{"id":252,"date":"2014-04-22T12:17:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T03:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peatix.com\/article\/backstage-pass-meet-man-behind-singapores-first-themed-pub-crawl-organiser"},"modified":"2015-05-11T05:16:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T09:16:05","slug":"backstage-pass-meet-man-behind-singapores-first-themed-pub-crawl-organiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/backstage-pass-meet-man-behind-singapores-first-themed-pub-crawl-organiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Backstage Pass: Meet the man behind Singapore\u2019s first themed pub crawl organiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogan Vithilingam is the co-founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pubcrawlsg\">Singapore Pub Crawl<\/a>, and a self-confessed Master Crawler. He brings locals, expats and tourists together on an open-top party bus or on foot to crawl through our city&#8217;s hidden bars and best party spots along to themed nights like St. Patrick&#8217;s Day and Mardis Gras. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.peatix.com\/images\/blog\/Mogan_Vithilingam.png\" alt=\"Mogan Vithilingam, co-founder of Pub Crawl Singapore\" height=\"199\" width=\"630\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>He will take the stage amongst seven other speakers at <a href=\"http:\/\/backstagepass5.peatix.com\">Backstage Pass<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/peatix.com\">Peatix<\/a>&#8216;s community event for organisers. In the lead up to Backstage Pass, Mogan shares a little snippet into his thoughts on #HomeGrownSG.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favourite Local\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nFood: <em>Black Pepper Crab<\/em><br \/>\nChill-out spot: <em>Boat Quay<\/em><br \/>\nEvent: <em>Singapore Food Festival<\/em><br \/>\nHidden bar: <em>22 @ 22 Mosque Street<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The best part about organising events in Singapore is<\/strong> <em>being able to meet people from all walks of life and all over the world.<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The thorn in our flesh when organising events is<\/strong> <em>getting the word out and creating the buzz around it<\/em><strong> but we nipped it in the bud by<\/strong> <em>collaboration with industry partners, social media marketing and the use of ticketing platforms.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kranji Countryside Association<\/em> <strong>is #HomeGrownSG to me!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backstagepass5.peatix.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.peatix.com\/images\/blog\/Backstage_Pass_5.png\" alt=\"Backstage Pass by Peatix #HomeGrownSG\" height=\"249\" width=\"630\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hear more from Mogan about growing <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/pubcrawlsg\">Singapore Pub Crawl<\/a> from the ground-up in Singapore and join other event organisers in discussing more #HomeGrownSG event ideas! Get your tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/backstagepass5.peatix.com\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Meet the other speakers at Backstage Pass:<\/strong><br \/>\n* <a href=\"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/sg\/backstage-pass-meet-the-man-behind-start-up-event-walkabout-singapore\">Justin Hall, co-organiser of Walkabout Singapore<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/sg\/backstage-pass-meet-the-lady-behind-social-initiative-culture-kitchen\">Adrianna Tan, founder of Culture Kitchen<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/sg\/backstage-pass-meet-man-behind-community-whitespace-for-tech-and-innovation\">William Hooi, founder of Singapore Makers<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/sg\/backstage-pass-meet-lady-night-cycling-safety-initiative-see-and-be-seen\">Lim Su Pei, founding member of See and Be Seen<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/sg\/backstage-pass-man-behind-monthly-breakfast-lecture-series-creativemornings\">Richard Korff, co-organiser of CreativeMornings Singapore<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven organisers take the stage at Backstage Pass, Peatix&#8217;s community event for organisers and talk #HomeGrownSG: Growing events from the ground up in Singapore. Here&#8217;s one of them: Mogan Vithilingam, co-founder of Singapore Pub Crawl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4,17],"tags":[36],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}