Page 7 - Make Events News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Live-Event Industry Offers COVID-19 Vaccination Infrastructure, Venues and Staff in Letter to President Biden Jem Aswad, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In a  letter to President Biden on Tuesday, major live-entertainment organizations — AEG, Bandit Lites, Broadway League, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM), Live Nation, the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM), the National Independent Talent Organization (NITO), the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA), Oak View Group (OVG), and We Make Eve...

Covid-19: NI live events staff struggle as sound of silence continues By Alan Haslam The live music and events industry has been a high-profile casualty of the coronavirus crisis. We all miss the collective, communal excitement of the gigs and festivals banned under current restrictions. But what about those who work behind the scenes? The future looks highly uncertain for sound engineers, lighting designers, riggers, backline techs and others who help to bring live events to life. Approximately 7,500 people work in Northern Ireland's live events industry and most have been without employmen...

Calls for insurance scheme intensify in industry letter Thursday, 7 January 2021 A number of MPs and live event specialists have signed an open letter to Rishi Sunak in a bid to save summer events and more (Photo: Hanny Naibaho) UK - The live events industry has launched a fresh appeal for a government-backed COVID-19 insurance scheme with a letter signed by 120 sector representatives and MPs. In the letter, written by the chair of the DCMS committee Julian Knight and addressed to the chancellor Rishi Sunak, the sector - which has largely been shut down since March 2020 - warns that “[w]...

Slovenia Times 23. December, 2020 Photo: STA Ljubljana – Representatives of the Slovenian event industry are erecting a New Year tree in Ljubljana’s Congress Square made from stage scaffolding and lights in order to warn about the sector having ground to an almost complete halt in 2020 due to the coronavirus crisis, and about the financial troubles of its employees. After the sector was the first to be shut down at the beginning of March, and after the summer with almost no festivals, after a year of cancelled concerts and tours, a New Year tree will be erected in Congress Squ...

Meanwhile, on social media, some revellers have praised the event.  Bonnie Askew said: "We’ve been tonight and it was much better then we expected, from start to finish it was an hour, no scary people and Father Christmas was good. We had two very happy granddaughters. "Don’t listen to the negative comments, tonight was definitely better then what most people have said they must have changed a few things to make it better." However, Simon Littleboy, landlord of The Ringland Swan bar and restaurant, said 'ridiculous' traffic from the event had caused five tables to cancel on Friday nig...