#moveafestival

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#moveafestival

What started out as an opportunity to work alongside The Dallas Morning News, The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, and several other partner institutions to produce the annual Dallas Festival of Ideas turned into a logistical tour-de-force at the 11th hour when weather threatened to implode the outdoor festival. This was our second at-bat with the Dallas Festival of Ideas, and our role had expanded to include all artistic production, speakers and stage production, as well as to oversee the team responsible for vendor and community partner exhibits.

The Festival steering committee had a vision to host the event on Dallas’ front lawn: the sprawling plaza in front of Dallas City Hall. When the weather reports painted increasingly grim pictures of the weekend forecast, the team made the hard call to move the entire Festival inside the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center. Within a 72-hour period, our team re-conceived sites plans and space usage, reformatted performance and art installations in the new confines, worked with dozens of community partners to revamp their schedules and plans, ate a lot of pizza, chocolate and coffee (and wine) in our war room, and moved a festival. While the weather didn’t ever materialize to quite the level we were fearing, it was about 90 degrees with 90 percent humidity, so we were all grateful for the air conditioning. And for the dance party we had with the Polyphonic Spree as the Festival’s closing act!

SCOPE OF WORK

Event Concept and Execution

Speaker Curation and Program Development

Stage and Production Management

Art and Performance Curation and Installation Management

Sponsor/Partner Benefit Fulfillment

Exhibitor Management