“QUOTE
... UNQUOTE”
NIGEL’S
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, LECTURES & PERFORMING
If you would like me
to speak to your organization, society or club, or to give an after-dinner speech,
or to perform at some event, then please e-mail me direct to discuss
availability and fees.
The following selection of past engagements
will give you an idea of what I tend to talk about:
14 July 2010 Guest after-dinner speaker at CBI West
Midlands Summer Banquet at
23 September 2010 Narrator in a performance of
Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale at
the Playhouse,
25 September 2010 Guest after-dinner speaker at 75th anniversary dinner
of the Rotary Club of Banbury at Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon
2 November 2010
17 February 2011 Wells Evening Society – “I Told You I Was Sick” –
lecture on epitaphs illustrated with slides (postponed from December)
In addition, I give
lectures and after-lunch talks in a number of different formats. My subjects include: ‘The Humour of Family
Sayings’, ‘Ten Great Quotations and the Stories Behind Them’ (as at the
My illustrated
lectures ‘I Told You I Was Sick: Grave Epitaphs and Memorial Eloquence’ and
‘The History and Humour of Graffiti’ may be combined, if required, as ‘From
Gravestones to Graffiti’.
I also do an evening
of reminiscences and readings from my writings (2 x 45 minutes with an
interval). This has been performed at
various festivals under the titles ‘Portable Soup’, ‘An Evening With Nigel Rees’ and (as at the Daphne du Maurier Festival, Fowey), ‘Quoting and Unquoting’.
As an after-dinner
speaker, I have made hundreds of appearances, including:
Serco Group plc
dinners
British Air Transport
Association dinner
British (Port)
Association dinner,
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
Sydmonton Festival
Royal Institution of
Chartered Surveyors dinners
Dun and Bradstreet
conference dinner
Institute of
Advertising Practitioners in Ireland dinner, Dublin
British
Agro-Chemicals Association dinner
British Gas Energy
Management Awards dinners
The Newspaper Society
conferences
The English Speaking
Union dinner
Cunard QE2
‘An excellent speech. He hit absolutely the right note for the
audience concerned’ – organizer, Drinkmaster Ltd
conference dinner
‘He was brilliant! A perfect end
to what had been a most enjoyable evening.
He left the audience in the perfect state – laughing and wanting more’
– organizer, Association of Project Managers’ dinner
‘His absolutely superb speech lifted the entire evening on to a higher
plane’ – organizer, Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters’ dinner
e-mail
nigel.rees@btinternet.com