Archive for the ‘North Carolina’ Category

Showtime Events Newest Intern: Courtney Thompson!

Monday, August 29th, 2011

Showtime Events and Cobblestone Hall are excited to welcome Courtney Thompson as their newest intern. She is 22 years old and a senior at North Carolina State University majoring in Communications, with a concentration in Media. Courtney grew up in Raleigh, NC but moved to Charlotte, NC right before she began high school. She has always been an NC State fan so she knew she would end back up in Raleigh eventually!

 Courtney has been interested in event planning for years and has always considered pursuing a career in the field after graduation in December 2011. She recently interned in New York City this summer at La Pomme NYC which is a well known event space in the Chelsea area of the city. While there Courtney was able to work directly with the staff at the venue planning birthday parties, corporate events, fundraisers, and more. But while in the “big city” she realized that she did not want to live anywhere but North Carolina and returned home when her internship ended.

She hopes to continue to gain hands on experience while working with Showtime Events, especially in wedding planning and full event management. Over the next few months Courtney will be assisting with event production and have a chance to experience all aspects of the pitching, selling, planning, and execution process from start to finish.

Away from work Courtney loves food, hanging out with friends, shopping, fashion, traveling, and spending time with her dog Lucy. Some of Courtney’s favorite TV shows include Gossip Girl, The Bachelor, Pretty Little Liars, and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She is also an active alumnus of her sorority at NC State, Zeta Tau Alpha.

We are excited to have Courtney on the Showtime Events and Cobblestone Hall team for the next few months. Look for her at events!

Meet Showtime Events New Intern!

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

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Showtime Events is excited to introduce our newest intern, Jasmian McDonald. Jasmian, known by most as “Jas”, is a 21-year-old senior at North Carolina State University. She is majoring in Communications with a concentration in Public Relations. She is looking forward to graduating in May.

Born in Charlotte, NC, Jas spent most of her life in the small town of Sanford, NC, where she grew up as an only child with her mother and Toy Poodle, Diamond. Always having a passion for entertaining, she was a competitive dancer for 15 years and a cheerleader for her high school.

Over the summer of 2010, Jas got the opportunity to intern with Nordstrom where she fell in love with fashion and event planning. She hopes to get the opportunity to have a career in Fashion Public Relations and Event Planning.

While she is not a huge fan of traveling outside of the country, Jas got the opportunity to travel to Australia in March of 2010 where she described the country as beautiful. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her friends and family, singing, shopping (probably a little too much), going out, and watching television. Some of her favorite shows include Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, and the Real Housewives Franchise. She enjoys working out and has recently taken up spin, or cycling, as her work out of choice in order to counteract her love of food—anything fried to be exact!

While interning at Showtime Events, Jas has been directly involved in the planning and execution of multiple corporate and social events. In the coming months, she will continue to work with the Showtime North Carolina staff and their clients to gain further experience in the special events industry.

Showtime Events Named Finalist for Event Company Of The Year

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

We are excited and proud to announce that for the third year in a row Showtime Events has been named a finalist for a prestigious Events Solutions Spotlight Awards for  Event Company Of The Year!

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The recipient of the Spotlight Award is selected by an industry wide voting process. The Voting Site will be open from December 1, 2010 through January 31, 2011.

PLEASE VOTE FOR SHOWTIME EVENTS!

Visit http://www.event-solutions.com/spotlight/voting/index.php to vote!

Vote for us in the Event Company of the Year category.

Welcome Sarah Seligson back to the Showtime Events team!

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

Sarah is always smiling!

Showtime Events and Cobblestone Hall are excited to welcome Sarah Seligson back to the NC team. Sarah’s primary focus will be Cobblestone Hall and working with the clients and groups who have booked the venue for their upcoming events. Sarah will handle all aspects of the event from the initial meetings with the clients, to planning all details, and finally to the execution of the big day.

Sarah has been working for Showtime Events since February of 2005. She began working in the North Carolina office before transferring down to the Florida office in 2006. She was down in Florida for about 2 ½ years and worked alongside event producer, Rebecca Scozzafave, as her event coordinator.

Sarah studied Hospitality Management at East Carolina University and moved to London after graduating in 2004. There she worked for a event staffing company and was able to work at everything from Royal Weddings to Movie Premiers. Sarah has always had a huge passion for producing events. She loves all the components that go into making an event happen including the client relationships, the creativity, the planning, and the excitement that happens when everything comes together. Sarah can’t imagine working in any other industry!

Away from work Sarah has an English bulldog named Ziggy. She loves to travel abroad and enjoys running. In 2009, she combined her two passions and trained for her first marathon in Paris, France. She completed the marathon and is starting to train for a second one. Running is a good hobby for Sarah as it offsets the amount of sugar that she intakes on a daily basis. We often have to hide the office’s supply of candy or it will be depleted. Sarah also loves to dance.

We are excited to have Sarah back on the Showtime Events team!

Showtime Events and SPARKcon 2010

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Showtime Events was excited and honored to be one of the sponsors for the big SPARKcon event - http://www.sparkcon.com/ - in Raleigh, NC this past weekend. Here are some picturess of the cool side by side acrylic LED DJ tables we provided on the main stage Friday night for the big spin. Was awesome!

Annual NACE Fundraiser

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
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September 14, 2010: Bay 7 in Durham, NC: Pictures from the Triangle NACE Annual Top of the Table Fundraiser to benefit Interfaith Food Shuttle.  For the second year Showtime Events provided the 30+ foot acrylic LED tables for the silent auction. The illuminated tables helped attract people and draw them in to bid on the silent auction items

The silent auction table Showtime Evenets provided consisted of the following configuration. From one end to the other - IM 30″ High boy cocktail table, IM 6′ buffet table with high bases, IM 6′ buffet table with high bases, IM 60″ octagon with low base and 30″ riser in middle with glass blocks, IM 6′ buffet table with high bases, IM 6′ buffet table with high bases, IM 30″ High boy cocktail table. The total length of the tables was 30+ feet and had different viewing levels in the middle (see pictures).

The illuminated silent auction table could have been made longer if needed by adding additional 8′ buffet tables on each side. Silent auction items were on both sides of the long table allowing people to walk on both sides and look at items all the way around the long table.

Was an incredible event that highlighted some of the amazing design talent in the Triangle NC area!

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Explosion of Illuminated Color

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
8/17/10:  Showtime Events was hired by Meetings on Cue for their corporate event that was held at the Embassy Suites in Cary, NC.
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Showtime Events provided 22 acrylic LED 72″ round seating tables that really helped the colors EXPLODE in the festive ballroom.
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Showtime Events was very honored to be hired again by Brent Jayes and work with his team from Meetings On Cue!
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Thank you again to the entire crew at Meetings on Cue

The Southern Bridal Show and Expo

Monday, August 16th, 2010

On August 15, 2010 Showtime Events and Cobblestone Hall attended the The Southern Bridal Show & Expo in Raleigh, NC and had 2 fantastic booths! Both booths features stunning full color images, a wide variety of products we offer, information about our service and special events venue, our exclusive Ice Magic Acrylic LED products and lighting and much more!

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The Showtime Events team of Janet, Sarah, Cliff and James had a great time working in both booths and speaking with over 650 excited brides and their extended families and friends. Wedding shows are always fun because every one in attendance is happy and just ready to plan everything for their upcoming big wedding day! This show was one of the best we have attended in a long time and it was steady and busy with traffic for the entire day.

People were VERY excited to talk about Cobblestone Hall for their venue and discuss the different ways Showtime Events could bring the “wow” to their event! It was also great to see so many of our friends from the events industry at their booths as well. We are looking forward to the next show!

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Become our Fan on Facebook!

Monday, July 26th, 2010

It is simple! Just go to http://www.facebook.com/showtimeevents and become a fan of our Facebook page today.

Cobblestone gets a new sign!

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Check out our new 96″ x 24″ sign at Cobblestone Hall in Raleigh, NC.  Pictures below of the installation and final product.  It looks great!

Thanks to Shawn and everyone at Signs By Tomorrow in Raleigh!

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