.