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Post Covid Hosting (Well, we thought it was post!)
Post Covid Hosting (Well, we thought it was post!)
On Tuesday 8th December, Lateral Events hosted a lunch at Firedoor in Surry Hills. Rewind 9 months, to March 2020, and if you had have asked whether we would host a client event in December, we’d have thought you were crazy. Of course we would not host in December – we would be far too…
Revival time: why an event could be the perfect way to restart business in 2021
After months and months of lockdown, things in Australia are slowly opening back up. You are now able to enjoy brunch in your favourite café, get a beer at your local pub or visit a beauty salon. While there are still restrictions in place, the affordance of such liberties should have businesses asking – “what…
Lateral Events CEO awarded the industry’s highest honour at the 2019 MEA Evolve Awards Dinner
Lateral Events picked up three national awards at the peak event industry – The 2019 MEA awards dinner; Best Public Event, Best Regional Event and Lateral’s CEO Simon Baggs was awarded the industry’s highest honour; the Outstanding Contribution Award. The Outstanding Contribution Award recognises an individual’s contribution to the event industry. Simon was recognised for…
Michael Palin – Live on Stage
Michael Palin is not a nice man at all. He’s an ill-tempered lout who sits in bed all day eating fudge. When he can be bothered to make the effort he writes novels, does television documentaries, goes on one-man theatre tours, publishes diaries, writes screenplays, does a bit of acting, makes radio appearances, records narration…
Lateral events takes out three national awards
Lateral Events took out three prestigious event awards; Best Public Event, Best Regional Event and the Platinum Award for the highest scoring event across all award sectors. All three awards were for Lateral’s L’Étape Australia by le Tour de France event. The events were presented by the event industry peak association Meetings & Events Australia…
Lateral Events provides ten children with an education for ten years in the remote areas of Nepal.
It is very easy for us to live our own lives and not think about those who don’t have what we have become accustomed to think of as a basic human right. It is for this reason Lateral Events have donated funds to the Australian Himalayan Foundation to provide education for ten Nepalese children for…
Scalpers
Someone has just paid an online scalper $915 for a ticket to David Attenborough Melbourne show; yet tickets are still available at face value (from $95 – $235) via the General Public Release tomorrow at 9am. We abhor these parasitic scalpers that buy and on-sell tickets at vastly inflated prices. We can invalidate tickets purchased…
The Iconic Wine Dinner
Seventy guests, 25 wait staff, 16 chefs, 4 courses, 12 wines, 840 wine glasses, 1 wine expert, 16 pages of run-sheet, 6 pages of Risk Register, a client and four Lateral event managers rising above the gathering storm. Last Saturday’s ‘The Iconic Wine Dinner’ gathered some of the world’s most iconic wines, tasted in parallel…
Winning Major Events For Sydney – A flash back to the ATP World Finals in Sydney
In 2000, the CEO of Lateral Events was at a small restaurant in Paddington in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, with a couple of old friends from the ATP. Eventually, the conversation turned to the ATP’s plans to take its season-ending tournament at which the top eight ranked players in the world vie for the World No….