Welcome to your Contemporary Events page for Level 3 Geography.
 The databases and websites below are ones that will be most helpful for your research. 
Use a simple keyword or subject search to find your information.

Choose your significant contemporary event from here:
  

Food and Wine Festival
You will need  to:
  • outline the nature of the event
  • explain the planning and decision making involved in the event
  • explain about the social, economic and/or environmental impacts of this event

   

Where can you go to find information?

An excerpt from Press/C4 Mainlander section, February 8, 2014 – Events:: What is the payoff? 

Available online at http://www.stuff.co.nz/.  
  1. Also search:  impact of events; event planning. 
  2. Select from your results.

Christchurch City Council: 
http://www.ccc.govt.nz/ 
  1. Enter events in the search box
  2. Select from the results.

Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz/cityleisure/eventsfestivals/index.aspx 
  1. Select from topics. 
Careers New Zealand website for info about Events Manager 
http://www.careers.govt.nz/jobs/hospitality/event-manager/about-the-job. 
  1. See printout and/or go to website.
       

EPIC Databases – [login/password required – see librarians]
  1. Select Australia/ New Zealand Reference Centre 
  2. Limit your results to full text 
  3. Search for the name  of the event eg. Ellerslie Flower Show Christchurch; World Buskers Festival Christchurch.   
  4. Search for planning an event.  
  5. From your results select Magazines (Domestic) 
  6. Under Source Types on the left-hand side of the screen. The article Planning PIZAZZ looks useful. [printout available]
Carrot2: http://search.carrot2.org/  
  1. Type in search term eg. impact of events on community; economic impact of events  
  2. Select from results.
  3. Click on foam tree on the left-hand side of your screen and select topic areas.
Teacher/librarian Resource INTUTE http://www.intute.ac.uk 
  1. Provides access to websites. 
  2. Search  event management
   

From the Events Management Team at the Christchurch City Council:

bethereonlineeventapplicationform.pdf
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organising_an_event_in_christchurch.doc
File Size: 47 kb
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nth_hagley.pdf
File Size: 160 kb
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triangle.pdf
File Size: 202 kb
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