Next week many festival and public event professionals travel to Seville (Spain) to attend Womex. If you are planning to go, please drop an email to our office and perhaps we can hook you up for an informal gathering with IFEA-members.

The 2^nd week of November the IFEA Board of Directors is meeting in Ireland to attend the Annual Conference of the Association of Irish Festival Events, which also hosts the concluding colloquium of the European Festival Research Project (EFRP). Join us at Licence to Thrill , we would love to meet you.

If you read this and you are fully recovered from the summer festival season, perhaps you may want to contribute by writing an article for our News Area at www.ifeaeurope.com/news. Please send your copy to news@ifeaeurope.com.

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• EYE CATCHERS AT FESTIVAK
• LICENCE TO THRILL - AOIFE CONFERENCE
• CREATIVITY AT FESTIVAK

EYE CATCHERS AT FESTIVAK
by the IFEA News Editor

At the beginning of October, IFEA Europe participated�at FESTIVAK - the largest expo and trade show in the Benelux for festival and public event professionals. During the expo the following items got our attention:

Festival Chairs
These internationally patented chairs made of card-board are easy to assemble, light and environmentally friendly, can easily handle 150 KG and are a great medium for your sponsor message and offer your attendees a great souvenir.

IFEA member Rotterdam Festivals won the 2005 IFEA Pinnacle Award for best new promotional item with �this chair.
www.festivalchairs.com/*

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LICENCE TO THRILL - AOIFE CONFERENCE

Join members of IFEA Europe at the Annual Conference of the Association of Irish Festivals & Events on 8/10 November.

Familiar IFEA speakers�William Culver Dodds (Harrogate International Festivals), Steven Wood Schmader, (President/CEO IFEA World),� Paul Gudgin (Former Director Edinburgh Festival Fringe),� Allan Xinus Grige (Chairman IFEA Europe),�Robyn Nelson (Dogwood Arts Festival),�Maria Nusser-Wagner (The Guggenheim),��Sylvia Allen (Allen Consulting) and Jeroen Mourik (CreativeFellowship.org) are amongst the international speakers.

Conference Brochure�(pdf 575 Kb)
Conference Programme (Word 256 Kb)

Please note that the Early Bird Rate ends Friday 19 October!


CREATIVITY AT FESTIVAK
by Jacco van Mierlo

On Tuesday during Festivak, twenty delegates from the Netherlands and Germany participated in a Master Class Creativity by creative consultant Jeroen Mourik.

This part of Festivak was presented by IFEA Europe and was aimed at event managers with a dominant left-brain-hemisphere.

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