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‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ Receives BAFTA Nomination for Best British Short Film, Marking Historic Milestone for British Urban Film Festival

Prestige Events Magazine

Over the years, BUFF has served as a springboard for filmmakers who have gone on to achieve critical acclaim, including Asif Kapadia (director of Amy , 2016) and Andy Mundy-Castle (director of White Nanny Black Child , 2024).

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How to Celebrate Global Meetings Industry Day on April 3

Smart Meetings

Just a year later, in 2016, it officially went globaland the celebration has only grown from there. In 2015, that spirit spread across the continent, evolving into North American Meetings Industry Day with the help of the Meetings Mean Business coalition. Today, GMID is championed by Meetings Mean Business as part of U.S. Travel Association.

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Science Museum’s Exploring Space set to close ahead of ground floor transformation Last chance to host an ‘out of this world’ event

Prestige Events Magazine

Showcasing satellites, probes, landers and space rockets, Exploring Space is the ideal landing site for drinks receptions for up to 300, dinner for up to 180 or dinner on a long table under the rocket for 80.

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Cvent Connect in San Antonio Celebrated the Power of AI

Smart Meetings

The convention center was built in 1968 for the HemisFair World’s Fair, celebrating the city’s 250 th birthday and last expanded in 2016. San Antonio International Airport (SAT) is in the midst of a $2 billion update that could add nonstop and international flights. Bass proudly reported that 17 new hotels have opened since 2021.

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British producers shine in Searcys’ 2025 summer menus

Prestige Events Magazine

The grapes for this vintage were harvested in 2016, bottled in July 2017, and aged on lees for over six and a half years. Also this summer, Searcys is offering a selection of English sparkling and non-alcoholic wines including its own cuvee, which is produced exclusively for Searcys by the award-winning Greyfriars vineyard in Surrey.

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Designing an Intimate Conference for 10,000

PCMA Convene

In 2016, Imani Ellis was working in communications for NBCUniversal in New York when she started a small gathering of other Black creatives in her one-bedroom Harlem apartment, bringing them together to support one another and share resources. CultureCon 24 took place at the Duggal Greenhouse located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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‘Events Are the Thinking Machine of the World’

PCMA Convene

In 2016, investment in clean energy exceeded investment in fossil fuel energy. To allow the population of this planet to do what they have no choice but to do: to work out how we are going to decarbonize our societies, efficiently and above all, profitably. That will require taxation, regulation — and it’s begun. Last year, $1.1