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Length: five day to nine days workshops and
seminars.
For: Entertainment and Public Assembly Technicians.
Content: Vital technical information, a body
of knowledge, skill sets, and some practical hands on exercises
to implement the skills.
Purpose of the Training Program,
Areas of Requirement, and Areas the Workshops will address
There is a need today for highly trained
technical personnel in the Entertainment Industry, Public
Assembly, and in the Educational systems of this country,
in the performing arts.
Our company and our ISETSA group develops
these skill sets, bodies of knowledge and data, and training
programs.
The professional today needs more training,
knowledge, skills, and education in the technical end of the
performing arts.
The need, we affirm, is in the Entertainment
Industry and in the Educational Systems of this country, at
all levels.
Those individuals who work and instruct in
the secondary schools of this country, i.e. middle, junior,
and senior highs, both public and private, need a greater
body of technical knowledge, more and greatly refined skills,
and training, than ever before.
The equipment in the performing industry
has advanced greatly in the last twenty five years, and is
expanding by the year. Many of these advanced and sophisticated
systems are being specificed and installed in the secondary
schools of this country.
Lighing systems, sounds systems, computerized
systems, motorized systems, lasers, etc. are only some of
the areas where technology is being advanced and specified.
The number of professionally trained personnel
who actually direct, and do the technical work in the performing
arts in the secondary schools in this country is miniscule.
Training is needed. Solid knowledge is needed. And skills
are absolutely required.
Instructors and directors, technicians and
helpers come from all walks of curriculum areas, and too many
do not have professional training in the performing arts.
This has been the case for nearly fifty years, despite organizations,
associations, and educational groups. "despite the involvement
of . . . ." organizations, etc.
There is a strong movement for requiring
professional certification for those who work in the secondary
school performing arts programs. It is required by states
in so many other curriculum and study areas.
State licenses, certificates, course studies,
number of professional courses and university credits are
some of the requirements for subject areas in the secondary
schools and we believe that the performing arts programs should
also have these professional requirements, as well as regular
upgrades for continuing in the instruction and direction of
secondary students in these programs.
There are many skill set areas that should
be required for a person to work in the performing arts in
the secondary schools when working with students.
We believe the districts and the individual
schools should require these requisites.
Bona fide credentials and successful exams should be required
for working in the secondary school performing arts programs
and activities.
An individual who is employed by a school
district must have very specific skills and knowlege and training
to work with secondary students.
In the performing arts
A knowledge of electrical Codes and Standards
that apply to the performing arts.
A knowledge of the proper method of rigging.
A knowledge of the emergency aspects of operating
a theater, stage and auditorium and a performing arts space
of any type.
A professionally trained technician should
be able to recognize when there are hazards in the areas he
or she is called upon to monitor with his or her students.
A very specific knowledge of the chemical
substances that are used in the performing arts, i.e. paints,
sprays, etc.
A very specific and extensive knowledge of
fire prevention requirements, especially NFPA requirements,
flame retarding, extinguishers, proper use and care of fire
curtains.
There are a large number of very new, renovated
and sophisticated theaters in secondary schools, and these
have motorized rigging, computerized lighting systems, etc.
and the instructors and technicians must have an excellent
knowledge of how these systems work and when to call in a
professional for preventive maintenance, repair, and or replacement.
A knowledge of the liability that goes with
working in the performing arts in the secondary school and
with all the equipment that comes under his or her direction.
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