Labor Day: Please Meet Our Production Team!

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Most of you, our esteemed colleagues and readers, know our front office EventWorks team. But we are only one part of the EW family.
We feel that Labor Day is a good occasion to introduce you to Carolyn Vasi's EW production team - the amazing, hard working creators, artisans and artists who turn ideas and themes into event reality and make the magic happen!

As we were reminiscing recently, we realized that our production team can pretty much create anything you can imagine.
500 Bavarian pretzel stands for an authentic
Oktoberfest for a German company?  - ✔️ - the whole crew particpates.

Intricate visual art pieces, ranging from traditional Japanese fan motives to urban graffiti walls? ✔️✔️ - Frankie Flores is our in-house visual artist.





Branded, customized props of all sizes get designed and built constantly. Since we like to be cost effective and environmentally friendly, we reuse as much as we can.

But we can do much more than that.
Carolyn Vasi still marvels at her crew's outstanding work this past spring for a series of gala events on the USS Hornet in Alameda, CA.

"The location was a challenge as we had to turn a historic aircraft carrier flight deck into a safe reception space. The flight deck has hundreds of tie-down holes, designed to keep aircraft in place. We could not take the risk of any guest in heels stumbling and falling. We custom built wooden plugs to fill the holes. We covered the wooden plugs with square cut, custom made formica tiles that we spray painted grey to match the flight deck color. Thus, a smooth, safe surface was created. Obviously, we had to return the aircraft carrier to its historical condition after the event series - all tiles and plugs were designed to be removable without trace."


We used a large parking lot adjacent to the aircraft carrier for an extra outdoor activity. The industrial area parking lot needed 500 quick patches to fill holes and create a smooth, even surface. Leo and Edwin Mejia know how to fix asphalt lots!











An external vendor ran over the entry arch while the guests were enjoying the reception. No problem, our crew quickly removed the damaged arch, repaired it and put it back in place without anyone noticing!






Come rain or come shine, hot or cold weather - our whole team performs long hours of outstanding work to ensure a smooth, successful event.

A big round of applause for - in alphabetical order:

Frankie Flores
Aracely Frias
Mario Gomez
Arturo Gomez
Manuel Hernandez
Miguel Hernandez
Ricardo Hernandez
Wilver Mabanales
Leo Mejia
Edwin Mejia
and
Carolyn Vasi!

Thank you for all you do!

Gratefully,

Janet

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