A community chat about all things events, social digital infrastructure, and human connection

Yuli from The Button Factory has been talking about Gather so much that she is losing her voice, so she has invited the founders to co-host an evening with her so that we can tell you all about it.   

Gather is a social events platform setting out to give us the digital connective tissue we are all missing. They are tackling the big three - event networking, event discovery, and ticketing - built by people who actively support the work we do in arts and events.

We will have a short panel discussion about the big and small picture challenges in our industry (and world!), how we can best work together to make change, and the transformative power that Gather offers.

Doors: 6:30 pm

Panel: 7:15 - 8:00 pm

Chats & more snacks: until 10 pm

If you are receiving this invitation, we'd bet you will want to be part of this. Please invite anyone and everyone who might also be interested - it is always good to get together in joy and solidarity (& the food will be amazing).

Panelists:

Taylor MacGregor is the Advocacy Manager at Independent Music Venues Aotearoa (formerly Save Our Venues). Taylor has previously worked as a venue manager at Whammy Bar, re-opened and managed The Crystal Palace Theatre, hosts the Aotearoa music show Freak the Sheep on 95bFM, and is a promoter, artist manager and record label under the banner of Moral Support.

Sky has been obsessed with music and computers their entire life. They moved to Aotearoa in 2009 and worked on the film Avatar programming the 3D rendered plants to glow. They co-founded Loomio, a collective decision-making platform used by thousands of groups around the world, and spent ~five years as a full-time musician under their former name "Jon Lemmon," playing shows and festivals across the country. Sky now runs Gather, splitting their time between designing, coding, and talking to event organisers about their day-to-day needs, what's broken in the industry and how we can fix it.

Lucky runs Gather alongside Sky, shaping strategy and leading operations. They've been going to music festivals, sleeping under tables in pubs while their dad played music, and attending community gatherings since before they could walk. At fifteen they started co-facilitating youth retreats, and by twenty-two they'd co-organised a 300-person youth conference. Almost every person they know is a performer or professional artist. They now live in Melbourne, where they host weekly events and go dancing with friends every chance they get.

Yuli (chair) has been taken along to shows and festivals for as long as she can remember, and long before she can remember too. Yuli left her job in muddy fields (geology) to go work in muddy fields (festivals) and hasn’t looked back (much) since, working operations at local festivals and events and doing freelance editing. She is one of the co-founders of The Button Factory, a venue, third space, and arts hub. Yuli is interested in connecting all the tiny dots that make up the big picture, and wants to build a softer world for humans and elephants alike.