{"id":16901,"date":"2014-07-05T03:31:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T10:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16901"},"modified":"2014-07-05T03:33:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T10:33:21","slug":"festival-and-event-planners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/festival-and-event-planners\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival and Event Planners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/evenplan.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured are event planners ranging from OEntertainment&#8217;s Troy &amp; Roy Hassett;\u00a0to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-greek-festival.html\">Greek Festival<\/a> volunteer, Nick Monios; to \u00a0marketing professional, Steve Sheldon, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-chill.html\">Queen Mary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever volunteered\u00a0for a festival or large event, you have an appreciation for the amount of work that can go into the task. \u00a0However, as annual events grow in popularity and gain momentum, volunteers burn out. The\u00a0US Open of Sandcastles festival in Imperial Beach is one such example&#8211; it gained international fame, then\u00a0collapsed under the weight of the efforts required to produce it through volunteers.\u00a0When an event is in jeopardy of disbanding permanently, get professional help.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Among the companies we&#8217;ve enjoyed working with are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pageantry Productions &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/4thofjuly\/huntington-beach-4thofjuly-parade.html\">parades<\/a> and events in Southern California<\/li>\n<li>OEntertainment &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-lobster-festival.html\">food festivals<\/a>, family festivals, community fairs \/carnivals in Southern California &amp;\u00a0Arizona<\/li>\n<li>Upbeat Parades &#8211; Southern California<\/li>\n<li>Pete Moffett Productions &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/redondo-beach-lobster-festival.html\">Lobster Festival<\/a>, food and family festivals \u00a0 in Southern California<\/li>\n<li>Steven Restivo Events Services- food festivals,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-easter-parade-festival.html\"> street festivals<\/a>  \u00a0in\u00a0Bay Area<\/li>\n<li>Pacific Fine Arts Festivals\u00a0&#8211; art festivals and fairs in Bay Area<\/li>\n<li>Miramar Events &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/half-moon-bay-pumpkin-festival.html\">Bay Area festivals<\/a>, shows and sponsorship opportunities<\/li>\n<li>McFarlane Productions &#8211; San Diego festivals such as Mardi Gras,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/san-diego-monster-bash.html\"> Monster Bash<\/a>,\u00a0St. Patrick&#8217;s Day<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Bullwinkel Productions &#8211; Berkeley &amp; Bay Area <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/berkeley-chocolate-chalk-art.html\">festivals<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Melody Brunsting (Melody&#8217;s Adworks) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/temecula-balloon-wine-festival.html\">Temecula Balloon &amp; Wine Festival<\/a>,\u00a0music festivals<\/li>\n<li>Justin Rudd &#8211; Haute Dog Parade, Beauty Pageants, Kids Events, Art Events in\u00a0Southern California<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured are event planners ranging from OEntertainment&#8217;s Troy &amp; Roy Hassett;\u00a0to Greek Festival volunteer, Nick Monios; to \u00a0marketing professional, Steve Sheldon, at Queen Mary. If you&#8217;ve ever volunteered\u00a0for a festival or large event, you have an appreciation for the amount of work that can go into the task. \u00a0However, as annual events grow in popularity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16901"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}