Welcome to another week and it's busy as ever with events for both 2013 and 2014 all looming!
In addition to the nominations for the inaugural Bristol Media Awards which will be announced this Friday 16 August, sourcing numerous venues for events and squeezing in the Freshtival activities, we also have a rather unusual event this week via our friends at m360 who have been working incredibly hard over the last six months on the Nottingham Re-signalling Project.
The project, which
means 6 weeks of essential works at Nottingham station which started on 20 July and includes limited train services out of the station, presented a huge
communications challenge for the agency.
Months of planning and stakeholder management culminated in a
comprehensive communications plan, including staff and customer
communications both prior to and during the works, detailed station
signage, promotional goods to enhance the travel experience and
informative literature.
You may have seen Shirley, she's the face of 'We're helping you to
stay on the move' - the Nottingham Re-signalling campaign. Shirley can
be spotted around Nottingham station throughout August.
We're pleased to be helping m360 on this project and you can find out more about the event by following Shirley this next week and look forward to an exciting event this next Friday at Station Street in Nottingham.
Singing and Dancing, lets just hope the sun shines!
In other news this week, as we continue our search for weird and wonderful venues for clients both in the UK and Abroad, we couldn't let this week pass without a mention for a new hotel which is surely a must for any Star Wars fans.
Located in Matmata, southern Tunisia, ‘Hotel Sidi Driss’ will be an interesting holiday destination for geeky fans of George Lucas' Star Wars. The hotel was actually used for filming in the sci-fi franchise’s Episode IV: A New Hope and Episode II: Attack of the Clones—and was featured as young Luke Skywalker’s childhood home on planet Tatooine.
According to travel website GoNOMAD, the subterranean place is carved into the cliffs and is “cool, gloomy and unearthly quiet”. There’s not much to do around the area, and HiConsumption notes that it lacks “modern luxury amenities”—it would, however, make for an unusual experience. A night’s stay at this simple and unelaborate underground hotel costs only US$10, with breakfast included. We're not sure we would book anyone in here, but for real fans, it's a bargain!
It might only be August, but we are already late in trying to source some venues for Christmas events so it seems timely to take a look at some of the trends for Christmas 2013 in case you need a little inspiration for the festive season ahead. And in the words of Kenny Craig (from Little Britain) look into my eyes.....!
The growing trend over the past couple of years seems to suggest that
psychological mind reading is what people are really enjoying and it is
one of the more affordable forms of entertainment.
Essentially, a psychological mind reader doesn’t commune with the
dead, predict the future or have anything to do with the paranormal.
What they do is create the illusion that they can read minds by using as
selection of psychology, soft sciences, analysis and a few other
things. It doesn’t sound too exciting, but that’s until you see it in
action.
Thoughts, words, images can all be pulled from the minds of your
guests with a glance or a stare from the mind reader. The mind reader
may even be able to make your guests forget things, and influence their
choices.
Due to the nature of psychological mind reading it can be performed
in large venues as a stage show, around the tables during a seated event
or even mix and mingle where the venue may be smaller, or guests are
standing.
The past few years have been manic, in a good way, for the industry
as most professional mind readers have been fully booked from
mid-November right through to Christmas day so if you want to grab some of
this great entertainment, make sure you book early.
We end this week a little ironically as just as we were completing our blog and preparing to end with some other news we received an email, one of many, on a rather unusual set of training courses!
We are big believers in training courses here at Cloud 9 Towers and staying up to date with new trends, ideas and technology but we must admit to being slightly sceptical about the latest leadership courses that advertise that you can learn Self Hypnosis in a day.
Self -hypnosis is a
form of concentration and relaxation. It is increasingly becoming a tool used by
senior executives from all professions as an aid to leadership promotion and
development. Once the skills of self-hypnosis are acquired, they can be used to
manage change, reach goals and increase productivity. Senior Executives,
Managers and Directors learn self-hypnosis in order to make better decisions and
improve productivity for themselves and their organisations.
Workshops provide
underpinning knowledge and skills acquisition necessary in the use of hypnosis
for relaxation, stress management and Goal attainment.
Using the teachings
of Elman, Boyne and Copeland, highly qualified and experienced facilitator can guide a group to achieve skills acquisition of
self-hypnosis and one day workshop will be of
special interest to all professionals and those with a training, mentoring,
supervision or consultation remit.
We have a terrible feeling despite the merits of the course, that we would end up pretending to be a chicken and trying to lay an egg on stage....so maybe more traditional courses are better for us!
Anyway, things to do, places to go and people to see, so have a great week!
Enjoy....
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