INDUSTRY NEWS: The Event Industry Council has named Amy Calvert chief executive officer. Calvert is currently senior vice president of convention sales and services at Visit Baltimore.
AUSTIN: Marquee Event Rentals has named Denise Silverman director of sales and marketing for Austin and San Antonio.
CHICAGO: Café Cancale, a new restaurant from One Off Hospitality, will open in Wicker Park in summer 2019. The restaurant will serve oysters and seafood with French influences.
The 15th annual Good Food Expo drew more than 4,000 attendees to the UIC Forum March 22-23.
LOS ANGELES: The 20th annual Newport Beach Film Festival will take place April 25-May 2. Festival events will take place at venues including Fashion Island, Time Nightclub, and Lido Plaza.
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NEW YORK: The Common Good Forum and American Spirit Awards will take place May 10 at the Roosevelt Hotel.
The Dominick Hotel has appointed Egemen Kocak director of corporate sales and Tina Santana spa director of the Babor Signature Spa.
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ORLANDO/CENTRAL FLORIDA: The Alfond Inn at Rollins in Winter Park will launch an expansion in late summer. Slated to complete in 2021, the expansion will bring 73 new guest rooms, a spa, and additional meeting and wedding space to the hotel.
PHOENIX/SCOTTSDALE: Enchantment Group, a development, management, and experiential company for hotels, spas, and golf courses, has promoted Jim Root to director of well-being for Mii Amo spa. Root was previously general manager.
TORONTO: Grow Op, an annual art and environment festival, will take place April 17-21 at the Gladstone Hotel. The festival will feature more than 30 installations inspired by environmental sustainability, urbanism, and landscape design.
Pomp & Circumstance has been named public relations agency of Record for Luminato. The 13th annual festival runs June 7-23.
WASHINGTON: Brightest Young Things has launched its sister company, Exactly, an experiential and creative agency. Leading the new agency is Svetlana Legetic, founder and C.E.O.; Diya Eggleston, chief creative officer; and Marissa Rubenstein, director of experiential.
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With contributions from Claire Hoffman in Los Angeles and Beth Kormanik, Michele Laufik, and Ian Zelaya in New York.
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