Event Planning Production Checklist

Event planning begins and ends with a checklist.

Checklists are invaluable for event organizers, especially those that include dates, deadlines and volunteer tasks. There are resources available on the web that help organizers plan just about any kind of event.

Attached here is a production checklist, or as I call it a Production T & T (Timeline & Task list).Production is the end game of your event. For example, it might take a volunteer planning committee 6-8 months to plan and organize a large Street Fair.

When it comes to actually putting your plans into action, rely on a production schedule to get people safely on the street, in the right places, at the right time. An event production book, or itinerary, lists all people, times, and infrastructure plans for Street Fair day. It includes organizers and neighborhood contacts, map, schedule and protocols, or agreed-upon procedures to make management easy-to-follow for volunteers. The production book can be simple lined paper in a 3-ring binder or printed pages stapled together. Any way you do it, compile information and make multiple copies to give to key volunteers, supervisors and contractors as well as interested business or property owners in your area.

PRODUCTION BOOK CONTENTS

1. CONTACTS

• Site Map

• Event Contacts

• Neighborhood Contacts

• Agency Responsibilities

2. EVENT SCHEDULE

• Hours and Operations

• Event Schedule

3. VENDORS

• Vendor Protocols

• Vendor SetUp

4. VOLUNTEERS

• Check-in

• Volunteer Packet

• Break Area

5. PERFORMERS

• Performance Schedule

• Performer Protocols

6. SECURITY

• Saproduction bookfety Teams

• Security Agencies

• Areas of Responsibilities

7. SITE

• Toilets

• Rest Stops

• Waste Management

• ATMs

8. TRAFFIC CONTROL

• Street Closure Plan

• Sign & Flagging Protocols

• Reopen Plan

Links: Production Book Sample available in Street Fair Guide templates.Attached: Sample Street Fair Checklist T&T (Timeline and Task list) - Sample checklist for a medium-size street fair.

For for more ways to level up your event, read the comprehensive event planning guidebook by seasoned neighborhood business consultant, Bridget Bayer:

Street Fairs for Community and Profit:

How To Plan, Organize and Stage a Sensational Street Fair While Building Community

It’s a nuts-and-bolts book that will especially help new groups in planning—and actually executing—a street fair. For experienced organizers, it will help them PROFIT from their event. www.streetfairguide.com