The annual "Riga City Festival" is one of the largest and most visited city festivals in Riga. The festival takes place every year in August and lasts for three days.
All the major Riga art and cultural institutions take part in this festival organised by Riga City Council. It is also one of the major events for the guests of Riga and thus is also very important for all the travel agencies welcoming tourists in Riga. Every year around 180,000 citizens and visitors to Riga take part in the festival.
In 2012 and 2013, Jazz Communications provided festival communication on the Internet. From 2014 we are responsible for content creation and communication in the official social media platforms of "Riga City Festival".
The Internet, including the festival’s official homepage and various social networks, is the main platform on which the information on all the various events, their schedule, availability, traffic restrictions and organisation of public transport is searched for and is also provided; it is also the place to find answers to all the questions people might be interested in.
Our responsibility was the organisation of all this information, conducting interviews with participants, the organisation of contests and other activities that provide greater insight into the festival’s programme and organisation, as well as creating interest about specific projects of the festival. To ensure the flow of information we worked in close cooperation with the organisers of different events and Riga City Council.
On 22 June 2015, we organised the annual client event “Country Day 2015” for Scandagra, an international agricultural products company. This event was full of Latvian traditions and atmosphere and took place on a farm in the district of Bauska. The event gathered more than 300 clients and cooperation partners of the company with their families.
The "Starmetis" Festival is a short film script competition announced by the "Alfa" trade park, which began in 2013. This festival was created as a short-term initiative including various activities and film presentations. All submitted works were evaluated by a professional panel of judges consisting of three people: Dita Rietuma, Roberts Vinovskis and Jānis Nords. The panel of judges evaluated submitted works on their conformity with the topic, script originality and the possibilities of implementing the ideas.
At a time when we wallow in memories of the previous year, one of the major beauty networks in the Baltic States expresses gratitude to its employees for a job well done throughout the whole year, by organising the Annual Awards Ceremony for them.
Every year, on 16 April, the social platform Foursquare* day is celebrated worldwide. The Shopping Park Alfa became the venue of the event "Foursquare Day 2012", which fits in over 1800 events devoted to Foursquare day held across the world, and it has now become the largest meeting point of Foursquare platform participants in Latvia.
Riga is one of the cities that have joined the tradition of the contemporary culture festival “Baltā nakts” since 2005. The tradition of White Night began in Paris in the year 2002. It was followed by Brussels, Madrid, Riga and Rome, thus establishing a common network called "European White Nights". In Riga, the festival is organised by the Department of Culture of Riga City Council’s Education, Culture and Sport’s Department (later in the text Department of Culture).
The international language company "Skrivanek Baltic" is one of the bigger language service providers in Latvia. "Skrivanek Baltic" is a part of the international company "Skrivanek grupa" that provides qualitative translations and language training. On 14 May 2013, for the first time in Latvia, the company organised an English language competition for high school students "VārdZinis" (WordMaster) that is globally known as a "Spelling Bee" and has become especially traditional and popular in the US and other countries of the world.
The Business escalator is a joint project by the "Alfa" trade park and the "Dienas Bizness" newspaper, which was initiated in 2013 in order to promote the marketing development of young entrepreneurs. It also provides them with an opportunity to operate on the premises of the Alfa trade park for a month, thereby attracting client attention to their products and promoting sales. The author of the Business Escalator idea is the Jazz Communications team.