My business is up for an award!

I'm really honoured to post that my business Water-on-Wheels is a finalist for a Green Toronto Award in Water Efficiency! Click here to review the company bio on the Green Toronto Awards website!

It's an honour to be nominated in this category with such valuable colleagues - Blue Drinks Toronto and Smart Watering Systems Inc. Each category winner will receive an award and $5,000 to further their work on the environment or donate to an environmental charity, courtesy of award sponsors.

Winners will be announced at the Green Toronto Awards ceremony on Friday, April 13 at 7 p.m. on the Main Stage at the Green Living Show, Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place. The public is welcome to attend and there is no fee for admission so I hope to see some of you in the audience on April 13!

If you're planning an outdoor event this summer - just think, if it's 24 degrees on March 20, how thirsty are your guest going to be in June, July or August? Book your WOW station now to keep your event guest hydrated this summer!

Check out my new logo for Rebecca Cotter Productions!

My new website!

Check out my new website - www.rebeccacotter.ca

I'm pleased to announce that I've started my own event coordination and production business - Rebecca Cotter Productions. Whether you want to hold an event and don't know where to start, or have an event completely developed and require day-of onsite production, RCP's full range of event services will compliment your event and exceed your expectations.

Check out the website for more info and for pictures of the recent events I've done.

Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2012

On January 10, 2012 it was my pleasure to do a contract for DanielsStephenson Public Relations and Production and have the opportunity to work the onsite event production of this year's Toronto Film Critics Association Awards. Held at the beautiful Carlu event venue in downtown Toronto the awards were presents for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Male Performance, Best Female Performance, Best Male Supporting Performance, Best Female Supporting Performance, Best Screenplay (Adapted or Original), Best First Feature, Best Documentary and Best Canadian Film as chosen by Toronto's critics. A great gig to work!

I am extremely pleased and excited to announce that on behalf of my company, Water-on-Wheels, I will be leading an education workshop for delegates at the 2012 Festivals and Events Ontario Conference at the Sheraton on the Falls, in Niagara Falls - March 2, 2012!

The workshop, entitled - Going Blue: Eliminating Bottled Water from Your Event - will explore how event coordinators are taking their green initiatives to the next level themselves by providing hydration stations with access to tap water and making their events reusable-bottle and cup friendly. This session will explore the negative environmental impact of disposable plastic bottles at events, the subsequently evolving practices of hydrating guests at events and festivals that have decided to 'ban the bottle', and the impact of bottled water bylaws on festivals and special events across Ontario. We will also discuss unique and innovated ways you can engage sponsors using hydration stations as sponsorable property, and how Water-on-Wheels can help you prove the value of your event's water refilling initiatives.

The workshop will be very helpful and informatiove, it's definitely NOT TO MISS!

Visit the Festivals and Events Ontario website to register for the conference, attend the WOW workshop and visit the WOW booth on the Marketplace tradeshow floor, March 2 and 3rd. See you at the conference!

My latest gig - Toronto Christmas Market

Like Christmas? In the Christmas spirit? Just looking for a great festival in Toronto in December? Stop by the Distillery Historic District and check out the latest event I've been working on - Lowe's Toronto Christmas Market. Likened to the outdoor Christmas markets popular throughout Europe, the Lowe's Toronto Christmas Market is 17 straight days of holiday shopping opportunities, music, entertainment, pictures with Santa, and outdoor fire pits. Each weekend of the Lowe's Toronto Christmas Market the Distillery District is licensed site-wide, so you can stroll the walkways and take in all aspects of the festival while ejnoying a mulled wine or refreshing beer. This has been an extremely interested event to work on, and a great team to work with! See you at the market. Happy holidays!

Humber Et Cetera Newspaper Article Featuring my Students

Check out this week's edition of the Humber Et Cetera campus newspaper featuring a great article about one of my students' class events - @wicket4women - in support of Girls on the Run GTA! If you are in the Finch Ave and Humber College Blvd neighbourhood next Wednesday, please stop by the Gym at Humber College North and supporting the students as they execute their first event!