Tanja
Ahlstén
Communication & Events
About
When it comes to events and projects I have been gaining experience through various roles. Most of the time combining my audiovisual communications knowledge with the event production: designing the user experience of website or web event, updating websites (Wordpress) and social media and keeping contact with event stakeholders.
Summer assistant
Production intern
Head of the Saturday night party
Production & Communications assistant
Producer
Event assistant
Volunteer: Cloackroom & Meeting area
Production assistant
Suomen Juristiliitto - Juristförbundet
Customer service – Event assisting – Workflow documentation
Dance Info Finland
Started as an intern in Performing HEL 2021 and carried on as an communication and production assistant to the Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform 2022 production.
Customer service – Ticketing – Communications assistant – Online events – User experience (website, ticketing, online events)
Saturday night party for Desucon
Part of Desucon event programme, Saturday night's party consisted of various anime tunes for the attendees (approx. 1000) to dance the night away. Head of production in the 2017 and 2018 events (4 events in total). Backstage manager in 2023.
Team recruiting – Coordination – Reporting– Team communications - Project leading
Metka's Spex 2018: Vituixmän
Student theatre project for Student Union of Metropolia UAS. One year of leading the production from recruiting the creative team, to the premiere night and ending with passing the torch to the next producers.
Theatre producing – Producer – Budget – Team communications – Leadership
Slush 2018 & 2019
Volunteered at Slush Helsinki twice: first at the Meeting Area and second year at the cloakroom team. Both roles were cutomer service roles to ensure succesful event experience for the event attendees.
For me volunteering gave me an opporturnity to gain event visuals inspiration aside of attending to one of the biggest entrepreneur and investments events in the world.
Customer service – Team work
Music & Media 2019
Internship at the Music & Media industry event. Main tasks including customer service, website updating and other production related work.
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Annually organized event for music and media professionals, the event offers place for networking and discussions with other professional.
Customer service – Team work – Production assistance – Website updating
Go On:
Finlandia Hall
Working at the Finlandia Hall events as an event assistant aside from my studies. The events varied from company christmas parties to trade shows and galas.
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One of the biggest being the European Parliament meetings held at the Finlandia Hall during the Finland's Precidency in 2019.
Customer service – Event assisting – Multicultural environment
Annantalo's Kesäparkki 2016
Worked as a production assistant for Helsinki City's youth culture center Annantalo in the Kesäparkki event. The event was aiming to welcome people to use the park in front of the center. With workshops of making your own pins and canvas bags to live music, basketball and graffitis the yard was buzzling with life.
Customer service – Team work – Event production
