Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The Dream Team! Miracles we can do, the impossible might take a bit longer!




Cape Town Carnival have employed more staff to help this dream come alive.


On our community facilitation and engagement side, Robert Davids and Stephen Wetmore have been hard at work speaking to most of the main performing arts groupings that will be core to us creating this new platform of collaboration in Cape Town. They have inter alia been speaking to the gospel choirs, the Minstrels, the Western Cape Dance Teachers Association, marimba bands, the South African Drumming and Bands Association, Cape MIC, VANSA, PANSA, to give you but the headlines. Robert and Stephen have facilitated a myriad of different community engagement initiatives and has vast experience. Their presence in the team has already made a massive difference. An added bonus is that Stephen is passionate about the arts as well as very connected, and in Robert we have our own dancer and musician. What a fantastic combination!


Then my pillar of strength has arrived in the form of my Chief Operations Manager, Edmund Beukes. Edmund has extensive experience from inter alia his years as "Die Burger"'s marketing manager. He has dived into the deep end pursuing budgets and suppliers and detailed planning with the city. He is a great addition to the team and above all, has a wicked sense of humour (which I'm sure he's still going to need) and is inspirationally making sure that we get to gym, so that we can be in top shape for the Carnival. All round, I wouldn't want to do the Carnival without him.


Then of course, the angel in the team is Dezre. Dezre Little has extensive event management experience as well as tourism experience and will be taking care of all administrative management matters. So she is the lady that will be ensuring that all goes smoothly in the office. As I do not think I was present on the day that admin skills was handed out, Dezre is a lifesaver. She is also super sufficient, so if you ever deal with her, make sure that you know what you want, because she can almost pre-empt you and get it done, even before you ask :D

Dezre in her free time is also a fine artist!

We'll be adding some more members to the team as the year go through, but join me in wishing the team all the best. They are going to be part of this miracle unfolding!

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