Any creative project involves both back-end and front-facing skills. This is a selective list of my work on organising events to execute the diverse range of projects I have taken up in extra-curricular and professional capacities.

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Selected Events and Activities
Swara Shukla
I see people-engagement and community-building as essential tenets of ensuring quality, visibility,
and genuine commitment towards delivering an engaging (and accessible) creative project. This is
a selective list of some notable activities and events I have supported or contributed to in
management and administrative capacities. They have enabled me to build experience and skills in
the various logistics, communications, and managerial points involved in the process of planning
and executing a project. Over the course of the last five years, these have also helped me interact
closely with two cross-border heterogenous markets – India and Scotland.
Scotland
1. 24th Nov 2018
So You’ve Written a Poem, What Next? | Scottish Youth Theatre, Glasgow
Panellist/Speaker
A networking event aimed at young aspiring writers aged 16-26, I initiated contact with
the organisers – a Scottish arts company called ConFab – and represented my company’s
creative writing platform MageQuill.
2. 23rd Oct 2017
Launch of From Glasgow to Saturn Issue 39, literary magazine | DRAM, Glasgow
Organising Team Member/Host
Responsibilities included coordinating the reading and open mic line-up; hosting a raffle
to raise funds; coordinating sales of the magazine; and managing budgets and profits.
3. 9th May 2017
A Decade of From Glasgow to Saturn | National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Organising Team Member/Host
Responsibilities included working with the library staff and event managers to draft and
send invitations; putting together and coordinating the line-up of presenters; presenting
a segment on the journey of the magazine; coordinating (re)prints and sales of various
issues of the magazine; and managing funds and budgets.
4. 5th May 2017
Launch of Hold My Purse Project, online anthology themed on the female bond |
Glasgow University Union, Glasgow
Organising Team Member/Host
Responsibilities included overseeing all the processes of outreach, networking, venue-
booking, organising fundraising campaigns both online and in-person, coordinating line-
up of speakers and contributors, ensuring video and picture coverage, drafting content
for speeches and invitations, arranging refreshments, and liaising with staff and students.
5. 21st Apr 2017
Launch of From Glasgow to Saturn Issue 38, literary magazine | DRAM, Glasgow
Organising Team Member/Host
Responsibilities included liaising with printers to decide on the best option; coordinating
the reading and open mic line-up; hosting a raffle to raise funds; coordinating sales of the
magazine; and managing budgets and profits.

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Panel underway at the Scottish
Youth Theatre in Glasgow
Team behind Issue 38 of
From Glasgow to Saturn
Hosting at National Library of
Scotland in Edinburgh

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India
1. 29th to 30th Mar 2018
Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon 2018 | JSS Academy of Technical Education,
Noida
Field Representative and Administrative Support for Sponsor Company
Overseeing budgets and funds transfers, arranging logistics on venue for distribution of
company merchandise and promotional packs; liaising with the relevant teams to
coordinate production, delivery and presentation of customised tokens; organising and
coordinating live coverage of various segments; organising stop-gate sessions to
introduce the company; coordinating screening of promotional video; initiating contacts
with judges and dignitaries; and putting up banners and posters around the campus. With
500 people in attendance, this was one of the biggest events I have managed.
2. 7th to 9th Sept 2016
Renewable Energy India Expo 2016 | India Expo Centre, Greater Noida
Marketing Support
Liasing with graphic designers and producers across India to provide back-end and
content support for newsletters aimed at marketing the event to interest-groups,
entrepreneurs and attendees. The target-market included Brazil, China, UK, US, Japan, and
Singapore. The event saw 40 participating countries and over 1000 delegates. This was
my first content-based engagement with a global market.
3. 6th May 2016
Launch of Jabberwock’16¸ annual academic journal | Lady Shri Ram College for
Women, University of Delhi
Organising Team Member
Responsibilities included coordinating with printers to ensure print and digital copies;
managing distribution to the Principal andstaff; coordinating sales and subscriptions; and
managing funding and budgets.
4. 23rd to 27th October 2015
Kumaon Literary Festival | Kumaon, Uttarakhand
Marketing and Administrative Support
Responsibilities included coordinating content for social media channels and official
mobile application; supporting logistics and arrangements to set up sessions; supporting
the digital content team in live-reporting sessions; setting up and running stalls with
books, merchandise, and souvenirs; coordinating backstage interviews; packaging and
arranging required equipment.
5. 30th April 2015
Launch of Jabberwock’15, annual academic journal | Lady Shri Ram College for
Women, University of Delhi
Organising Team Member
Responsibilities included assisting with distribution of print and digital copies to the
Principal and staff; coordinating sales and subscriptions; assisting with on-campus
outreach; and managing funding and budgets.

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6. 31st Mar and 4th Apr 2015
Nexus 2015, youth conference on dynamics of social inclusion in contemporary
India | Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi
Organising Committee Member and Coverage Team Head
Planning and liaising with staff managers to conceptualise and organise the opening
ceremony (31st March) and the day-long conference (4th April). Heading the coverage and
reporting department, I put together and managed a team of 7 volunteers to cover various
events and sessions; I collated the pictures and videos into a short film that was screened
at the closing ceremony. I also worked with the team to collate and edit an event report.
7. 2nd April 2015
Autism Awareness Day | Tamana Autism Centre, School of Hope, New Delhi
Organiser
As head of the volunteering project Tamana, I worked with 5 members from the
volunteer-team to script, stage, and perform a street play about the Autism spectrum and
the lack of awareness on the topic in India. I also assisted the Centre in organising an
Awareness March with the students and staff.
8. 21st November 2014
Tamana Talent Show | Tamana Special School, New Delhi
Organiser
To encourage creative expression and the arts amongst the students, I conceptualized and
organised a Talent Show alongside my volunteer-team, which has since become an annual
event within the school. Responsibilities included writing scripts for the show;
coordinating with the staff and carers to arrange costumes and props; drafting proposals
and invites for school-authorities; fundraising within and outwith the school; putting
together a judging panel; arranging prizes; and helping students prepare performances.

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Presenting company token to Chairman of the
All India Council of Technical Education,
organising body at the Smart India Hackathon
Customised t-shirts with puns
introducing the cat mascot,
The Blue Scottish Cat, were a
huge success (and surprise)
with the participants and
attendees at the Hackathon
Jabberwock’16 officially released onstage by the Principal (Centre-
Left) at University of Delhi