Showday 8: Manchester

Manchester was another university night. First, I went for a stroll and did some shopping. When we arrived at the venue, we were told we couldn’t start setting up the merchandise until around 5 p.m., which was far too late for us. So, we came up with a plan to pre-build the fabric displays so that all we had to do later was hang them. The reason for the delay was that the merchandise area was located in the main food court of the university building, which was busy with students all day.

Once we were allowed to set up, everything went smoothly. Wouter prepared all the boxes and handled restocking while I worked on setting up the displays.

Emily took care of the "buy-out" food, which means the venue didn’t provide catering but gave us money to buy our own meals. It wasn’t the best today, but food is food.

Packing up was tight, but since everything had been pre-pinned, it was relatively easy.Read more