EVENT BY EMMA FOR EMMA -- What does an event planner with 20 years' experience do when she throws her own party? Last Friday night, Emma Singh of Events By Emma threw a "warehouse party" in her1,000-square-foot space off Dugald Road in a snowstorm. Two hundred curious people came out.
"These parties were an early cousin to the rave, originally held in abandoned warehouses in industrial parks," she explained. Singh liberated half of her warehouse, which is stacked to the ceiling with faux trees and one-metre centerpieces and satin tablecloths, exotic tents and crazy lights. She created a magical bar and disco with diaphanous 7.6-metre white curtains floor-to-ceiling, and lit the interior space with hot pink origami lamps and disco lights. The room featured different food and drink stations -- the crunch bar, veggie bar, ice cream bar -- and the blackout bar for cocktails. The DJ stood on an elevated stage, high enough that guests had to look up.