Lee J' deLisle Ph'D'

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Creating Special Events

• Lee J. deLisle Ph.D.
• 2009

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Course Overview

• Section One Positioning Festivals in Community
  
• Life
• Historical significance of festivals
• How festivals contribute to an agency mission
• Strategic planning of festivals and events

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Course Overview

• Section Two Identifying and Managing Fiscal
  Resources
• Events and economic impact
• The nature of sponsorship
• Marketing your event
• Risk management

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Course Overview

• Section Three Human Resource Management
• Organizational culture staff and volunteers
• Contractual services
• Customer service and satisfaction

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Course Overview

• Section Four Managing Physical Resources
• Site planning and selection
• Concessions
• Traffic, crowd and parking strategies
• Technology

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Course Overview

• Section Five Assessment and Evaluation
• Choosing and implementing the best evaluation
  strategies and tools

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Philosophical Perspectives

• Heortology the study of festivals
• Understanding human experience
• Ritual as symbolic language
• Leisure as celebration Pieper
• Festivals as sacred times cessation of normal
  activity
• Festivals as intrinsic fulfillment of human
  nature

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Historical Foundations

• Understanding the needs and aspirations of
  humankind
• Celebrations highlight
• Traditions of a culture
• Heritage of a people or place
• Beliefs about the unexplainable
• Fears and control of nature and death
• Human excellence through performance and
  competition

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Historical Foundations

• Festivals include and incorporate
• Music, dance and the arts
• Competition and domination
• Pageantry
• Religious beliefs and superstition
• Political power
• Performance and/or Participation

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Festivals in Ancient Egypt

• Pantheism celebrating the gods
• The role of the Pharaoh
• Fertility
• Harvest
• Festival of Opet
• Link between worldly and religious power
• Flooding of the Nile
• Processions
• Detailed record keeping

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Ancient Greece

• Festivals as Anapaula, a breathing time, a break
  from the necessary work of survival Plato
• Honoring the gods
• The sacred games the Olympic tradition
• The gymnikos athlon
• Arete, honor and tradition
• Competition, pageantry, bureaucracy and site
  management

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Ludi Romani

• Greek Olympic style competition
• Amphitheatres and the circus
• Religion and blood sports
• Bread and circuses
• Political/religious control
• Pax Romani

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The Christian Tradition

• Effect of the Parousia the imminent second
  coming
• Links to the agricultural past
• Rejection of Roman practices
• The Christian Sabbath
• Martyrs and feasts