Welcome to another week and we are finally hoping
that Spring has arrived!
Busy as we’ve been, we have, along with the rest of
the population we are sure, been getting thoroughly fed up with the bloomin’
awful weather in Blighty this year to date.
Luckily most of our events take place indoors so
the weather is rarely an issue and despite previous experiences where snow has
prevented some guests from attending anything we have staged, we have never had
to cancel an event due to adverse weather.
This got us thinking though about all of the cancelled
events last year which must have been terribly disappointing for everyone
involved, especially those that organised them, as we know first hand just how
much work goes into delivering events.
Persistent rain caused one of the largest
countryside events in the world to be cancelled last year. The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) Game Fair was expected to attract
about 150,000 people to Belvoir Castle last July.
The event is held at different locations each year
and had only been cancelled once before in its 54-year history. Organisers said
it would be impossible to set the show up because thousands of vehicle
movements were still required and the grounds were water logged.
About 900 businesses had booked space and the fair
is so popular that no hotel rooms were available in a 40-mile radius, so it was
estimated that the local economy could lose out by as much as £32m.
Organisers also called off an outdoor concert which
was due to stage performances by Jason Donovan, Kylie Minogue and Steps last
July.
The ongoing poor weather meant the Hit Factory Live
had to be cancelled before the event which was due to take place in Hyde Park, and promoters spent hours trying to get the site
into a fit state for the show after the ground was churned up by heavy rainfall
and visitors to a previous event, the Wireless concerts.
But they pulled the plug after their efforts failed
to get the royal park into shape and the site was declared "unfit". The
concert was celebrating the music of Pete Waterman and was due to reunite
Minogue and Donovan, performing their chart-topping hit Especially For You.
Even the hardiest of souls who are happy to brave
the weather under canvass sometimes come unstuck!
The Camping and
Caravanning Club also had to cancel its annual national camping rally, National
Feast of Lanterns due to the weather last year too.
The continued rainfall waterlogged the temporary
campsite at Long Newton Grange in Stockton on Tees and made it
inaccessible to vehicles and almost impossible for any of the infrastructure
needed to create the campsite and its entertainment facilities.
Hundreds of campers from across the country had
pre-booked a pitch and the National
Feast of Lanterns had been running for many years so it was such a shame it was
unable to celebrate in 2012 due to the awful weather.
Of course, the weather is not always the only reason for cancelling an event.
Glastonbury
2012 was cancelled due to a lack of Portaloos and police officers down to the
London Olympics.
Michael Eavis, the festival organiser, said there
would be a severe shortage of portable toilets as the capital drains the nation
of officers, forcing prices for the remaining few far higher than normal. He
also said Avon and Somerset Police warned him that not a single
officer would be available to oversee the event due to the Games.
Lets hope the weather stays better this year so
everyone can enjoy their events and event organisers can deliver their events
safe in the knowledge that rain will not affect play!
Also this week, we’re on the look out for budding
writers for the New Yorker Times.
The New Yorker Times is a dynamic and sociable news
media network. The New Yorker Times offers its members and readers a
comprehensive social network along with an Artist’s Review experience unlike anything
ever offered on the internet. Artists such as musicians, singers, dancers,
actors, painters, models, designers, authors, writers and many others, now have
the opportunity to participate in the creation of a collaborative movement that
seeks to highlight up-and-coming artistic talent.
The New Yorker Times is a platform designed to
enhance the reach of the artist on a worldwide scale, while also providing
breaking news and information important to members of the entertainment
industry. Although the primary focus is on all members of the creative arts
community, the founders of the New Yorker Times will initially emphasise
up-and-coming writers capable of producing content in the following areas:
Fiction, Non-fiction, Novels, Investigative
journalism, Personal essays, Autobiographical essays, Critique of a published
source, Historical times context essays, Science articles or reports, Business
articles or reports, Ghost stories, Myths, Tall tales, Fairy tales, Local news
reports, Newspapers or magazine features, Human interest stories, Obituaries, Eulogies,
Tributes, Gossip articles, Articles covering entertainment and/or the Tech
industry.
They are looking to recruit 10,000 creme de la
creme of writers to set-up their groups, and promote their own books or
articles. A couple of models have already been set up by the founding VIP
members on site to give you a rough idea. It's relatively simple to set a group
up just click onto groups at the top of your screen, and, then create and
follow the instructions. Also follow, and befriend, and, then invite as many
VIP founding members to your group as you can by clicking onto members at the
top of your page, and then invite them to your group.
They
advertise via 500 newspapers across the USA but are looking to
go global and you could be a part of the story.
So
that’s it for this week.
Enjoy
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