What does Step 1 of the Ontario reopening plan mean for events and gatherings?

Following today’s announcement that Step 1 of the Ontario reopening plan will commence on June 11th, 2021, we have prepared a quick reference on what will be permitted at that stage as it relates to gatherings. – Indoor religious services, rites and ceremonies including weddings and funerals at 15% capacity of the room – Outdoors […]

Event Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

When the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11th, 2020, event planning, the way we had known it, rapidly changed. In person weddings, parties, concerts, festivals and corporate events gave way to the need for safety, social distancing, ever changing permitted indoor/outdoor venue attendee capacities, border closures, lockdowns, stay at home orders and halting […]

Pinterest stops promoting plantation weddings

Following urging from the civil rights advocacy group Colour of Change, Pinterest has remove plantation wedding content from their platform. And they are not the only ones … Many advocates and eventprofs continuously expressed their concern of the overwhelming promotion of plantations as wedding venues despite the offensive history attached to these properties. Pinterest took […]

Will Ross University take over the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre?

What may be the future of the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre in Barbados? In a recent press conference the island’s Minister of Tourism appears to have given us a hint. In January 2019 the state-of-the art Ross University School of Medicine was officially opened at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre (LESC). This LESC-based institution is […]