Patsy Palmer and Josie Long to join festival aiming to combat Blue Monday
Patsy Palmer (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
EastEnders star Patsy Palmer and comedian Josie Long are among the celebrities taking part in a festival aimed at brightening up Blue Monday.
The third Monday of January is often labelled as the most depressing day of the year thanks to factors including fading Christmas memories, the impact of the festive period on personal finances and abandoned New Year’s resolutions.
The day-long Festival of Connection event is providing a programme of sessions which will try to inspire and cheer participants at the start of 2021.
By David Levin-14 January 2021 13:00pm
From tech troubles to toddler tantrums, experience tells us that whatever can go wrong on a virtual pitch usually will. So, how can you head-off Zoom gloom and deliver a pristine presentation from home? That Lot’s creative chief David Levin invites his fellow agency survivalists to share their hard-earned lessons for giving a remote pitch without a hitch. Here are their top tips.
Virtual pitching is a bit like eating hummus with chopsticks: entirely possible, maybe even a little exciting, but definitely not normal.
Our agency has done a lot of it during lockdown (pitching, not chopstick-hummus). Despite the twisted hellscape of 2020, RFPs seemed to keep popping up like Joe Wicks doing star-jumps, and it occurred to me during our most recent one (while I was attempting to kick a pair of pants out of shot in the middle of my rousing introduction) that virtual pitching is – to use a technical term – batshit bonkers, and th
Blue Monday Festival offers nationwide cheer on worst day of the year
Free online Festival of Connection on January 18 is out to combat loneliness and brighten up the bluest Blue Monday yet
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