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NEWS 02.21.08 12:30 PM

Introducing Our Event Style Award Winners

CTV's Doctor Zhivago party
Photo: Gary Beechey for BizBash

At our annual trade show yesterday at the Direct Energy Centre, we announced the winners of the BizBash Event Style Awards. Here's a rundown:

Best Entertainment Program/Concept
Nexen Inc.’s "Feel the Beat" party, submitted by Experiential Events
Experiential Events packed Calgary’s Telus Convention Centre with eight styles of entertainment for Nexen Inc.’s employee-appreciation party in September. The oil and gas company wanted to branch out, and the event planning company chose to include musical, cirque, and dance performances. To keep guests on their toes, the acts performed on multiple stages around the venue, and attendees were encouraged to take part in salsa lessons and playing a floor-to-ceiling harp.

Best Corporate Event Concept (Budget More Than $50,000)
Piller’s 50th anniversary celebration, submitted by Big Events Inc.
Piller’s enlisted Big Events Inc. to create a Western-themed 50th anniversary party at the meat company’s Waterloo headquarters last June. Although the celebration was relaxed and fun, it managed to be upscale at the same time, with sleek white couches, cowhide pillows, and a wood floor dressing the tent for 600 V.I.P. clients (900 staff members also attended). The entertainment stayed true to the party’s theme, and included a rodeo, pig races, and barn dancing with fiddlers. MORE >>

Anica, CTVglobemedia, Cushman & Wakefield, Film Italia, Flare Magazine, Italian Trade Commission, Make-A-Wish Foundation, National Bridal Show, Nexen Inc., Piller's, Professional Convention Management Association, Spafax, Women in Insurance Cancer Crusade, World Airline Entertainment Association