This Thursday and Friday will see the who’s who of Irish event and festival organisers gathering at the Carlton Shearwater hotel in Ballinasloe for the AOIFE annual conference. As the name suggests, ‘Gathering For The Business Of Fun 2012′ will focus on the vast range of opportunities which await festival and event organisers as part of The Gathering 2013.

Delegates will learn how to get their share of the €2 Million IPB Gathering Fund with talks from Michelle Staunton, director of partnership with The Gathering, and Minister for Tourism & Sport, Mr. Michael Ring.  Other speakers include Fionnula Parnell, Head of Visitor Services with the Office of Public Works, James Mc Veigh, Head of Marketing & Innovation, Festivals Edinburgh & John Drummey, Communications Director for the Rose of Tralee International Festival.

The traditional themes of event sponsorship, festival partnership and event planning will be covered in main presentations, while the increasingly important topics of social media and app development for festival and event organisers will covered in themed streams on both days.  Clinics are also available with experts in the areas of tax, street performance programming, health and safety and volunteering.

Attendees and interested parties can follow the conference on Thursday and Friday using the twitter hashtag #bizfun and further details are available at Business Of Fun.

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We recently produced this conference backdrop display for the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation’s AGM. Check out the wide variety of exhibition and conference backdrops we have available on our webiste or contact us.

Conference Exhibition Backdrop Display Stand

Conference Exhibition Backdrop for INMO

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Referendum Commission Lisbon Press Conference Backdrop

We were delighted provide a Press Conference Backdrop for the Referendum Commission’s Lisbon ’09 Campaign Launch which took place in Dublin yesterday.  The indpendent watchdog body set out assurances that ammendments added to the treaty regarding tax, abortion and defence matters were, in fact, legally binding.  This launch coincided with Fine Gael’s Lisbon Campaign Launch and the news that public support for the treaty has drop by 8% since May this year.  The referendum will be held on October 2nd. Futher information on the Treaty is available here and here.

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Third in my ‘Flashback’ series  of  job images uncovered from various nooks and crannies in my colleagues PCs and memory cards – some nice images of graphic displays produced for use as conferences backdrops and TV sets…

Toyota Rugby Pop Up Conference Backdrop

Rumble Films Rock Profiles Pop Up Graphic Backdrop

Deloitte Pop Up Conference Backdrops & Screens

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Many issues were discussed at the 2009 INTO Annual Congress last Tuesday in Letterkenny, including the issue of renting pre-fabs for school buildings and the possibility of a day of action in the next few months. There was no love lost between delegates and the Minister for Education, Batt O’Keeffe, and an estimated 30 delegates walked out of the congress to show their distaste for recent cuts in the education sector. Above is an image of the stand we produced for this ‘eventful’ event.

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