Networking With A Difference
March 27, 2009 at 12:49 pm
This week I attended two new networking events. The first was on Tuesday and it was aimed at creatives. Ooh very interesting – fashion people, photographers, cool musicians, film people and the like. It took place at D-Light Studios, a large warehouse just behind the Five Lamps. A lovely large studio space with natural light, perfect for shoots… but will someone please tell them that when you host an event the following items are key to a successful night:
- Food and drink
- A host to welcome people
- Someone to open the door
We stood in the freezing cold for 10 minutes outside before someone came to open the door. I wasn’t impressed by the organisation, but I was impressed by the following cool new people that I met:
- Timi Martins of Rap Ireland – a hip hop magazine covering all aspects of the culture
- Padraig Mannion of Studio Rua
- Claire O’Connor of Lil C Couture – save your click, it’s just a placeholder site
- Photographer Hu O’Reilly who has an exhibition of his work for Medecins sans Frontieres in Chad running in Filmbase 16-23 April.
- Aisling Nelson of Rangoli who makes gorgeous wedding jewellery. She’s also got a blog.
- Conor Lynch of Connector – who’s going to be on the Dragon’s Den on 2 April at 10pm
On Thursday I went to the launch of Cater Pass by the Catering Industry Skillnet. I was there as a guest of my favourite catering website client, 3Q Catering. I was looking forward to it all week because, instead of it being regular “everyone mill around a function room” networking… it was taking place in an Italian Cookery School!
What an amazing place for an event!
There’s a big kitchen and on arrival we all enjoyed some delicious Italian wine, cold meats, and other tasty nibbles. Then the cookery class began proper. We were making home-made meatballs in tomato sauce, and spinach and ricotta ravioli – with a cream sauce. I enjoyed mixing up the meatballs with my bare hands!
When the food was cooking, we had a presentation about the new Cater Pass which was being launched. When the food was ready, everyone sat down together to enjoy and eat. Lots more red wine a -flowing, people laughing, a thorougly enjoyable event.
If you are looking for an interesting venue to host a team building event, a product launch, or just a night out with friends, I totally recommend you check out the Italian Cookery School at City Link Business Park at Kylemore Luas Stop.
Comments (3 responses)
I love the idea of the Italian Cookery School. Could we do BarCamp there?
@grannymar – we could, the main kitchen is certainly large enough and they’ve got projectors, laptops, etc. What we’d need to know is whether they have working wifi and some smaller break out rooms. Who’s organising barcamp? Put them on to me and I’ll hook em up with Italians!
hey maryrose
thanks for the mention and hope ur well !
chat soon
conor
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