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Whether the sun makes an appearance or not, British festival season never fails to disappoint! 🕺 With millions of people attending festivals in August alone, logistics plays a crucial role in ensuring everything runs smoothly for the best possible experience.  Read more about the role logistics plays by following the link in the comments ⬇️ #FestivalsUK #Logistics #EventPlanning

From the annual Christmas pageant and festival to Christmas markets, here’s your guide to the week ahead in the Great Southern.

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María Galiana: “At the Teatro Real I am the queen” | Culture To the ambigú of the Infanta Isabel theater in Madrid, where it is performed The beauty queen of Leenane, by Martin McDonagh, you climb some very steep and narrow stairs. María Galiana, who plays the tremendous mother of the play, saves them, agile, with more haste than pause, and asks for a softer chair than the pure hard wood of the nightstands to be more comfortable during the talk. She seems very calm. After several days of promotion on radio, television and newspapers, all the questions and all the answers are known. Before we get to work, they offer us a coffee and, one of us, who is frantically looking for an outlet where she can recharge her cell phone and thus be able to record the conversation without any scares, doesn’t even notice. “This is one of those who are nervous,” Galiana says, like that, lying down, and one cannot help but agree. So I go that route. Do you see people by eye? Not anything else, but I have always had a lot of intuition when it comes to knowing the people I deal with. Maybe it’s because of so many years with students. I also have the ability to know the tone with which I have to conduct myself depending on who and where I am with. It is not the same to talk to you, for EL PAÍS, as the other day with (David) Broncano, in The resistance. I have had many lives and many times and I have many possibilities. With David I decided to be the girl who climbed on top of the table and did stupid things. And here, how is it going to be? Serious and sincere enough. But that’s not difficult for me, because I am more than necessary. That’s why some have thought that I am more conservative and classic than how open, progressive and forward I am. I am left-wing, but so respectful that I can be talking to people who are opposed to me without being noticed. I have an unlimited capacity for understanding. For example, I studied with the nuns, and now that so many say that that education was disastrous, I say that I love them very much and I recognize the amount of things I owe them. Do you owe them faith? Are you a believer? I have been a very believer, but I was losing faith. There was no milestone, no before and after, but life has led me to a general agnosticism. I am deeply skeptical and there is a time when I don’t believe anything at all. It is very difficult for me to get excited about something that is not art, literature, music, culture in general. What are you excited about at 89? Fundamentally, work, something that sounds very strange, now that many young people say they work as punishment. I have been a great worker, thank God. They have given me many awards, because it was my turn… Woman, he must have done something. Well, I’ve been very good, more than I’ve ever done. And those who award me say: I like this woman, she doesn’t bother, she gives thanks very well, her speeches are wonderful and giving her the award makes...

Breaking Down #Beyonce: A Counterpoint on Her Festival Finances I will always defer to Dan Runcie when it comes to music. But he's doing double-time in the media lane, and he's missing some things in saying it's not in Beyonce's financial interest to perform at festivals. First, let's break down what he's saying about what she makes from the tour: - Beyonce grossed $579M on tour w/ a budget of $150 million, across 56 dates - Thus, she netted $7.6 million each performance from ticket sales  - Throw in that she monetized footage from the tour with a film that grossed $44M, and would have netted $19.4M after AMC takes 57% of U.S. and 30% of international box office If we deduct a conservative $1m in cost on that film, Beyonce netted $447.4M, or $8M per performance from her tour. Now, if we were to estimate what she could earn from performing at Coachella: - Bey made $8-12M last time around for 2 performances. It's safe to say she could get $14M from #Coachella based on inflation and the rise in their VIP prices over the years. That's $14M net, assuming Coachella pays for performance costs. - While Netflix is slashing costs, they paid $20M for Beyonce last time, and I think she could get $30M for a series documenting her two weekends. Takeaway $2M for production costs and that's $28M net. - Beyonce should also make one of her performances a "last minute" PPV (after tickets sell out, of course). If just 10% of the 2.7M that attended her tour globally buy that, that's 270k purchases at $100, for $27M, of which Bey could net $21M. Those main sources of revenue alone would gross $71M and net her $63M. For just two performances, that would net Beyonce $31.5M per performance. In terms of gross, that's more than Dan's 3-night calculation of $45M that includes the film, which needed footage from nearly all 56 dates to really work. On a per-performance basis, her $31.5M per date is 4X what she made on tour. And if we get creative, some reports have Coachella at 500k attendees in 2023. If that's the case, I believe Beyonce has 3 things she could sell at a festival that can't be duplicated on tour. #1. She can install a limited experience replete with fashion, paintings, listening rooms, old footage, AR/VR, etc. that could be an upsell on 20% of tickets @ $75. That would gross $7.5M. #2. Bey could offer "creative" and "business" workshops, where people can train and get guidance from her "people", as well as meet Bey. This is more of a B2B thing; thus, she could sell this for $10k to just 1,000 (250 people per day). That would gross $10M. #3. Imagine an outdoor Beyonce lounge, that can't be replicated in a stadium, for approximately 1k VIPs paying $500, for a gross of $500k. I'd estimate those 3 things to cost no more than $3m, which gives her an upside of $15M net. Altogether, Bey could gross $89M, while netting $78M, or $39M per night. I'd say that's plenty of reason to explore giving a festival one more chance.

In Voka-Vlaams netwerk van ondernemingen’s Tribune, I talked about the importance of aligning your sponsoring strategy with the DNA of your company. It is no coincidence that, for many years, BNP Paribas Fortis has been investing in long-lasting partnerships with key cultural players. Culture is an important engine of society, inviting us to reflect on ourselves, our history, our future.   Our sponsoring corresponds to BNP Paribas Fortis’ DNA – driving economic growth while embracing inclusivity and sustainability. That’s why we invest in young film and musical talents, and in making culture accessible to young generations, for instance, with our support to Young Opera or by inviting them to premium concerts.   #ReadyForYourWorld #WeLoveCulture

Here's a teaser to get you moving your body, related to this post about the upcoming Festival de La Cumbia https://lnkd.in/e6Xbcufm via: https://lnkd.in/ewPrANYq

These were my take away from #Cannes - France made over 30 million $ from the festival in just 12 days according to the #HollywoodReporter and this may not include what private people made… in one instance, a hotel was charging over $26,000 per night and the citizens rent out their homes and also make a killing: lessons for us? The creative space and festivals and films is a great way to grow Tourism and bring the country soft money. It is a low hanging fruit that many African countries, including us, don’t respect. I am not even going to touch the value of the deals made there and the purchases and sales - through one festival, tourism to France went through the roof! And almost everyone left with something representing France… can you imagine the #softpower value to that? Not to mention all of us who tried to learn some French - Cannes film festival is supported by both the Government and people of France and offcourse the industry itself: I am sure we can all learn from that. We have a tendency in this part of the world to bring down our own and push up others. We play the game of who started this or that… we can learn or we can keep marking time… - Cannes is over 70 years old… Rome wasn’t built in a day… we can learn to be consistent and persistent and patient at the same time with things we need to grow. We always expect 100 year old problems to be solved in a day and so we never have the patience to go to the foundation and sometimes even break down to build up - The Nigerians are investing in themselves as a sector and not waiting for anyone… actors and directors and producers and all down the value chain… if you are an actor for instance, when was the last time you even read an acting book or took an acting class? 🤔let’s just say that Cannes, it seems like it is Nigeria and then all other African countries… glad we were also present and made a good mark and got some good wins - If you are a black person at Cannes, just swallow your pride - which is one of the reasons why it is our responsibility to develop our own 😊⭐️ - Finally, small steps become big one day #yaamusings

"For me, five things stood out, the punctuality of the event, the set design and props, the atmosphere in the auditorium, the costumes, and finally the cast. I will try to take you on a journey with me as I touch briefly on these five things,'' Esther Akuamoah gives a comprehensive review of George Quaye 'The Gods Are Not to Blame' stage play. https://lnkd.in/e2wHmNsb

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