I am Joël Lemmerling 25 years old and student International Event Music And Entertainment Studies at Fontys Acedemy for Creative Industries in Tilburg. This is also the place where I live. I grew up in a small village in South Limburg called Mechelen. Mechelen is a small picturesque village and counts about 2000 inhabitants. Despite the fact that it is a small village it is not the end of the world. You are within 10 to 30 minutes in Maastricht, Heerlen, Aachen (Germany) or Belgium. As a result, I grew up as a "three-country resident. This has an positive impact on your general knowledge.
As an teenager I already had a passions for music, speakers, technology and events. Despite this fact it took me a while before I started an event relateded study.
This due the fact that there are no event studies in Limburg and I did not want to move to another province because al my friends were studying in Limburg.
Finally I made the decission to leave Limburg and move to North Brabant because there is a study were I could express my passions and use them in my own benefits. This is the best decission I ever made! I am living now for three years in TIlburg and I still enjoy it.
At the age of twenty I organised and financed my first event, this was before I moved to Tilburg. The event was called Loco Lectro and was held in Gulpen, South Limburg. This event arose from the idea that there were no events in a close distance to their homes. When people wanted to go to a party there was always a traveling issue. For a 16 year old is a taxi quite pricy. That's why a friend and me came up with the idea of Loco Lectro. An event for youth, on a short travelling distance and with a cheap entrance. The price for a ticket was 6 euro ande the price of drinks was €1,25. This are very cheap prices comparing to the prices in the big cities. This edidtion was a great succes among the young. We had about 250 paying visitors and even made a profit while this was not even our approach. The organisation of this event came along with a big amount of stress but it was worth it. Now I was sure, I wanted to work in the event industry.
Besided the organisation of events I had another hobby. Together with a friend we owned a drive inn show and it was possible to hire us for parties. We made profit with this business and expanded with the rental of speakers. We made profit with this but it was still considerd a hobby. When I moved to Tilburg I sold almost all of my equipment and bought a portable DJ / PA set for small parties. When living in TIlburg the drive inn show/rental wasn't a priority anymore. I needed to rebuild my network to get assignments.
After rebuilding my network in Tilburg I was able to apply my skills and knowledge regarding to the orginazation and productions of events in TIlburg. I joined the students association #CLUBIEMES and became chairman of the committee external events were I was responsible for the organisation of multiple events. You can find these events under the page work experience in te menu (link). At that time I was also becoming more acitve in South Limburg, because the parties where getting bigger I started to work together with a bigger rental company. This is the company Decibel Sound & Light Equipment. Together we did productions for a variety of medium events in Maastricht.
I just finished my internship at a business agency bureau called Dundas Produkties and I am still doing productions and organising events. I really enjoy working in the events branche because each event is a new challenge!
I am currently following a minor the professionial entrepreneur. In this minor you learn the basic skills to start your own company. In this minor I will write a businessplan which is direct executable after finishing my minor.
You can read more about my internship, events and productions under the page work experience (link).