EventsUpdate SEPTEMBER 2017
editorial@nzea.co — New Zealand Events Association, C/- PO Box 24018, Auckland 1345 ISSN 1179-3678
NZ EVENT AWARDS FINALISTS — See page 3
OBSERVER PROGRAMME OPPORTUNITY — See page 4
WINTER FESTIVAL EXPECTED TO BECOME ANNUAL — See page 5
Votes close 3rd October Winner announced at the New Zealand Event Awards Gala Evening Buy tickets now
FROM THE CHAIR
Congratulations to all our finalists! We are delighted to have announced our Awards finalists for 2017. Our 2017 Judging panel have been amazingly dedicated, rising to the challenge of reviewing a large number of very high calibre entries this year. Each of our nine judges bring a vast wealth of experience with them, their collective knowledge adds a prestige to the New Zealand Event Award’s and their time, freely given is invaluable. I’d like to take this opportunity to again sincerely thank them. Our finalists in turn have pushed boundaries and set new benchmarks in dynamic
and innovative ways over the past year. Year on year we are seeing a sustained growth in terms of the level of awards applications which we are receiving, not only is that incredibly exciting but it also shows how strong the events industry is in New Zealand and the contribution it makes to the wider NZ Inc. We are delighted to be able to celebrate as an industry our successes and will be recognising their achievements at New Zealand Event Awards Gala Evening on the 11th of October. Last year’s evening was a sell out
and we strongly suggest if you haven’t purchased your ticket yet you do so, it will be the networking event of the year for our industry! Voting for New Zealand’s Favourite Event is open until October 3rd. Members of the public can cast their online vote for one of our amazing finalist events. Additionally, we encourage you to take the opportunity to learn and gain industry insights at our two preAwards activities in the afternoon on the 11th. • A pop-up Globe presentation to learn how to
bring new event ideas from concept to acclaim with Tobias Grant, the executive producer of the Pop-up Globe and his guest Dr Miles Gregory Artistic Director, Founder & CEO, Pop-up Globe. • Or a ‘behind the scenes’ NZICC Tour, the New Zealand International Convention Centre: from the building site viewing platform with an interactive floor plan. Both pre-event opportunities have limited availability so get in first by registering your interest at www.nzea.co/seminars Andy Scotland Chair, NZEA
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Tickets on Sale Now! 11 October, SKYCITY Congratulations to our 2017 finalists: Best Community Event of the Year Beach Series Hawke’s Bay Christmas at the Park KPOP Showdown Tutukaka Coast Winter Festival Waitangi Tuwharetoa Ki Pukawa Festival 2017 Best Regional Event of the Year Farmers Auckland Santa Parade 2016 Paradox: Tauranga Street Art Festival Pop-up Globe Auckland Vertical Pursuit 2017 2016 Wellington Jazz Festival Winetopia Best National Event of the Year Sponsored by New Zealand Major Events Air New Zealand Hawke’s Bay International Marathon Pinot Noir New Zealand 2017 Repco Beach Hop 17 WOMAD New Zealand 2017 Best International Event of the Year Sponsored by New Zealand Major Events 2016 Aon Youth Sailing World Championships Crankworx Rotorua 2016 Royal New Zealand Navy - 75th Anniversary - International Navy Review SingularityU New Zealand Summit 2017 World Shearing & Woolhandling Championships
Best Business Event of the Year Sponsored by Celebrity Speakers Better by Design, CEO Summit Champion Canterbury Business Awards Deloitte Top 200 Awards New Zealand International Business Awards Pinot Noir New Zealand 2017 PwC Herald Talks Best Industry Supplier for an Event Sponsored by Marsh Insurance Event Solutions NZ Ltd for Bidfood Shows 2017 La Lumiere for Christmas Lights, MOTAT Nights 2016 ILT Stadium Southland for World Shearing and Wool Handling Championships Best CSR or Community Event Sponsorship of the Year Farmers Auckland Santa Parade 2016 Flight Centre Foundation Halberg Watersports Programme Best Arts or Cultural Event Sponsorship of the Year Sponsored by Creative New Zealand Anthony Harper for Pop-up Globe ASB for Auckland Lantern Festival Tauranga City Council for Paradox Inside: The Oi YOU! Collection
Thanks to our category sponsors:
Best Sports Event Sponsorship of the Year ASB for ASB Auckland Marathon Barfoot & Thompson for World Masters Games 2017 Mons Royal for Crankworx Rotorua Emerging Event Professional of the Year Sponsored by Eventfinda Ashley Cassin, Hokitika Wildfoods Festival Cleo Wood, Taranaki Arts Festival Trust Dan Turner, Rhythm & Vines / Spark Arena / Laneways Festival NZ Tim Day, NZ Trail Runs Event Sponsorship Professional of the Year Kane Silcock, Fonterra Mike Wootton, ASB Mildie Meyer-Els, Barfoot & Thompson Naomie Lye, Cigna Plus, to be announced on the night: Event Professional of the Year Sponsored by H3 New Zealand’s Favourite Event of the Year Sponsored by Eventfinda
NZEA would like to acknowledge and thank our New Zealand Event Awards 2017 category sponsors: all New Zealanders through funding, capability building, our international programme and advocacy.
Sponsor of the Best National Event of the Year & Best International Event of the Year Awards The New Zealand Government works in partnership with the events sector to support New Zealand’s growing reputation as an attractive destination for major events of global significance.
Sponsor of the Best Arts or Cultural Sponsorship of the Year Award Creative New Zealand encourages, promotes and supports the arts in New Zealand for the benefit of
industry-specific solutions that help them to effectively manage risk. Marsh is proud of its Official Supplier partnership with NZEA and look forward to building a working relationship with its members. Sponsor of the Best Business Event of the Year Award
Sponsor of the Event Professional of the Year Award H3 live and breathe events - whether for sharing of ideas and knowledge, or for pure entertainment. They bring together the very best venues in Hamilton combined with experienced and passionate staff to provide unrivalled service for their clients.
Sponsor of the Best Industry Supplier for an Event Award Marsh, a global leader in insurance broking and risk management, assists clients to succeed by defining, designing, and delivering innovative
Sponsor of the Emerging Event Professional of the Year Award & host of the New Zealand’s Favourite Event of the Year poll Eventfinda is New Zealand’s largest and most comprehensive event and live entertainment marketing platform, providing event promoters with fast, easy and secure ticketing services built on a trusted national marketing platform. One million Kiwis rely on Eventfinda every month to see what’s on, get accurate details and buy tickets for events of all types and sizes all across New Zealand.
Celebrity Speakers is New Zealand’s foremost professional speakers and entertainment agency, specialising in the provision of high-profile motivational, inspirational and business speakers, personalities, trainers, celebrities, entertainers and team building activities. Connecting you with their global network of exclusively managed speakers – Celebrity Speakers handle every little detail and are with you every step of the way.
Calling Maori event management students and professionals SOURCE: ATEED Release, 18 September 2017 The organisers of Auckland’s Tamaki Herenga Waka Festival want to hear from people keen to get a behind the scenes view of the annual cultural festival. The festival is delivered by Auckland Tourism, Events & Economic Development (ATEED), on behalf of Auckland Council, in partnership with mana whenua of Tamaki Makaurau. This free and family-friendly festival showcases the unique Maori history, heritage and contemporary culture of Tamaki Makaurau. ATEED’s tailored observer programme provides an opportunity for Maori future event organisers, event
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management students and event professionals to see behind the scenes during the delivery of a major cultural festival – and keen applicants are now being sought. The third annual festival takes place at the Viaduct Events Centre and Viaduct Harbour on Auckland Anniversary Weekend (27 – 29 January 2018), with the one-day observer programme happening on Saturday, 27 January. Successful applicants will meet and talk with the festival production team, and attend a live brief in the on-site operations centre (OSOC), where all the key event staff meet to discuss the status of the event, any immediate issues and how to solve them.
They will go backstage to the ‘green room’, watch the stage manager in action and chat with the back of house coordinator; meet the stalls manager to get an overview of the importance of stall operating conditions and food safety; and get an insight into the event kaupapa. ATEED’s major events observer and intern programmes helps to meet an Auckland Major Events Strategy objective to build capability in the local events industry. People interested in taking part should email tamakifest@aucklandnz. com, and tell the team about themselves, their whakapapa, studies or work, and how taking part in the observer
Tamaki Herenga Waka Festival CREDIT: ATEED programme would benefit them. Taking part is free of charge, but participants are responsible for their own travel to and parking at the festival and any accommodation, if required. Applications close at 5pm on Tuesday, 31 October and applicants will be notified by Friday, 1 December. For more information about the festival, go to aucklandnz. com/tamaki-herenga-wakafestival
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Queenstown Winter Games expected to become annual after reaching record heights in 2017 SOURCE: Stuff.co.nz, 8 September 2017 Winter Games NZ organisers are confident they have pleased key sponsor Audi Quattro enough at this year’s event to get the nod to become annual, rather than remain in its biennial status. Winter Games NZ chief executive Arthur Klap said this year’s event had brought in a record number of 930 athletes from 39 countries and a high number of spectators to the sports over the past 17 days. “We have to wait four to five weeks for a series of reports on numbers, but every indication is it has been a record event in most respects.” Klap said after receiving confirmation the government would fund the event $1million per year for the next four years, there was only one sponsor they needed to convince to stick with the event before they could confirm going annual. The sponsorship deal with Audi Quattro runs out in November this year, which means they would need to secure the German car maker’s deal again.
“The status of the games is now extremely high. In its fifth year now, so we are slowly building on what we have, and it’s getting bigger. “We are very confident sponsors are likely to stay on, I am very optimistic on the games becoming annual.” If it does, the Winter Games will take place in the same two-week period at the end of August 2018. Klap said the timing worked well this year as they had the best snow the games had seen over the five times it has been held in Queenstown. Klap said one of the biggest differences of the games this year was the noticeable increase in interest from international media, and admitted this would have had a lot to do with the Winter Olympic Games beginning next year in PyeongChang. “The coverage and content on social media is considerably up on previous years, there has been lots of interest, much higher than previous years.” While all events at the games were held successfully, barring two days of bad weather, games organisers will again revisit the schedule and look to add or take away
Yuto Totsuka of Japan competes during the Winter Games NZ FIS Men’s Snowboard World Cup Halfpipe Finals at Cardrona Alpine Resort. CREDIT: Hannah Peters/ Getty Images events as they please. The 2013 games recorded around the same athlete numbers as this year, however more sports were involved and Klap said entries in these sports was a major upsurge on the 2015 entries. The biggest reason for the upturn in numbers and calibre was the fact the athletes were looking to qualify for the Olympics, the X Games and the Freeride World Tour events. Klap said partners such as the FIS and the Freeride World Tour world cups are pushing for the event to be annual and have ensured their athletes would take part. The Winter Games NZ is often treated by
international athletes as a training ground before their international season begins in the US and Europe. Unlike previous games, this year events were held across seven venues - Snowfarm, Treble Cone, Naseby, Coronet Peak, Remarkables, Cardrona and the Queenstown Ice Arena. The closing ceremony would be held a day early up Cardrona Ski Field as a dose of bad weather was predicted for Saturday. Therefore the only events to run on Saturday would be the Cross Country skiing up Snow Farm in Cardona Valley and also the third and final ice hockey test at the Queenstown Ice Arena
Auckland business events booming SOURCE: Meeting Newz Magazine, 12 September 2017 The economic value of events won by Auckland Convention Bureau (ACB), in conjunction with ACB members and industry partners, is valued at $46 million in the year ending July 2017, according to new
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figures released by Auckland Tourism, Events & Economic Development (ATEED) this month. ACB, a division within ATEED’s destination business unit, has won 58 business events through its activity over the last financial year.
This has resulted in the region hosting more than 28,000 international and domestic delegates between June 2016 and July 2017, who stayed a total of 124,365 visitor nights.
CREDIT: Meeting Newz Magazine
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AIMS Games ‘extremely successful’ SOURCE: Excerpt from Bay of Plenty Times, 18 September 2017
they did not add any new codes and some of the existing codes were at capacity.
The organisers of the Anchor AIMS Games will meet in the coming weeks to look at how to move the event forward and manage its rapidly growing size.
Other sports were and still are itching to get involved. “I’ve got a lot of codes that have put in applications to be introduced to the AIMS Games.”
This year was the largest AIMS Games so far, with more than 10,000 athletes from about 300 schools competing in Tauranga last week. Tournament director Vicki Semple said organisers never went out intending to make the event bigger, but each year that was exactly what happened. “We always debrief and then look at ways we can enhance the games and make them better...but not necessarily bigger.”
She said she and the other trustees would always look at quality over quantity when discussing and planning the next year’s event. Ms Semple said the number of spectators was also growing and she thought the city coped extremely well with the accommodation demand this year. “We got creative and I think we really did well to handle that increase.
Ms Semple said this year, apart from introducing para-athletes,
“We were absolutely delighted with how the week went and how the community got behind
This year was the largest AIMS Games so far, with more than 10,000 athletes from around 300 schools competing. CREDIT: John Borren. the event to make it such a success.” She said a lot of teams had already re-booked for 2018. Tauranga Mayor Greg Brownless said the event was “extremely successful”.
“It’s definitely one of the biggest things that the city hosts. I reckon it would have to be the fullest week of the year, just judging by the fact that...the accommodation seems to be booked out, the roads are busy, there’s a certain buzz in the air.”
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Coming this Labour Weekend in October, HighLight will transform Riddiford Garden in central Lower Hutt into a wonderland of brilliant light installations and live performances. volunteernet.org.nz/event/highlight-carnival-lights-0
ITM Auckland SuperSprint, 3 – 5 November 217 Pukekohe Park Raceway, Auckland Want to be part of New Zealand’s biggest motorsport event? Applications are now open for event volunteers to assist patrons at the venue. volunteernet.org.nz/event/itm-aucklandsupersprint
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Now in its third year, FEED4ALL 2017 is the annual event held in the Auckland CBD that offers volunteers an opportunity to participate in this grassroots arts charity while we create and distribute food parcels with customised inspirational messages for those less fortunate than us.
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Arrowtown’s Night lighting plan for evening events SOURCE: Otago Daily Times, 14 September 2017
to enable evening events and specialist lighting.
More than 20 years after discussions first started, Arrowtown is about to be lit up, possibly paving the way for night-time events, such as a lantern festival.
Some of the buildings to be illuminated were Arrowtown’s pharmacy, The Post Office, the New Orleans Hotel, Coachman’s Hall, and the Athenaeum Hall.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council’s infrastructure committee recently adopted the village’s concept lighting design master plan, providing for ‘’appropriate and consistent’’ lighting in Arrowtown’s heritage zones.
New lighting would be discreet and, where possible, concealed from view.
Policy, Standards and Asset planner Polly Lambert said in her report the plan had been developed by lighting and technology designers Toulouse Group, in collaboration with the Arrowtown Promotion and Business Association, the Arrowtown Trust, heritage groups including the Lakes District Museum and residents groups, including the Arrowtown Village Association. It was focused on Buckingham St and featured lighting of specific heritage buildings, including the council-owned Miner’s Cottages, but also had an aspect of future-proofing
‘’It is our intention that these heritage buildings become the jewels in the crown and are distinguished by retaining their original character.’’ It also proposed lamp-style street lighting, appropriate for an ‘’early rural mining town’’ along the main street.
An artist’s impression shows what Arrowtown’s historic Miner’s Cottages might look like in the future after the Queenstown Lakes District Council’s property and infrastructure committee voted to adopt the Arrowtown lighting master plan. CREDIT: Otago Daily Times
The master plan also proposed up-lighting of the historic Miner’s Cottages,
a night market or even a lantern festival.’’
and lighting of selected trees and features, including bronze sculptures on Marshal Park, and a water wheel outside the Lakes District Museum. ‘’With a new lighting design, we hope there will be increased evening visitors which may open the door to more nighttime events taking place, like music events, outdoor dinners,
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One example was the annual Festival of Light held in New Plymouth in December and January, which attracted more than 100,000 visitors each year. ‘’This type of event could be run annually in Arrowtown on a smaller scale to increase tourist visitor numbers and for locals to revisit.’’ A total of $84,000 had been set
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aside - $27,000 in the 2016-17 annual plan, which was used to upgrade lighting for the Miner’s Cottages, a light and a pole on the library corner. Another $57,000 has been committed in the 2017-18 annual plan, pegged for the upgrading of lighting on council properties, sculptures, four trees, Buckingham Green and three street lights on Buckingham St.
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