“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 past and upcoming engagements will give you an idea of
what I tend to talk about:
14 July 2010 Guest
after-dinner speaker at CBI West
23 September 2010 Narrator in a
performance of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s
Tale at the
Playhouse,
Sharon
Choa.
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 Hull Literary and
Philosophical Society – “From Gravestones to Graffiti”
–
lecture on epitaphs and graffiti illustrated with
slides
2 December 2010 Wells
Evening Society – “I Told You I Was Sick” – lecture on epitaphs
illustrated with slides
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