Reminder: Tickets on sale for 2021 PADC Skulls award show this November 12th
Tickets are now on sale for the 2021 PADC Skulls, returning to WA Museum Boola Bardip on Friday 12 November.
The PADC Skulls awards is returning to an award show format after last year’s special showcase event.
PADC Club Manager and adjudicator Tia Brazier said: “This year’s event is set to be the club’s biggest award show yet, with a record number of entries received and work awarded. This is a combined total from last year’s showcase entries, Skulls Awards, Diamond Skulls and the Student Skull entries.”
Expect drinks, canapés, and great vibes from DJ Genga as Perth celebrates the best in commercial creativity from the last two years.
Part of every ticket sale will also be donated to the club’s proud charity partner, UnLtd – connecting media, marketing and creative industries with charities that help children and young people at risk.
Get your tickets early, as this will sell out. Click here to purchase your tickets.
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Good to see the awards continue and I’m sure it will be a great success. FYI 388 entries is not a record. The Club used to get well over 700 entries each year and over 1000 several times. John Ilian, Gordon Dawson or Ric Cairns would know more.
I’d happily pay $235 if there was a sit down meal… canapés again!?
Won’t somebody please think of the children.
Hey Where’s the Food,
Don’t want you to worry. The food and drinks will be coming thick and fast all night long, but given that there’s no formal sit down dinner (also due to previous feedback from PADC members!) we thought it would be best to warn people who are rolling in from a 5 hour client meeting (or 5 hour hairdresser appointment!) that you might want to grab something to eat prior to smashing the bar. As PADC President, myself, Club Manager Tia Brazier and the whole PADC Committee have worked super hard this year and the last to keep our prices as low as possible in a bloody tough events market. As a result of the PADC’s efforts, we’ve actually managed to drop prices by $50+ from recent previous shows despite higher prices across the board and major cuts to traditional sponsorship funding. We’ve also been able to organise a new and improved After Party format for a minimum price, and even managed to build in a small charity funding model for several youth and mental crisis charities into your ticket price. It’s going to be an awesome night out!
@PADC Prez. Thanks for the details and I’m sure it will be a fun night but why change a winning formula? Last year’s showcase was a disappointing event. The Kings Park award nights have been excellent – 350 people paying due respect to the award winners and the winning work and the speeches and everyone having a bloody good time.
Can’t wait to get a whole bunch of Creative people back in a room. It feels like a long time between drinks 🍸
Cheers @Matt Wilson. @2 Cents If there’s one thing I’ve learnt from this gig, is that you can please some of the people, some of the time! To be transparent as a member organisation, the original heavily-negotiated Fraser’s Restaurant contract was up and the negotiations to hold events there were getting cost prohibitive to keep the ticket prices under control. But more importantly, the overwhelming feedback was that the format was getting stale after many faithful years of service, and needed a refresh. Boola Bardip was put forward as one of the preferred venues due to a range of factors – the ability to mingle, cost per head, central location (removing the need for post-event buses etc), great vibe, exhibition space etc. The PADC AGMs are a great place to have your say about this kind of thing, and you can always jump on and deliver feedback via president@padc.com.au if you want to chat directly. As far as the Showcase being disappointing, I can only observe that this opinion was in the minority from the feedback we received when we asked at AGM, via Commune, and the events held throughout the year including the Freo.Social Commune, Indigenous Commune and more.
Most people seemed genuinely excited to get together in a beautiful space, and enjoy each others’ company, and talk about creativity for a few hours. Was it perfect? Hell no! It was an experiment that our Committee and Club Manager poured hours of free blood, sweat and tears into – that seemed genuinely important at a time with COVID playing havoc with the Oasis Ball, and the death of many other industry events and functions that keep us inspired and motivated to tackle the next creative challenge. And this year has rolled on from that experiment with free entries to those who entered the Showcase, an awesome venue that has been expanded to a seating and rolling canapés menu, cocktail bar, sponsored drinks and a killer After Party.
Other than that, my (virtual-email) door is ALWAYS open to anyone who genuinely wants to contribute, to be part of the Committee, and to help keep the flame of creativity and creative recognition alive. As I always tell myself when I’m preparing for a whinge – any idiot can point out a problem, but it’s much more fun to come up with solutions 🙂
Soooooo ready for an industry party. Bring it on.