The ASE 2020 Project
Great events take people on a journey. But what about the journey that the people involved in our industry have taken? During the 2020-21 lockdown I’m chatting with people who have made a career in our industry and asking them to share their story. Subscribe to the series via your favourite podcast app or you can come to this page for the next episode. Visit https://www.specialevents.com.au for more interviews, news and opinion about the Australian event industry. You might enjoy each episode with a cup of coffee and for the price of that cup of coffee you can support this podcast series - just go to https://www.specialevents.com.au/support
The ASE 2020 Project
Ep 14: Di Henry – Games Girl
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Trevor Connell / Di Henry
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Season 1
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Episode 14
Di Henry’s first parade involved 1000 sheep and a bullock train trundling through the Sydney CBD to promote the Royal Easter Show, and she brought out Robosauraus to the RES.
From that she went on to Mardi Gras parades and then the 2000 Sydney Olympic torch relay followed by a dozen more Olympics, Commonwealth and Asian Games relays.
Di spent 2012 in England organising events for the City of London including a royal wedding, and the London Olympics city activations.
Then back to the Sydney RES for another stint followed by the Paramasala Festival in Parramatta.
Currently Di is trying to work out how to get back to Alice Springs for the Parrtjima Festival in September and creating embroidered artworks for sale via urbanembroidery.shop