This week’s Culture Radar guest is Nicole Konigs Balfry, Director, Zest Event Management.
What is coming up for your organisation? We’re in the midst of Liverpool European Festival, one of our big projects in 2026. The launch events were amazing and there’s still loads in store until the start of July! I’m shamelessly plugging the festival because the events organised by the Liverpool European diaspora communities are just to beautiful to miss.
What arts & cultural Liverpool City Regions event/s have you loved recently: The exhibition “Self-Defined. New stories from the Archives” at the Open Eye Gallery made me think hard about my understanding of identity. And I got to see bands I love and bands I didn’t yet know I love at “So Long, Good Friday”.
What arts & cultural Liverpool City Regions event/s are you looking forward to: The Utah Saints gig at Future Yard later this month and Africa Oyé in June! Plus I’ve got my eye on the “Liverpool Welcomes Europe” events, they are a great opportunity to connect “with Europe”.
Trivia: Whenever I teach event management at university level, the majority of students are female. This doesn’t translate into working life: female event managers are still under-represented, especially in the outdoor events industry. Me and my two female event managers are keen to address this imbalance, come and speak to us if you are, too.