Festival Production
Building a Year-Round Festival Community From a Summer Anchor

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24th August 2025

Keep your summer festival’s spirit alive all year. Learn how off-season pop-ups, digital engagement, fan memberships, and community partnerships can turn one great summer event into a thriving year-round festival community – so loyal fans promote and sell out next year’s festival for you.

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Festival Production
Postmortems with Heat-Specific Learnings for Summer Festivals

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24th August 2025

Learn how festival organisers turn summer heatwave challenges into next-year wins with rapid postmortems, all-stakeholder feedback, and ‘we heard you’ changes.

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Festival Production
Beating the Heat at Summer Festivals: Measuring KPIs and Adjusting on the Fly

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24th August 2025

Extreme heat can make or break a summer festival – learn how organizers monitor key heat metrics in real time and adjust on the fly to keep attendees safe.

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Festival Production
Post-Festival Dust and Litter Recovery

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24th August 2025

What happens after the music stops? See how festival teams tame dust, blitz litter, and leave grounds spotless – delighting landowners and neighbours.

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Festival Production
After the Finale: Managing Festival Egress After Fireworks and Night Headliners

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24th August 2025

Discover how veteran festival organizers ensure a safe, smooth exit after those epic summer night finales. Learn to stagger fireworks and headliner end times, open extra exits, floodlight pathways, station stewards at bottlenecks, pause bar service, and coordinate last-train shuttles – all the crowd management secrets to help your festival-goers get home happy and safe.

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Festival Production
Accessibility Communications for Summer Festival Grounds

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24th August 2025

Learn how to provide clear site info, cooling shade, roving assist teams, and quick fixes – all to keep your summer festival accessible in the summer heat.

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Festival Production
Waterfront Transport at Festivals: Ferries, Shuttles, and Marinas

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24th August 2025

Smooth sailing from dock to stage – discover how top festival producers align ferry schedules with showtimes, manage waterfront crowds with safety in mind, and partner with harbor masters to deliver a seamless event.

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Festival Production
Night Lighting at Summer Festivals: Respecting Dark Skies and Wildlife

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24th August 2025

How can you light up a summer festival without ruining the night? Get practical tips to keep stars shining and wildlife safe while delivering a magical night.

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Festival Production
Quiet Spaces and Sensory Rooms at Summer Festivals

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24th August 2025

Summer festivals are adding quiet, sensory-friendly rooms to escape noise & heat. Learn how to set up these calm havens with comfort items & stigma-free promotion.

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Festival Production
Beat the Heat on Summer Festival Stages: Managing Deck Temperatures and Artist Comfort

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24th August 2025

Don’t let summer sun sabotage your festival. Discover practical strategies to keep stages cool and artists comfortable – ensuring performances shine despite heat.

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Festival Production
Summer Festival Comms that Travel: Heat Alerts & Lightning Warnings

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24th August 2025

Learn how veteran festival producers handle extreme weather at summer festivals – from heat wave alerts to lightning storm evacuations – using app push notifications, big screen messages, and stage announcements. Discover why simple, multilingual, time-stamped communications with clear restart times and next steps keep crowds safe and informed, and how logging every announcement leads to smarter festivals. A must-read guide on festival emergency comms that travel far and wide.

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Festival Production
Volunteer Programs for Long Summer Festival Days

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24th August 2025

Volunteers getting burned out at summer festivals? Discover proven tactics to keep them cool, fed, and appreciated so they stay energised and keep coming back.

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