Headed by Shirley de Kock Gueller, the team includes experienced associates in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. Shirley de Kock has 20 years' public relations and media consulting experience in South Africa where she worked for clients such as the Cape Town Symphony, Cape Town Philharmonic and Cape Philharmonic Orchestras. She was an assistant editor of Reader's Digest South Africa and press liaison officer with the US Information Service in Johannesburg prior to that. She is currently on the board of the Cape Town Concert Series.
What the team can offer:
· Project co-ordination/management
· Media consultation, liaison and writing, translating and distribution of releases to print and electronic media
· Brochure production from copyrighting to layout and printing
· Editing and proofreading
· Event management
Shirley de Kock Gueller also handles media relations for many smaller clients such as Strategic Arts Management in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in South Africa. She has written for the South African and Canadian (online) editions of Reader’s Digest, has published dozens of travel articles in magazines and newspapers in South Africa and Halifax and wrote the text for an illustrated book, Advertising in South Africa. She is a writer and editor and writes for Classicfeel and online sites such as Justtheplanet as well as for Canadian publications such as the Encyclopaedia of Music in Canada and Atlantic Books Today. She holds a BA Hons in History and an international comprehensive TESOL certificate for teaching English.
