Why people start TTW Events?

2nd Jul, 2009 at 10:27 PM Posted by Ines Markeljevic
Category: General,

People from all over the world join TTW for many different reasons:

 Free Leadership Training; gain experience to put on your resume. If you want a job as an event planner/ coordinator this is a great way to get started, even if you have little to no previous experience.
 Earn Letters of Reference as a TTW Team Volunteer for helping with TTW core operations. Go to http://www.thrilltheworld.com/team/openings for details.
 Fundraiser for your school, work, or club.
 Fundraiser for your chosen charity or non-profit.
 High School Students: leadership project, community project, this may even count toward your volunteer hours if your region requires that. Also, volunteer & leadership work looks great on a college/university application
 College & University: as an independent project, with a student club, or get the whole campus involved for some positive publicity for your school
 Elementary School: raise money for your school, increase students’ self-confidence, positive media attention, etc.
 Community Group or Club: get your neighborhood together, meet new people, do something fun with your friends, etc.
 Dance Studios: gain new students --- now they can dance thriller so they are more apt to take on learning other dance styles, too. Plus, positive publicity, media attention, visibility in your community and business exposure!
 Businesses: develop company culture, team-building, plus, positive publicity, media attention, visibility in your community and business exposure!
 You’ve always wanted to be part of a WORLD RECORD.
 You’ve always wanted to learn thriller and now you can cross if off your list of ‘things to do before I die.’
 You can’t wait till Hallowe’en parties to rush the floor, with other TTW fans, and erupt into spontaneous choreographed dance --- like a music video!

Hear from a few of our past Event Managers:

Private Event means you will not be inviting the general public to participate. You will dance only with people in your community/ that you know: school, work, friends, community centre, etc. Your private event can be small or large. If it’s a small group of people you can rely on word-of-mouth to gather your participants. If your community is, let’s say a workplace of 200+ employees, you may or may not choose to promote the event with flyers and posters, performances, etc.

Public Event means you will allow the general public to participate your event. If you are welcoming the public it means more work in terms of promotion and setting up workshops for the public to learn the dance. Depending on how big you expect your event to be and how many participants can attend, you’ll need more or less team members accordingly.

For either private or public, you can decide if you want to allow, or encourage, spectators to view the Thrill Time performance.

Small event = smaller team = less to do
Big event = obviously, bigger team = much more to do

SMALL LARGE
PRIVATE 1-20 participants
Example:
 classroom of students
 your recreational sports team
 co-workers in small company
 friends & family 50-200 participants
Example:
 an entire elementary school
 all sports teams in college
 a large workplace
 university faculty
 your extended family reunion
PUBLIC Approx. 50 participants
Example:
 a neighborhood event
 if your venue is small
 your kids dance class and their friends
 or… it’s just been hard to find enough outgoing people in your city 200+ participants
Example:
 city-wide events, everyone is invited, like Austin, Texas in 2008 with 881 zombies!