• 2007, 2008 •

Nedelja, 2007

Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Friends,

They say, Golden Drum is successful festival,
They say, Slovenians are good organizers,
They say also, Jure made a big deal,
But I know,
the real ground of our success
and the most important part of the festival
are You.

Without your help,
Your belief and trust,
without your confidence and enthusiasm,
without your days and nights

Golden Drum couldn’t exist.

Thank you for coming,
for being with us
and to participate
in success story cold Golden Drum 2007.

This week is yours!

Ponedeljek, 2007

Respected mister Mayor, ladies and gentlemen, dear Friends,

17.773 souls counts community of Piran.
Close to 10% of this number are Golden Drum participants.
Year by year for 14 times we are coming from around the world to our autumn advertising capital.
We fall in love with this beautiful place, people and food,
and we hope to be welcome here for the next 14, 28, 56 or 112 years
The part of our heart is here and one of our’s home too.
To be useful not only in your tourist income statistic but also with our active participation, we give as a present to the city of Piran tonight our third collection of original posters created exclusivly for you.
230 dreams and imaginations, ideas and views are in the new tale of two cities written by Portorož and Piran friends from all over the world.
The best 21 posters selected by our jury are exhibited on this picturesque square, three of them will be awarded tomorrow at the first Golden Drum award ceremony, but all of them are made for you.

Torek, 2007

Dear Friends,

When we are talking about the future,
we are usually thinking about tomorrow.
And when we are ruminating what we should do tomorrow,
we are really thinking what we didn’t but had to do today.

The real future is on the other side of our horizons.
It’s different and unexpected.
We never reach those mysterious lines,
but looking back
they are all hidden in the past.

Looking forward is important to take a right way
and could be dangerous if we don’t pay attention to the route we are walking on.

Golden Drummers have their nervous legs on the atletic tartan path of everyday’s cruel competition and their minds, inspired by the Creative Academy, oriented over our Horizons.

Nagovor

Every year, on all our press conferences and meetings with our national ambassadors we listen questions why we don’t expand Golden Drum over the New European borders.
We are proud that many people are thinking we are ready to dance on the bigger dance-floor than the New Europe is.
But we remember that more important is to be the first in the city then the second in the state.
Golden Drum is highly profiled festival, not only geographically.
Dedicated to Genius Loci, to the spirit of the place is general motto of new Intercontinental advertising festival that Golden Drum is a part of.
All our finalists will compete in the first local global advertising selection.
So Golden Drum is still the first and the most important advertising event and competition in our New European region and in the same time
Golden Drum is the first step to the prestigious intercontinental award competition.
First in the region and among firsts in the world!
Studio Drum Bernardin, 2008

You know how competitive this world is. Starting with first millions of sperms run to death or life, when our gen vehicle won life, through the competing for parents love, marks in school, first love, first girl kiss, first sex, first sport victory, first job, first wife, first marriage sex and first new sperms run.
Profession, business, hobbies, politic, elections, culture, festivals – nothing else but competition.
Evolution of species, human history, war and peace, everything is competition.
Golden Drum is not only competition for golden and silver trophies, but is also silent competition for the best lecture at creative academy, best party, best national success, best business and probably best new job. And Golden Drum it self is competing with other similar festivals too.
Film directors are in the same game. Festival’s victories are extremely important but not very fair. Competitors are running with very different conditions, with different stories, different budgets, different actors, different staff…
Studio Drum Bernardin is also competition, some kind of film ex tempore but fair as no other.
With completely equal conditions, with same staff, same actors, same techniques, same place, same time and same task, only with your own ideas and talents you will compete for the first price.
But you should know, this competition is a game and only this is important. I hope you will enjoy those days and go back with nice and warm memories.

First dinner, 2008

Respectable professors, jurors, dear friends!

The fifth teen’s time in a row, we are sitting together in a restaurant in a very nice and warm atmosphere. Months of preparation, organization, disputing, searching and doubts are over

The day or the night before. Everything is still calm and easy. But in very different parts of the world hundreds and hundreds of our old and new friends are packing theirs suitcases just now. Tomorrow they will all be here and the show will begin.
We are a little bit nervous of course. It’s part of this job.
But we also know we had never before so many and so strong team of speakers, jurors an friends. And close to three thousand expectations, hopes and dreams are connected with the spectacle that will start tomorrow. This fills us with stimulation and responsibility.
But this time, now, it is ours.
I hope you will enjoy this evening and thank you for coming.
Tomorrow is another day.

Ponedeljek Sonce, 2008

The stars we are using in this year’s visual identity are first of all the source of light.
They are symbol or eternal fight between lightness and dark, between spirit and matter, between the active and passive Principle, between evolution and involution.
The blazing star is a manifestation of lightness, a mystic center of exploding universe. Seven-pointed star represent a cosmic lyre, a spherical music, a harmony of the world.
In Peru know the stars are souls of the just, and Inks people believe everyone of us has his own star in the sky.
I don’t know for you, but we have it. In the label constellation The Golden Drum star is shining. Our Russian friends granted the star to us at 10 year’s Golden Drum anniversary.

However it was 10,7 billion years ago when our universe exploded from a basket ball size. Seven with twenty-two zeros is, as astronomy count the number of the stars running and dancing through the space.
But where is the beef?
The scientists are in the biggest ever experiment simulating big boom looking for the real secret of our material world. Cern’s leading professor John Ellis will only three weeks after imposing start of the experiment step on the Golden Drum stage and told us how they are looking for the God’s smallest part – the Higgs’ Boson, called also the God particle as its quantum field permeates the entire universe and it can decay into particle-antiparticle pairs of all other elementary particles.
But even the scientists will or they will not find it we will still have our own stars which help us to dream and to follow to the heart.

Ponedeljek – dež, 2008

I think the stars are ashamed. It is more then 6 months we promoted them on big posters around the Europe, in 28 marketing and advertising magazines, on our web site and in 36 Newsletters.
Space for games was our motto with hundreds stars blinking on our promo sky.
And now they disappeared. They are hiding beyond the clouds and probably crying, maybe because of jealousy.
Close to hundred star speakers, presidents and members of the juries, golden, silver and bronze winners are among us.
And professor who try to steal the biggest secret of any time – the creation of the universe with all its stars, will be with us too.
Maybe we won’t see a lot of stars on the sky those days, but this will be definitely a stars’ meeting week and you can be sure some new big stars will be born too.
The festival is open!

Dear friends,
Some time ago one journalist asks me why Golden Drum Open? Is it sill New European festival or not, and why we decided to open it.
I’m very proud that I can answer YES. Golden Drum Open is international advertising festival open to all who like to compete for Golden Drum Awards. This is New European arena the New European advertising rivals challenge the other world into. (jih izzivajo v areno)
This is the strongest and the most dangerous field. The winners from high respectable lists are coming to collect another trophies and glory defeating New European competitors.
On the other site there are challengers without fears.
Every year more new fresh ideas, every year more professional and originally focused project with every year strongest and more courageous craft come to the stage.
The engagement is every year stronger. There are winners and losers and many, many heroes.
The golden shine of the trophies that the Golden Drum Open winners will get tonight is heaviest and more splendid than ever.
Good luck!