Wellington-based company Verve Consulting has been awarded
the event manager's contract for the Lawrence 2011 Clutha
Gold 150th celebrations.
The company has been active in Dunedin for just six months,
and the Lawrence celebrations are its first big event in the
area, project manager Sam Heeney said.
Verve wanted to give the event next March national
significance, she said.
"Finding gold had a national impact. We want to create
something that does stay local ... but reaches a wide
audience by showing what happened in Lawrence and the impact
that had."
The Clutha Gold celebrations will mark the 150th anniversary
of Gabriel Read striking gold in the gully at Lawrence which
now bears his name, and are set to take place over four days
in March.
"Going out and getting funding from funding partners and
sponsors is going to be the key to success," Ms Heeney said.
Clutha District Council district development manager Julie
Pearse said the event manager's position attracted responses
from 14 organisations.
Ms Heeney said she would be meeting the working committee
each month as the celebrations developed, but it was
important to take a step back initially, to look at all the
plans and ideas the Lawrence community had generated.
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