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Ignite Seminars & Speakers Announced

21 March 2016 - 0 Comments

Aspiring event managers and musicians are invited to hear from top music industry professionals at the IGNITE Seminars, held on Saturday 9 April at the Aotea Centre. IGNITE Seminars will offer insights and tricks of the trade for organising and marketing shows and tours. IGNITE Seminars are free to attend and open to all, with the Event Management session in the morning followed by Marketing and Publicity in the afternoon.

IGNITE is very proud to host some of New Zealand’s top promoters in the Event Management seminar covering venues, budgets, ticketing, sponsorship and much more. The session will feature Mark Kneebone (Laneway Festival NZ and Live Nation) and Katie and Lucy Macrae (Chicks that Scream and Mystery Girl) and will be facilitated by Kingsley Melhuish, the Programme Leader in Diploma in Music and Event Management at MAINZ.

NZ Herald Entertainment Writer Lydia Jenkin will facilitate the Marketing and Publicity seminar held in the afternoon, joined by publicists Josie Campbell (Great Things) and Janine Russell (Noise PR).

The seminars are free and open to all, thanks to support from Auckland Live, MAINZ, NZ Music Commission and the Ministry of Youth Development. More speakers to be announced. Full information and to RSVP to attend, visit http://www.igniteprogramme.org.nz/

IGNITE Seminars

Saturday 9 April - Upper NZI in the Aotea Centre
Event Management 10:30am – 12:00pm
Marketing & Publicity 1:30pm – 3:00pm 

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Mark Kneebone is the co-promoter for Laneway Festival NZ and has promoted countless tours with diverse acts including YelaWolf, Wiz Khalifa, José González, Erykah Badu to name a few.  

Katie & Lucy Macrae are sisters who have run both Chicks That Scream and Mystery Girl touring shows from the likes of Dirty Projectors, Fleet Foxes, Boy & Bear, The Paper Kites, Passenger to Bad Religion, NOFX, Bouncing Souls and the No Sleep Til festival and heavily involved in many aspects of the music industry.

Josie Campbell works across the whole spectrum of entertainment with her new PR business Great Things. Josie handles publicity for Laneway Festival, upcoming shows and tours such as Twenty One Pilots, Tinashe, Danny Brown, Villainy, Montecristo Comedy at NZ International Comedy Festival and also works as the publicist for the NZ Opera. 

Noise PR founder Janine (J9) Russell has nearly 20 years experience in the music industry and her boutique PR consultancy and has worked with artists and tours such as Sol3 Mio, Diaz Grimm, Auckland City Limits, Disney On Ice, Ciaran McMeeken, Brooke Fraser and The Phoenix Foundation.

http://www.igniteprogramme.org.nz/ 

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