Federation of Scottish Theatre

Training Courses

Audience Development and Marketing for Touring Companies – Postponed, please get in touch to note interest

Sally Wilson

This two part day will begin with a session discussing the challenges and opportunities faced by small touring companies when planning and developing marketing and audience development campaigns and longer term strategies for audience development.

*Winter School* Effective Communication Skills - 23rd February 2012

Aim:

Learn how to get your message across and maximise your effectiveness

Learning Objectives:

As a result of attending this course, you will be able to engage a variety of skills to ensure you maximise your outputs at work.

•Getting your message across
•Active listening
•Understanding what is NOT said
•Make the most of what you have


*Winter School* Working at Height in the Entertainment Industry - 21st February 2012

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

This one-day session whilst providing a firm knowledge-base to develop with our 3-day Rigging and Working at Height Course will also provide an informal forum where crew, managers, venue H&S personnel etc can learn the basics of the Why and How when it comes to Work at Height and Rigging.

*Winter School* Guns and Blood - 21st February 2012

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

A DAY OF THEATRICAL HANDGUNS AND BLOOD FX - RC-Annie Ltd

An incredibly popular and practical course.This course is used by leading Arts Organisations and Training Instututions such as The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Stage Management Association, Central School of Speech and Drama and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. More and more it seems that theatres understand that training is required to work with Blank Firers and to equipment themselves with the knowledge to navigate safe passage through the choppy waters of UK gun law.

*Winter School* Digital Sound Desks - 21st February 2012

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Soundcraft will lead this demonstration and training session on the Soundcraft Vi Console.

*Winter School* ION Lighting Desks for the Venue Technician - 21st February 2012

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

ETC’ s Well respected ION training course. Introducing the Ion to the new user. Ability to set-up the desk, Plot with generics and basic moving light control.

*Winter School* Demonstration of New Lighting Desks - 21st February 2012

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Demo of lighting desks – The opportunity to have a look at some of the latest lighting desks on the market from ETC and Avolites.

*Winter School* Autocad for Theatre (2D) 21st-23rd February 2012

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Delivered by David Ripley
The course is structured so that you can create simple drawings after a short time. You will then return several times to areas already covered, building knowledge and exploring alternative methods of achieving results. The idea is to give you a foundation of skills, allowing you to start using the program straight away. Throughout the course you will be working on creating a 2D groundplan for a theatre so that all of your learning is in a theatrical context.

*Winter School* Rigging and Working at Height in the Entertainment Industry - 21st-23rd February 2012

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Black Light

Course Modules:
1. Entertainment Rigging
2. Work at Height
3. Rescues

*Winter School* Technical & Production Forum - 21st February 2012

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Come and join your technical colleagues for a forum discussion around current practices and developments. More details on this to follow but please get in touch with kirsty.bailey@scottishtheatre.org to register your interest.

Led by Euan Turner

*Winter School* Health & Safety for Venue Technicians - 21st February 2012

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

All you ever wanted to know about H&S relating to venues and their technical operations but were to afraid to ask…

*Winter School* BS7909: TEMPORARY ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

This course deals with the new requirements of BS7909: 2008 - The Code of Practice for the creation and operation of Temporary Electrical Systems for Entertainment and Related Purposes.

*Winter School* Risk Assessment for Stage Managers - 22nd February 2012

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

This half day course will be led by Liz Burton-King, in association with the SMA and aims to give a guide to using risk assessments in stage management contexts.

*Winter School* Digital Sound Desks - 22nd February 2012

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Soundcraft will lead this demonstration and training session on the Soundcraft Vi Console.

*Winter School* ION Lighting Desks for the Advanced Programmer - 22nd February 2012

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

ETC will lead this course for the more advanced ION user.
Creating cues utilising palettes, groups and effects.

*Winter School* Demonstration of LED Theatrical Fixtures - 22nd February 2012

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Demo of LED – The chance to have a look at some of the new LED theatrical fixtures now available on the market from Coemar, JB lighting, Robert Juliat, Leader Light, ETC, Chroma Q, Martin and Robe

*Winter School* Electrical Fundamentals - 22nd February 2012

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

The aim of this course is to introduce participants to the fundamental principles of electricity and its
application to systems and equipment in theatres. It is thoroughly recommended that anyone who has not had formal electrical training should complete this course before taking the PAT course.

*Winter School* IOSH Managing Safely Refresher Training - 22nd February 2012

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

This course aims to:
•Revise key management responsibilities from the Managing Safely course.
•Update relevant changes in legislation and good practice.
•Consolidate delegates’ learning from, and experience gained since the original Managing Safely course.
•Provide delegates with an opportunity to reflect on the impact that IOSH has had on them and their organisations.
•Encourage delegates to share best practice from their own organisations more widely through the Scottish theatre community.

*Winter School* Time Management & Effective Planning - 22nd February 2012

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Delivered by Andonella Thomson

Aim:

To improve your effectiveness by managing your time.

Learning Objectives:

As a result of attending this course, you will be able to engage a variety of skills to ensure you maximise your outputs at work.

•Planning and prioritising
•Challenge your habits
•Knowing your time wasters
•Control your day – don’t let it control you

*Winter School* Vectorworks - 22nd & 23rd February 2012

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

This course will be delivered by Vectorworks Training on the 22nd & 23rd February at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

Day One: Foundation and Refresher
• Basic Concepts and Configuration Options
• Basics of 2D Drawing
• Moving and Resizing objects
• Copying and Other Transformations
• 2D Graphics
• The Resource Browser
• Callouts and Dimensions
• Layers and Classes demystified

It is possible to choose to attend day 1 only at a rate of £100/£120 non members + VAT

*Winter School* QLab Training - 23rd February 2012

Thursday, 23 February 2012

Matt Padden (Head of Sound, National Theatre of Scotland) in association with Black Light, will advise on all aspects of using Qlab software in theatre productions.

*Winter School* Upholstery - 23rd February 2012

Thursday, 23 February 2012

This 6 hour hands on upholstery course will provide instruction on recovery and repairs. Devine Upholstery will demonstrate and guide using examples including a small chair, a wing chair and footstools.

*Winter School* How to Use Rosco Paint and Coatings - 23rd February 2012

Thursday, 23 February 2012

Rosco will provide basic training on the differences between their paints and coating products including some time to try and test.

*Winter School* Avolites Desk Training - 23rd February 2012

Thursday, 23 February 2012

Avolites will deliver this training course on Titan software and demonstration in association with Black Light.

*Winter School* Demonstration of Moving Lights - 23rd February 2012

Thursday, 23 February 2012

Demo of Moving lights – The opportunity to have a look at some of the moving lights available on the market including products from Robe and Martin.

*Winter School* Portable Appliance Testing - 23rd February 2012

Thursday, 23 February 2012

This course deals with the inspection and testing of common portable appliances and, where required, specialist equipment such as IT equipment, theatre lighting and workshop tools.

*Winter School* Managing Difficult People - 23rd February 2012

Thursday, 23 February 2012

Aim:
To improve working relationships and enable Managers to tackle employee issues in a timely manner.

Learning Objectives:

As a result of attending this course, managers will be able to engage a variety of skills to enable them to approach staff whose performance or behaviour is a concern (with a win-win frame of mind).

•Basic principles of communication (verbal/non-verbal) and active, empathetic listening.
•Approaches to problem solving which include identification of the underlying problem
•Fostering commitment and collaboration
•Guidelines to treating staff with respect and helping staff learn from each other

Creating Great Visitor Experiences for Managers - 5th March

Monday, 5 March 2012

Led by Catherine Bowie, and with a focus on customer experience from a managers perspective, this course will cover:

* Customer service and the management of visitor expectations
* Key service points & the Great Service Equation
* Leadership Qualities in Creating Great Visitor Experiences
* Getting the Best from your Teams
* Body language
* Action Planning and course evaluation


Presentation Skills - 21st March 2012

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Andonella Thomson will lead this course on the delivering of effective presentations.

Aim:

To provide you with some tips and techniques to make the art of Presentations a natural and effective process.

An Introduction to Technical Theatre for Producers – 23rd March 2012 *Part of the Producers' Matrix

Friday, 23 March 2012

David O’Neill

This course will cover:

• Roles and Responsibilities of a Production Manager
• Production Development
• Touring
• Staffing
• Glossary of technical terms
• Q and A

IOSH Refresher Course - 26th April 2012

Thursday, 26 April 2012

This course aims to:

•Revise key management responsibilities from the Managing Safely course.
•Update relevant changes in legislation and good practice.
•Consolidate delegates’ learning from, and experience gained since the original Managing Safely course.
•Provide delegates with an opportunity to reflect on the impact that IOSH has had on them and their organisations.
•Encourage delegates to share best practice from their own organisations more widely through the Scottish theatre community.

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