Amit Mehta, City Lead For Sofar Sounds Waterloo// Bringing A Global Movement To This Region, What It’s Like Running A Completely Volunteer Organization, And The Challenges Of Marketing Secret Events
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In this episode of The Maker’s Collective Podcast you’ll meet Amit, the incredible talent behind Sofar Sounds Waterloo. Sofar Sounds is a series of secret shows that put the artist and their story at the forefront of a once-in-a-lifetime live show experience. It’s a global movement that’s picking up momentum and we’re lucky to have Amit and his team of volunteers working tirelessly to bring these shows to life here in our own backyard. Listen up and then go apply to be part of the next Sofar Sounds Waterloo show!
- Topics covered: Meet Amit & Sofar Sounds - the history of a global movement & how he got involved
- Bringing the movement to Kitchener - finding the right people
- Process for finding artists for shows
- Amit’s non-traditional path
- Why Kitchener-Waterloo?
- What Sofar Sounds has brought to this community
- How Sofar Sounds works
- Relationships with venues/hosts
- Why Sofar Sounds works
- Marketing a secret event - word of mouth and building relationships
- Books & Nooks - collaboration with the City of Kitchener
- Lacey’s experience having gone to two shows
- What the rest of 2018 looks like - figuring out how to be more sustainable
- Donations please!
- Best practices if you can’t make a show
- Why Sofar Sounds Waterloo will never be a business, but how they’ll work around that
Resources from the episode:
- Conestoga - https://www.conestogac.on.ca/
- Control V - https://www.ctrlv.ca/
- UW - https://uwaterloo.ca/
- Air Cadets - http://www.cadets.ca/en/what-cadets-do/air.page
- Little Berlin - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH3Y7rbYu6xQ7cKAH_2Bp5w
- Shopify - https://www.shopify.ca/
- The Working Centre - https://www.theworkingcentre.org/
- Belmont Village - http://thebelmontvillage.ca/
- Artline Salon - http://www.artlinesalon.com/
- Ten Thousand Villages - https://www.tenthousandvillages.ca/store/5002
- 44 Gaukel - http://acceleratorcentre.com/tag/44-gaukel/
- Hive.co - https://www.hive.co/
- One King North - https://www.facebook.com/OneKingnorth/
- Terminal - https://www.terminal.io/
- Anwar Khurshid - https://www.sitarfusion.ca/
- Life of Pi - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/
- Sitar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitar
- City of Kitchener - https://www.kitchener.ca/en/index.aspx
- Books & Nooks - https://www.facebook.com/events/234088960707514/
- Kitchener Public Library - http://www.kpl.org/
- Rich Uncle Tavern - https://www.richuncletavern.ca/
- KW Bookstore - https://www.facebook.com/kwbookstore/
- TWB Cooperative Brewing - http://www.brewing.coop/
- Maxwell’s - http://maxwellswaterloo.com/
- Seven Shores - http://www.sevenshores.ca/
More from Amit & Sofar Sounds Waterloo:
Sofar Sounds Waterloo - https://www.sofarsounds.com/waterloo-ontario
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sofarsoundswaterloo/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sofarsounds
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SofarSoundsWaterloo/
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/sofarsounds
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