Allow yourself the time and space to reflect on your events, explore new possibilities, and create unforgettable experiences for your audience.
Friday 4 October 2024 10 AM - 5 PM
Society of Dyers & Colourists, Perkin House, 82 Grattan Rd, Bradford BD1 2LU
Join us for a one-day workshop to breathe new life into your events with fresh ideas and an injection of creativity to make them unforgettable.
Our host and Bradford artist, Linda Hollingshead, has over 25 years of experience hosting courses, workshops and artist residentials and delivering award-winning arts and culture experiences across the UK and Europe.
Our Creating Memorable Events workshop will guide you through your event plans with fresh eyes and inspire you to identify the areas to refine and pinpoint the moments you can make a real impact.
About the workshop
The day will involve a combination of presentations, case studies, imagining and reflection sessions, group discussions and idea exploration to identify elements that make an event memorable and techniques to keep your audiences engaged and entertained.
Event Schedule
10.00 AM: Welcome with refreshments and introduction
10.30 AM: The Dream Experience
Presentation with case studies to inspire a visualisation activity to encourage you to think big and ambitiously about your events and imagine the dream experience you can give your audiences.
11.15 AM: Making an Entrance
A combination of journal reflections and group work to explore not just the logistical elements you can refine in your event plans, but the creative ideas you can introduce to make a mega first impression that will set the tone for the rest of your event.
12.30 PM: Lunch
A vegetarian lunch will be served
1.15 PM: Engaging Your Audiences
In this session, we’ll explore ways to weave your or your organisation’s personality into your events, elements you can add that make them unique to you, and use storytelling for connection and impact.
2.30 PM: What about You?
Events are hard work in both planning and delivery. In this session, we’ll reflect on ways we can weave self-care into the planning process and identify the moments you can include on delivery day to ensure you feel not just confident, calm and in control during your event, but to be present and enjoy it too.
3.00 PM: Tick all the Boxes
We’ll close the day by consulting a collaborative checklist that outlines the fundamental things you need to consider and have in place for a successful event, including the essentials that newcomers to event planning or those scaling up often overlook.
3.30 PM: Q&A and Closing Remarks
4.15 PM – 5 PM: Networking
Who the workshop is for
This workshop is for artists, creatives and facilitators delivering events in the Bradford district. You must be actively planning events and able to come equipped with an event plan for an upcoming event, or an event that you delivered recently that you can reflect upon during the practical elements of the workshop. Both creative freelancers and those employed by organisations delivering arts and culture events are welcome to attend this workshop.
This workshop is suitable for people planning events at any scale – whether it’s a workshop for 6 people or a festival for 1000s of people! Arts and culture events of all kinds are relevant for this workshop and include, but are not limited to performance, theatre, music, dance, choirs, exhibitions, scratch nights, workshops and classes, festivals, conferences, tours and fairs.
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Meet the host
Linda Hollingshead
Linda Hollingshead is a dedicated and inspiring international visual artist with a passion for empowering creative expression for wellbeing. With over 25 years of experience as an art sector business owner, community arts leader, and mentor, Linda has made significant contributions to the arts. She leads courses, workshops and residential programmes, delivering high-quality art education as an art tutor and skills trainer. Through her ‘Paint & Let Your Heart Sing’ and ‘Brushstrokes for Business’ programmes, Linda has supported thousands of creatives.
Linda’s artistic practice specialises in site-specific artwork, focusing on the concept of ‘Blue Space’ in the environment and its benefits. She captures the energy of water by painting on location under wide-open skies.
Her extensive experience includes roles as an Arts, Culture, and Heritage host throughout the UK and Europe for a leading worldwide tour company, corporate trainer for the art materials industry, and workshop facilitator. Recognised for her engaging art history tours and lectures, Linda enhances cultural understanding and appreciation through experiences. Her work has received excellent reviews and awards, reflecting her commitment to fostering creativity and cultural appreciation.
FAQs
Yes, we can provide a bursary of up to £75 for this one-day training workshop. Once you have booked a place, please apply for a bursary using our Bursary & Access Fund Request Form where you can also request funding for any access needs you might have.
To allow us to support as many artists as possible, please only request financial support if it’s something you need to enable you to participate in the training.
Yes, we can contribute to any access costs you might face while attending this workshop. Once you have booked a place, please apply access funds using our Bursary & Access Fund Request Form.
Access funds can cover things like travel, childcare or other caring costs, BSL or other language or interpretation support, access workers or any other access support you might need.
To allow us to support as many artists as possible, please only request financial support if it’s something you need to enable you to participate in the training.
Yes, the main door to Kala Sangam’s temporary space is accessed via a ramp and there is a lift to access all floors. You can read more on how to get to Kala Sangam at kalasangam.org/about-us/getting-here
We think this workshop is best for people actively planning events, or who have recently delivered an event and are likely to run a similar event in the future. This workshop is interactive, and participants will gain the most from the day if they have an active event plan that they can reflect on and enhance.
