Heather Garrett

Heather Garrett

Event & Festival ProducerLondon, United Kingdom
+ Info

85

Connections
Moses Wainaina
Matt Willey
Disguise Disguise
Heather Garrett

Heather Garrett

Event & Festival ProducerLondon, United Kingdom
About me
A hardworking, passionate, organised, creative and dedicated Event Producer with years of experience in delivering outstanding memories and creative experiences across the live event & festival world. A core member of the team behind the UK's Best Major Festival & part of the Bestival Family - working as assistant to Creative Producer across the Bestival Brand: Camp Bestival, Bestival, Common People Southampton & Oxford and Bestival Toronto. Interested in creating fantastic creative spaces and in building the Street Feast brand across London, then went on to work on pop ups across London and with brands such as Patron, Moniker Art Fair & London Cocktail Week. Lucky enough to be tutored and mentored by founders & producers of Glastonbury's seminal late night area: Block 9, at Roundhouse London as part of a Young Festival Producers project.
Projects
  • Bestival 2014
    Bestival 2014In 2014 I worked as Assistant Arts Producer at Bestival & Camp Bestival. Here I was responsible for booking, managing and delivering all of the arts content across the sites (everything that isn't live music or DJ's). This included managing and delivering the Amphitheatre arts programme which sees a huge array of spoken word and varied theatre shows. Along with the Drag venues of the festival which we programmed a huge amount of cabaret acts & a huge carnival parade. A personal highlight was cu
  • Roundhouse Youth Advisory Board
    Roundhouse Youth Advisory Board- Since 2014 I have sat on the Roundhouse's Youth Advisory Board. - Here I advise the Roundhouse team on the development of the venue in order to ensure that young people’s views, ideas and perceptions inform the decisions about the management of the venues facilities, ethos, programme and marketing strategy. - Monthly meets with the rest of the board ensure that young people’s views are at the heart of everything the Roundhouse do. - Worked closely with the new Marketing Manager on the rebra
  • The Den, Camp Bestival
    The Den, Camp BestivalWorked with a team of other Young Producers to curate, produce & manage a brand new area at Camp Bestival exclusively for Teenagers. Here I curated the program - created exclusive teen only content working with Professor Green, The world poetry slam winner: Harry Baker, Disco Yoga sessions. Hair braiding to breakdancing classes. This was our first experience of professionally producing a professional venue and managed the whole process from designing logos, producing marketing materials/social media to actually on site venue managing the venue. 2 years on I am now executive Producer of this venue and now cordinate a new team of young producers each year to manage the venue for me over the weekend and gain valuable site experience in various on site roles.
+ Show more
Work history
    Creative Production Assistant
    - I provide on hand daily assistance to Bestival LTD's Creative Producer & Director across all of Bestival LTDs events and brands: - Bestival - Camp Bestival - Common People Oxford - Common People Southampton - Bestival X Goldsmiths - Bestival Toronto Assist in the curation, production and delivery of all creative content across our sites, including dealing with suppliers & ensuring they are paid, listed on the Akkreditaion system and looked after on site. Manage the creative crew rota, send out all Deal Memos to contract their work, and being a point of contact on site. Work closely with the marketing department to ensure the festivals creative vision is presented clearly and properly in all marketing materials. Manage guest lists for Creative Production department. Bestival Toronto: - Managed all travel requests from the UK team and ensured all flights bookings were correctly managed and communicated to the passenger & to SFX our Canadian Team, along with arrival details for each person - Created eligible Visa letters for each crew entering Canada - Liaised with Canadian finance team to ensure all contractors and crew were paid on time - Assisted in the shipping of containers oversee's from Isle of Wight to Toronto, which held our creative production such as set pieces and key Bestival icons such as the inflatable church & I LOVE BESTIVAL LETTERS.
    Assistant Arts Producer
     - 
    - Assisting in curating, booking and managing all arts content at both Camp Bestival & Bestival which saw a huge variation of content from Guardian Literary Institute talks , produced and delivered Martin Creed’s balloon installation at Bestival, programmed spoken word stages to delivering a late night program of interactive performers. - Daily on hand assistant to Bestival Arts Producer; creating press releases, advancing artists, producing relevant H&S documents such as method statements and risk assessments. Sending invoices, Deal memos & managing budgets & PO’S.
+ Show more
Skills
  • Events
  • Marketing PR
  • Theatre
  • Creative Event
  • Festival
  • Party Planning
  • Project Management
  • Coordination
  • Event Planning
  • Event Coordination
  • Creative Production
  • Arts Programming
  • Festival and Events
  • Operations Coordination
Education
    Theatre: Directing
     - 
Awards
    BEST MAJOR FESTIVAL
    Awarded to Bestival from the UK Festival Awards. http://www.festivalawards.com/2015-winners/
    BEST FAMILY FESTIVAL
    Awarded to Camp Bestival by the UK Festival Awards http://www.festivalawards.com/2014-winners/