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Sylvester wins golden BEA award to commemorate 75 years of Liberation
Sylvester|
2 December 2021

Haacht, December 2, 2021 – The Belgian Event Awards (BEAs) were presented yesterday evening in the Nekkerhal in Mechelen. Each year, they award the most prestigious events in our country.

Event agency Sylvester took home a gold award in the institutional events category. “A fantastic recognition of the phenomenal efforts that the Sylvester team has made over the past two pandemic years and of their great flexibility and perseverance”, says Geert Vanoverschelde, CEO of Sylvester.


The previous edition of this high mass for the Belgian event sector was canceled due to the corona measures in force at the time. That meant that this year was a double celebration: in all categories – B2B, B2C, B2E and Institutional – a golden BEA award was presented for 2020 and a ditto series for 2021.


Golden BEA

The Golden BEA in the Institutional 2020 category went to one of the biggest Sylvester events of recent years: the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Antwerp during the Second World War. This event took place on September 7 and 8, 2019. At that time, among other things, a historic military parade and an impressive spectacle including projection on the town hall took place. No fewer than 160,000 visitors were part of this impressive commemoration with the baseline “Always free, never self-evident”.



Three Sylvester events in final round

But 75 years of liberation was not the only event for which Sylvester received high praise from the BEA jury. In addition, the event agency was selected with two other cases for the final round of the BEAs. The award show of the presentation of the Ultimas (the Flemish culture prizes) received a podium place in the Institutional 2021 category. With our own Think Hybrid event, in which Sylvester introduced the hybrid event format and explained it to the sector, we were a noted finalist in the B2B 2021 category. .



Resilience and innovation central

What had to be the festive highlight of a year of incredibly hard work last night at the BEA ceremony was overshadowed by the 'light lockdown' that our country has been in since last weekend and the new uncertainty that the sector will face in the coming days and weeks.

What also stood out, however, was the resilience and innovation that the event agencies displayed, two talents in which the Sylvester team also absolutely excelled over the past period.



Golden BEA winner: 75 years of the liberation

- Category institutional 2020

- Award show was canceled in 2020 due to corona.

- https://www.sylvester.be/nl/cases/bevrijdingsdagen



Nominated for golden BEA: Ultimas award show

- Category institutional 2021

- https://www.sylvester.be/nl/cases/de-ultimas



Nominated for golden BEA : Think Hybrid

- Category B2B 2021

- https://www.sylvester.be/nl/cases/crafting-your-future-event-think-hybrid

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Kevin Van der Straeten
Leader |eventplanner.net | 2 December 2021

Proficiat Sylvester team! 🎉