The second big extended committee meeting held last Thursday saw everyone on track now at operations level.  Whilst some of us serve as “dual citizens” across working groups or “departments” the team leaders and their groups seem pretty much on track.  We’ve clearly build on the success and learnings of the past 3 years and everyone I speak to is positive about how far ahead we seem to be in our planning and in meeting project milestones.  

 

The launch looms on November 16.  This year we’re going indoors at my suggestion to the Parkhouse Cafe opposite Queen’s Park for the Festival Launch with the VIPs.  MPR team under Samfya Smith and Anthony Smith have presented an innovative marketing plan to increase our database holdings and get the phones ringing.  Anita Adams meantime is working on the Visitor Marketing Plan with tourism groups outside the city and appears to have made some great wins.  The fact that there is nowhere in this city that packages tourist attractions came as something of a shock to all of us, and it looks as though SiQP could break the drought in this regard.  Now that should make TCC and the Chamber of Commerce happy!

 

Next big planner is at Hervey Bay on 7-8 November when the organising committee “core” gets to meet up with its counterparts to set the wheels in motion for Shakespeare on the Bay.