Our Tuesday Talks

Festivals and Events Ontario presents: Tuesday Talks with FEO. This weekly online gathering is meant to be educational and fun and features a guest speaker(s), our moderator Debbie Mann and YOU. 

The first 30 – 40 minutes will be dedicated to the speaker and questions from our moderator, and then we will open up for Q & A from the audience for the last part of the hour. 

Click here to register, and once you do, the Zoom link and password will be forwarded to you. These Tuesday Talk sessions are FREE to attend and will be recorded each week and placed on the FEO Youtube channel in case you ever miss one.

As Ontario reopens, so are festivals & events - some with a much shorter lead time! But what's changed in the world for your suppliers? How prepared are they to meet a quick return? 

Hosted by Kyle Sipkens from Incirque, join us for a series of panel discussions with suppliers representing different areas of the festival & events industry to discover what you'll need to know when planning your event now and onwards. Conversations on how we can work together to rebuild Ontario’s diverse festival landscape.

Click here to register, and once you do, the Zoom link and password will be forwarded to you. These Tuesday Talk sessions are FREE to attend and will be recorded each week and placed on the FEO Youtube channel in case you ever miss one.

As an extension to Tuesday Talks with FEO, we are offering Festivals Helping Festivals. On the first Tuesday of every month (except immediately following a long weekend) for 12 months, FEO will host an open mic on Zoom, discussing specific festival topics, talking about concerns and resolutions, sharing idea’s, celebrating successes.

Your interaction and sharing of experiences will support the industry as a whole. Your questions will be answered by your peers, and guided by industry experts – co-hosts Marnie Lapierre of Northern Events and Tourism Consulting and Debbie Mann of Festivals and Events Ontario.

FEO Festival and Event Topics Planned So Far:

• September 12, 2023 - Creating a Special Event Strategy
• October 17, 2023 -  How to Book/Contract entertainment & performers
• November 7, 2023 - Sponsorship
• December 5, 2023 - Marketing and Social Media / Emerging trends and how to engage better attendee participation
• January 9, 2024 - Policies - why we need them / Diversity & Equity in Event Programming
• February – NO SESSION DUE TO CONFERENCE
• March 12, 2024 - Risk Scorecard (more application than theory, demographic trends using data, evaluation of events, Crowd Control; Signage
• April 9, 2024 - Volunteer Management

Click here to register, and once you do, the Zoom link and password will be forwarded to you. These Tuesday Talk sessions are FREE to attend and will be recorded each week and placed on the FEO Youtube channel in case you ever miss one.