Happy Holidays!

We had a blast celebrating the holidays with Mumtaz friends! Thank you for coming out to our annual Mumtaz holiday party - we're thinking a bowling gig it will be from now on! That was too much fun!

From all of us at the Mumtaz Marketing & Events team - we would love to wish you a holiday filled with lots of love and laughter.

Happy Holidays!

It's all about Downtown LA!

Downtown Los Angeles is becoming more popular than ever thanks to the efforts of the Downtown Center Business Improvement District (DCBID). Mumtaz Marketing & Events was a key team member in managing the logistics of the annual Fall Program & Tour to promote Economic Development Downtown which was a tremendous success! It is our pleasure to witness and contribute to the growth of Downtown with our expertise. On November 30, the DCBID welcomed about to 400 attendees for breakfast with a presentation on the opportunities of making business Downtown at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, followed by a captivating tour of possible business and residential locations. Downtown keeps moving up!

 

Mumtaz has an ISES LA Master of its Own

On Monday, November 12, 2012 The International Events Society (ISES) – Los Angeles, celebrated the 7th Annual Meet the Masters Event where our own President, Joella Hopkins, CSEP, CMP participated as one of the Masters in this special event industry. What an achievement! It was a sold out event where most attendees had a chance to exchange ideas, ask questions and get advice from all masters as they went around and sat at each table sharing their success stories. We are proud of Joella’s accomplishments which continue to make Mumtaz Marketing and Events (MME) grow bigger and bigger every day.

 

This year’s hot topics were the available Social Media tools to help to the success of business and How to achieve a healthy balance between work and family in the crazy Special Event Industry.  It was a fabulous night and full of insight.

 

Congratulations to all 2012 Masters!

Joella Hopkins, CMP, CSEP, Mumtaz Marketing & Events, Ron Rubin, Ron Rubin Events,

Eddie Zaratsian, Eddie Zaratsian Floral Boutique, Allison Callaway, Callaway Gable Photography , Wendy Dahl, Chic Productions, Mark McBride, USC Alumni Association, Brian Callaway, Callaway Gable Photography, Dawn Abbott, CSEP, Fun Productions. Alison Bossert, Sony Pictures, Barbara Brass, Wolfgang Puck,  Laurel Coote, CMP, CMM, Pick My Brain, Kevin Covey, Kevin Covey Wedding & EventCoordination, Rrivre Davies, Rrivre Works , Rachel Hollis, Chic Events, , Greg Jenkins, Bravo Productions, Cara Kleinhaut, Caravents, Inc, Ruth Moyte, Red Dandelion Creative, David Smith, SHOWPRO, Chris Clark, Extraordinary Events

 Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, we were thrilled to be there! 

Mumtaz brought “The Goonies” to Grand Park for LA Streetcar

We hope that you all had a joyful Thanksgiving holiday surrounded by good friends, good food and good fun! Took some time to relax and re-charge during this holiday to get ready for the busy end of year season. And just in case we don’t say this enough, THANK YOU for being such valued clients, for your business, friendship and for challenging us by demanding the best of us. We like it! We love being innovative and look forward to making the impossible happen. Let’s continue to be successful together!

On that note, here's a bit of a late blog post on our super cool event with LA Streetcar! It was a fun night! On Saturday, October 20, the amazing Mumtaz Marketing & Events team put together a great outdoor movie night and early Halloween celebration for LA Streetcar where hundreds of Downtown LA residents of all ages came by to enjoy the event. Who does not remember The Goonies? Grand Park was lively with such an action packed movie thanks to a great display by CommCinema along with other exciting activities like pumpkin painting and face painting for kids amazingly directed by the Mumtaz team. Attendees got to take pictures with crazy props.  We couldn’t have a movie night without great food including The Schmuck Truck, Cool Haus, Kiddo Kettle Korn, between others.

This opportunity served as the last chance to get possible Downtown resident voters to register and vote via mail towards the LA Streetcar project which will be on a ballot for them in November.

This fall has several events yet to come for the Mumtaz Marketing & Events team, stay tuned for more updates… see you soon!

 

It's Feria Time! Es El Momento: Educate!

What an extremely rewarding challenge! The fourth annual Es El Momento: Feria de Educación welcomed approximately 50,000 attendees for a journey into the opportunities that the California Education System have to offer... Key event partners included TV Network Univision, CSUDominguez Hills , Advancing America Foundation, and many more. We are proud to say that on the big day - October 13, 2012 - our Mumtaz Marketing & Events team arrived bright and early to pull off one of the most successful Feria events including the largest free book distribution west of the Mississippi! We helped give away over 65,000 books to families! The event was truly amazing!  Simultaneously, the Latino Book& Family Fair took place at the CSU Dominguez Hills Campus which was a perfect combination and a hit as the Educational Fair was aimed primarily towards the Latino community. We love Edward James Olmos' civic engagement.

 

To us - this photo explains why this event is produced... Our future is education and together our families have the ability to support our youth.

The event featured world class event production, coordination of live entertainment on two main stages, multiple workshops throughout the day, book giveaways, concessions, volunteer coordination of 350 in addition to managing over 150 exhibit booths represented by universities, community resource organizations and non-profit educational organizations and much more for both events.

We are thrilled to have played a key role in the production of such a fabulous event, providing a one of a kind opportunity for so many people to receive invaluable information on how to effectively navigate their way through the California educational system while encouraging families and their kids to fulfill their education by ultimately obtaining a college degree. Definitely an extraordinary event!

Meet Gina! The Newest Mumtaz Family Member!

Hey everybody! It's our pleasure to introduce you to Ms. Gina Alva-Evans. She is our new Marketing & Events Assistant. We are very excited to have her on board and we hope you will join us in welcoming her to our Mumtaz family.

Gina Alva-Evans has over twelve years of experience in the Hospitality Industry focused in Catering, Banquets, and Food & Beverage Management.  Broadening her reach and at the same time bringing the “house” insight to team, she is now also applying her skills by furthering her development as a marketer and planner. She began her career in her home country of Peru producing social gatherings, galas, corporate meetings, and week long city-wide conventions. Along with her native tongue of Spanish, she also speaks English and French.  She is constantly striving to develop her skills including diligently pursuing her Bachelors in Business Administration. 

Mumtaz does Taste of Streetcar!

So, this was one of the craziest and most fun events that we've recently planned - LA Streetcar's "Taste of Streetcar". Love our clients and partners in creating this event... So, here's a bunch of photos of the event. Bottom line - We were originally at a different location in Downtown LA - South Park and moved within 10 days to the Cooper Design Building in the Fashion District to being overwhelmed in RSVPs. We expected 300 - 400 and we have over 1500 RSVPs!!!! We had just under a 1000 at one time for this event. The purpose of the event was to educate downtown residence that they must be registered to vote in order to vote for the Streetcar. The Streetcar will have an incredible positive impact on Downtown and this event was all about awareness! So, we produced the Taste of Streetcar - all of the restaurants along the route or just off the proposed route got involved in showcasing their tasty fare for their customers - downtown residence.

It was an fantastic showing of over 19 restaurants that hand enough "tastes" for 1000 people! Just some of them were: 213 Revolution Nightly, Alma, Corkbar, Coronado’s Restaurant & Bar, Figaro Bistro, Industriel, Market, Mo Chica, The Standard, The Edison, Tiara Café, Two Boots Pizza, Pete’s Café, Mediterranean City Grill, Localita, Grand CentralMarket, Raw Bites, Umamicatessen
What a huge commitment! Thank You! AND, Thank You to everyone from the event team, committee, venue management, City representatives, and to each one of our team vendors who really pulled through! Whew! Thank you Emily Ivey! You really rocked it with these photos!

While loading these photos I'm going hmmm, what amazing food we had that night! Yum! If you haven't been to Downtown recently you really need to get down there!