Event Production in Practice...

There are so many things I’m desperate to write about but finding the time to sit down and type away is proving to be a struggle so far this year with work and assignments piling up. However, 2nd year at University is already proving to be 10x better than last year. I feel this is because I’m now much more settled, so used to everything now and I know a little more about what to expect.

I wanted to write about what I’m currently getting up to on one of my courses at Uni – Event Production in Practice.

Last year I was a little disapointed about how there was no practical element to the course, there was a lot of reading and not enough ‘doing’. Now this year we’re still learning our theory in an Event Operations course but alongside this we’re applying everything we’ve learnt to our own event projects.

In our Event Production in Practice course we’ve been spilt up in our seminars into smaller groups to put together an event of our choice to raise money for a charity of our choice. This is all with a budget of £100 provided by the Business School. Unfortunately this still needs to be paid back at the end of the project so we’ve got the challenge of making at minimum £100 from our events…

Last year and at the start of this year we’ve heard horror stories about how stressful this has got for previous years and how friends all collaborated on a project but by the end of it their friendship group had fallen apart. We all know group work at university can get stressful when someone isn’t pulling their weight or doing what they need to do by a certain deadline but I hadn’t heard about the extreme cases where things got so bad within a group they were actually moving out of their Uni houses…

My housemate Shona happens to be in my seminar group and we were almost petrified of loosing our friendship over a project by working together but we asked ourselves “things can’t really get THAT bad can they?”. And so far they haven’t, at all! I’m working with a brilliant group of 4 other girls, 1 being Shona! Last night we submitted our first written piece of group work – our Event’s Written Proposal, 4,500 words long! 5 days early!! Our group has so far got on so well and we’ve all been equally distributing the tasks and workload out fairly! We’re already seeing in our seminars we’re even slightly ahead compared to other groups so we’re going to be feeling very smug in this week’s seminar when we can go in and say our works already done and submitted!

All of us have some great contacts who’ve been able to help us out already, for example one of the girls Irina works in a Café doing the marketing for their events and sales and has managed to secure that venue for free! Laura is friends with the University club photographer and he’s agreed to come and take pictures of the night, and as for Katie she lives with a friend who DJ’s who has also agreed to DJ on the night of our event! It’s so far all coming together so well…

I should probably provide you with a little insight as to what we’re planning for our event. We’re going to be holding a live music night at the very start of March 2016 in support of the charity CoppaFeel! With the aim of raising awareness about breast cancer amongst students in the area.

At our event we plan to have 3 live music acts, DJ, photographer, facepainting, photobooth and more. Tickets are only being charged at £5.

So if you study at the University of Greenwich or in the surrounding area do make sure you’re checking your social media in the New Year for advertisement of our event ‘MicCheck’ as we’d love to see you all there!

I’d love to keep you updated with how this project pans out and what is happening at each stage in the process, so be sure to check back onto my blog for more updates!

Thanks for reading, 

Izzie x