Currie Communications Ltd. is an Edmonton-based company with a reputation for excellence in all aspects of event management.

We have established a solid reputation in the Edmonton business community for our creativity and our strong organizational ability. We have also earned an excellent reputation for understanding an organization’s strategic objectives and translating these objectives into the events we manage. We bring more than just logistical value to our clients’ events.

Curriecommunications received provincial recognition in 2003 for a Premier’s Award of Excellence and national recognition in 2002 from the Canadian Event Industry awards when named winner of the "Best Conference" award and finalist for the "Best Corporate Team Building" award. In addition in 2001, curriecommunications was named a Canadian Event Industry Awards finalist for the “Best Fund Raising Event” and was runner up for their most prestigious “Producer of the Year” award. Curriecommunicationswas also awarded a 2004 Edmonton Tourism, “You’re Welcome” award for Outstanding Meeting and Event Services.

In addition, in 2001, Joan Currie, President of curriecommunications was invited to speak at the national Canadian Financial Planners Conference on the role Corporate Social Responsibility and Community Investment Planning is playing in today's marketplace. The Conference Board of Canada has named Corporate Social Responsibility as THE business issue of the 21st Century.

Lastly, in 1999, we were asked by Grant MacEwan Community College’s Public Relations Program Director to teach an event management course.

We have been in business for 17 years and presently have a staff complement of four. The owner of the company Joan Currie has over 25 years of experience in event management, professional services marketing, communications, sponsorship development and public relations. Prior to forming curriecommunications, Joan Currie was Director of Marketing for Deloitte & Touche, chartered accountants and Director of Development for Edmonton Opera.

  A retrospective
   
1993 After 16 years in the corporate world, Joan Currie establishes an event management company catering to public and private industry clients.
1997 Joan Currie is named Chair of the Board of Directors for the Alberta Women’s Enterprise Initiative Association, a provincial association for assisting Alberta women start and grow their businesses. AWEIA has a $5 million business loan fund.
1999 curriecommunications is invited to teach an event management course to Grant MacEwan College public relations students and wins the management of the 8th International Conference on Thinking which attracted 1000 delegates and 206 speakers.
2000 curriecommunications wins the Kids Kottage gala concept competition and establishes the Kids Kottage gala into one of Alberta’s most successful fund raising events, netting $300K for the Kids Kottage Foundation.
2001 curriecommunications receives national recognition from the Canadian Event Industry Awards as one of the three finalists for the Best Fund Raising Award and as runner-up for the Producer of the Year award.
2002 curriecommunications receives national recognition from the Canadian Event Industry Awards for winning Best Conference and as one of the three finalists for the Best Corporate Team Building Award.
2003 curriecommunications receives provincial recognition winning a Premier’s Award of Excellence and wins the coveted Alberta Science and High Technology (ASTech) Leadership Awards program, one of Alberta’s most prestigious awards galas. curriecommunications was recontracted for the 2004 - 2006 and the 2007 - 2009 ceremonies. curriecommunications celebrates 10 successful years in business.
2004 curriecommunications wins the Edmonton Tourism “You’re Welcome Award” for outstanding Meeting and Event Services and wins the Canadian Olympic Committee Gold Medal Plates gala fund raising contract. Edmonton is chosen as one of eight Canadian cities to host this prestigious national event.
2005 curriecommunications is awarded the Alberta Heritage Foundation of Medical Research’s prestigious 25th Anniversary Founders & Builders dinner and international Inukshuk conference.
2006 curriecommunications is awarded Syncrude Canada’s UE-1 Plant grand opening Ceremonies in Fort McMurray, Calgary and Edmonton, The Learning Partnership’s first Western Tribute fund-raising dinner and the Junior Achievement’s Business Hall of Fame Awards.
2007 curriecommunications is awarded Syncrude Canada’s Aboriginal Review Launch, and the National Alberta Research Ethics Consensus Committee Conference. Currie Communications Ltd. moves to commercial space located at 202, 10471 - 178 Street, Edmonton, Alberta.
2008 curriecommunications is awarded the Alberta Emerald Awards Foundation annual awards gala, the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research first Alumni conference, exclusive management of Careers: The Next Generation’s events, the management of the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction’s first “Courses Between Courses” bi-annual dinner, and the City of Edmonton’s flagship recognition event, The Salute to Excellence Awards.