Internship in Baltimore, USA

- Kaire Luuk

 

I am Kaire Luuk from Estonia and I study Sport Management BA at UCN in Aalborg.

 

Dream Machine Arts

I am specializing more in event management and therefore I have chosen for my internship a company from Baltimore, USA, which organizes events: Dream Machine Arts. It is a small event company managed by Dai Andrews.

 

Dai Andrews is a sword swallower who gives and organizes his own performances. He also works with performers from circus, other event companies and cruise ships.

 

Theory and practice

During my stay in above mentioned internship I expected to link my academic study and theory to real practice and perform specific tasks like working out a special corporate event.

 

I also expected to get a better understanding of the company’s marketing strategy and to come up with good ideas to improve it – for example finding new events companies and performers from Europe, who would be interested to work with Dream Machine Arts.

 

My tasks

I enjoyed my internship very much. My main tasks were to find new performing places for the above mentioned company. The target countries were in Europe.

 

I had to find out where the most important big artistic festivals are held and contact their coordinators in order to start a partnership. I also had to translate the flyers and main advertising information into Russian, Danish and Estonian.

 

In the meantime we were attending different festivals in U.S.A. and I helped the crew with organizational work such as setting up the stage.

Event in Baltimore

I had an opportunity to put together a small event in Baltimore MD in the small theatre building. Dai Andrews performed together with other magicians, acrobats and entertainers.
 

I got an idea of how the company runs its marketing strategy and helped them to come out with some other ideas.

 

Useful learning

I am really satisfied with my experience and I think that I learned a lot about show business companies and how they run things, especially in U.S.A.

 

I got to see good and very entertaining shows and learned how to organize them. I learned things about budgeting, ticketing and event logistics.
 

I also got to know so many great artists and entertainers and spent a very great summer surrounded by performing artists.