Putting together a festival is extremely fun and challenging. All the details of an event can come together to make an event like a festival come to life! Such details pertain to vendors, sponsorship’s, and layouts! Layouts are essential in planning a festival. What do I mean by layout? It is the floor plan and map of the event. It shows things such as, where the food tent will be, entrance, parking, vendor tents, stages, restrooms (cannot forget these), and the ticket booths. Jen gave me a layout that she had drawn for both Blues & Brews and Oktoberfest for me to do on the computer so that they could have the layout for the festival done to show the city or the venue of the event of where things were going and have a game plan for on where to put things day of the event. I am pretty computer savvy so making a layout on the computer wasn’t a big problem. I made the layouts on Microsoft PowerPoint and figured it was the best program as if Jen or Debbi needed to add anything to it they could. It was just a little time consuming. I wanted to make sure I color coded things, and also made the symbols readable. So the little details I think are what took the longest. I am a huge nerd but I actually really loved making the layout for the Blues & Brews and Oktoberfest. Hopefully they come in handy when we start setting up for the festival!
Lyndsey Zamora