MasterPeace Experience & Liberation Festivals

It is Monday again and Eleven Events is back in the office. If you question yourself why there was no post lately on our blog it is because we were busy working at the MasterPeace project.As you could read in a previous post on our blog MasterPeace is the most heart-warming peace project! To give a more clear idea we present you the MasterPeace Passion Statement:
 

MUSIC above FIGHTING,

DIALOGUE above JUDGEMENT,

BREAD above BOMBS and 

CREATION above DESTRUCTION.

On 5th May people in The Netherlands are celebrating the Liberation Day, a national holiday and a moment to think of the past, be grateful and also to think of what you can do for peace & liberty in the future.

We are very proud because this year we have collaborated with MasterPeace and we are satisfied with the results. A lot of people got the in "peace mood" at the MasterPeace tents at the Liberation Festivals.

There were a lot of activities going on that brought people together and encouraged them to join the MasterPeace campaign for peace - " Just do it!". Among these activities we can mention: 

The MasterPeace Dream, the Speed Mediation, the cartoons drawing workshop, the flash experience and of course the Peace Party at the end of the day.

If you want to check out the mood from the MasterPeace tent @ Bevrijdingsfestival in Haarlem follow the link for the pictures on flickr!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/masterpeace2014/with/5008033629/

World Peace is Possible! Just do it!

If you want to get involved in the MasterPeace project find out more about what you can do @ 

http://www.masterpeace.org/

 

It's all about creativity

Yesterday was the first day in the office for Eleven Events, under Rookie Entertainment International. We were really excited to start working on our projects but also about the "Fun in the Sun" activity.
All the teams within Rookie company were asked to put their creativity at work and discover which 3 products/ services can they trade with another team in order to get more out of the collaboration in the same company.
That made us all think which unique and useful services can we provide as a company to another business.All our different backgrounds and experiences make us unique and since we are an international group there were varied and plenty offers to be traded among the teams. The activity was a real success and we discovered that we have so much more to offer than we thought.

After all the teams traded their best ideas and services, as a closure to this activity we were asked to put together all the creative ideas that arise from this and create an event for the whole Rookie Entertainment International..
This is the concept with which the creative managers come up with:
We were able to create an event mainly focused on different workshops and activities traded by the teams like: - Recording
       - Kung fu workshop
       - Massage
       - Producing workshop
       - Rap workshop
       - Basketball
       - Teambuilding techniques
       - Dancing workshop
       - Acting
The event could end with a closing act which can be a mix within all the workshops that took place and could bring together all the people from the event.
The solutions for catering and transport also came from the trades between the teams. So the catering is going to be sponsored by the teams who had as a trade baking cakes, creating a barbecue and having a beer sponsor. For the transport we had a team who offered as a trade free train transportation to and from the event.
The ticket price will be  €15,- including free transport, food and drinks and of course the workshops.

What about peace?

Spring is here. Can you feel it? Can you see the enthusiasm in the eyes of people when they look around them and see that the whole nature is coming back to life ? We are full of energy and ready to jump in for MasterPeace. What about you?
As you already know the world is facing a lot of challenges especially when it comes about peace. Take a minute of your time and think that while you sit in the office, wait for the train or just have a chat in the sun with a good friend in another part of the world people are suffering due to the conflicts that occur in their countries.

 MasterPeace is a global project based on the collaboration between West and East countries, NGOs, companies, cities and social entrepreneurs.On 21st September 2014, the International Day of Peace, MasterPeace will become the most heartwarming peace project.Meanwhile different regional clubs from different countries will set up activities to bring people together in the communities to share their thoughts and translate them into actions.

 MasterPeace believes that people have the unique power to change society and the extraordinary potential to translate individual thoughts into collective acting. For these reasons, MasterPeace today is giving you both the opportunity and the challenge to be a co-owner of the campaign in your country and put your action and your dream into a greater global peace movement.

If you are an open-minded, creative and proactive individual or group of people that believes in giving back to the society, MasterPeace gives you the prospect to obtain a license to develop MasterPeace activities in your own community/city/school/university/region/ country.

 If you want to get involved and give peace a chance than visit the MasterPeace  website and choose from all the possibilities offered the one that suits you best! www.masterpeace.org 

 Also if you live in The Netherlands and you are interested in being a volunteer for Masterpeace during the Bevrijdingsfestival in Haarlem, Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht or Wageningen contact us via this blog, Twitter or Facebook page.

  Thank you for your interest and don't forget: “Peace is one of humanity’s most precious needs and our highest calling” Ban Ki-moon

360 Music Deals - How do YOU see it?

 

    We came by this article today and it made us think about the 360 Music Deals, how they became a trend in the music industry and what do artists really think about it.



   

  Tolu Olorunda -            Lupe’s Lasers: The Death Sentence for Major Record Labels

 (cultural critic and

    a former AHH

editorial columnist )

Speaking last Tuesday at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg, on the night of his fifth solo release, Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang, legendary artist Raekwon listed a few pillars under which “real Hip-Hop” must fall—wittiness, slang, real-life value, lyrical worth, and a non-commercial edge. In case the concert audience had slumbered through the last item, he repeated with emphasis: “It’s got to be non-commercial!” On the same day, another prominent artist was living the reality of a music industry whose iron fist often tightens around the necks of those who refuse to submit and do as told. Lupe Fiasco’s Lasers dropped, following a tumultuous three-year delay no one saw coming.

After two superb albums released in the winter months of 2006 and 2007, all eyes fell upon the Chicago native to invade a territory only few have ever trudged; and for most fans, this represented less a demand and more an expectation. The last ten years had produced in Rap no fresher voice, no wittier mind, and it just seemed inevitable—that time would do him justice, and the ladder of quality would stretch higher on his behalf (especially since the sophomore curse had so eluded him in an age of ephemerality), and that with a third album he might possibly accomplish in ways a predecessor had tragically failed (Illmatic, It Was Written… I Am), successfully dodging the deadly commercial darts flying his way: darts which pierce with determination, rendering great artists casualties of early success; more importantly, repeated success which upset the logic of cemented probability, which undo tried and true equations record labels have built castles upon: Street Consciousness + Social Courage + Lyricism = Billboard Disaster.

Fans, it turns out, were wrong; and just like his predecessor, Lupe is now staring at an impasse, unable to reconcile his third effort with the two classics of a not too distant past. And his fingers have for the last few weeks been pointing in one direction—the record label, Atlantic Records, which signed him in 2004 to a rumored six-album deal. This is the label’s album, Lupe has been chanting to music websites for a few days now. Even when the success of his first official single, “The Show Goes On,” is raised, Lupe seems hardly moved, explaining to Chicago Sun-Times columnist Thomas Conner: “It’s their record. My words, their music. They forced this song to be a No. 1 single, and that's what they got. I can't take any credit for it.”

Conner spoke with him earlier this month, and extracted some painfully brutal remarks from an artist half-ashamed of his work, which he says is “very abstract. I had to create this commercial art that appeases the corporate side. I had to acquiesce to certain forces. Hopefully within that I snuck in some things I actually wanted to say any way I can.” Lupe explained with the commercial success of his first two records an inebriating confidence overwhelmed him, so he walked into the boardrooms expecting a bump in the budget, to replicate on a grander scale the formula which had defied odds and proved viable twice in a row.

Soon enough, however, he wised up to the chicanery at hand and canceled all other futile meetings. Atlantic one-upped and froze his budget, then began taunting his dignity, telling him not to “rap too deep on this record,” to play it safe. “That was a specific order from the top. ‘You're rapping too fast or too slow, or it's too complex’.” Atlantic also wanted the superstar, whose light was brightening each passing day, to sign a 360 deal, which would stick the label’s fingers into his pockets on any commercial venture. When he budged, the overlords, not used to unservile artists, struck harder: “I was told, ‘Because you didn't sign this 360 deal, we may or may not push your record’.”

Sometimes, living in a world like this

It’s pretty hard not to go insane

Not pretty if you don’t comply

Pretty easy if you don’t complain

What a strange creature Lupe must have seemed—a young, Black artist who didn’t sign every dotted line put before him. The dregs of Atlantic dragged out this years-long process, as fans kept chasing down fleeting rumors about completed albums which might never see the light of day.

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Frederick Douglass was right about Power and Demand; and more than ever before it seems painfully evident that everyday people—fans and supporters—truly have the power to weaken the knees of corporate giants who need them far more than they care to admit, for without the hard-earned dollars of the multitude, which carelessly disperse their scraps on CDs, ringtones, concert tickets, and merchandise, the bottom line checks out. Regrettably, the great gods of illiteracy have so systematically humbled the masses that, these days, most blindly and gleefully accept s**tfor breakfast—gouging on recycled waste without a thought. Responsibility, then, falls upon the conscious to ratchet up the momentum, never letting up until all demands are met; only then would the scales fall from the eyes of the blind, and a true revolution of values sweep through the industry, setting free our many captive artists.

 If you are curious to find out the entire story follow the link: http://allhiphop.com/stories/editorial/archive/2011/03/14/22610119.aspx

           
               We also want to share 2 interesting video's on this theme with you. One from a music lawyer's point of view and one from the executive vice president of the Warner  Music Group.

                                                             Jay Cooper

 Kevin Liles

 

Hope you enjoyed our post. Please share your opinion with us!

Social media and the Dutch market

   This week we became active in the social media as a company. Since we are young professionals this is the best tool we can use to invite people to discover more about us. That is why we were curious to find out more about the use of social media in The Netherlands.

  

Below you can read some facts we found during our research about the influence of social media in the Dutch market:

   Report Overview

The Netherlands has extraordinarily high internet penetration with 82.9% of the country’s population having internet access and mostly via broadband. Compared to global and European penetration, Holland has a much higher percentage of its population surfing the internet than most other countries. You can see from the figures below, just how wide the gap is:

  Most important networks

Because almost everybody has a reliable broadband Internet connection in the Netherlands, social media has grown fast. Not only the international ones, but also the “locals”:

     Hyves – Dutch social network

• 9,000,000 members in NL
• 2 / 3 minimum monthly logs
• 8 million unique monthly visits
• 6.5 billion page views per month
• Average age 27 years
• 80% = 13 to 34
• 66% = 35 to 49
• 30% = 50+

       Facebook – international social network

• 250 million active users,
• avg. 120 Friends
• 70% outside USA
• 120 million visits daily Facebook
• Facebook every day 600,000 new accounts
• Particular growth> 35 years of age
• 1 billion photos uploaded per month,
• 10 million videos
• 30 million mobile Facebook
• In the Netherlands from 236,000 to 1,031,000 (Feb. 09)

   

         

         LinkedIn – international business network

• 44 million members
• 1 new member per second (86,000 per day)
• half outside USA
• The average LinkedIn user is a man of 41 with 15 years experience
• In the Netherlands 1.5 million members
    
  Twitter – international microblog site
  
• 400,000 members in the Netherlands
  
  
  As we can see social media has a great impact on the Dutch market so we will make use of this strength in order to reach a larger audience and to spread our message.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The facts presented above are related to the social media channels we are active in. For more information and a complete report check out the below link:http://eccosocialmedia.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/netherlands-the/

8 March 2011- International Women's Day Centenary

          Yesterday it was International Women's day Centenary. How did you experience it? Were you actually aware of it? It made us think of all the women around the world who have the same Women’s day, but who experience it in totally different ways. There must be peace in a country in order to be able to express yourself. 

We read a poem which was really inspiring.
 

If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.

If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.

If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbours.

If there is to be peace between neighbours,
There must be peace in the home.

If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.
But where to start creating peace?

In case you are interested in different projects and initiatives for International Women's Day follow the link:http://www.internationalwomensday.com

Why Eleven?

There are plenty of events going on nowadays. What kind of events do you always remember? Eleven Events aims to give their visitors an unique, outshining experience. Which will not be forgotten easily. We do this by creating an exclusive and innovative content for our events. We bring entertainment to you!

On this blog you will stay updated and you will find interesting articles which inspire and help us.

Feel free to express yourself because this is the best inspiration source for us to become better and better in creating unique, outshining experiences.