Following the extreme temperatures we experienced recently the Theatre Safety Committee, which the SMA sits on, created a Hot Weather Guidance for theatre professionals & provided the industry with some ideas around managing any future heat events.
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SMA supports Job Shares and family and carer friendly scheduling in theatre and live events
SMA and SMA board are fully committed to introducing job shares for our members whenever possible and we actively support PIPA and their family friendly arts policies Recently the SMA Board discussed job sharing, and we will be looking at making this a new option on the Blueform for Freelist from September At present you …
SMA Prompt Desk meeting at PLASA
What should a Prompt Desk look like? PLASA Show, Olympia : Tuesday 6th Sept 1300-1400 More importantly: is it well designed, compliant and fit for purpose? Stage managers and stage technicians come in many sizes, and types, and so do prompt desks! Our Prompt Desk Working Group heard from Health and Safety specialists that prompt …
Transitioning to the New Rates
In order to transition from the old rates to the new rates, if you have set up an auto-renewal instruction on your payment card, you will need to stop this and then start a new subscription. To do this, log in the website as usual. Click “Disable auto renew” on the My Account page. Your …
Cueline Summer 2022
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David Ayliff Award for Lifetime Achievement Winner Announced
The recipent of the David Ayliff Award for 2022 is Diana Fraser. Diana was nominated by actor/director and tutor Annie Tyson supported by several industry colleagues In her nomination Annie said: Diana is an extraordinary woman with a passionate love of the theatre and an extraordinary range of knowledge of theatre history, art, literature, music …
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Safe use of Pyros
An Aid to pyro risk assessment Geoffrey Joyce explains how to keep safe around Pyros this XmasFrom the beginning of time theatrical events have been calling for bigger and better effects in the form of flashes and bangs. Not so long ago a technician might sprinkle black ‘flash’ power on to a fine fuse wire …
SMA raises concerns about multi-tasking and multiskilling in backstage work
Multi-tasking is a subject we write about elsewhere in SMAgenda, but there has also been a lot of discussion about the configuration of SM teams recently – the difficult position of ‘CSM on the book’ is often criticised as having an almost impossible job description (after all the CSM role should be described as Company and Stage …
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#WeMakeEvents briefing:
Post-Brexit EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement impact on touring productions.
A summary
One of our members Di Fraser attended a Brexit seminar at PLASA /ABTT Show and here is her brief report: Plasa/ABTT Trade Fair at Olympia Monday 6th September The opening point made was what we are all already aware of: before Brexit international touring onto the continent was pretty simple. Now it is not! New systems …