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MEMBER BENEFITS INCLUDE: w Networking opportunities with other festivals, special event groups, public organizations and institutions and many businesses in the trade w Professional training seminars w Discounts on workshops w Scholarship opportunities to attend affiliated organizations’ seminars and events w Members only VIP Behind the Scenes tours at South Florida’s Premier Festivals and Events w Membership & Services Directory w Resource sharing of sponsors and vendors w Professional Photojournalistic documentation of member events w Information & updates regarding: • Congressional & Legislative action • Local funding • Permitting & local impact fee issues • National, State & Local impacts w Promotion of your event through: • GMFEA Website – www.FestivalsMiami.com • Reciprocal advertising in member programs • Inclusion in 25,000 quarterly calendars
12555 Biscayne Blvd., PMB# 821 North Miami, FL 33181 tel. 305.651.9404
www.festivalsmiami.com
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ABOUT THE GREATER MIAMI FESTIVALS & EVENTS ASSOCIATION
OUR MISSION Greater Miami Festivals & Events Association, Inc. (GMFEA) supports professional development, enhances the success and sustains year-round promotion of festivals and events in South Florida. GMFEA is proud of the role it plays in providing valuable resources and support to its member organizations.
he Greater Miami Festivals & Events Association (GMFEA) is a not-for-profit corporation representing the broad spectrum of South Florida’s multi-ethnic community. Its member organizations maintain a commitment to producing excellent public celebrations and to expressing and championing this community’s cultural diversity. Incorporated in December 1985, the Greater Miami Festivals & Events Association is comprised of South Florida’s major annual festivals with the central purpose of promoting the year-round schedule of special events to residents and visitors. Currently, the Association’s membership totals more than 50 festivals and special events groups, public agencies, institutions, and area businesses, with an aggregate annual attendance to their events in excess of 3.5 million participants. These members represent and are involved in producing an incredibly diverse range of community celebrations including major arts, film, literary and culinary events to parades, street festivals and fairs, youth sporting competitions, and historic, environmental, national and ethnic awareness events. The Association has published the “Festivals of Miami” brochure to portray and promote, for the first time within one cover, Miami’s dynamic year round schedule of festivals and special events. This brochure provides residents and visitors with a colorful month-by-month picture of the rich variety of Greater Miami’s multi-ethnic public celebrations.
REGISTRATION FORM
Festival/Company/Organization Name:____________________________________________________________________________
payable to: Greater
Event Name:__________________________________________________________________________________________________
Miami Festivals & Events
Mailing Address: ______________________________________________________________________________________________
Association, Inc.
City:________________________________________________________________________Zip: ______________________________
form and check to: Greater Miami Festivals
Membership Levels (choose one):
& Events Association, Inc. FEES
For-profit Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300
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MEMBERSHIP DUES INFORMATION
The GMFEA provides opportunities to exchange information, management and promotional techniques and resources among festival organizers, both large and small through membership affiliation, workshops, seminars, “behind the scene tours” and communication on a regular basis. It has also proven itself to be a powerful, effective advocacy force when collectively addressing issues affecting its members and/or their activities at the local, regional and state levels. In addition to the above activities, the Greater Miami Festivals & Events Association is an active member of the Florida Festivals Association and the International Festivals & Events Association (IFEA), a service organization whose membership is comprised of festivals from all over the world including the Royal Tournament of London, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, the Kentucky Derby, the Anchorage (Alaska) Fur Rendezvous, and the French Quarter Festival inner Orleans. The Greater Miami Festivals & Events Association hosted the 1990 annual convention of the IFEA at the Sheraton Bal Harbour, one of the most successful conventions in IFEA history.
Annual Event Date: (i.e., 2nd weekend in March)___________________________________________________________________ Next Event Date:______________________________________________________________________________________________ Structure: (Check appropriate category) For-profit Company ($300)
Government Agency ($150)
Non-profit Organization ($150)
Independent Vendor ($100)
12555 Biscayne Blvd.
Contact Name:________________________________________________________________________________________________
PMB# 821
Title:________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Government Agency & Non-profit Organization. . $150
North Miami, FL 33181
Work phone:____________________________ Cellular: _________________________________ Fax:__________________________
Independent Vendor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $100
Attn: Roberta DiPietro
E-mail: __________________________________________________ Website: ____________________________________________
