This year the Zim Hip Hop Awards celebrated its 5th Anniversary with a well put together ceremony at the 1+1 club at Longchen Plaza.
Responsible for the stage management was The empire team, a Fashion House and Events Management company.
They have launched albums for such artists as Mudiwa,Passion Java Records, Courtney Antipas, Masofa Panze among others.
We spoke to one the team event managers Fungai Lee Chaks about their experience at the Zim Hip Hop Awards.
She was being assisted by Legarta Kamanda.
Below are the excerpts from the interview.
Zimbuzz: We just witnessed a splendid job of stage management and coordination at the ZHHA, how was the experience like for you and your team?
Fungai: thank you very much we are still overwhelmed by the positive feedback from different individuals and still grasping what happened that night…
We had an awesome experience filled with a bit of pressure as expected when doing an event of such a nature but we are very excited to see that whatever effort we had put in came out almost as planned.
Zimbuzz: I understand some artist who arrived late for their performances didn’t get the chance to perform, just how important is the essence of time at such events?
Fungai: Yes we had to cancel some performances because when you are doing an event time management is essential as time lost can never be recovered and this was just going to cause distortion and destruction to the programme we had made.
We vowed to stick to all plans hence, we kickstarted the event at exactly 8 pm despite of the venue being not full at that time.
We only lost a bit of time during the freestyle Award but we were way ahead of our programme.
Zimbuzz: What can you say were the challenges you faced before and during the show, especially dealing with artists?
Fungai: We didn’t really face as many challenges since we had planned our stuff on time but we had challenges with getting people to get accredited on time of which most people only got accredited on the day.
And it still goes back to the issue of timing otherwise everything was in place and the artists we worked with this time were co-operative… Even when we had to make them stay backstage for close to 30mins before their slots on stage, we applaud all the artists on the night for a job well.
Zimbuzz: The venue being a club was a risky experiment, how did you manage to maintain order and making sure the programme runs smoothly?
Fungai: We had a strong team and our programme was on point to get the crowd fixated..we had ushers, security, stage management team, floor managers and co-ordinators..we had great teamwork and we made sure the programme had a smooth sail from the beginning to the end.
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