Winter Shake Up
Winter SHake Up 2015
In 2015 the Winter Cities Conference was hosted in Edmonton, Alberta. The conference was focused on engaging people from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines to discuss all aspects of a “winter city” and new approaches to the quality of life in winter. Wild Heart Collective was hired to work with the City of Edmonton to program the Winter City Shake-Up and Market--one of the first large-scale outdoor winter markets and festivals. The result included a giant snow slide, outdoor beverage garden and entertainment area, outdoor winter marketplace, segway and fat bike demonstrations,
Wild heart was responsible for production and coordination of the festival including:
- consulting with the committee to gain accurate vision of festival and goals
- working with various partners, stakeholders to execute vision
- working with Civic Events for permits, safety and fire plans
- building site and infrastructure
- vendor recruitment and vendor relations
- volunteer recruitment
- volunteer management
- tear down and reporting
MEDIA
http://www.edmontonsun.com/2015/01/12/edmonton-wants-you-to-shake-up-winter-at-festival