A lot of us use the internet that allow us to connect with our family and friends. But online events are also a good way to communicate with our colleagues and business partners.

Thanks to the development of technology – the speed and the quality of the internet connection has increased, and considering that COVID-19 restrictions have affected all of us – our social life and many businesses more and more goes online, so online events market is developing very fast.

In this article we will find out the following points:

• What is the online corporate event;
• Purpose of virtual corporate events;
• Advantages of online corporate events;
• Difference between virtual and offline events;
• Steps of organization virtual events;
• How it works;
• Ideas for corporate online events;
• How to organize a virtual corporate event;
• Online event platforms

Virtual corporate event – is an event that organized for the company`s employees, the main feature of which is that it is held online.

The purpose of virtual corporate event:

• team consolidation, team-building;
• entertaining (to switch from working days, cheer yourself up, learn new interesting information and try yourself in a new field).

Online corporate events can be held without a dress code and in a comfortable environment, which your company’s employees will definitely appreciate.

Advantages of virtual events:

• great for both small companies where employees occasionally work remotely from home or are abroad, as well as for large companies with offices in different cities, regions or countries;
• no need to spend time and money on logistics; no need to look for and rent a location for holding a corporate event;
• if you buy the necessary materials by yourself, the event will cost less than if you organize it offline.

What is the difference between virtual and offline events?

Unlike an offline event, when we come to your location with all the necessary materials, a virtual corporate event involves a meeting through the online platform. At the same time, we can send you all the necessary materials in art boxes, or you can purchase all the necessary materials yourself and make the cost of the virtual event cheaper.

Online event platforms

Nowadays there are many online platforms that can help you to host a virtual event, where you can interact with your audience via video chat – such as Zoom, Instagram Live, Google meet, etc. We can help you to choose the best one according to your goals.

How to organize a virtual corporate event?

For a high-quality virtual corporate event, you need to invite an experienced company to organize it. The Lihtaryk art studio, which has extensive experience in organizing similar events, will offer you interesting ideas for a creative virtual corporate event for various numbers of participants. In addition, we will help you choose the optimal platform for online corporate events, including the company’s birthday, New Year and other holidays.

Our advantages:

The Lihtaryk art studio has been providing its services since 2012 and has extensive experience in organizing and holding different virtual events. By choosing us, you will receive an individual approach – we will help you choose the best option for an online corporate event, taking into account the number of participants, mainly a female or male team, the duration of the online event, the level of difficulty, the location of your work colleagues (in Ukraine or abroad), so that all participants will have fun from the selected master class or lecture.

Ideas for a virtual corporate event:

The Lihtaryk Art Studio conducts online lectures and workshops. For a virtual corporate event, we can offer you the following creative workshops

With sending art boxes:

• Liquid acrylic workshop – Fluid Art. This popular abstract painting can be done at home with the necessary materials that we carefully collect for you;
• Bags or T-shirts painting workshop (you can also make drawings in a corporate style) – an easy and convenient way not only to take part in creative virtual event and not only draw, but also get a wardrobe element that will make you happy as a result;
• Beeswax honey candles workshop – is ideal for a company that wants a creative activity, but does not want to draw. Rolled honey candles are complete relaxation and a flight of fantasy in candle decoration;
• A clay modeling workshop is the best option for a virtual corporate event for employee`s children. We send clay and everything necessary for sculpting and immerse the children in the magical world of ceramics;
• Painting of New Year’s balls workshop is a wonderful seasonal master class that allows you to create a festive mood. And New Year’s balls painted with your own hands will be a beautiful decoration of the New Year tree;

Without art boxes:

• The coffee painting workshop is the easiest workshop in terms of materials, because coffee, cocoa and cinnamon, paper and a brush can be found anywhere. And we will tell you step by step how to work with these materials to get a beautiful monochrome picture;
• Pysankarstvo master class – is a seasonal master class that dedicated to Easter. The mysterious atmosphere of painting Easter eggs fills spring days with a festive mood. Of course, you need a lot of specific materials for Pysankarstvo, but in Ukraine on the Eve of the holiday it is quite easy to find them. Having created your Easter egg, you can wish yourself a year of health, prosperity, and love with the help of symbols that our ancestors believed in;
• Petrykivka painting master class is a great option for an online master class, because it does not require special materials. We will be happy to tell you how to replace traditional cat brushes. In addition, this is a folk painting, which was used by women who did not have a professional art education. So, having a simple set of basic strokes, which we show in detail in the lesson, you can make an interesting composition.

Lectures:

• The revolution in fashion by Sonya Delaunay – an author’s lecture about the Ukrainian artist who conquered Paris. Sonya Delaunay created her direction in painting and a very successful fashion house, which dressed Hollywood stars. Sonia Delaunay’s fashionable images graced the cover of Vogue, and the Louvre made a retrospective of her works during the artist’s lifetime.
• Ukrainian avant-garde is a unique period of creativity of artists of the beginning of the 20th century. At the lecture, we will consider the work of Exter, Burlyuk, Bogomazov, Malevich, Yermilov and other artists. Some artists were forced to emigrate, others were destroyed by the Soviet system. Let’s discuss what influence the Ukrainian avant-garde had on Ukrainian and European art;
• Theatrical costumes of Oleksandra Ekster – the author’s lecture about the «Amazon of the Ukrainian avant-garde», the artist who made a revolution in the theater art, brought cubism to Ukraine and created the first avant-garde art school in Kyiv at the beginning of the 20th century.
• Fantastic Beasts by Maria Priymachenko – an interesting combination of the lecture and creativity. Part of the class, the participants listen to the story about the life and work of the outstanding artist and draw their fantastic beasts in the style of Priymachenko. After that, participants show and tell their story about fantastic beasts;

In addition, you can choose a lecture about the largest museums in the world, such as the Louvre, the London National Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum, the Uffizi Gallery.

The arsenal of lectures from the Lihtaryk art studio includes topics from the history of European art: mythology in the paintings of the prominent artists, the Italian Renaissance, the Northern Renaissance, and Antiquity. Lectures about women in art: artists of Ukraine, Italy, the Netherlands, and France deserve special attention. Whichever lecture you choose, you will have an interesting and enjoyable time, expand your horizons and immerse yourself in the world of art.

What should be considered when organizing an online event

• involvement of all participants in the process;
• ease and availability of information submission;
• the online event should be liked – be interesting and informative;
• the platform for organizing an online event must be accessible and functional.

Steps of organization

As a rule, the organization of a virtual event includes the following stages:

1. event request (estimated number of participants, mostly female or male team);
2. the date of the event;
3. duration;
4. level of difficulty;
5. your wishes;
6. whether the company’s employees are in Ukraine or abroad;
7. do all the participants need to get art boxes with all the necessary materials or the company will provide the participants with everything they need (or the participants will purchase the necessary materials on their own);
8. choosing the optimal platform for holding a virtual event.

How it works

• among the proposed options, you choose a creative workshop or a lecture;
• we agree with you on the date and time of the virtual event, the platform in which the event will take place;
• if you chose a workshop – we agree whether you need to send art boxes with all the necessary materials or whether you will buy them yourself;
• when all organizational issues are agreed, we meet online at the agreed time and hold an online corporate meeting;
• as a result, you spend time interestingly and pleasantly, unite the team and create a good mood.

So to host a successful virtual corporate event – firstly, you need to set a clear goals from the beginning.

You need to choose the workshop or the lecture that you like the most from the options offered.

Then, you need to agree on the desired date and the number of participants (It is very necessary to choose the right time for your online event to involve mane participants).

It is important to decide whether it is necessary to send art boxes with all the materials to the participants.

If you choose the option with art boxes – everyone should receive them on time. And if colleagues are abroad and it is not possible to send art boxes – we have an alternative – master classes with materials that can be bought in any shopping center.

Then we are agreeing with you on an online platform for a virtual event and are preparing to hold a virtual corporate event.

It’s up to you which kind of the virtual corporate event to choose. The main goal is to attract more colleagues, unite the team and create a good mood. The Lihtaryk art studio will gladly help you to organize a virtual event.

You can order a corporate event online by phone: +38 068-270-7086, +38 095-661-3381, using WhatsApp messenger, Viber, Telegram or by leaving a request on our website.