Coordinators appointed for big community events

August 23rd, 2016

Terri Everett

Claire Hutt

Two of Motueka's biggest community events now have contractors appointed to provide professional event planning and coordination.

Claire Hutt will manage this year's Starlight Parade in early December, and Terri Everett will work with a planning team to put together the inaugural Motueka Kai Fest next April.

Terri was appointed from a list of nine very solid applications, and will work to bring together a broad range of participants from across schools, industry bodies and community groups to build the Kai Fest as a Motueka-specific signature annual event.

She will be paid from part of the $12,000 funding provided by Rata Foundation to Vision Motueka, the umbrella group mounting the event. She will work with the already active planning team representing a wide range of community organisations. (See our earlier story.)

Terri is well known in the local event and tourism sector, with her business The Dream Maker providing a range of event services, particularly wedding and honeymoon packages.

She was the event manager and coordinator of the Ngatimoti fair several years ago, and has helped in the running of the Riwaka School midwinter Duck Race event and the Rudolf Steiner School Fair.

"Putting together a new event like this, with the focus on Motueka and the special place we live and the food we eat, is a great challenge, and I'm really looking forward to it," she says.

"I aim to make it an event that will run for years to come and will lift community participation and our town's profile."

Claire Hutt was recently chosen by Our Town Motueka, on behalf of Motueka Charitable Events Trust, to be the contracted organiser of the Starlight Parade.

Claire is the OTM treasurer / secretary / coordinator, and will soon be a member of the Motueka Community Board, so she has more than one finger on the pulse of Motueka.

"I am very excited to be coordinating this year's starlight Christmas parade, and feel very honored. It's a fantastic event for our town," she says.

"The whole community comes together to celebrate. The event also draws crowds from outside of Motueka, and ranges from toddlers to retirees and covers a multitude of cultures, all getting together to share in the season."

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