News Archives - Backstage Professional Development Conference

23/082017

We’re Recruiting!

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We are the Backstage Conference Team, and our goal is to provide development opportunities for theatre professional across the entire industry. Last year in March, we launched the first ever Backstage Professional Development Conference at the Barbican Centre, and we are delighted to announce that it will be returning next year. This time, we are planning an even bigger, better conference with more attendees, more sponsors, improved sessions, and brand-new sessions covering more disciplines. In order for us to achieve these goals, we need your help!

14/032017

Dirty Rigger Gear Bag Give Away

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15/012017

Gallowglass – CV Doctors

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We are excited to announce that employment staff from Gallowglass will be Joining our panel of CV Doctors at this year’s Backstage Profesional Development Conference.

Now in our twentieth year, Gallowglass is the largest and foremost events crewing company in the UK and mainland Europe. Gallowglass has a level of experience second to none in the industry. Collectively their senior management and crew chiefs have hundreds of years of event crewing experience to call upon, and it is that experience that enables them to provide structured, high quality, crews.

Our “CV Doctors” will be available all day at the event to look at your Curriculum Vitae and Cover Letter and give you guidance on how to make yourself the most attractive candidate to employers. A truly unique opportunity to get your CV looked at by the people employing in your industry.

12/012017

Harlequin Floors

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The Backstage Professional Development Conference are delighted to announce the first of its practical sessions for the 2017 Conference at the Barbican Centre.

Harlequin Floors supplier of professional dance floors for the performing arts industry will be holding, practical sessions with attendees on the laying, taping, cleaning and maintaining of dance floor products.

Recognised as world leaders in advanced technology flooring for dance and performing arts, Harlequin Floors will be looking at products and solutions available for performance floors and the finishes achievable with these products including painting digital printing.

Harlequin dance and performance floors are versatile and durable because they’re designed in close collaboration with the artistic, technical and medical world. Attendees will learn exactly how Harlequin sprung floors are able to offer assurance for better protection from injuries for dancers, providing them with a feeling of optimum safety.

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ABTT ISG News

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The ABTT are about to launch a new event for 2017, the Backstage Professional Development Conference and we are pleased for you to be the first to hear details about this professional development day, offering a one-stop shop for post qualification briefings and practical training.

The conference is aimed squarely at early career practitioners, who are already working but who are probably still within the first couple of years of attempting full-career employment.

The event is being produced in partnership with eStage on Saturday, 18 March 2017 at the Barbican Conference Centre.

The day will offer a variety of short, high intensity seminars designed to be of maximum value to early career backstage professionals: sessions will include business subjects such as Tax for Freelancers and Insurance for the Self-Employed, as well as practical topics such as Dance Floors: laying, taping & cleaning or Moving Lights: keeping them working.

If you have an idea for a micro-session (about 1 hour long) from which early career professional technicians would benefit, please let the ABTT Office know.