So, taking her cues from Michelle Obama, Tolson planted an organic herb garden and plans to devise events focused on green cooking and eating.
Mr. Pollini devised these events, the first of which took place on Tuesday at the Y. Thinking and imagining do create concert programs like this one, but the means at hand can be an even more powerful organizational force.
Meanwhile, three members of the board of the Culture Company, the body set up to devise the events for 2013, have resigned over the past fortnight, with one, the broadcaster Ana Leddy, citing fears over the legacy of the City of Culture.
The rules were devised with events such as the run on Northern Rock in mind; the bank ran out of ways to fund itself (although the problem was also due to capital levels).
Alan Hollinghurst: An Epic History of Two Families in the 20th Century, Saturday 20 August Geoff Dyer: The Art of the Essay, Monday 29 August Julia Donaldson on Nick Sharratt As one of the "guest selectors" for the children's festival programme, I had the enjoyable challenge of devising five events with different speakers whom I admired.
We've been commissioned many times by large cultural institutions to devise "leftfield" arts events that bridge their programmes and their target community audiences.
28 July to 3 August; prices vary; belfasthills.org World Alternative Games In the Powys town of Llanwrtyd Wells in mid-Wales, events devised to contrast with the London Olympics include worm-charming, chariot-racing, wife-carrying, bog-snorkelling, ditch-jumping and toe-wrestling.
Too big to rival the quaint charms of Chipping Campden or the sleepy riverside refinement of Bourton-on-the-Water, Cheltenham instead pitches itself as a "touring hub" for the wider Cotswolds area and has devised a burgeoning events calendar – jazz in May, literature in October – that reaches well beyond March's Gold Cup.
In the architecture, value models are devised to represent events consumed and develop a value-centric mechanism for this adaptive integration.
Others used devising techniques and curating events.
