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we get people to come to your thing ꩜
content + strategy for festivals + beyond 🎪
📍 UK + the 🌍
book your place on FIELD FILLER now ✿
@du1cie & Co. 👋

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BEST WEEKEND EVER 🪩 PITCH YOURSELF OUT THERE

When I dreamt up Pitch Yourself Out There I thought that the magic of it would come from 20+ attendees, selling out tickets

But what we created was intimate conversations with experts, hot seat coaching where we broke down each person’s 12-month visibility goals, conversations about pitch decks, email-follow ups that honestly can’t happen at a 300-person conference

Thank you to the guests that flew in from the likes of Ireland and Canada, and the ones who were just down the road an uber away

Thank you the speakers who believed in the event from the start, who shared their expertise so generously. There are soooo many notes 📝

Thank you to the volunteers that showed up before guests arrived and helped me pack up long after guests had left

Thank you to my Airbnb host who was so lovely and made my super busy hectic stay wonderful and magical

Thank you to our gifting partners @papier @wunderbrow @drinkcog @drinknoosh

Super super grateful to call this work

Thank you thank you thank you

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Love Trails Croatia 2025 🇭🇷

Last year I shot the first edition of Love Trails Croatia on Baška, Krk - aftermovie, on-site reels, live clips, full photo coverage, and a set of selected prints.

Started out solo, then Adam (@adamlaister / @purposebuiltfilms) joined partway through, creating great mix of action cam and interview content, supporting with live clips and a big help with the drone. Great having someone to shoot alongside!

Alice (@ali_suttonx)was out there too, shooting UGC and some incredible stuff on her Fuji, enough to make me want one myself.

Teamed up by the one and only, @chuffed.digital

Won’t be back for edition two, but wishing the team a huge success and good weather 🌊

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I care about people coming together. Like, a lot.

Like I read books about it, I talk about it constantly, it’s what my life is centred around... nerd-level a lot.

I cry at metal shows. I have full-blown epiphanies in yoga classes. Put me in any room, or any field, where people have gathered for one thing, and I come alive 🌸

What keeps me up at night though, is how hard people find it to get people in the room right now.

Events are hard enough as it is, infrastructure costs are through the roof, everyone’s tucked behind a screen, and turning attention into actual attendance (real bodies in the field having a tiiiime) is a seriously sought-after skill.

It’s also a skill I have. Humbleeee braaag! 💅

And after a decade of helping fill very big fields, from Boomtown to Rise Festival, I know the core of that skill can be taught. Which is why I created Field Filler.

Think of it like this... you’ve been scattering seeds for ages. Posting, showing up, really hoping something takes root. Field Filler is where you actually learn about the soil: what to plant, in what season, and how to tend it, so that come opening night, the field’s actually full.

Is that analogy working!!!? I’m unsure... but surely this photo of me looking like I’m on the cover of Gardeners’ Weekly is really painting the picture??? 🌱

The next cohort kicks off on 15th September, and if you’re there, in three months you could have a strategy you built yourself, a campaign run start to finish, and a content rhythm that doesn’t leave you panicking the week before doors open.

Instead of another season of scattering and hoping.

🌙 Waitlist bonuses (£200 off + a free 1:1 with me) close TONIGHT 27.08
🌱 Public doors open TOMORROW

We start filling the field on 15th September, over 7 weeks. Link in comments to find out more.

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WEEK 1 of 5 festivals in 5 WEEKS!!

This week was the insanely magical, Partyfest @partyfestx

I had such a wonderful time and thanks to everyone that made it so special!!

You’ll have to join us next year!

#indipendantfestival #ukfestival #5festivalsinarow #festivals #vinyldj

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🤓 huge thank you to everyone who submitted !!!! Now it’s time to vote 🌸

#speaker #founder #confidence #mindset

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what’s it’s really like doing socials @rise_festival !!🎿❄️

thank you @chuffed.digital for getting me on! Obsessed with the content strategy from the team. @dgarnham @du1cie 💓

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Dulcie Horn @du1cie is the founder of @chuffed.digital , a creative strategy studio working across festivals and experience creators.

Horn has been vocal about the need for greater gender representation within festival media spaces, an area that continues to lag behind other parts of the industry.

In our conversation (link in bio) Dulcie reflects on building Chuffed from the ground up, the realities of running a business within a seasonal sector, and the importance of staying close to the communities that shape festival culture.

photo credit for Dulcie's photos at Glasto @amyfernphotography

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DANCING BODIES of Dancing Body 👀🤤🎥 @bendornanwilson

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A day in my coaching life captured by the talented @elise_du_feu who happens to be one of my clients and featuring @cmtbworks @miss_sophiekstylist @hazelgardinerdesign @chuffed.digital I don’t love being on video but I loved making this film with everyone involved. It captures my love of nature and connection which are core to my coaching philosophy. Thank you to everyone involved and to @dropin.work for letting us film in the space 🧡

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It's difficult to really put into words what the last 3 weeks have been like... Constantly hot, checking my privilege on the daily, eternally chasing sleep, but never wanting the days to end 😂

Beyond grateful to and in awe of all the incredible artists and organizers of the Weather Reports Residency:

@toulip._.wonder @imaadmajeed @mypandashallfly
@kavitha.balasingham @shaynafonseka @anoushapayne
@ushara_x @mayunkalu @tashy_anna @dinoj.m @sajas_music

I know this conversation is just the beginning 🤝🏾🫂 ❤️‍🔥

Thank you also to all the institutions, creatives, spaces and collectives that have shared their time with me over the last 3 weeks 🥲❤️‍🔥 @cocaartanddesign @musicmatters_srilanka @amesh.wijesekera @dialledin_ @asvajit @perera_elsewhere @mallung.records

Have learnt so much about myself and this talented, complex and beautiful island that birthed me.

Made so many new friends, witnessed some incredible talent, got to meet some heroes and make some art along the way.

Also, good to know I'm still fluent in one of the mother tongues, Sinhala 🗣️Tamil next for sure.

See you very soon Lanka 🫡💞

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As a nostalgia freak, I’m loving this 2016 throwback trend... and tbh 2016 me was a legend, a chaotic amount of energy I can’t even comprehend anymore!

It was a time of change. IG stories had just been invented, festivals still lived mostly on Facebook, event pages were still king, Glastonbury was muddy (and Brexit was announced), and many beloved boutique festivals were having their final shows.

I lost most of my pre-2018 photos (including BOTH India trips 💔) when I changed/lost/broke a phone that wasn’t backed up to the cloud. But one pocket that survived was an absolutely vintage festival season plus some autumn club nights.

I was living in Bristol with my pal @georgianaslc , barely scraping through final year, working club nights, running my businesses, and prepping to leave for India.

It was the summer I graduated, landed my first big boy festival jobs, ran my headpiece and glitter businesses for the FOURTH year, and prepared to sofa surf then disappear to India for five transformative months (where I also started @thatfestivalife!)

A year of: very strong fringes, gun fingers in every photo (?!), jumping between so many parties/festivals/afters/genres/friendship groups that I feel exhausted just looking at these pics.

I turned 23 that June and vowed to have my shit sorted with a “real job” by 24 – because that’s how old @rhikimchi and @rosscinema were when I met them, my career idols 🥹

What an era! Feel blessed to still have or have reconnected to so many pals from that time too 💘

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